Emile Noordeloos ☕️🎨🐄🌳🔭🔬

Freelance Illustrator, Inspired by curiosity.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most beloved paintings in America, and it puts its finger on something we all pass through, first as the child, and one day as the parent left behind...

The painting is Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1954. A father and his teenage son sit side by side on the running board of a battered farm truck, waiting at a railway stop. A single track runs along the bottom of the picture. A ticket pokes from the boy's pocket. His suitcase is stacked with schoolbooks and wears a "State U" pennant. The train is coming to carry him off to college, away from home, for the first time in his life.

Everything is in the way they sit.

The son sits upright, scrubbed and dressed in his best, eyes fixed on the horizon, on the track, on the future rushing toward him. He is already half gone. For him that train is the beginning of everything.

His father sits beside him in worn work clothes and scuffed boots, looking the other way, down the line, as if he cannot bear to watch it arrive. The same train means the opposite thing to him. For the son it is the start of a life. For the father it is the day the house grows quieter, the chair at the table sits empty, and the person he built his world around walks out into a life that no longer has him at its centre.

Look at his hands. He is holding two hats. His own battered one, and resting on top of it, his son's crisp new one, held carefully together, because it is the last small thing he can still do for the boy...

And then the dog, its head laid in the son's lap, gazing up, refusing to look away. Rockwell knew exactly what that was for: "The father couldn't show how he felt about the boy's leaving," he said. "The dog did."

It has moved people for 70 years because every leaving is a beginning for one person and an ending for another. The child steps out into the world, as they should. And someone stays behind, watching them go, and loving them enough to let them go anyway...

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

One of the most beautiful cafés ever made.

Welcome to the Café A Brasileira, which opened its doors in Portugal around 120 years ago.

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

Cotswold, England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
— Vincent van Gogh

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

An insanely cool wind powered drummer

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

The only images we have from the surface of Venus

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

“Still-Life”, 1975
Matthijs Röling (Dutch, b.1943)

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Evening at the Iris Field

Timothy Easton.

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

Summer should be like this

🎨 Chris Dunn

[Seeds of the Soul @softhesoul136]

🎼🎸55 years later, this song still defines summer | Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime (1970)

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Breaking - Scientists have discovered a technology that turns plants into highly nutritious protein without the need for factories, synthetic chemicals, or seed oils.

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you understand this, stress becomes meaningless.

[📹 Kim Emerson]

[Luce @lucyshow11]

You know what day it is!! It’s FRIDAY and you were BORN to be ALIVE! 🎶💃🕺🫶