Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822), a 19th-century exploration in etchings and words of British trees “distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty” — buff.ly/3wmElWW

Stanford Torus Says What?

In even more good Baltimore politics news!

She is so good.

Cathedrals Everywhere

strategy is just inventing a conspiracy theory that isn’t true yet

It's amazing that it's 2024 and people in academia still use multiple meanings for critical words like 'advisor' and 'thesis'

I am halfway sure that Google is now using an hallucinating AI for its weather module now too

Just realized that “deterritorialized” is perfectly cognate with “deranged” and that’s what the “for you” tab is all about

Explaining every year to my friends who don’t work in academia that I’m not going out of town, ‘retreat’ is just another name for a really long meeting on campus.

People died.

Life as a professor in 2024:

Student emails on Saturday morning, and again Sunday morning. Then sends an email Sunday evening with '(third time sending email)' in the subject.

Do you ever just... think about the Shrike from Hyperion? And how the Shrike probably shouldn't be illustrated or illustratable somehow?

Clifford D. Simak 1980. For the cover of Martin Hoffman's 'The Visitors'.

Reminds me of the Douglas Adams line 'The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.'.

*Narrator Voice* 'They were not, in fact, recovering it'

Those Who Walk Away From Margaritaville

Okay yes, but the water is recoverable and condensation is relatively easy, yes? Aren't they recycling it? I get the energy concerns but data centers can (and do?) re-use the water? It's not like it gets launched into space. apnews.com/article/chatgp…

ladies and gentlemen, straight from portugal, the single best reference material footage on how dinosaurs react to meteors ever recorded