This is a New Scientist special package about shock results that have upended cosmology. What do they mean for our models of the universe, and what are the alternative explanations?
The only known footage of Margaret Murray (1863 - 1963), the archaeologist and folklorist who penned The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921).
THE STORY OF CAPITAL
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Sally Mann, self-portrait 1974
Thank you for posting this Rose. The longer I stare at tnis painting, the progressively less abstract are the felt experiences which it evokes in me. Thank you most of all Hilda...
Is Satan sat atop that sphere or rising from behind it like a cinema organist? Ambiguous seating can be hell.
📍 Hambledon Hill, Dorset.
Rising up to 190 metres above the valley below, this was once home to an Iron Age hillfort, where thousands of people would have lived their lives.
Today, it's a National Nature Reserve, home to 28 butterfly species, wildflowers and chalk grassland.
Photo: John Miller
“We wish to state plainly and unequivocally that, in our informed view, there is no basis in science and no discernible basis in law for [the Minister's] assertion."
– Experts' “extreme concern” over the delay in publishing an updated national Climate Action Plan.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.
Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.
So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.
@hannahgold.bsky.social a couple of pics of Bear Island (Bjørnøya) for you!
You can google the edge network, and their activities. He’s agent for Pinker, Dawkins, Dennett and many others:
newrepublic.com/article/1548...
Really enjoying this beautiful, thoughtful documentary series which approaches folk rituals through their present practice & the people & communities currently involved, rather than centring on their histories
gatherings.tv
My pleasure Paul; it looks fascinating!
Seeing as it's Pan's cake day I just pre-ordered @pjrobichaud.bsky.social 's latest for some atmospheric holiday reading in Dorset this summer.
#stones
That accurately mirrors my own experience Paul. It's genuinely tragic to observe how an institution with such formative influences on your younger self has rotted away, fragment by fragment, to what it is today.
22° halo and industrial trilithon, #Belfast Photographed from the Titanic Hotel 13/02/2026
If someone told 15yr old me that I'd be able to go see an all trans woman punk band in my wee little Irish hometown of all places someday, I probably wouldn'tve believed them TBH and wld wonder why they were telling me lol. But yeah... Things do be bad but they're also sooo much better than before💜
Cross-section of the Rotunda in Leicester Square, 1801. From our essay “Unlimiting the Bounds” by @LilyRFord exploring the link between the immersive view of the panorama and the advent of ballooning: publicdomainreview.org/essay/u...
We see these straw men.
We see their amorality compound the present into a future of ignorance and harm.
Make them extinct.
Vote like the lives of your children and grandchildren depend on it.
Because they do.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you've ever wondered what Hubble and Webb were observing at any time, there's an easy way to find out! 👀
Space Telescope Live can show you what the telescopes are looking at now and what the next planned observation will be, all in one space (pun intended 😁): https://spacetelescopelive.org/
Full ‘snow moon’ time lapse, newly captured
2 hour movement of oak shadow on 20” of snow
Enjoy its brilliance tonight 🌕
Sublime. 👏👏
Here's the trailer for Rabbit Trap. 👇
The credits at the end were soundscapes, not music. ❤️
As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…
Can relate...
(Frontispeiece to Mary Baine Campbell's: 'Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe'. 1999)
Thank you. I was hyperventilating until you posted the the link.
Superb! The clouds and the foliage in his paintings never cease to enthrall in their sense of paused motion...
