Lisa Emily
@lisaemily.bsky.social
List-maker, weird word collector, Oakland wanderer. I want to learn more about trees, surrealism, history of science, and medieval manuscripts.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/t...
The Hunt for a Lost Microscopic Art World
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August 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Amazing article about rescuing a fallen hiker
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A California hiker fell in ‘no man’s land.’ This is the incredible rescue story
After falling on California’s second-highest mountain, a hiker spent a painful night without food or water. Her 28-hour rescue involved one of the most daring helicopter extractions in state...
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July 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Amazing article about rescuing a fallen hiker
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When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her
In 1868, Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life story—remained unknown for more than a century
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May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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When This Stanford Professor Got Cancer, He Decided to Teach a Class About It (Gift Article)
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
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February 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-greatest... #History #HistoryofScience via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century
Emil du Bois-Reymond proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, championed the theory of natural selection, and revolutionized the study of the nervous system. Today, he is all but forgotten.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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December 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 2
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2
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#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 1
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
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December 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
Day 1
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A Quiet Revolution in Botany: Plants Form Memories
A slow but dramatic change in the study of the world's other great kingdom.
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November 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Literature is the antidote to numbness. Writers cannot stop wars. We cannot make hatred disappear. But we can keep the flame of peace and coexistence and empathy alive. _ Elif Shafak lithub.com/elif-shafak-... via @lithub
Elif Shafak on the Power of Literature and Being a Writer in the “Age of Angst”
It is a strange time to be alive. A strange time to be a writer. In a world that remains deeply polarized and bitterly politicized, and torn apart by inequality and wars, and the cruelty we are cap…
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October 23, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Literature is the antidote to numbness. Writers cannot stop wars. We cannot make hatred disappear. But we can keep the flame of peace and coexistence and empathy alive. _ Elif Shafak lithub.com/elif-shafak-... via @lithub
Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world bbc.com/travel/artic...
February 16, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world bbc.com/travel/artic...
How a wild corner of southern Utah became the last place to be mapped in the US bbc.com/travel/artic...
February 2, 2024 at 9:24 PM
How a wild corner of southern Utah became the last place to be mapped in the US bbc.com/travel/artic...
The Goose Who Wore Nikes, and the Mystery of Who Murdered Him @atlasobscura www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
January 25, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The Goose Who Wore Nikes, and the Mystery of Who Murdered Him @atlasobscura www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...