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Very much looking forward to talking on Thursday with the World Bank community about my research on standard sizes in the U.S. (If you'd like to attend, contact Sandi Soe Lwin at [email protected]).

🔁 REPOST via Friends of People's Palace & Winter Gardens 📆 23 May 2025 ⏰ 12-4pm 📍 Bridgeton Library

GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD

These late 18th-century embroidered pictures are incredibly delicate, having been rendered using a single strand of black thread. This type of embroidery, often called printwork, involved a singular strand of black thread and was meant to be reminiscent of engraving

Afternoon Dress, 1910-20. Linen & lace. © Goldstein Museum. #Fashionhistory

🪿In June of 1910, Beatrix Potter registered a Jemima Puddle-Duck doll at the Patent Office.

Valais Blacknose sheep parade of the day.

In honor of tonight’s Strawberry Moon—the lowest full moon in nearly two decades—a luminous cover of The New Yorker from June 1, 1968. #NewYorkerCovers

11th June is St. Barnabas Day, once celebrated with garlands of roses, woodruff and lavender twined around statues and candles in medieval churches. This year it falls on June’s #FullMoon, known in Europe as the Rose Moon, when roses are their most fragrant & fair. #RoseWednesday

RIP Brian Wilson. Sharing BBC Music’s tribute to The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”

Brooch. Frances McNair. c.1900.

This stunning wedding dress of 1927 is the very essence of #Frockingfabulous; sadly, the maker is unknown. #fashionhistory via Chicago History Museum.

Goodnight Moon was based on the author's process of listing all her favorite things in her room as a way to inspire herself to get up in the morning. For the book, she reversed the ritual 99pi's Joe Rosenberg has the story 99percentinvisible.org/episode/goodni…

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra. #BookChatWeekly #BookologyThursday #FolkloreSunday #Midsummer Image: Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Oh I do miss Scotland!

Summer solstice 2025: good day to start harvest…

I went away overnight and the sweetpeas went mad!!

Ephemeral beauty of homegrown sweet peas. I wish I could somehow let you smell them.

Hydrangea palette, for the big floofy floral dopamine:

Sweet peas at sundown 💐