Trivia (should have been 7 September)

Crunch Time: 1923
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave

Washington circa 1923
“Auto crash in woods”
Continuing our series on vehicular mayhem around the nation’s capital
Harris & Ewing photo
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Collaborating with your kids: the story of A Dark and Dismal Flower
via Boing Boing by J C Herz

JC Herz and her five year old daughter, Eve, created A Dark and Dismal Flower, a beautifully-animated picture book. In this essay, Herz offers her advice on how to collaborate with your own kids.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
When did “issues” – which conveys both judgment and understanding – become the perfect word for our postmodern times?… more

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How Cézanne Saw a World in an Apple
via Big Think by Bob Duggan

Just as poet William Blake asks us “To see a world in a grain of sand” in his poem “Auguries of Innocence”, painter Paul Cézanne asks us to see the world in an apple in the many still lifes that span his long career.
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Statue man rescues statue lady from floodwaters
via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker

Flooding on Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis makes this statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic lovers Minnehaha and Hiawatha suddenly a little too on the nose.
(Photo by Ben Garvin / St. Paul Pioneer Press)

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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
What color, exactly, is Anna Karenina’s hair? How tall is Melville’s Ishmael? We “see” literature in our minds, but what does it mean?… more

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Faith and science in the natural world

via OUP blog by Tom McLeish
There is a pressing need to re-establish a cultural narrative for science. At present we lack a public understanding of the purpose of this deeply human endeavour to understand the natural world. In debate around scientific issues, and even in the education and presentation of science itself, we tend to overemphasise the most recent findings, and project a culture of expertise.
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The Oort Cloud – Believe It or Not

via How-To Geek

While the existence of the Oort Cloud has not been proved via direct observation yet, astronomers are sure it is there because it helps to answer a lot of questions about our solar system. But how big is it and what could we expect to find there? Today’s video from SciShow Space looks at the current theories about the Oort Cloud.

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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Despite the invective, Mary Beard does not feel bad about her neck or hair or teeth. “I’m a classicist, not an autocue girl.”… more

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Reader shares a 1946 book: 'BBC War Report from D-Day'
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin

At the end of a week that marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, Boing Boing reader Joe Gordon shares photos of a wonderful book in his personal collection, in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool.