Welcome in my brain, which is full of completely useless associations. Here is another edition of #ICouldNotResist.

Today, with help from a Tweet by @MarylandMunros, I associated a graph made by the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) with a painting by Claude Monet.

Top: a visualization of ocean microbial data collected on JCVI’s Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS). See the original post here.

Bottom: “Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903” painting by Claude Monet (image taken from Wikipedia).