When I saw him the other night he was just as handsome as ever;—the same look, half wild and half tame, like an animal you cannot catch, but which you think would love you so if you could catch him.
Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?
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Not so elusive anymore now, are we! Females of Plumariidae are so obscure, that so far, there are no pictures online of any specimens, alive or dead. There are a couple of B&W scientific illustrations, but that is the extent of visual documentation, at least from what I've seen. Females are apterous and can be found underneath rocks, while the more common winged males are nocturnal and attracted to lights. Little is known of their biology. These wasps are distributed in arid and semi-arid areas of western South America and southern Africa.
**edit** I redrew her because I felt that the previous drawing wasn't accurate enough. It's really difficult to get it right the first time, when there's very limited resources.
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Capturing the delicate essence of a translucent flower—a living testament to the beauty that emerges when vulnerability meets the light. In its sheer petals, I find a reminder that transparency can be its own form of strength, and even in the fragility, there's an undeniable resilience, gracefully unfolding beneath the gaze of life's illuminating moments 🌸✨
Delicate minimalist flowers 🌸✨
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The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.
Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
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In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle - today known as the Higgs boson - which is the key to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms and molecules could not exist.
For nearly 50 years afterwards, some of the largest projects in experimental physics sought to demonstrate the physical existence of the boson which Higgs had proposed. Sensationally, confirmation came in July 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The following year Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. One of the least-known giants of science, he is the only person in history to have had a single particle named for them.
This revelatory book is 'not so much a biography of the man but of the boson named after him'. It brilliantly traces the course of much of twentieth-century physics from the inception of quantum field theory to the completion of the 'standard model' of particles and forces, and the pivotal role of Higgs's idea in this evolution. It also investigates the contested history of Higgs's responsibility for the breakthrough when there were others close by, and explains why the boson is named for him alone. Competition between institutions and states, Close shows, then played as much of a role in creating Higgs's fame as his work itself. Drawing on conversations with Higgs over a decade (a figure generally as elusive as his particle) this is a superb study of a scientist and his era - and of how scientific knowledge advances.
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looks like the shorty is the new empty net for rusty
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An elusive fox
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I decided to draw another cartoon female Plumariid, but from top view. Small inaccuracies are possible since there are very limited resources around. I saw pictures of one for the first time this week. The model in my drawing is based from the pictures, but they will not be included in this post, as I didn't take them, and I don't want to prematurely release any information that will be further published. This is my take on it from what little I've seen. Absolutely fascinating wasps. Femora for days.
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