10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet 162

How #animals interact with the soil, a vintage beer vending machine, $Tokyo #techno, creepy-cute stop-motion #animation, in the train driver’s seat in the Swiss Alps, sweet miso tarte tatin and much more…enjoy friends! 🥳 🎉

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Feeding interactions of animals and the functioning of soils

Via UN Biodiversity

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Satoshi Tomiie & Dopeus – 3am [PHONOGRAMME59]

Some piano-led and melodic techno that sounds like it’s from the 90’s for your blissful ears to enjoy by one of the masters of techno from Japan.

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Wholesome Meme: Community and Abundance

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Rooms by Manolis Stratakis

Manolis adopts a heretic, inquiring, questioning and experimental approach to painting and art in general. He is performing a lot of research in order to understand how different types of colors interact, how they behave under several forms of processing, modification, adaptation, conversion, or under certain extreme conditions.

Influenced by some of the great masters like Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvatore Dali, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Paul Klee and JMW Turner, he is evolving with his own recognizable style.

Determined to contribute something new to art he is implementing innovative projects like the “live” paintings which constantly change their colors creating a sense of motion and a plethora of emotions. These paintings provide an alternative viewing experience with enhanced depth and complexity.

He has also created his own symbolic language often found in his paintings, usually in the form of a puzzle that asks to be solved.

Manolis is fascinated with life, art, science, technology, culture, music, harmony, big unsolved problems, math, puzzles, chess, logic, intelligence, fun, humor, space, deep, macrocosm and microcosm, atoms, humans, animals, nature, brain, memory and all sorts of progress, creativity, innovation, research and any kind of invention!

He enjoys funny, strange, paradoxical, mathematical, geometrical, logical themes, encrypted messages, games, puzzles and any elegant solution to a tough problem. Via Edge of Humanity Magazine

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Small rice cake shop

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Universal Magnet by Susana Cabaço

I am so devoted to Susana’s blog it’s a treasure trove of joy and deep wisdom.

Love is like an invisible magnet, attracting you to sacred fields. It connects you subtly to the ultimate benevolent essence of All-That-Is. Whenever you tune in to love, objectively or abstractly, you are secretly touching the blueprint of the Grand Design that graciously and orderly oversees everything. You are, in a way, touching the prime creative Source of all things. Love puts Creation and Creator at your fingertips while concomitantly keeping a divine hand over you. A hand that kindheartedly cares for you in heavenly manners—the highest form and expression of love subtly and soundly on you.

Read more on her wonderful blog about spiritual insights

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Ravinder Bhogal’s sweet miso caramel tarte tatin

This looks absolutely divine and I can’t wait to try it! Via The Guardian

Here, miso adds a welcome, savoury note to an otherwise sweet dessert – feel free to use red miso instead, for its complex, bitter notes.

Prep 10 min
Cook 1 hr 45 min
Serves 6

1 x 325g sheet all-butter puff pastry
75g butter
1 tbsp white miso paste
100g caster sugar
6 apples (a mixture of sweet and sharp, such as cox’s and granny smith), cored and quartered1 tbsp toasted black and white sesame seeds

Heat the oven to 180 C (160C fan)/350F/ gas 4.

Cut the pastry into a 24cm disc, using a dinner plate as a guide. Lightly prick it all over with a fork, lay on a tray lined with baking paper and chill in the fridge.

In a small pan, melt the butter and miso (or use a microwave), then whisk to make sure they are well combined.

Scatter the sugar over the base of a 20cm-diameter, cast-iron or heavy-based stainless-steel frying pan. Put the pan on a medium heat and cook the sugar, swirling the pan occasionally (do not stir), for about seven minutes, until it begins to dissolve and caramelise around the edges, and turns a deep amber. Add three-quarters of the butter-miso mix and swirl to combine.

Turn off the heat, arrange the apples rounded side down on top of the caramel, making sure they’re tightly packed in and there are no gaps, then brush with the remaining miso butter.

Bake the fruit for 30 minutes, then remove the pan from the oven and lay the disc of chilled puff pastry on top. Tuck the pastry edges down inside the pan, then use the tip of a small, sharp knife to prick a few holes in the top, so the steam can escape. Bake for a further 40 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown and crisp.

Remove from the oven, leave to stand for two minutes, then place a plate on top of the pan and shake to loosen the tart. Working quickly and very carefully, protecting yourself from the hot handle and the hot caramel in the pan, invert the tart on to the plate. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds, cut into pieces and serve hot with creme fraiche or vanilla ice-cream.

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Rare Historical Photo: A Woman getting a beer from a Vending Machine in 1962

Why on earth aren’t there beers in vending machines in more parts of the world? (aside from in Japan, where having a beer out of a vending machine on a 40 degree, 100% humidity day is pure heaven!) Via Reddit

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Brienz Rothorn Bahn (Switzerland) – Drivers Eye View

Enjoy the Swiss Alps from the driver’s seat of a train in autumn! I really enjoy travelling by train in Europe there is so much to see and it’s really comfortable with a restaurant train in there often selling local yums like pierogi, toilets and the ability to walk around from carriage to carriage, (this is all a novelty for me).

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Melting Mind-Bending Apples by Yosuke Amemiya

For over two decades, Yosuke Amemiya has sculpted, painted, and philosophised his way through apples. From melted illusions to AI-generated ‘universal apples’, his work probes the essence of what makes an apple… an apple. Trained in Tokyo and Amsterdam, and now working between Berlin and Japan, Amemiya peels back the layers of perception, blending science, art history, and poetic absurdity. With each apple, he challenges our senses, creating uncanny fruit that teeter between realism and fiction, nature and culture. It’s less about eating the apple—and more about seeing the universe through its skin. Via Apples and People

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