Glenn Shepard

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sorry artemesinin. also related to absinthe! cheers from Brazil!

Artemesini from a bitter Chinese herb related to wormwood has been used to treat quinine resistent malaria, as recognized in a Nobel prize some years ago. A shame more drug companies and universities don't support ethnobotany! I might have a better-paying job...

Fantastic Four: First Steps resuscitates one of Marvel’s most doomed IPs. Is it clobbering time for Marvel again? Fantastic Four: First Steps attempts to breathe new life into the super quartet.

Thanks to Steve Metcalf for the #LeCarre shout-out on the latest Slate Culture Gabfest, re-reading Spy Who Came in from the Cold on my recommendation. Next suggestion: Karla's Choice by @nickharkaway.com to fill in the gap to Tinker Tailor! slate.com/podcasts/cul...

3rd and Lindsley top of the list! Is Jack Pearson still playing there?

This is figure 2, which shows the disease signs and trajectory of P. helianthoides exposed to SSWD.

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪

"Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement... The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts."

My photograph of a Matsigenka boy named Cristian appears in the new exhibit "Fragile Enchantments" at Matney Gallery in Williamsburg, Virginia

www.lindamatneygallery.com/news/2025/7/...

A Visual Archive of Trust: Glenn Shepard in Conversation with Matney Gallery — Linda Matney Gallery A Visual Archive of Trust: Glenn Shepard in Conversation with Matney Gallery For over three decades, anthropologist, photographer, and writer Glenn Shepard has documented the lifeways, cosmolo...

A Visual Archive of Trust: conversation with photographer, gallery owner and long-time friend Lee Matney about my photography, anthropological fieldwork and applied health projects among the Matsigenka indigenous people of Peru

www.lindamatneygallery.com/news/2025/7/...

Photo of Richard Nixon, Claire Ruth (Babe's widow), Bobby Thompson and Ralph Branca in the Oval Office

cover of Don DeLilllo's novel Underworld

"He thought of the photograph of Nixon and wondered if the state had taken on the paranoia of the individual or was it the other way around."

--Don DeLilllo

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It's not a bug it's a frigging plague.

Værstasjon på Svalbard truet av klimaendringene Den nesten 80 år gamle værstasjonen på Hopen på Svalbard er truet av klimaendringer og naturkrefter. Sjøen har gradvis vasket seg så nært innpå bygningene at det er usikkert hvor lenge stasjonen står ...

After almost 80 years of operation, the weather station on the island of Hopen in the Svalbard group of islands north of Norway - which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth - needs to be secured against increased erosion of the coastline.

Enjoyed Miles Jupp’s suggestion for the Uxbridge English Dictionary on I’m sorry I haven’t a clue this week: ‘vending - the sound made when two circles overlap’

Cover or Don DeLilllo's novel Underworld showing a New York skyline with a church in the foreground and the Twin Towers behind

"There's a word in Italian. Dietrologia. It means the science of what's behind something. A suspicious event... The science of dark forces."

--Don DeLillo

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go figger 🤔🤔🤔

New Orleans artist Steve Prince creates powerful images reminiscent of the "Cordel" woodblock printing technique of northeast Brazil. Selected works currently on display at Matney Gallery in Williamsburg, VA
www.lindamatneygallery.com/steve-prince

Can you say Colbert?

Maybe try Etsy? To avoid the more obvious big box stores www.etsy.com/market/super...

Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise Drying continents, extreme drought, and groundwater depletion are shrinking water availability and increasing sea level rise.

After a long absence from Twitter, I'm now on Bluesky. Looking forward to sharing thoughts, research, and rants about the lack of attention paid to water. Let's kick this off with a new paper alert. Please share widely. Title says it all. Please help me grow followers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Moving Pictures

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cover of novel Half World by Scott O'Connor

"It's hard to write a poem and not include some truth…I'll take a bad poem over a good newspaper any day."

I discovered this dark novel about the CIA's secret LSD tests on the latest #LeCarre Cast, a discussion of Constant Gardener w/ @scottsoconnor.bsky.social

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@nickharkaway.com

"You see that come up again and again with these fascist movements, right? They are full of mediocre people who are burning with resentment and grievance toward people that they call 'the elites', who are often just people... who are better at stuff than they are."

Infinite Jest IV Infinite Jest IV (Digital video, color w/sound; 8 minutes) ©2011 by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. and Lee Matney Infinite Jest, inspired by the novel by David Foster…

Infinite Jest: an homage to #DavidFosterWallace I made many years ago for an #InfiniteJest film festival. This short film imagines J.O. Incandenza on set with Mme. Psychosis as they make the fatal samizdat from the eponymous novel. Enjoy, but not too much…

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@mariabustillos.com

"Icarus should have hit the roller-skating rink -- it would have gone so much better for him."

--Karen Russell

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all of the above and so much more

Babies covered in measles, child crying at tombstone

Measles were gone in the U.S. until Trump made a devil’s deal with RFK Jr. to make him HHS Secretary. Not any more. 1,288 cases half-way through the year. 38 states, 2 kids and 1 adult dead. And it’s a lot more serious than in grandma and grandpa’s time.

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