@bookswain.bsky.social
Starting over, again. Science, history, books, etc.
I share books and other items I collect, one of my hobbies. I was a Jedi once, like my father before me.
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I share books and other items I collect, one of my hobbies. I was a Jedi once, like my father before me.
All posts protected by the 1st Amendment.
“The same size of the flower and the vagina”
According to Google Translate. In case you were wondering.
According to Google Translate. In case you were wondering.
December 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“The same size of the flower and the vagina”
According to Google Translate. In case you were wondering.
According to Google Translate. In case you were wondering.
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Day 13 #InsectAdvent & have you decorated the tree yet?
What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Day 13 #InsectAdvent & have you decorated the tree yet?
What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
What about this tree? This in fact the hairy whorls of a male Chaoborid or Phantom midge’s antennae. Packed full of sensors, this ‘tree’ is more than a mere decoration
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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Indeed thinking something into existence changes you. Going through the pains of creation is the reward, not its output. Imagine wanting to skip the process to obtain the outcome. Reframing one of the most beautiful, consequential parts of human existence into a bureaucratic hurdle to be eliminated.
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Indeed thinking something into existence changes you. Going through the pains of creation is the reward, not its output. Imagine wanting to skip the process to obtain the outcome. Reframing one of the most beautiful, consequential parts of human existence into a bureaucratic hurdle to be eliminated.
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On the ethics of writing:
"Not writing which has ethics imposed on it from outside. The ethical changes that happen inside you in a lifetime of working with characters, plots, stories, language. Working with them sincerely, trying to represent the world."
"Not writing which has ethics imposed on it from outside. The ethical changes that happen inside you in a lifetime of working with characters, plots, stories, language. Working with them sincerely, trying to represent the world."
I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
a single line of Shakespeare contains an ethical universe
on what we get from individual word choice, what good writing is, plus: what I put in my ChatGPT settings to make it helpful
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
On the ethics of writing:
"Not writing which has ethics imposed on it from outside. The ethical changes that happen inside you in a lifetime of working with characters, plots, stories, language. Working with them sincerely, trying to represent the world."
"Not writing which has ethics imposed on it from outside. The ethical changes that happen inside you in a lifetime of working with characters, plots, stories, language. Working with them sincerely, trying to represent the world."
In case folks cant remember the energy the Stones brought when they were youngsters
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In case folks cant remember the energy the Stones brought when they were youngsters
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: My latest piece on Germany’s energy transition & the heating law.
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
German Heating Law: Stability Instead of Perpetual Debate
This is a machine translation of an article Jan Rosenow wrote for Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (Journal for Economic Policy). The…
medium.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
HOT OFF THE PRESS: My latest piece on Germany’s energy transition & the heating law.
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
It already offers a solid path to phase out fossil heating.
What we need: stable funding, better local planning & skilled workers. Cutting complexity instead of endless political debate.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
Some spectacular bird feet to brighten your Sunday morning.
An engraved illustration colored by hand by French ornithological artist François Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux published from 1770 to 1786.
Coin for scale.
#sciart 🪶
An engraved illustration colored by hand by French ornithological artist François Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux published from 1770 to 1786.
Coin for scale.
#sciart 🪶
December 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Some spectacular bird feet to brighten your Sunday morning.
An engraved illustration colored by hand by French ornithological artist François Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux published from 1770 to 1786.
Coin for scale.
#sciart 🪶
An engraved illustration colored by hand by French ornithological artist François Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800) from Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux published from 1770 to 1786.
Coin for scale.
#sciart 🪶
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Screen print, interference pigment, graphite and ink
“Unsolved in your Heart”
12” x 9”
‘At present you must live the question’
#ArtAdventCalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
“Unsolved in your Heart”
12” x 9”
‘At present you must live the question’
#ArtAdventCalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
December 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Screen print, interference pigment, graphite and ink
“Unsolved in your Heart”
12” x 9”
‘At present you must live the question’
#ArtAdventCalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
“Unsolved in your Heart”
12” x 9”
‘At present you must live the question’
#ArtAdventCalendar #printmaking #mixedmedia #sciart
An article from my February 3, 1807 issue of the The Balance, and Columbian Repository a newspaper published by Harry Croswell that ran from 1801 to 1807. This article contains Aaron Burr’s treasonous cypher letter, edited by traitor Wilkinson, that led to Jefferson ordering Burr’s arrest. 🗃️
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
An article from my February 3, 1807 issue of the The Balance, and Columbian Repository a newspaper published by Harry Croswell that ran from 1801 to 1807. This article contains Aaron Burr’s treasonous cypher letter, edited by traitor Wilkinson, that led to Jefferson ordering Burr’s arrest. 🗃️
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Jane Addams's 1930 memoir covers her continued Hull-House work, social reform, & peace activism that earned her the 1931 Nobel Prize. "The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House" enters public domain in 20 days.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/12/a...
#publicDomainDayCountdown
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/12/a...
#publicDomainDayCountdown
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Jane Addams's 1930 memoir covers her continued Hull-House work, social reform, & peace activism that earned her the 1931 Nobel Prize. "The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House" enters public domain in 20 days.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/12/a...
#publicDomainDayCountdown
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/12/a...
#publicDomainDayCountdown
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The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen across the globe, but the best viewing happens in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://to.pbs.org/4rLm5n7
https://to.pbs.org/4rLm5n7
Bundle up, leave the city and put away the phones. Here's how to watch the Geminids, one of the year's best meteor showers
The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December.
www.pbs.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen across the globe, but the best viewing happens in the Northern Hemisphere.
https://to.pbs.org/4rLm5n7
https://to.pbs.org/4rLm5n7
The same area in early summer is replete with native wildflowers. This particular spot on the trail has a clump of uncommon yellow colored Castilleja. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
My 📸
My 📸
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Saturday morning challenge: construct a square equal in area to a circle using only a straightedge and compass.
Good luck 👍
Good luck 👍
December 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Saturday morning challenge: construct a square equal in area to a circle using only a straightedge and compass.
Good luck 👍
Good luck 👍
At one point we had a 55 mph speed limit that was enacted to save fuel, part of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act Signed into law by President Richard Nixon (boy how times have changed).
Unfortunately guys like Sammy Hagar couldn’t handle it.
Unfortunately guys like Sammy Hagar couldn’t handle it.
Speeding is bad, actually. It kills people. We have speed limits to save lives.
Speed limits are set arbitrarily low to extract revenue from people that have no transportation options beyond their own privately owned vehicles. 'Choosing to speed' near a residential area or school is completely different than passing people on a highway
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
At one point we had a 55 mph speed limit that was enacted to save fuel, part of the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act Signed into law by President Richard Nixon (boy how times have changed).
Unfortunately guys like Sammy Hagar couldn’t handle it.
Unfortunately guys like Sammy Hagar couldn’t handle it.
C’mon y’all, this is funny
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
C’mon y’all, this is funny
A late 19th century woodpecker tapestry ICYMI 🪶
there are peoples not a few, of whom we know scarce anything, save that they thought such and such forms beautiful. So strong is the bond between history and decoration, that in the practice of the latter we cannot, if we would, wholly shake off the influence of past times over what we do at present
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A late 19th century woodpecker tapestry ICYMI 🪶
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there are peoples not a few, of whom we know scarce anything, save that they thought such and such forms beautiful. So strong is the bond between history and decoration, that in the practice of the latter we cannot, if we would, wholly shake off the influence of past times over what we do at present
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
there are peoples not a few, of whom we know scarce anything, save that they thought such and such forms beautiful. So strong is the bond between history and decoration, that in the practice of the latter we cannot, if we would, wholly shake off the influence of past times over what we do at present
December 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The same area in early summer is replete with native wildflowers. This particular spot on the trail has a clump of uncommon yellow colored Castilleja. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
My 📸
My 📸
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The same area in early summer is replete with native wildflowers. This particular spot on the trail has a clump of uncommon yellow colored Castilleja. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
My 📸
My 📸
It’s still possible to see biological beauty on the trail in the winter months. Here’s a rock poking through the snow and ice covered with spectacular lichens.
My 📸
My 📸
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s still possible to see biological beauty on the trail in the winter months. Here’s a rock poking through the snow and ice covered with spectacular lichens.
My 📸
My 📸
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In light of the Saurophaganax situation (🦕 and/or 🦖), I suggest Oklahoma consider Oklahomacystis as a state fossil. Oklahomacystis belongs to the Paracrinoidea, an extinct lineage of rare & unusual blastozoan echinoderms. Despite their name, they aren't likely to be very closely related to crinoids.
December 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
In light of the Saurophaganax situation (🦕 and/or 🦖), I suggest Oklahoma consider Oklahomacystis as a state fossil. Oklahomacystis belongs to the Paracrinoidea, an extinct lineage of rare & unusual blastozoan echinoderms. Despite their name, they aren't likely to be very closely related to crinoids.
Some very strong historical precedent to this observation…
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Some very strong historical precedent to this observation…
Happy 100th birthday to the famous Cockney actor Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy 100th birthday to the famous Cockney actor Dick Van Dyke!