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Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

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Death Star is Cleared to Fire by Joe Wight

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😊😊😊

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More vintage cars, hot rods, and kustoms

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I’ll be at Salon du Livre de Montréal next Thursday until Sunday. Come say hi! 👋

📍 Palais de congrès, booth 1616

🗓️ Signing schedule:

Thursday 11/28: 6pm-7pm

Friday 11/29: 5pm-6pm

Saturday 11/30: 2pm - 3:30pm

Sunday 12/01: 10am-11:30am

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Firm hand and perfect cut...

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And all the climate change models fail to take into account magnetic pole shift, increased sun spot cycles (hotter/colder sun), meteor impacts. The only data points are CO2 and temperature. Comment from a post on Twitter/x

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Wake up, babe. New MBARI species just dropped. 🤩 

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight zone and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence.

With a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other, and colorful internal organs in between, the team initially struggled to place this animal in a group. Because the animal also had a foot like a snail, they nicknamed this the “mystery mollusc.”

The team first observed the mystery mollusc in February 2000 during a dive with the institute’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon offshore of Monterey Bay at 2,614 meters (8,576 feet) deep.

They leveraged MBARI’s advanced and innovative underwater technology to gather extensive natural history information about the mystery mollusc. After reviewing more than 150 sightings from MBARI’s ROVs over the past 20 years, they published a detailed description of this animal.

Learn more more about this dazzling new denizen of the deep on our website.