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the dominator model continues to run the world : Lydia Lunch’s timeless feminist manifesto  jut : a new way to measure the magnitude and ma...

With two thousand invited guests in attendance in Westminster Abbey, the route through London lined with over a million and two-and-a-half-...

Following a virtually silent period with suspiciously few tweets from the White House and zero public events scheduled (though Trump would b...

After exhumation and reinterment with honours befitting, the mortal remains of Richard III , the last English monarch killed in combat—on...

Outliving her discoverers and with a career spanning the Victorian Era, under the care of a succession of Edinburgh naturalists, the beadle...

Courtesy of Strange Company , we are directed to the curious lay brotherhood charged with allievating the spirits of those facing immi...

Language Log directs our attention to the obituary and encomium of the recently departed satirist noted for his nimble lyrics and insuff...

Having been discovered by a group of farmers, Wang Puzhi and his neighbour Yang Zhifa (with his five brothers), in March of the year prior,...

On our way back to southern Bretagne, we took a beautiful and peaceful campsite in the countryside near Verdun. While there, we took a sombe...

Popular and widely employed during Greco-Roman times well into the Christian era, curse tablets (κατάδεσμος—a binding spell) were often dis...

The amazing mastery of Andean weaving and dyeing that surpassed the craft as known to Europeans at the time of contact is showcased in th...

all the things that we’ve amassed sit before us, shattered to ash : interviews from celebrities who lost their homes in the Los Angeles me...

Continuing a tradition started in 2016, Chris the Barker has made another collage ( see previously ), frequently updated and up to the l...

The final resting place too far weathered by the centuries in the churchyard of St Chad’s in Shrewsbury (named for a seventh century Merc...

globetrotter—more like globetriggered : a wrap of 2024 in therapy   new doge, old tricks : Musk and Ramaswamy present their plan to rapture...

From Slashdot’s No Peace even in Death department , we learn that Panasonic plans to resurrect the company’s founder and long-time COO Kō...

With casualty data drawn from the London weekly “mortality bill,” reporting on the causes of demise from most of the city’s parishes durin...

Famed aviator, conservationist, isolationist and anti-Semite Charles Augustus Lindbergh died (*1902) on this day in 1974. Although lik...

Legislation meant to curb superstition and feudal funerary rites in China in congress with changing traditions have resulted in serious st...

on covfefe day no less : a meme roundup on Trump’s felony conviction   canine rainbow : dogs’ visual spectrum and how they see perceive ...