Nassau Museum of Art, Roslyn Landmark Society to host garden event https://www.allforgardening.com/1444101/nassau-museum-of-art-roslyn-landmark-society-to-host-garden-event/ #garden #gardener #gardening #Metamorphosis #MillikenBevinTrellis #NassauCountyMuseumOfArt #roslyn #RoslynLandmarkSociety

We discover that upon variation of an additional parameter, a complex system undergoes a change in the nature of the transition from continuous to abrupt, involving an intricate metamorphosis of the transition, published in Physical Review E by @APSphysics.

https://doi.org/10.1103/qn17-x37z
#Turbulentreactingflow #IITMadras #DynamicalSystems #CriticalTransitions #PhysicalReviewE #publication #Research #NonlinearDynamics #ComplexSystems #Metamorphosis

Sunbathing before Her First Flight further North.

Awakening is not like the soft chrysalis-metaphor people love to polish.
It's not a gentle butterfly story.

This is metamorphosis with stone dust in the lungs, ribs as scaffolding, sinews tearing into wingspan.

Not becoming other, but becoming visible.

The molten core pressing outward until it can no longer pretend to be held in place.

Metamorphosis as the breaking of the lie that you were ever smaller than this.

Monarch Chrysalis, final stage.

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis, late stage.

Monarch Chrysalis in mid phase.

Illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian, from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b304a5cd-df14-4d09-8fba-0143397ac0d4

This ending is freaking insane.

A monarch chrysalis.
Outside decorated as if with precious metals ("chryso"=gold), it is overall green to camouflage among leaves. Developmental biology class is in session inside: the organs dissolve into a cellular soup; guided by stem cells in imaginal disks, and orchestrated by hox genes, an asexual crawling plant eater transforms into a nectar drinker that dares to fly across a continent twice a year.

Monarch chrysalis formation: caterpillar sheds her/his skin one last time and this time covers her/him-self with a protective layer of chitin. This timelapse is about 30x faster than reality.
Unfortunately, my camera missed the first minute or so.

Monarch caterpillar in J shape - preparation to form chrysalis.

A wonderful Older "self help" book that I refer back to often. IMO, a lot of newer self help guides are weaker imitations of what has already been studied/published.

The very concept of repeatedly REINVENTING Oneself amid the successes/failures & overall challenges of life ~ encourages us to be hopeful, positive, creative, focused & resilient (among Many other things!).

it out ~

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195152779-reinventing-yourself

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Conquer The Hunger Games On New Single “Can’t Catch Me Now”; Music Video

https://bravewords.com/news/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-conquer-the-hunger-games-on-new-single-cant-catch-me-now-music-video/

Doesn't Nancy have parents, a distant cousin perhaps, who will want to know shat happened to her?

A spectacular fan poster for tonight's Star Trek episode Metamorphosis on H&I's All Star Trek.

Artist: Michael Schuh
- @michael76
- @michaels76.bsky.social
- https://www.instagram.com/german_trekfan76/
Created: 2016

Last week I found five fat Monarch caterpillars on our milkweed. Since then: none. I searched for them or their chrysalis .
Found one now, hanging from the rim of a flowerpot on the deck. Quite a long journey to get there for a caterpillar.
Now waiting for the Monarch to emerge in maybe a week.

What does Gregor Samsa do right now?

#kafka
#metamorphosis

In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way | #surreal photo series

See the full project at: https://jackiebranc.site/in-every-object-its-previous-forms-must-live-on-in-some-rudimentary-way/

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