Robyn A. Bartlett

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.

"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?

How medieval people described solar eclipses - Medievalists.net Solar eclipses are one of our most remarkable episodes of natural phenomena. This was true as well in the Middle Ages, which are told in ten accounts from around the medieval world.

Happy #EclipseDay! Amazing to think that today is a day we can watch a phenomenon that's been seen by millions of humans across all the ages. Here's a slice of medieval stories: www.medievalists.net/2024/04/medi.... #MedievalSky #Astronomy

So we all know the Darwin quote "hate everybody and everything"; it is literally the best bc absolutely true. But did you know that when he wrote the letter, he was working on a book about orchids? Well. HE HATES THE ORCHIDS, TOO. :-)
www.npr.org/sections/kru...

Dear angry-tract-writer of 1648, this sort of nonsensical printing information will not be appreciated by historians 😄

“Printed in the year of blindness, the month of stupidness, the day of dulness, and the hour of unnaturalness” #earlymodern

"Chaucer, Raptus, and the Physician's Tale" is out. It's open access; please share widely. #Chaucer #Chaumpaigne #Raptus

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The chief distinction between Santa Claus and the Spanish Inquisition is, of course, that no one expects the latter

Wasn't there some famous-author one that was similar (not for email). I can't remember it, but something about "I cannot tell you why I cannot respond; it is a Secret." Does this ring any bells??

A friend just suggested this either as an auto-reply or as part of email signature. yes please.

"Please don't write me. Stop writing me. I won't write back."

Normalize being someone who’s sleepy and not very sharp at XXpm/am* lolol

*I am saying all the time the joke is funnier if you explain it