Archeologists in Italy made a surprising discovery of two stone disks covered in chisel marks at an ancient fort. After examining the marks, astronomers matched them to the positions of 28 bright stars in the sky, including Orion's Belt. Since stars move, the marks must have been made between 1800 and 400 BCE, making it one of the oldest sky maps ever found. An outstanding mystery is one chisel mark that doesn't match a known star and might have marked a supernova.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220108

Some new proofreading marks to help your writing really jump off the page this year.

Used it extensively in drafting The Fatness: https://geni.us/TheFatness

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Couple of beauts from this week for #WildflowerHour
A late blooming Blackstoneia (Yellowwort) and sadly, in a way, the first of this season's Autumn Ladies' Tresses (slightly off focus), both from the Purbeck wares

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I’ve been experimenting with creating my own decorative endpapers for bookbinding using natural ink made from local plants. This is my favourite so far. It’s all viburnum opulus berries. The pink is the ink after boiling with water. I added a little lemon juice to raise the acidity after discovering it turns blue where it reacts with the acid-free paper as I wanted to preserve some of the vibrant pink, the burnt orange is mixed with a little bicarb of soda.

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