Juicy Cake of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ

Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins

They’ve identified the forests where Stradivari found wood to craft some of his most renowned instruments 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

This image features the pioneering American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006). she is the best

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
― Octavia E. Butler

Haberdasher and bacteriologist.

Except for WWII, he was at the Met pretty much every year between 1938 and 1959. He died in 1960.

I asked because when one of his colleagues, mezzo Irene Dalis, came to rehearsal hoarse, he took her to his throat doctor and she remained his patient for the rest of her career.

Was Jussi Björling one of your grandfather's patients?

Americans killing Iranians is not a very good fix-all to Iranians killing Iranians.

And poking Iran to bomb Israel is -- in my own personal opinion-- also not a particularly solid solution to Israel being threatened with being bombed by Iran.

Just saying?

My grandfather on my dad’s side was a lawyer. On my mom’s side my grandpa was a semi-famous ear nose and throat doctor that worked with a ton of celebrity singers and opera singers at The Met helping them all protect their voices. He appeared in several celebrity autobiographies saving careers!

I am jealous. I JUST MISSED seeing her final performance in 1996.

Wait maybe it was a bad idea to gut the State Department

Hi guys can you help me repost this 50 x? Thank you, much love, Michael.

Aw no. Refuah shleimah!

I don’t know, maybe bombing Iran will bring Jesus back.

But if so, he will appear amongst the rubble with the schoolgirls, not in the bombs we drop on them.

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

Ncuti Gatwa in an orange jumper and brown check jacket.

Christopher Lee in an orange jumper and brown check jacket.

When middle-aged white men cosplay the 15th Doctor.
#DoctorWho

two men are standing next to each other in front of a yellow sign that says 00 Alt: In The Court Jester, Danny Kaye (dressed as a jester) says, "Get it?" Basil Rathborne, as a sinister lord, says, "Got it," and Danny Kaye answers, "Good."

Tonight I introduced my 17-y-o to The Court Jester - my first viewing of it in over 30 years - and I'm happy to report that it's still absolutely hilarious. :) There was a LOT of laughing from both of us!

#TinyJoys

Just remembered how yesterday I walked past a busker just off Covent Garden Piazza singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, and my unironic instinctive thought was “surely you shouldn’t be singing that word in Lent” 😂

This is a good response.

This is weirdly more appropriate than a lot of the mix-ups I've seen. On one hand, we're talking about two completely different religions, and on the other hand, if a Mardi Gras party and a Purim party had booked the same hall you can imagine no one noticing until the next day.

Mardi Gras is ours now

I'd like to see that list so I know where to buy from.

Pretty much sums it up.

I’d add “greed” into that last phrase, though.

Also, "chosen" doesn't mean "I'm better than you."

It means "I got into AP Calculus, so I'd better get a 4 or 5 on the exam."

China is called the middle kingdom as in the center of everything. The Navajo word for the Navajo, Diné means "the people". It's extremely normal for a groups denonym for themselves to be self regarding.

As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible

They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.

The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897 Shell, The Iron Giant, WALL-E, Ex Machina: there is a parallel history of cinema to be told entirely through its robots. That such a history must begin with the work of Georges Méliès may not come as ...

The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897 www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-...

the first butt xerox

Your TV antennae seems off kilter

Tail of a gray tabby cat is sticking from behind of a computer monitor

what

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

This is horrifying because it implies the Iranian school mistargeting was down to Claude layer in Palantir systems. What’s more horrifying is that if the rest of the article is accurate AI was a massive force multiplier for US/Israel strikes.

Astonishing 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico | CNN Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade....

another cool find:

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade”

Hundreds of thousands of Zapotec speakers still live in Mexico to this day