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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 2h

Thieves Pulled Off Another Shocking Art Heist in France. This Time, They Took a 330-Pound Bronze Book Cover Designed by Salvador Dalí The volume, “Livre de l’Apocalypse,” was a “masterpiece” collaboration of 14 artists and writers. It is one of the heaviest and most expensive books ever made

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 7h

Elizabeth Van Lew, the Mastermind Behind a Critical Union Espionage and a network of spies in Richmond, Virginia, sending coded messages to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. Undeterred by criticism from her Southern peers Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 20h

The Sugar Thief – human impact, winner. Birdlife Australia 2036 After a nature walk, sitting at the cafe a crimson rosella landed and grabbed a sugar packet, tore it open and started emptying the ‘unhealthy food’ Photograph: Kylie Facey

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 22h

Sperm Whales Living in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Seem to Have Developed a Distinct Dialect From Those in the West. Sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up version of the western whales’ coda. Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Medieval English Coins found in Rome Could Be Rare Evidence of a ‘Little England’ Enclave That Received Special Papal Privileges Researchers argue that the tenth-century coins provide new evidence of a bustling English community located next to the Vatican that was permitted to use its own currency

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A Diver Volunteered to Clean Up Trash From a Wisconsin Lake. He Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Dugout Canoe at the Bottom Instead Indigenous communities near present-day Milwaukee hand-carved the white-oak vessel before shaping it with fire between roughly 992 and 1049 C.E.

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mother panda Hua Zui Ba and her young cub sit for a photo at the Madrid Zoo. In 2021, a pair of panda twins were born as part of the international breeding program. Pedro Jarque Krebs, Spain, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Guam rail went extinct in the wild due to predation from the invasive brown tree snake. But a conservation effort to breed the species and release some birds on nearby, snake-free islands has created self-sustaining wild populations once again. Mark Newman / Getty Images / Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Smithsonian Magazine Photo Winner A female sword-billed hummingbird takes a rest outside of Hacienda del Bosque, a small birding eco lodge outside of Manizales, Colombia. #colombia #hummingbird Photo By Rhys Logan

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mum and calf playfully interacting off the coast of Tahiti. Humpback whales migrate from Antarctica to these warm waters to mate and give birth in a safe environment. Big Picture Photography Contest Renee Capozzola | Palos Verdes Estates, United States AQUATIC LIFE FINALIST

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The specimen of the last known passenger pigeon, Martha, preserved in the Smithsonian’s collection. Martha died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo. Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pasture lives: the rebel cheesemakers preserving an Alpine tradition ; Courtesy the Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What surprised me was how the delicate sphere surrounding this deep-sea fish caught the light and revealed a survival strategy rarely seen by human eyes." Gabriel Jensen | Fort Lauderdale, United States Big Picture Photography Project AQUATIC LIFE FINALIST

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A massive 6-foot mola swims by a giant kelp forest. Big Picture Photography Contrst Sage Ono | Pacific Grove, United States AQUATIC LIFE RUNNER-UP

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dirk Koster – The different one. Photograph: Dirk Koster/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 Courtesy Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2026 Birdlife Australia Awards. Kings Down Under – overall winner. A group of king penguins glide by beneath the surface, by the lush slopes of Macquarie Island Photograph: Lachlan Hal

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Little Godzilla by Udo Harms / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards In Little Godzilla, Udo Harms captures a reddish squirrel with a giant mouthful of grass in Hanover, Germany. The little guy indeed looks like a small, furry monster Smithsonian magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kevin Lohman / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards Are You Kidding Me? shows a squirrel launching tself at a disbelieving great horned owl. Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ancient Pottery Reveals the Earliest Known Traces of Chocolate East of the Mississippi, Painting a Picture of Connection in the Americas A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Google Wants to Send Data Centers to Space—and Just Launched a satellite to Test It Will Work The tech giant aims to use the near-constant sunlight available in low-Earth orbit to power data sites Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A giant panda peers through the trees and gazes at the photographer at a nature reserve in China’s Qinling mountain range. Ke Li, China, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is my best side by Natalie Veekmans / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have announced its 2026 finalists, and the competition couldn’t be fiercer. The contest received more than 10,000 photos—a record for the awards—from 112 countries Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In One of Rome’s Most Famed and Neglected Villas, Centuries-Old Risqué Frescoes, Painted Over by Nuns, Have Reappeared Nearly a year into a $40 million restoration of the Villa Silvestri Rivaldi, conservators are rediscovering and reviving 16th-century art Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a world where financial power can influence politics, and political power can shape our planet, remember where real power begins. It begins with people Kamakura, Japan The manager of the Owl Otter Cafe, / home to rescued animals, feeds Asian small-clawed otters Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kilmarnock, Scotland Community campaigners demonstrate against a proposed large-scale datacentre outside the Park Hotel, where an event attended by representatives from the datacentre developer Eneus Energy was taking place Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time has stripped them bare, yet they endure — silent witnesses to a vanished world. In this stillness, light and shadow dance across the desert floor, revealing beauty in desolation. #namibia Photo Antwan Janssen Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meet This Year’s Chonky Champion of Fat Bear Week: Backpack, a Laid-Back 20-Year-Old Male Who’s a ‘Stoic Presence on the River’ The brown bear, who now weighs between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds after fattening up on salmon,

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In an Exciting but ‘Brutal’ Find, a 5,000-Year-Old Arrow Emerges From Norway’s Rapidly Melting Mountain Ice Archaeologists discovered 48 prehistoric arrows during a recent three-week expedition in the mountains of Jotunheimen Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

London, UK A van made to look like a heavily damaged Gaza ambulance is parked outside Palantir headquarters in Soho Square as Amnesty International UK and Just Treatment call on the government not to extend its NHS contract with the US tech company Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the floor of the unfinished cooling tower of Chernobyl’s Reactor 5, a tree grows through layers of concrete. The tree becomes a monument to life – both a warning and a possibility: nature is resilient, but its survival should not be mistaken for permission to keep pushing its limits

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through the Flooded Streets of New Jersey During the Nor’easter The creature has been identified as a smooth dogfish, a harmless species found throughout the western Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t the only animal caught in the chaos brought by the storm system Smithsonian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ghost of the Gladiolus "This image was taken in my family’s home garden, where Carolina sphinx moths forage every year. These moths are enchanting; they’re reminiscent of hummingbirds, only more ghostly." Loughran Cabe | Raphine, United States Big Picture Photography Contest WINGED LIFE RUNNER-UP

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dasha Tenditna, Not Alone, 2026 The Ukrainian-born photographer’s practice is rooted in her interest in people and the ways in which individual lives are shaped by their social environments. Photoworks Festival 2026

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

‘The Icebergs’ Is One of Frederic Edwin Church’s Most Spectacular Paintings. For Decades, No One Knew Where It Was In the 1970s, the administrator of a boys’ home in England wound up finding the missing 19th-century piece and bringing it back into the spotlight Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the Ionian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Flying Birds The vast grasslands of Kenya stretch out like a brocade woven by the earth, while a helicopter hovers in mid-air, its rotors stirring a flock of African birds. #african #birds #kenya #sky Photo Min Li ; Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Japan’s Smallest and Least-Populated Major Island Is a World of Pilgrimages, Delicious Food and Plenty of Forest Bathing Each year, more than 100,000 people hike at least part of a 750-mile route on Shikoku that connects 88 Buddhist temples and other sacred sites

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Natural Art The image, resembles an abstract painting, captures an aerial view of an Icelandic river, its flows weaving through black sandbanks. #iceland Photograph ; Matteo Strassera

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mysterious ‘Anomalies’ Have Been Detected Beyond King Tut’s Tomb. Could They Be Secret Passageways Leading to the Long-Lost Remains of Queen Nefertiti? Geophysical surveys provide new evidence for a theory that the Egyptian pharaoh was interred in the outer rooms of an existing burial complex.

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cheetah mom and her cubs take an over-the-shoulder glance toward the photographer as they enjoy the green, lush landscape of Maasai Mara. Graeme Guy, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An impala with impressive horns is just one of many animals that visitors can observe at the nearly 375,000-acre Maasai Mara National Reserve. Dan Beckmann, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Caretaker Zachary Mutai rests on his ward Najin, one of only two surviving northern white rhinos. The other is her daughter, Fatu. Matjaz Krivic, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Solio Game Reserve boasts the highest number of rhinos in a single conservancy park. A few hundred white and black rhinos live in the 19,000-acre facility, founded in the 1970s. Photo by Amish Chhagan, 2024 Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Photographed from a helicopter above Lake Natron in Kenya, a flamboyance of flamingos—and their shadows—drift across the water. Yoshiki Nakamura, 2025 / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Young voices. Real stories. A world worth changing. Project Our World is looking for young people with something to say. We want to give young people a voice, a platform and a place to share their stories — to challenge the way we see the world, and encourage people to take action.

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Rare Aztec Codex Detailing the Rise and Fall of Tenochtitlan Returns to Mexico for the First Time in Nearly Two Centuries The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months Smithsonian Magazine

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Humanity has an extraordinary capacity to adapt, innovate and come together. The question is whether we can use that capacity before we are forced to. We believe the future isn’t something we simply inherit. It is something we build — together. 🌍 195 countries. 365 days. One shared mission.

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Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2 Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris While conducting excavations at a hospital on the Île de la Cité, in the Seine, researchers discovered part of a wall that may have once protected Lutetia, the Gallic precursor to France’s capital Smithsonian

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