July 15
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This small, charming woodcut print is the work of Helen Hyde, "the first American woman artist to study Japanese printing techniques in Japan."
Hyde, like many other artists, including Van Gogh, Degas, and Mary Cassatt, was inspired by the style and subject matter of traditional Japanese prints, but unlike many others, actually traveled to Japan to work directly with Japanese printmakers to produce her images.
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Twilight ocean fungi could be source of next penicillin-like drug
By Sophie Kevany. The Guardian.
Apparently there's a lot of fungi thriving in the ocean's "twilight zone," which is between 200-1000 meters below the surface, and viruses are a key component keeping that environment genetically diverse:
Another critical discovery made during the cataloguing process, said Carlos Duarte, a marine science professor and senior author of the study, was the role viruses played in boosting gene diversity. “The viruses insert themselves and move genes from one organism to another. That means viruses create genomic biodiversity and that accelerates their evolution.”
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