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Equality win: We’re getting rid of the humanities for fancy private school kids too.
U. of C. freezes Ph.D. admissions to most humanities programs
The University of Chicago will pause or scale back graduate admissions in more than a dozen programs next year as the school confronts what administrators have called “very real budget
www.hpherald.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Equality win: We’re getting rid of the humanities for fancy private school kids too.
A fun flower from Montana that looks like a bunch of elephant heads. Pedicularis groenlandica
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
A fun flower from Montana that looks like a bunch of elephant heads. Pedicularis groenlandica
Did you make a real autochrome?
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Did you make a real autochrome?
Good stuff for sure! Wish more jazz 78’s turned up in my area.
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good stuff for sure! Wish more jazz 78’s turned up in my area.
Nah. It was warm as could be yesterday and today we are heading into 0 degree low temps. I really could see people wearing shorts on thanksgiving and going ice skating on Christmas if this keeps up.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nah. It was warm as could be yesterday and today we are heading into 0 degree low temps. I really could see people wearing shorts on thanksgiving and going ice skating on Christmas if this keeps up.
Bozeman, Montana in the year 2025. At least from the way things seem to be going.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Bozeman, Montana in the year 2025. At least from the way things seem to be going.
I work at a natural history museum that focuses mostly on dinosaurs. I often get bummed out that nobody here seems to care about paleobotany. Thanks for spreading the gospel on this stuff.
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I work at a natural history museum that focuses mostly on dinosaurs. I often get bummed out that nobody here seems to care about paleobotany. Thanks for spreading the gospel on this stuff.
Bud, you say all kinds of unhinged shit that pisses me off on here but don’t ever listen to anybody that says you aren’t a poster at heart.
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Bud, you say all kinds of unhinged shit that pisses me off on here but don’t ever listen to anybody that says you aren’t a poster at heart.
I accidentally got in to botany and taxonomy a few years ago because I was curious to know the answer to this exact question. Not so simple but at least I have a life long love for plants now.
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I accidentally got in to botany and taxonomy a few years ago because I was curious to know the answer to this exact question. Not so simple but at least I have a life long love for plants now.
Thanks Scott. I’m so used to the consensus working out in the “splitting” direction. Very interesting to see something get merged back together like that.
October 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thanks Scott. I’m so used to the consensus working out in the “splitting” direction. Very interesting to see something get merged back together like that.
Honest question from a curious amateur here. What’s up with this genus being called both Aphyllon and Orobanche?
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Honest question from a curious amateur here. What’s up with this genus being called both Aphyllon and Orobanche?
One of my favorite families to keep an out for here in Montana. What's particularly interesting to me is the wildly different degrees of parasitism among members of the same genus. Especially Castilleja. Here's my favorite Orobanchaceae I saw this year.
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One of my favorite families to keep an out for here in Montana. What's particularly interesting to me is the wildly different degrees of parasitism among members of the same genus. Especially Castilleja. Here's my favorite Orobanchaceae I saw this year.
Don’t worry. I’m sure the democrats can find a way to spend billions of dollars to turn this lead around.
September 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Don’t worry. I’m sure the democrats can find a way to spend billions of dollars to turn this lead around.
I once worked on a house for the founder of GitHub. You would not believe some of the frivolous stuff we installed/deinstalled on a whim.
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I once worked on a house for the founder of GitHub. You would not believe some of the frivolous stuff we installed/deinstalled on a whim.
Keep an eye out for this one as well. The Stanley Brothers never made a bad song but this album stands above the rest for me.
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Keep an eye out for this one as well. The Stanley Brothers never made a bad song but this album stands above the rest for me.
So glad you are moving people from empty/unused state-owned highway right-of-ways to city owned parks and sidewalks. My most favorite part of being homeless was spending all day in busy public spaces and not having anywhere to store my belongings.
August 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
So glad you are moving people from empty/unused state-owned highway right-of-ways to city owned parks and sidewalks. My most favorite part of being homeless was spending all day in busy public spaces and not having anywhere to store my belongings.
I lost interest in photography for 20+ years because my high school made us use this to take pictures for the yearbook.
August 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I lost interest in photography for 20+ years because my high school made us use this to take pictures for the yearbook.
