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Have you ever wondered who were the last pagans in Europe? Well, there’s now an exhaustive book on the subject! Today is the official publication day for ‘Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples’ 📚 www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
June 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Have you ever wondered who were the last pagans in Europe? Well, there’s now an exhaustive book on the subject! Today is the official publication day for ‘Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples’ 📚 www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
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Below is one of the most bonkers geology stories I’ve ever heard - a long thread, but worth it. H/T to Boxcar Murphy who first told me about it. If you have time, I highly recommend Myron Cook’s excellent YT video linked below.
⚒️🧪geology
⚒️🧪geology
Heart Mountain, a 8,123 feet high peak, is composed of dolomite, limestone and 500 to 350 million years ago, and is lying atop, and surrounded by younger rocks formed around 55 million years ago. Older rocks atop younger rocks rarely happen, but do occur in geologic features such as ... 🧵
#geology
#geology
November 18, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Below is one of the most bonkers geology stories I’ve ever heard - a long thread, but worth it. H/T to Boxcar Murphy who first told me about it. If you have time, I highly recommend Myron Cook’s excellent YT video linked below.
⚒️🧪geology
⚒️🧪geology
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Hello! Trying Bluesky on for size. I'm a freelance illustrator and map-maker based in Birmingham, UK. This Tolkien Trail map I created shows some of the buildings and landmarks that inspired JRR Tolkien during his time living in Birmingham. #illustratedmap
November 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Hello! Trying Bluesky on for size. I'm a freelance illustrator and map-maker based in Birmingham, UK. This Tolkien Trail map I created shows some of the buildings and landmarks that inspired JRR Tolkien during his time living in Birmingham. #illustratedmap
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This is a great idea from @windwardgal.bsky.social. Show me your starter pack of favourite books. Here are a few of my favourites.
#booksky #books
#booksky #books
November 13, 2024 at 3:19 AM
This is a great idea from @windwardgal.bsky.social. Show me your starter pack of favourite books. Here are a few of my favourites.
#booksky #books
#booksky #books
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I love this! Here are some of my random favourites.
November 13, 2024 at 9:46 AM
I love this! Here are some of my random favourites.
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'A single blurry photo sparked a national monitoring campaign. A few days later someone who had seen the picture on iNaturalist suggested that the insect might be of significance.'
Never stop posting (terrible) pictures of bugs on iNaturalist folk! 🧪🐛🌿
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Never stop posting (terrible) pictures of bugs on iNaturalist folk! 🧪🐛🌿
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
London commuter rediscovers tiny, invasive bug not seen for 18 years
Even the most blurry photo can be consequential.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
'A single blurry photo sparked a national monitoring campaign. A few days later someone who had seen the picture on iNaturalist suggested that the insect might be of significance.'
Never stop posting (terrible) pictures of bugs on iNaturalist folk! 🧪🐛🌿
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Never stop posting (terrible) pictures of bugs on iNaturalist folk! 🧪🐛🌿
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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I've just received Adrian Shine's Whittles Publishing book A Natural History of Sea Serpents. It looks great, and presents a sound analysis - a naturalist's perspective - on sea serpents as recorded across history. Longer thoughts to appear in time. #monsters #cryptozoology #seamonsters
October 31, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I've just received Adrian Shine's Whittles Publishing book A Natural History of Sea Serpents. It looks great, and presents a sound analysis - a naturalist's perspective - on sea serpents as recorded across history. Longer thoughts to appear in time. #monsters #cryptozoology #seamonsters
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I talked to a lot of apple researchers for this story, and do you know who loves their jobs? Apple researchers. They have made the world more delicious! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why
Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good
www.scientificamerican.com
October 24, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I talked to a lot of apple researchers for this story, and do you know who loves their jobs? Apple researchers. They have made the world more delicious! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...
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OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable.
There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
September 29, 2024 at 12:59 AM
OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable.
There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
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hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old
theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
The world’s oldest story? Astronomers say global myths about ‘seven sisters’ stars may reach back 100,000 years
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
theconversation.com
September 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM
hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old
theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
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In #JapaneseFolklore Kodama are the spirits of trees. While they are attached to specific trees, they can also move freely through forests often appearing as glowing orbs of light. In some accounts they present as regular trees but with the ability to move around at will.
#FolkloreSunday #yokai
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#FolkloreSunday #yokai
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September 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
In #JapaneseFolklore Kodama are the spirits of trees. While they are attached to specific trees, they can also move freely through forests often appearing as glowing orbs of light. In some accounts they present as regular trees but with the ability to move around at will.
#FolkloreSunday #yokai
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#FolkloreSunday #yokai
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"In the urban folklore of the 21st-century city, the alley fills some of the role the woods at the edge of the village...a zone that children and responsible adults should be wary of...it is where criminals hide, dangerous animals lurk...and, perhaps most troubling, no productive activity occurs."
Over @theglobeandmail.com, I had the fun opportunity to share some thoughts on back alleys, their human and natural history, and the potential for their revitalization as part of the interstitial commons: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Our back alleys are evolving – from places we hide in, to spaces we share
Alleys are one of the rare zones where the city lets you be momentarily invisible, or as close as you can get to it outside your front door
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 14, 2024 at 6:42 PM
"In the urban folklore of the 21st-century city, the alley fills some of the role the woods at the edge of the village...a zone that children and responsible adults should be wary of...it is where criminals hide, dangerous animals lurk...and, perhaps most troubling, no productive activity occurs."
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Feeling all kinds of Minnesota pride today. Can’t wait for the State Fair this year.
August 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Feeling all kinds of Minnesota pride today. Can’t wait for the State Fair this year.
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Morning everyone who loves second-hand books and bookshops:
I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!
I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!
July 28, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Morning everyone who loves second-hand books and bookshops:
I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!
I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!
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"Known as Compagnons du Devoir (companions of duty), they belong to an organisation dating back to the middle ages. Starting their apprenticeships at 15, they spend years touring France, learning their skills as they go from town to town assisting older, master artisans." Great read.
‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame
For the past five years, Agnès Poirier has had unique access to the army of artisans tasked with rebuilding the 12th-century ‘soul of France’
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2024 at 8:04 AM
"Known as Compagnons du Devoir (companions of duty), they belong to an organisation dating back to the middle ages. Starting their apprenticeships at 15, they spend years touring France, learning their skills as they go from town to town assisting older, master artisans." Great read.
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World's earliest forest discovered, scientists say. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
World's earliest forest discovered, scientists say
The tree fossils dating back 390 million years were found near a Butlin's holiday camp in Somerset.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 7, 2024 at 2:46 PM
World's earliest forest discovered, scientists say. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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Enigmatic #fossil #plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, #Canada
Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Gensel, Ian J. Glasspool, Steven J. Hinds, Olivia A. King, Duncan McLean et al
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Gensel, Ian J. Glasspool, Steven J. Hinds, Olivia A. King, Duncan McLean et al
www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 3, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Enigmatic #fossil #plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, #Canada
Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Gensel, Ian J. Glasspool, Steven J. Hinds, Olivia A. King, Duncan McLean et al
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Robert A. Gastaldo, Patricia G. Gensel, Ian J. Glasspool, Steven J. Hinds, Olivia A. King, Duncan McLean et al
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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“This is a totally new and different kind of plant” than had been found in the Late Paleozoic Era, said Patricia Gensel (...) “We typically get bits and pieces of plants, or mineralized tree trunks, from Romer’s Gap. We don’t have many whole plants we can reconstruct. This one we can.”
A Fossilized Tree That Dr. Seuss Might Have Dreamed Up
The toilet brushlike specimen from a Canadian quarry hints at the evolutionary experiments that occurred during a 15-million-year gap in the fossil record.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
“This is a totally new and different kind of plant” than had been found in the Late Paleozoic Era, said Patricia Gensel (...) “We typically get bits and pieces of plants, or mineralized tree trunks, from Romer’s Gap. We don’t have many whole plants we can reconstruct. This one we can.”
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A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!
December 23, 2023 at 11:34 AM
A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy holidays, everyone!
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Writer friends, tell me: What’s the first line of the story that stars this tower?
November 5, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Writer friends, tell me: What’s the first line of the story that stars this tower?
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Through the lens of a fallen leaf in Autumn.🍁
📷 by William Smith
📷 by William Smith
October 29, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Through the lens of a fallen leaf in Autumn.🍁
📷 by William Smith
📷 by William Smith
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I highly, highly recommend Katherine Langrish's marvelous series of posts on Enchanted Sleepers in myth, lore, and fairy tales. Here's the third installment, covering sleeping kings and armies, and lapses of time in fairyland.
steelthistles.blogspot.com/2023/09/ench...
steelthistles.blogspot.com/2023/09/ench...
September 22, 2023 at 2:07 PM
I highly, highly recommend Katherine Langrish's marvelous series of posts on Enchanted Sleepers in myth, lore, and fairy tales. Here's the third installment, covering sleeping kings and armies, and lapses of time in fairyland.
steelthistles.blogspot.com/2023/09/ench...
steelthistles.blogspot.com/2023/09/ench...