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The new school year is just around the cornerthat means homework, essays, and art projects. Fortunately,My Modern Met Storehas you covered with a variety of back-to-school supplies. Additionally, we havezip pocket setsthat can help you organize your belongings to make packing and unpacking a breeze. Trinus |$22 Viviva Colors |$19.95 Viviva Colors |$22 Viviva Colors |$16 Unemployed Philosophers Guild |$14.95 LOQI |$22.50 LOQI |$22.50 Holstee |$28+ Sacred Bones Books |$35...

Lisbon is full of charming architecture that makes it well worth the visit. The Ascensor da Bica helps locals and visitors move around one of Lisbon’s steepest roads. The funicular has three passenger compartments and holds 23 minifigurine passengers. The day I visited Lisbon I fell in love, he says. Everything about this city pops. The attraction that I remember the most vividly though, are the yellow trams. If you want to see it become a reality, double-check to cast your vote on theLEGO Ideas website....

Mongolia’s Olympic uniforms for the 2024 games were designed by fashion labelMichel&Amazonka. The pieces are decorated with national and Olympic symbols, delicately embroidered with gold thread. The outfits are completed with equally detailed accessories. On average, each uniform took 20 hours of work. These ornate uniforms will be worn by the 30 Mongolian athletes during the opening ceremony. With this combo of transportation and style, this Asian country is sure to make an impression....

Photo:NASA/Goddard/ASU As beautiful as the Moon is, its surface is not especially hospitable to humans. Scientists have been theorizing about lunar caves for at least 50 years. The radar imaging of this 300-foot-wide pit has now been reanalyzed using new signal processing techniques. Photo:NASA/Goddard/ASU On the east side, it’s even deeper at 443 feet. Its certainly possible to get in and out, but it will take a significant amount of infrastructure....

Education is a basic human right, but many children around the world don’t have access to it. Luckily for the young people of Zambia, things changed a few years ago. In 2021, the government made schooling free for everyone. But this has also come with its own set of challenges. I stopped going to school in 2016 when I was in grade four, 18-year-old Mariana Chirwa told theBBC. Without free education, I dont know how my parents would have managed to take me back to school....

This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. just readour disclosurefor more info. This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please readour disclosurefor more info. As kids, nothing could compare tosummer. With its warm weather and long days, the season was seemingly made for outdoor activities. Spinning the handy star wheel will help you name the stars in the night sky during outdoor adventures....

ForastrophotographerSoumyadeep Mukherjee, Kyrgyzstan is a gold mine. The barren lands, mountains, grasslands, canyons, it seemed like a package of landscapes. It gave us almost all the varieties one could ask for. This winning combo made Mukherjee even more curious about the lack of photography coming out of Kyrgyzstan. A country that has so much potential for astrophotography has remained comparatively less explored. To Mukherjee, in terms of landscapes, Kyrgyzstan provides an all-in-one experience....

Embed from Getty Images The countdown to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is on. Walking the Olympic torch through the Louvre was a wild convergence of moments for me, he toldartnet. The museum is such an iconic, precious monument in Paris. Photo: valio84sl/Depositphotos JR’s inclusion on the list of torchbearers is fitting. He’s a shining representative of French art and has a long history with the Olympic Games. In 2016, he installed enormous images ofathletes across Rio de Janeiroin honor of the Summer Olympics....

DesignerKathryn Reidis not your typical jeweler. Her high-quality and unique designs break away from traditional norms in the jewelry industry. This is particularly evident in her latestNose Ringcollection. These uniquely crafted accessories are not your typical nose rings meant for human noses. Instead, they are rings meant for the human finger that happen to be shaped like animal noses. The rings are all at once hyper-detailed and playful. Bull Nose Ring (mixed metal)...

This tomb had been covered up for millennia, and as a result remained undisturbed by looters. Recently, scientists published findings on an urn which contained almost five liters of reddish-brown liquid. Laboratory tests have confirmed it is wine that’s been hermetically sealed for 2,000 years. Reddish liquid contained in urn (Photo:Daniel Cosano et al.,CC BY 4.0) This is now theoldest known liquid wineever found. The wine wasn’t alone though. Using mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography, scientists determined the polyphenol and mineral salt composition of the wine....

Photo: melory/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual horse illusion.) The latest head-scratching illusion stars a horse named Rudnik walking through a wintery scenebut where is he walking to? That even puzzled Alesia Willard, the horse’s loving human. Photo: melory/Depositphotos(Not a photo of the actual horse illusion.) Rudnik is a 5-year-old blue roan American quarter horse with a deep black coat and a matching mane. There were a couple of times I genuinely didn’t know… reads her caption....

The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace. Doherty was initially diagnosed with stage four breast cancer in 2015 and experienced remission in 2017. Unfortunately, the cancer returned in 2019. Photo: s_bukley/Depositphotos In 2020, Doherty publicly revealed her diagnosis of metastatic stage 4 cancer. Despite her ongoing health battles, Doherty remained positive and resilient until her passing. People just assume that it means you cant walk, you cant eat, you cant work....

Photo: Portrait of a Noblewoman by Lavinia Fontana, ca. Of these creatures, dogs are one of the most popular subjects for painting, sculpture, and photography. They even show up in ancient art. Photo: “Portrait of a Noblewoman” by Lavinia Fontana, ca. 1580 (left); “A Friend in Need” from the “Dogs Playing Poker” series by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, 1903 (right) InPompeii, a dog mosaic was found in theHouse of the Tragic Poet....