Polar bears have taken over an ancient abandoned village in eastern Russia. Incredible photographs by Dmitry Kokh who won the Urban Wildlife category award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
I feel like the academic community doesn't talk enough about the tradition of fighting a snake during your thesis defense. Given its importance, we should spend more time on it in grad school. For example: Tactical Snake Fighting 101 should be taught in year 1 of PhD programs. Anyone agree?
Amazing farmer’s market buy, I never want to store garlic any other way. Beautiful, functional, and lasts three months.
Incredible passage in the book I’m reading. I’ve redacted it. Without looking anything up, who do you think is being described?
I've been working on a book that's (in part) about jesters, and this is the exact opposite of a jester. Jesters don't enable tyrants—they are the transgressive presence that prevents leaders from becoming tyrants. Jesters are precisely what Trump needs and can't tolerate.
Just read a passage where Orwell wonders how mice get down into mines!
"To the mouse & any smaller animal gravity presents practically no dangers. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft & on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock & walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." - JBS Haldane.
My copy of Orwell's Burmese Days finally arrived, and the description on the back is...really something! I include the cover in the next photo so you know it is for real.
