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What causes the Northern Lights phenomenon?

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A Trip to Venus: The Morning on Another World

How does the water cycle sustain life on Earth?

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Quotes on the terrifying beauty of the Dweller

What's Stonehenge and Why Was It Built?

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Inspiring animal parenting: birds that protect their young with clever tricks

What makes a viral joke?

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Quotes on animal intelligence versus mere instinct in parental care

Why the Trafalgar Square lions have no whiskers

An illustrated bronze lion without projecting whiskers is paired with a small study of a living lion’s whiskered face.

The bronze lions beneath Nelson’s Column have no projecting whiskers. How do you cast a hair in solid metal?

Writing in 1867, Frank Buckland defended that omission. A lion’s fine, flexible whiskers would be difficult to represent in bronze; wire substitutes, he thought, would look absurd.

The heavy-looking paws raised the same problem. Fur gives a living limb a soft edge. Cast that outline in a solid material, and it can look clumsy. Buckland had seen the effect in his own plaster cast of a hare.

This is Buckland’s explanation, rather than Landseer’s recorded reasoning: the material helps explain what the sculpture leaves out.

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