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Strawberry Panna Cotta || Lemon Basil Sauce || White Strawberry || White Wine Vinegar Pearls || Black Sesame Tuile

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#food #foodporn #experiment
December 16, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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One of Andrew Jackson's favorite dishes was a three ingredient hickory nut soup, likely based on the Native American soup known as kanuchi.
The 3-Ingredient Soup President Andrew Jackson Loved Included A Gallon Of Hickory Nuts - Tasting Table
www.tastingtable.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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Happy birthday, Johannes Stöffler! In addition to Thony's post below, he's also featured today on the Linda Hall Library site, along with links to a full scan of their recently acquired copy of his 1513 astrolabe book with its great foldout illustrations: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #HistSTM
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Nautilus shells from ‘Deliciae naturae selectae’ by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Published in Nuremberg, 1766-67.

Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #sciart #animalart #rarebooks #bookhistory
December 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The natural grace of an oak seedling called Noble Shadow

A literal translation of the Old English Æðelsceadu, or Addleshade if the word still existed
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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2 November 1827: Oxford geologist William Buckland tells George Featherstonhaugh that 'Mary Anning is in the Act of extracting a large slab of Pentacrinites for you if she does not break her neck in the Operation'. She was working the Lias Pentacrinites Bed high on the unstable cliffs of Black Ven.
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nmwa.org/exhibitions/... wonderful exhibit- go if you are in town. Women highly esteemed in their lifetime cut out of the art canon so have been invisible for centuries. Who gets included in the telling of our history and culture is critical
Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 | Exhibition | National Museum of Women in the Arts
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October 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Visit the JCB!

Our current exhibition, Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature, is open Monday through Thursday from 10 am - to 12:45 pm and from 2 pm to 4:45 pm, and Friday from 10 am to 12:45 pm.

You can also view it online at americana.jcblibrary.org/exhibitions/...
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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An engraved plate from Florilegium renovatum et Auctum (1641) by Swiss-born engraver Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593 – 1650). The added lepidoptera species is apropos: his daughter was entomologist & scientific artist Maria Sibylla Merian.
Coin for scale.
#sciart #histsci
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Term has started and a quiet has settled on the library and the river. Don't forget to take a break and look out of the window. It's too beautiful to miss.

#worldmentalhealthday
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A Kagu bird on the brink of extinction meets its own kind.
October 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, whose mathematical abilities, acquired from Clavius, made it possible for him as the first European in the 17th century to penetrate Chinese society & build a bridgehead for the Jesuit mission, was born 6 October 1552 #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/a...
An Italo-Chinese Jesuit
The first history of science post that I wrote for The Renaissance Mathematicus was about the Jesuit mathematicus and educational reformer Christoph Clavius and his introduction of the mathematical…
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October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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National Congress of American Indians" "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle.
It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota."
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NCAI: "Wounded Knee Was Not a Battle, It Was the Deliberate Mass Killing of 350 Lakota
On Friday, the National Congress of American Indians pushed back on the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to retain the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre ...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Opossum and snake from ‘Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri’ (often shortened to Thesaurus). The four volume set of books is based on Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba’s cabinet of curiosities. Published in Amsterdam, 1734-1765.

Newberry Library 📚

#animalart #naturalhistory #bookhistory
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's the famous "Barcarolle" duet from Offenbach's opera 'The Tales of Hoffmann,' sung by mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa (on the left) and soprano Fatma Said (on the right). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTyx...
Fatma Said, Marianne Crebassa – Offenbach: Barcarolle: Belle nuit ô nuit d’amour (Contes d'Hoffmann)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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October 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Blaise Pascal, Torricellian tubes, the vacuum & air pressure #histsci #histtech

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October 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Digoxin (excreted renally) and digitoxin (metabolized by liver) are both derived from foxglove. William Withering described its use in "dropsy" in 1785. While it relieved dyspnea and edema, he noted that it had a narrow therapeutic index: the effective dose was close to that which causes toxicity
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It was only after Jonas Salk developed the first safe & effective polio vaccine that the need for iron lungs declined. When asked who owned the vaccine patent, Salk famously answered, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” 7/7

#vaccineswork
February 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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A 16th Century armillary sphere ring designed to unfold into a miniature astronomical sphere, symbolizing knowledge, exploration, and humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos.

#archaeohistories
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Writing desk by Giuseppe Gargiulo signed 1880 displaying a variety of inlay and marquetry techniques including panels depicting the local peasantry.

Museum of Intarsia, Sorrento 🇮🇹

#archaeohistories
September 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Crimson-rumped Toucanet at La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia

#birds #nature #toucans
September 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM