Mastodawn

Zachary K. Thompson Mar 30, 2024

Comics Outta Context Mar 30, 2024

Zachary K. Thompson Oct 11, 2023

Smithsonian Roulette Sep 29, 2023

title: Harvesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa
artist: W. H. Martin, born 1865-died 1940
source: Smithsonian American Art Museum
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71746

Harvesting a Profitable Crop of Onions in Iowa

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Zachary K. Thompson Sep 15, 2023

Amanda Kay Oaks Sep 14, 2023

How about a #BookReview, book friends? Here's my latest NetGalley review #OnTheBlog

http://yourbookfriend.com/2023/09/14/lets-get-quizzical-didnt-have-all-the-answers/

#Bookstodon #books

Let’s Get Quizzical Didn’t Have all the Answers

Last year, I read Kelly Ohlert’s debut and felt that it had a lot of potential, even if it ultimately fell flat for me. So when I saw her next book, Let’s Get Quizzical, I was excited t…

Your Book Friend

Zachary K. Thompson Aug 12, 2023

Peter Gainsford Aug 12, 2023

Cannabis could be eaten as a vegetable in antiquity.

But not a very appetising one. In Palatine Anthology 11.325, the poet Automedon compares it to cabbage that has gone yellow with age:

Yesterday I dined on a goat’s foot, and a ten-day-old
quince-coloured cabbage stalk, like cannabis.
I won't name the one who invited me. He’s grouchy,
and I’m scared he might invite me back again.

Zachary K. Thompson Jul 15, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Jul 15, 2023

About 109 billion people have lived & died. Each grain of sand represents 10 million. 
This stunning data visualization of human life by Max Roser was published in 2022.

Today there would be 805 green grains representing 8.05 billion people living on Earth. #science #art

Zachary K. Thompson Jul 14, 2023

BrooklynMan (in exile) 🏳️‍🌈Jul 14, 2023

seen on lemmy

#sagaftra #sag #aftra #strike #hollywood #wgastrike #wga #startrek #startrekds9 #ds9 #solidarity

Zachary K. Thompson Jul 11, 2023

We’ve recently also gotten into local government! Attending our first city council meeting Thursday.

Zachary K. Thompson Jul 7, 2023

I read an NYT article this morning detailing plans to replace Madison Square Garden. Madison Square Garden replaced the iconic Pennsylvania Station in the mid 1960s. In 1962, when the man who engineered that replacement met criticism, he quipped "Fifty years from now, when its time for [the new Madison Square Garden] to be torn down, there will be a new group of architects who will protest." Well, they aren't. Instead, greedy landowners are fighting to keep their arena a decade past expiration.

Zachary K. Thompson Jul 7, 2023

Peter Gainsford Jul 7, 2023

How Eratosthenes measured the earth: part 4 of 4.

The angle of the sun is the last hurdle Eratosthenes had to overcome with his data collection methods.

Here we review the popularly believed story -- measuring shadows of sticks -- before looking at a more likely and methodologically simpler alternative.

Concludes with a bibliography.

(Reading time: 15 minutes)
#ancientscience #eratosthenes #geography #ancientgreece
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/07/eratosthenes-4.html