via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
May 1943
“Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Liberty ship construction. Welding on a hatch assembly at night.”
Medium format negative by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information
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The Monkey Queen: Researching a Family Secret for a Family Novel
via An Awfully Big Blog Adventure by Tess Berry-Hart
This Thursday [18 February 2015] the great wheel of the Chinese zodiac will spin to welcome in the Year of the (Wooden) Ram; a year of calm, creativity and goodness (according to my online resources!) The five elements of the Chinese calendar – Fire, Water, Wood, Metal and Earth – intersect with a zodiac animal only once every sixty years. In an interesting coincidence, during the last days of the Year of the Wooden Ram in 1896 (Chinese New Year starts mid-February to our calendars), my grandmother Mimi was born in China, to English missionary parents in a small white church on the marshy banks of the Yangtze River.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
On romantic love
Is love a choice? Philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists think it’s an involuntary phenomenon. Clancy Martin thinks they’re wrong… more
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Forget Buckyballs, Here Comes Volleyballene
via Technology Review
Buckyballs are all the rage these days given their stability and unique chemical properties. The classic football-shaped molecule consists of 60 carbon atoms arranged in 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, but chemists have observed various other configurations. C72, C76, and C84 are fairly common, and some buckyballs have up to 100 carbon atoms.
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Slow Down the Conversation to be a Better Listener
via Big Think by Orion Jones
We think much faster than we talk. Neurons in the brain can fire 200 times a second, while the mechanics of the human mouth permit just 125 words to be spoken each minute. When we don’t slow down and don’t allow our thoughts to be expressed completely, we end up talking past each other. Our ability to listen (and therefore to respond) suffers as a result.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
History of psychoanalysis
On a November evening in 1977, Barbara Taylor, a Ph.D. student, had an epiphany. By 1981 she’d written a dissertation. And gone crazy… more
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Religion and the social determinants of health
via OUP Blog by Susan R. Holman
Woodcut illustration by Jacob Locher, used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg (d. 1540).
From the “Provenance Online Project” (at Penn Libraries). CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
Is religion a plus or minus when it comes to global health and the “right to health” in the twenty-first century? A little of both, I’d say, but what does that look like? For me the connection is seen most clearly in the “social determinants of health”; that is, “the everyday circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” This post considers a selection of photos that shape how I see social determinants intersecting with religion.
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The Book of Beetles: A life-size guide to 600 of nature’s living gems
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
The white fog-basking beetle dwells in the Namib desert. It climbs “to the top of a dune during the early-morning fog, orienting its body with the tip of the abdomen pointed upward and the head angled downward. Water vapour from the fog condenses on the abdomen and runs down the body and into the mouth.”
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Defence of physical books
“You read all those books?” The question occurs only to non-readers. For bibliophiles, a personal library of unread books is a reminder that they will never be smart enough…more
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Jumping DNA and the Evolution of Pregnancy
via 3 Quarks Daily by Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket Science
About a decade ago, Vincent Lynch emailed Frank Grutzner to ask for a tissue sample from a pregnant platypus. He got a polite brush-off instead.
Then, around eight years later, Grutzner got back in touch. His team had collected tissues from a platypus that had been killed by someone’s dog. They had some uterus. Did Lynch still want some?
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