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While not in NYC, there's also the location of the house Sonia lived in in Elmira, NY (815 John Street) before moving to NYC, though today there are modern condos at the location.

Auchincloss is below-replacement-level. A smart guy who somehow can't think his way out of a paper bag. #mapoli

Saucers, Spooks and Kooks Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks is a journey through the lesser-known history of the UFO narrative, exploring its origins and evolution — a story that continues to shape how we perceive the current UFO phe...

The moment many have been waiting for has arrived as the fantastic documentary 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks,' based on Adam Gorightly's excellent book of the same name, is now available to rent or buy. Check it out!

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BoA Revival - Ep 108 - Robert Skvarla

This week on BoA: The Revival, writer Robert Skvarla joins us for an enlightening conversation about Havana Syndrome, a wild story involving the CIA and Credence Clearwater Revival, conspiracy culture, paranormal conventions, and a whole bunch more. open.spotify.com/episode/4p6T...

There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening

black and white illustration, in the style of a Victorian periodical. A reimagining of a shot in Jurassic Park, where Alan Grant confronts the T-Rex holding a flare, next to the upturned jeep with the kids inside, and the broken fence. here, a Victorian gentleman in long coat and hat holds a lamp, illuminating our favourite Megalosaurus, and an upturned horse-drawn carriage, with two children peering out the back. a breached cast iron gate completes the scene

please allow us to share one our all time fave bits of Crystal Palace Dinosaur art: “Jurassic Park 1854”, by the amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social

back then, Richard Owen wrote that Megolasaurus “probably waged a deadly war against its less destructively endowed congeners and contemporaries”

Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204

Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. 🏺

Living Pterosaurs ​NOTE

New in my library: The book chapter from 1930 that gave rise to the modern myth of living pterosaurs hiding in the American West, now public domain and published online for the first time. www.jasoncolavito.com/living-ptero...

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Our upcoming research seminars in 2026 – ECLAS ECLAS holds monthly open research seminars on the intersection of science and faith.

Our first research seminar of the new term is next Thursday, when @eguimont.bsky.social will be talking about the history of Flat Earth beliefs.

You can check out our other upcoming seminars and register for email invitations here - online and open to all: www.eclasproject.org/our-upcoming...

i just found out trump can't do all that stuff cuz it's illegal

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

A Blaring Warning For The Democratic Party Democrats don't have to wonder if popularism will fail. It already has.

Wrote about the Labour Party's failed popularist experiment as feckless quant-brain U.S. liberals toy with the idea of a popularist agenda in 2026 and beyond: badfaithtimes.com/a-blaring-wa...

Happy New Year! Excited to announce that as of January 1, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and I are the new co-editors-in-chief of the Endeavour history and philosophy of science journal. If ever you had an idea for an article in that realm, now is the time to pitch it to us!

Avi Loeb y los científicos que se pasan al ‘lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razón duerme en casa Figuras como el físico de Harvard, que defiende que los cometas interestelares podrían ser naves alienígenas, erosionan la credibilidad de la ciencia desde dentro. Sus perfiles prosperan en un ecosist...

Buenos días. Se me lean ustedes esto, por favor 😉Avi Loeb y los científicos que se pasan al ‘lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razón duerme en casa www.eldiario.es/1_c3aebe?utm...

Auchincloss is bought by AIPAC

Hey @aipac1.bsky.social , Massachusetts's 4th Congressional District includes 35 municipalities. That's Brookline and Newton — but also Fall River, the largest city in the district, along with Taunton, Attleboro, and dozens of working-class communities you seem to have forgotten exist.

It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie? A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Got a Black Hebrew Israelite history book at the airport bookstore on the way to #HSS2025

Maybe Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby. As for specific examples, not sure what sources go into them best, but Porphyrios the Byzantine whale, and the story of Alexander the Great's bathysphere and his fight with a sea monster.

Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!

Hope Alexandra Pelosi makes a documentary about this that I can hear @willsloanesq.bsky.social talk about some day.

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

Time’s Arrow A Quarry Farm Testimonial Visit the post for more.

You can read my writeup of my stay, which included watching the Star Trek: TNG episode with Twain in his own house, here:

Shadow of the Comet: Mark Twain, Astronomy, and Space Fiction Abstract. Mark Twain was born in 1835, the same year Halley’s Comet appeared. Near the end of his life, Twain became convinced he would die with the comet’s return in 1910, which he did. This article ...

My article on Mark Twain's interest in astronomy, written with research done at @marktwain.bsky.social, is now out:

I've got an article in November's @historytoday.com on the remarkably durable hypothesis that Earth is hollow, from Halley to Symmes to underground feminist utopias to UFOs. You know the drill — to the centre of the Earth (I've probably used that one before).

A promotional image for an edited collection called "Lands of the Lost: A Field Guide to Dinosaur Parks Physical, Fictional, and for the Future." The collection editors Dr. Victor Monnin & Dr. Alison Laurence are putting out a call for contributions. Abstracts are due January 10, 2026 to dinoparkfieldguide@gmail.com. Find the full call at: https://tinyurl.com/dinoparks The background image is of the outdated-but-adored Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace Park.

A call for 🦕🦖🦣 contributors! With Victor Monnin, I'm editing a collection about extinct animal parks—it's a field guide, of sorts, that turns a critical eye on places real, imagined, and yet to be. Find the full CFP for LANDS OF THE LOST here: tinyurl.com/dinoparks #PaleoSky #HistSci #EnvHist #STS

Flat-out stupid Questions for discussion

In honor of today’s holiday in the US, I present an article I wrote for @eclasproject.bsky.social on how Columbus came to be seen as the one who disproved the Flat Earth:

eclas.shorthandstories.com/lent/flat-ou...

French remake of the Secret Mall Apartment in Providence.

When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void.

In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way.