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Garden of Earthly Delights

Garden of Earthly Delights

Major fashion statement of 1630: the cartwheel ruff, here worn by an unknown woman and painted by Nicolaes Pickenoy, born OTD 1588.

Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham. First Lady of the bedchamber to her cousin Queen Elizabeth. Painted in 1597 in extravagantly fab dress by Robert Peake, whose day is today.

Young man in a lot of shirt, painted in 1661 by Isaack Luttichuys of London and Amsterdam. Today was his day.

Mark Carney’s overall economic approach has been backward-looking: an emphasis on natural resource extraction and reliance on low-tax, market-led, small-government economic ideology that was stale in 2008, and is definitely not suited to a world of geostrategic competition.

You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."

Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Alejandro Loarte, from Toledo. Painter of still lifes. And sometimes other things. Here with marvelous not-quite-symmetry.

It’s starting to become clear to more people that Carney’s Plan A amounts to an attempt to implement traditional Conservative policies when what’s called for is radically different policies. It’s currently unclear whether Carney can switch gears. The tell will be whether he abandons austerity.

Lucas van Leyden, died (alas!) OTD 1533. Painted the first real Dutch genre scenes! They are all about chance, knowledge, and prediction, as in this Game of Cards. Very bourgeois to worry about money & the future.

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Toronto’s top walks: 9 essential routes that reveal the city’s nature, history and soul Walking experts — Heritage Toronto, ROMWalks, Toronto Field Naturalists, City of Toronto, and “Stroll” author Shawn Micallef — share their top walks.

Hey @thestar.com has a massive Walking Toronto package coming out this weekend (some stories already up online). I contributed two walks for this list of Toronto walks (Bendale in Scarborough and Dupont). Check em all out.

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Hugo van der Goes of Ghent. Starting right off with his Portinari Altarpiece of 1475. In so many ways a masterpiece!

Infanta Margarita Teresa without all the fuss, painted by Diego Velazquez. And three years later, in blue, with some A+ accessories. Today is Velazquez's day.

The thousand little deaths my heart has died

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Marriage portrait: young couple, each wonderfully characterized in 1615 by Jacob Jordaens, who was born on this day in 1593.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

A Typical Episode of Sesame Street as Imagined by Conservatives “President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board of directors to ‘cease federal f...

BIG BIRD: Remember, kids, there is no God. There is only the crushing weight of existence.

Some cattle on a Dartmoor country lane, having a snack before embarking on the long journey to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, which one of them had heard was nice.

The same cattle further on the lane, including Carol at the rear, who is already having misgivings and missing home.

People in cities think nothing dramatic ever happens in villages but that’s not true. In our village the summer before last the cattle pushed over a fence and escaped from John and Rita’s field and lots of people still talk about it to this day and some of those people don’t even live in the village

Our loss will be Canada’s gain. 🤡

#EmptyShelves

What an amazing experience! Trying to explain Darger is impossible, so seeing the works in person is key. Thanks for sharing your writing!

Happy Henry Darger's birthday!

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

editors of The Atlantic are welcome to visit our galleries but please let us know if you're accidentally in the museum group chat instead

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and UConn Health have successfully discovered a molecular switch that can actually SHUT DOWN cancer growth signals and STOP tumor growth at the RNA LEVEL. The discovery could pave the way for a groundbreaking RNA-based multi-cancer treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

The Republicans would like to have some freedom from Trump, but they won’t until we bring him down in popularity. That happened with Bush in 2005. It happened with Trump in 2017. When it happens, I am hopeful that our Republican colleagues will resume working with us. And I talk to them. One of the places is in the gym. When you’re on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off.

A lot of delusion happening in that Schumer NYT interview, but this gets to the heart of it: he believes his Republican colleagues will come around and everything will be ok. Absolutely delusional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH