Mr. Denneysmith

There seems some ground to imagine that the great Kraken of Bishop Pontoppodan may ultimately resolve itself into Squid.

The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California

Imagine meeting someone who was alive when Stonehenge & the pyramids of Egypt were built 5,000 years ago

Daft yes? Well what about a tree that was alive then, and still is

The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of California

Photo: Rick Goldwaser

Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.

José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of 89. Jon Lee Anderson writes about the leader’s legacy.

The world of Homer. Nope, not a map of Springfield. #badgeographyjoke

Photo of an adorable white, black and brown goat looking at the camera and wearing a crown of dandelions.

Okay I'm sorry I posted this without a photo! Here is Bonnie.

My hands are all sticky from making a dandelion crown for an elderly rescue goat and I’m honestly thrilled that this is where I’m at in life.

Am in middle of my 17 hour movie about creativity in documentary.
Have filmed world.
Trying to rethink the genre.
More and more I ask myself "What would #AI not know about this, or see or say?"
The thought excites me.
A bit like how painters reacted to photography? What can I do that it can't?

The Longest, Least-Remembered Great American Novel In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.

In “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling,” Marguerite Young held a mirror to the country’s ambition, delusion, and insatiable quest for perfection.

For, d’ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor.

‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of Troy

“So this is such a wonderful way to connect real women’s experiences to the ancient myths and tales.”

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They were holy houses of the dead once and we should never deride those who still hold them as holy. For among the many things we can say the Long Neolithic is, perhaps one of them is that it offers a continuing sense of the sacred. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Word of the day is one I mention often. To have the ‘mubble-fubbles’, in the 16th century, was to experience a fit of despondency or low spirits - another name for the Sunday blues.

This sealskin painting from the Siberian Bering Strait was obtained from the Chukchi by the crew of a US whaler in the 1860s/1870s. Depicting hunting, shamans, fighting scenes, whaling schooners & kayaks, it could be a calendar of a year on the Chukchi Peninsula or a collection of everyday scenes.

Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? | Quanta Magazine The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

Microbiomes in the gut have major impacts on our digestion, our immune system, even our social skills. If microbes are present in the brain, it could reveal layers of neurological regulation that we never knew existed.
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Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots.

To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

cf. Yann Martel making a name for himself by stealing Moacyr Scliar's Max and the Cats. What’s worse was his assertion that Scliar was not good enough to deserve such an idea. I still rant and fume about this.

Ecologist, spirit worker, healer, green witch, empath, humble creature among creation... call us what you will, we see the wounds and aren't afraid to heal them.

Vincent D'Onofrio & @vincentdonofrio Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

This I what a series of paths created by 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over looks like. Science is beautiful. Obviously they used the same few bicycles for the data rather than 800 individual one. Source: buff.ly/3Cnb4PP

A Strategy for Ruination - Boston Review An interview with China Miéville

“It’s too late to save, but we might repurpose. Suturing, jerry-rigging, cobbling together. Finding unexpected resources in the muck, using them in new ways. A strategy for ruination.” This China Miéville interview is one of the best on our moment www.bostonreview.net/articles/lit...

Hilda Carline's painting of a zeppelin was made in 1915 and is the recording of a live event as the airship flew directly over and then encircled the Carline home at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead in London.

A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’ A kingfisher with a long, dagger-shaped beak. Soft white feathers on its belly, iridescent blue opal spots on its wings I walked out of my kitchen on an overcast morning last week, feeling depressed, trying to think my way around the US election result…

A kookaburra: ‘They think they are waking the world’

Wendell Berry's Real Work, a short poem.

Good morning Bluesky. Here's your morning poem.

“Are We Lost?” How Ancient Cultures Across the Globe Found Their Way Around Humans do not have an innate neurological toolbox like animals, but they do possess language. The configuration and language of the four directions is common to many—though not all—cultures. They p…

“The words and connotations of cardinal directions that are spoken give shape and order to societies.” Jerry Brotton on how ancient cultures conceptualized the cardinal directions.

Cities are also nature, the Earth reminds us Under ordinary circumstances, living across the street from the woodlands of Forest Park in New York City is a balm. Right now, though, the trees are parched and vulnerable—and, with my proximity to t...

I wrote about the dry NYC woodlands across the street. Also cities as nature, the urgency of seeing this truth, and my sense that our confusion about it has its origins in fundamentalist myth.

I saw this enchanting film this on a visit to the NGV - I like to watch it now and then to fall in love with the world when I’m feeling jaded.

“In this short film, Inuk artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light.”