Wall Street Journal14d
He’s Built a Butterfly Collection That Would Fill Two Cargo Jets. Now He’s on a Desperate Search for Someone to Take It.
NAIROBI—Looking for a good home: 4.2 million butterflies. Steve Collins started collecting butterflies at age 5 on his family’s coffee farm on the flanks of Mount Elgon. He’s 74 now, and ...
Sydney Morning Herald20d
Susie O’Neill: From touching a wall to hitting one. Why Madame Butterfly wants to alight on a flower
I want to get to your latest, extraordinary move, but let’s start with a quick blast from your swimming career that led you to be known nationwide as Madame Butterfly. SO: I was originally a ...
housedigest21d
Ditch The Wallpaper And Hop On One Stunning Design Trend To Elevate Your Walls
Eclectic mosaic tiles have been showing up this season on walls rather than only in quirky bathrooms or as creative backsplashes for kitchens. Whether it's a full wall of tiles in intermingled styles ...
Barbican21d
Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly
A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing. Love, betrayal, ...
The Washington Post23d
The 20 best art museums in America
Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...
lookout24d
After 5 years of work, Watsonville celebrates completed mosaic public art project
Watsonville will celebrate the completion of one of Santa Cruz County’s most ambitious public art projects, a six-story mosaic mural called Watsonville Brillante, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on ...
theregister25d
Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation
Researchers affiliated with the neuroscience platform FinalSpark have devised a 3D simulation depicting a butterfly that's directed by human brain cells. "It represents a significant step towards the ...
thenarwhal25d
What it’s like to run the 4,000-km migration route of the endangered monarch butterfly
Local runners joined in for stretches along the route and environmental organizations in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico joined the cause: drawing attention to the steep decline of the iconic orange and ...
PE Hub26d
Butterfly’s Adam Waglay shares growth plans for Duckhorn winemaker
Butterfly Equity announced on October 7 that it is buying the Duckhorn Portfolio in a $1.95 billion take-private deal. Butterfly expects to close the deal for the winemaker this winter, after the ...
Neuroscience News29d
Mosaic Brain Evolution Drives Learning in Tropical Butterfly
A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures display a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation. The study, published today in ...
Artnet29d
Fragments of Mosaic Floors Unearthed in Ancient Sicilian House
Earlier this month, they stumbled upon the remains of a Roman house with a mosaic floor that appears to have been built sometime between the 2nd and 4th century C.E. Sicilians have born witness to ...