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אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן לַנָּשִׁ֣ים חֵילֶ֑ךָ וּ֝דְרָכֶ֗יךָ לַֽמְח֥וֹת מְלָכִֽין׃

Do not give your strength to women,

Your vigor, to those who destroy kings.

אַ֤ל לַֽמְלָכִ֨ים ׀ לְֽמוֹאֵ֗ל אַ֣ל לַֽמְלָכִ֣ים שְׁתוֹ־יָ֑יִן וּ֝לְרוֹזְנִ֗ים (או) [אֵ֣י] שֵׁכָֽר׃

Wine is not for kings, O Lemuel;

Not for kings to drink,

Nor any strong drink for princes,

פֶּן־יִ֭שְׁתֶּה וְיִשְׁכַּ֣ח מְחֻקָּ֑ק וִ֝ישַׁנֶּ֗ה דִּ֣ין כׇּל־בְּנֵי־עֹֽנִי׃

Lest they drink and forget what has been ordained,

And infringe on the rights of the poor.

תְּנוּ־שֵׁכָ֣ר לְאוֹבֵ֑ד וְ֝יַ֗יִן לְמָ֣רֵי נָֽפֶשׁ׃

Give strong drink to the hapless

And wine to the embittered.

יִ֭שְׁתֶּה וְיִשְׁכַּ֣ח רִישׁ֑וֹ וַ֝עֲמָל֗וֹ לֹ֣א יִזְכׇּר־עֽוֹד׃ {פ}

Let them drink and forget their poverty,

And put their troubles out of mind.

פְּתַח־פִּ֥יךָ לְאִלֵּ֑ם אֶל־דִּ֝֗ין כׇּל־בְּנֵ֥י חֲלֽוֹף׃

Speak up for the dumb,

For the rights of all the unfortunate.

פְּתַח־פִּ֥יךָ שְׁפׇט־צֶ֑דֶק וְ֝דִ֗ין עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃ {פ}

Speak up, judge righteously,

Champion the poor and the needy.

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NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of pillars of creation

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust that appear – at times – semi-transparent in near-infrared light. Webb’s new view of the Pillars of Creation, which were first made famous when imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, will help researchers revamp their models of star formation by identifying far more precise counts of newly formed stars, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region. Over time, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and burst out of these dusty clouds over millions of years. Newly formed stars are the scene-stealers in this image from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). These are the bright red orbs that typically have diffraction spikes and lie outside one of the dusty pillars. When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars of gas and dust, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars. What about those wavy lines that look like lava at the edges of some pillars? These are ejections from stars that are still forming within the gas and dust. Young stars periodically shoot out supersonic jets that collide with clouds of material, like these thick pillars. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. The crimson glow comes from the energetic hydrogen molecules that result from jets and shocks. This is evident in the second and third pillars from the top – the NIRCam image is practically pulsing with their activity. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old. Although it may appear that near-infrared light has allowed Webb to “pierce through” the clouds to reveal great cosmic distances beyond the pillars, there are no galaxies in this view. Instead, a mix of translucent gas and dust known as the interstellar medium in the densest part of our Milky Way galaxy’s disk blocks our view of the deeper universe. This scene was first imaged by Hubble in 1995 and revisited in 2014, but many other observatories have also stared deeply at this region. Each advanced instrument offers researchers new details about this region, which is practically overflowing with stars. This tightly cropped image is set within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.

TOP IMAGE….Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming – or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

LOWER IMAGES….NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made the Pillars of Creation famous with its first image in 1995, but revisited the scene in 2014 to reveal a sharper, wider view in visible light, shown above at left. A new, near-infrared-light view from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, at right, helps us peer through more of the dust in this star-forming region. The thick, dusty brown pillars are no longer as opaque and many more red stars that are still forming come into view.

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Need help with identifying shrooms? Check out this website here for all of your mycology needs:

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Compared to other colors found in nature, true blues are pretty rare—but the indigo milk cap (Lactarius indigo) has just that! This vibrant mushroom gets its color from a pigment that is a derivative of guaiazulene, a dark blue crystalline hydrocarbon. You would think that its blueness is a marker for toxicity, but the mushroom is actually edible—although its color fades to a grayish hue when it’s cooked. Photo: Alan Rockefeller, CC-BY-SA-3.0 https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pQtqHg-1J/?igshid=xyxcyu59bwdx

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Psilocybe by Alan Rockefeller    #

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Bioluminescent Entoloma stylophoruma, member of Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies. Photographed by Alan Rockefeller on March 12, 2023 in Ecuador

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iNaturalist: UV Fluorescent Organisms Project

Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum) © Rand Workman

[Images 1 and 2 Description: A pair of photos showing a snail under full spectrum and UV light. The flesh of the snail is normally grey-brown and it’s shell is reddish brown. Under UV light, the flesh shines bright green with blue tips on the eyestalks. /End ID.]

True Puffballs (Genus Bovista) © Alan Rockefeller

[Images 3 and 4 Description: A pair of photos showing whole and cross-sectioned fungi under full spectrum and UV light. The fungi is normally cream-coloured on the outside and white on the inside. Under UV light, the white inside of the fungi shines bright green. /End ID.] 

Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) © Michelle

[Images 5 and 6 Description: A pair of photos showing a dragonfly under full spectrum and UV light. The dragonfly normally has a white tail. Under UV light, the tail shines bright red. /End ID.]

Stream Violet (Viola glabella) © Alan Rockefeller

[Images 7 and 8 Description: A pair of photos showing plant leaves under full spectrum and UV light. The leaves are normally green. Under UV light, the stem and vein structure of the leaves shine bright blue. /End ID.]

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מטוב רוע איש מטוב אשה, ובית מחרפת תביע באשה.

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וַיַּ֨עַן הַכֹּהֵ֤ן אֶת־דָּוִד֙ וַיֹּ֔אמֶר אֵֽין־לֶ֥חֶם חֹ֖ל אֶל־תַּ֣חַת יָדִ֑�� כִּֽי־אִם־לֶ֤חֶם קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ יֵ֔שׁ אִם־נִשְׁמְר֥וּ הַנְּעָרִ֖ים אַ֥ךְ מֵאִשָּֽׁה׃ {פ}

The priest answered David, “I have no ordinary bread on hand; there is only consecrated bread—provided the young men have kept away from women.”

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μὴ βλασφημείσθω οὖν ὑμῶν τὸ ἀγαθόν

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

Agates

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דָּ֛ן דִּין־עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֖וֹן אָ֣ז ט֑וֹב הֲלוֹא־הִ֛יא הַדַּ֥עַת אֹתִ֖י נְאֻם־יְהֹוָֽה׃

He upheld the rights of the poor and needy—Then all was well.That is truly heeding Me—declares the LORD.