M.J. Rose

We recently landed on Mars. The science involved to pull off this massive endeavor is mind bending. Here’s a video of where all the bits and pieces of the craft and skycrane landed, and a self portrait the Curiosity took of itself once it was  marsbound…

(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Life in miniature…

Artist Pete Goldlust intricately carves Crayola crayons into animal totems here.

…and artist Diem Chau has discovered the beauty of old carpenter pencils. Her tiny graphite elephant reminds me of the saying about the camel and the eye of a needle, or the angel dancing on a head of a pin…

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Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, The New York Public Library is mapping history! –

Elephant-Shaped Buildings and Other Curiosities: NYPL’s Map Librarian Talks About Making Historical Geography a Part of the Internet

By Matt Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian – The New York Public Library

“One hundred years ago, a building-sized elephant stood across the street from the Coney Island Cyclone. The “elephant bazaar,” which once occupied the area on the North side of Surf Avenue, was an exciting discovery for The New York Public Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, which, with the aid of a generous three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is busy transforming NYPL’s historical paper map and atlas collections into a powerful digital resource….”