peasant children playing in the village square, singing old nursery songs: beware, beware, the planes align / and evil falls like stars / the iron-handed lad will face his fate / and save their world and ours

me, a simple blacksmith's apprentice: that's probably nothing

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 143 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to find out how long seeds could remain viable underground. So he buried bottles with different kinds of seeds in a secret spot somewhere on the Michigan State University campus, knowing the experiment might outlive him.

It did! Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists still dig up the bottles and seeds continue to germinate 🌱 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/science/beal-seeds-experiment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #science

What's missing from these pictures?

No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.

Rest in peace, Greg Bear. It was a privilege to publish you, for a while. A masterful writer.

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