The Public Domain ReviewCyanotypes by Thomas Smillie (1843–1917) of the @Smithsonian's collection, by their very first curator of photography. More in our post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/smillie-smithsonian
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The Mortality Project explores death, mortality, grief, and esotericism to support clarity, wellness, and flourishing in this life. My name is Amy. Welcome.
In the wake of the Tate-LaBianca murders, The Girls captured the world’s attention as suburban young women who enthusiastically murdered for Charlie. Charles Manson seemed as if he stepped into his role fully formed. Incarcerated from the age of 8, this West Virginia throwaway never stood a chance. Mediagenic, bouncing between gnomic and terrifying, he kept the public in thrall for years. But the longer I live with this story, the more I think Tex Watson is the key to the whole thing.
Jürgen Hubert#WritersCoffeeClub 5/29: "What (in terms of writing) do you fear?"
Running out of time for my work.
There are more than a hundred thousand German folk tales out there which have not yet been translated into English. Even if I could drop all my other obligations and dedicate myself to this work full time, there is no way I could translate them all.
However, maybe it's possible to translate a decent representative sampling of them. Which might be what, five thousand or so?
I have been doing this for a little more than seven years (in parallel to my full-time job), and translated 850 tales so far. I will reach retirement age in about 17 years (unless German chancellor #Merz screws me over and raises the retirement age, which I suspect he will). At the current pace, I might get another 2000 tales done by that time.
After reaching retirement age, I _should_ have more time for writing, but as I age further, I will have less energy. How much will I get done before I have to stop?
And the translations themselves are just one part of the equation - I also need to compile them into books, which is something I have been struggling with.
So... will I be able to get enough of these tales out so that I can be satisfied with my life's work before the inevitable occurs?
In the 1960s, the American public was obsessed with the brain. Popular culture ranged from bestselling books on cryonics to psychedelia, while science clarified the legal definition of death (brain death) in 1968. (Image: Grok)
Caricature of circus tycoon P. T. Barnum — from Henry L. Stephens, The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851), in which well-known figures of the day find themselves transposed onto unsuspecting fauna. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/comic-natural-history
In the 1980s, a suitcase marked “private” was found in a barn near Oslo. Inside? Hundreds of playful, radical photos by the couple Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg — subversive visions of gender and sexuality in early 1900s Norway: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/berg-and-hoeg/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116623546049061112
This needs to happen.
Smithsonian MagazinePaleontologists Discover an Ancient Marine Reptile They’ve Dubbed the T. Rex of the Sea, Crowning Another King of the Cretaceous
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-discover-an-ancient-marine-reptile-theyve-dubbed-the-t-rex-of-the-sea-crowning-another-king-of-the-cretaceous-180988792/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Paleontologists Discover an Ancient Marine Reptile They've Dubbed the T. Rex of the Sea, Crowning Another King of the Cretaceous
Scientists figured out that the predators were lumped in with a previously named mosasaur species. The new one, called Tylosaurus rex, could grow to 43 feet long, about the length of a school bus
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In 1925, Soviet professor Aleksandr Beliaev published "The Head of Professor Dowell," a rather strange story about a severed head living in a laboratory supported by mysterious machinery. #Cryonics
