Rebecca

New year, new spines! This is a new favorite for me

It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

This owl was getting banded and tagged by the Rocky Point Bird Observatory. For the owl’s safety, he/she was wrapped up. These photos…🤣🦉. So cute.

“and that is why I have a small spray bottle of water right by my pile of cool rocks”

The Onion has published a great many true things and this is one of them

important life update: I have pulled the fuzzy blanket out of summer storage

Just look at this li’l guy. I love how the shape of the brush is obviously a stiff circle, like the basic brush in a paint program. (It was probably, basically, a stick, dipped repeatedly in watery slip.) It’s easy to imagine and perform the set of strokes to draw himb.

Billion dollar idea: Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing holidays. Swan around a Tuscan villa in white dresses and no bra, looking hotter than anyone has ever looked, eating grapes and making fun of men in leather trousers.

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the book that I am writing is (in part) an attempt to formulate a framework to think critically through these issues, by understanding provenance as an active, manipulatable, literary, and political force rather than just a history of ownership dates

I posted this last week without comment, but I'm going to comment now. The people who established the system of museums in the West had a very specific reason for doing so: they thought that having an appreciation for the wonders of the world was absolutely necessary for being a good citizen.

Published in JHB: the story of the discovery of DNA newly revised thanks to Alistair Sponsel and Brian Sutton who studied Rosalind Franklin's notebooks and camera work and images--she did "see it" after all, unlike what Watson and so many others thought. www.science.org/content/arti... website.

Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

💐 Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, eÌditeur, 1845-1880. [Source]

Wonderful #Tolkien news! Westminster Abbey has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien will be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner. I've known about this project for some years + was privileged to be consulted during its development. Great to see it made public! www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a...

🌸 Orchid album: London: B. S. Williams, 1882-97. [Source]

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

Pausing doomscrolling to read Gerard Manley Hopkins has been found to decrease heart rate and increase life expectancy by 15-20 years

@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social The thrills and Detection are all well and good, but a peek inside the Vaults of the Bodleian are why I’d buy this book.

idk something about the eyes just says “ACK” to me

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