Dr. Michelle I. Turner

Will Americans Get Over Their Fear of Eating Animal Blood?

Meanwhile at the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

Cool? Um no. Maybe he meant cruelest?

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

A dog wearing a coat, standing in a sidewalk canyon. The wall of snow is well over his head.

A dog in a coat, with a huge pile of snow looming behind him

A little bit of snow

Painting of an urban wintry scene, with a hill at back featuring numerous sled riders

I've always loved the background of Jacob Lawrence's 1943 painting "City College is Like a Beacon Over Harlem," with its snow-covered hill featuring numerous sled riders at play

Still snowing… Those little lumps are the backs of our chairs— so close to 2 feet of snow sitting on top.

Can confirm, from Pawcatuck. So much snow. We’re just glad for no power outage!

‘It was terrifying’: hundreds fall sick after swimming in bathing waters More than 1,200 people became ill last year, despite most waters being rated good or excellent. One mother said ‘no family should have to go through this’

More than 1,200 people became sick after swimming in designated bathing waters across England last year, despite three quarters of those official swimming spots being rated “good” or “excellent”.

Comes as "Fountain of Filth" installed in London

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

"I’d argue that, as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, [fantasy is] also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted, for all our strenuous buffering." - Francis Spufford

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Mammoth skeleton

Giant camel

A little bat fossil, so beautiful!

Saber tooth cat!

Had a great visit at Yale Peabody Museum, my first time since they reopened. Beautiful spaces, great exhibits with everything updated and lots of info. I really loved the ice age mammals.

This might tickle your whiskers.

Blue frog

Red frog

Two yellow frogs

For this cold wet evening, here are some little jewel box froggies from the Peabody museum yesterday. They have a tiny little “living lab” space that was one of the busiest spots in the whole place.

And the minerals are absolutely breathtaking and beautifully displayed

Mammoth skeleton

Giant camel

A little bat fossil, so beautiful!

Saber tooth cat!

Had a great visit at Yale Peabody Museum, my first time since they reopened. Beautiful spaces, great exhibits with everything updated and lots of info. I really loved the ice age mammals.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

What’s it like to have two grandchildren in the Winter Olympics? Let John Irving tell you Birk and Svea Irving, grandchildren of the great American author John Irving, are competing in Milan Cortina this week.

a few weeks ago in Aspen, a convo with Olympic freeski halfpipe hopeful Svea Irving turned to her family. "Tell me about your mom, your dad ... Tell me about your grandparents ..."

"Oh, my grandpa," Svea answered, "he's like, a kinda famous author."

"Really? Who?"

www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers The well-off have no experience with the job market that might be coming.

"Americans would hate a world without work, where the jobless rate floats at 30 percent instead of 4 percent." Yeah, I would think so.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥🐴

The image shows a head shot of Schuessler, a photo of a bookshelf as the background, the JCB logo, and the title of the series and date and time of the talk. The text also reads, "A conversation with Jennifer Schuessler of the New York Times."

Today! Join us virtually at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and Jennifer Schuessler, a journalist covering intellectual life and the world of ideas for the Culture section of The New York Times.

Details and registration at jcblibrary.org/events/journ...

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press."

Wow! No words.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

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I accept you with minor revisions.

From Ship to Screen- Archery and the Mary Rose - Mary Rose Discover the world of Tudor archery, learning how they made a Tudor arrow based on ones in our collection, all from the comfort of your sofa!

Ever seen one of our expert talks advertised and thought "Wish I was able to watch this from home"?

Well, you're in luck - From Ship to Screen- Archery and the Mary Rose will be taking place Saturday 14th March 2026, and is online only!

Find out more at maryrose.org/events/from-...

Here's the picture for this who can't see it on facebook.

A photo of four “Chaco-style pitchers” with a shouldered base. Three of them have black on white painted decorations and one is black smudged ware

My friend invited me to zoom into his archaeology lab methods class today to talk about my ceramic analysis research. It was so fun and the students seemed really into it. Gosh I wish someone would hire me to just teach something and keep up this research…

The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review Courtauld Gallery, LondonThis quietly tremendous exhibition gathers more than half of the pointillist painter’s works, all depicting the Channel coast and sea, full of blizzards of light and a quivering sense of import

The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

Cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I’m loving the reread almost as much as I enjoyed it the first time around. Jazz hands! 👐 I feel really bad for anyone who hasn’t read it and was exposed to the spoilers in the movie trailer.

Carving of the sun god Sol that would have been illuminated from behind so that in the low light of the temple, worshippers would have seen his eyes, mouth and the rays of his solar crown glowing.

Carving of the sun god Sol that would have been illuminated from behind so that in the low light of the temple, worshippers would have seen his eyes, mouth and the rays of his solar crown glowing.

Beautifully dramatic lighting effect in this altar depicting the god Sol found near Edinburgh. In the low light of the temple, worshippers would see Sol’s eyes, mouth and the rays of his solar crown glowing.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Ever wonder how you can tell a dinosaur’s age?

In a new study establishing Nanotyrannus as a species, researchers cross-sectioned
slices of its hyoid to gauge maturity and understand how quickly it grew.

Read more about the brand new discovery here: nhm.org/new-nanotyra...