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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang

IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:
Animal Architecture: In Conversation
An animal studies scholar talks with an architect and an architecture writer about designing for, and with, nonhuman species.
placesjournal.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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VIDA is excited to announce Ruby Ekkel's (@rubyekkel.bsky.social) new series on environmental history and gender 🌿🏕️💃

You can read Ruby's introduction to the series here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/in-her-...
In Her Nature | Australian Women's History Network
Commissioning Editor Ruby Ekkel launches a new VIDA series, exploring the intersections of environmental and women’s history.  ‘Make the back-yard the embryo of your future desires. As a country we ar...
www.auswhn.com.au
June 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Dennis!!
June 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter.
March 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Coming out next year with Ohio University Press!
November 9, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Next Greenhouse #envhum book talk:
Anne Berg will discuss her book Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany (Oxford UP, 2024) on Monday, 17 February 2025, at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern time.

Join the live talk!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhist
February 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Steve goes undercover.
February 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Folks, this is a very big deal to have political appointees in charge of every government check. Maybe Dems have more to say about this? Might be a good time to raise the roof.
Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system
The access, granted by Scott Bessent, Trump’s newly confirmed treasury secretary, comes after the ousting of the agency’s top career official.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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This is a powerful piece www.bostonreview.net/articles/blo...
Blood Ties - Boston Review
The real story of pain in America.
www.bostonreview.net
January 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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‘It is a rich-world conceit to imagine that firewood is obsolete. In Kinshasa, which is projected to become the world’s largest city by 2075, an estimated 4.8 million cubic metres of wood fuel and charcoal are used each year.’

@adamtooze.bsky.social on energy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Tooze · Trouble Transitioning: What energy transition?
An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, but...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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January 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM