quote [ Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-inspired fictions — by R. D. Blackmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Kingsley — and finds literature layered with scientific, religious, and political interventions, spurred by the discovery of prehistoric life. ]

quote [ Kuchen—A Love Story / Cool Jazz and Monochromes: The Paintings of Jamie Te Heuheu / Poetry / Reviews ]

quote [ She promised investors an easy windfall. Then it all came crashing down. ]

quote [ In solidarity for Wisconsin !

Lyrics :
Our father was a union man
some day i'll be one too.
The bosses fired daddy
what's our family gonna do?

Come all you good workers,
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell.

CHORUS:
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on? (x2) ]

quote [ Some say the true death worm has already been found—slithering beneath the sands of the Gobi. ]

quote [ With the astronomical growth in US national park visitation in the last few years, the National Park of American Samoa is a literal breath of fresh air. ]

quote [ Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today ]

quote [ Donate to David's Legal Fund: https://chuffed.org/project/dpk4nvzkr4em ]

quote [ In an interview on the Verge’s “Decoder” podcast published Monday, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston mounted a zealous argument for the importance of AI while defending his company’s 500-worker layoff in April 2023. The two things are linked, he said, noting that Dropbox’s layoff was largely aimed at freeing up cash to hire more engineers who are skilled in AI. ]

quote [ If there is anything that can make a strident music fan salivate in anticipation, it’s the idea of an unreleased track or lost album from a favourite band. It’s like catnip for the musicologist and can become like a biblical quest for a lost chalice of sound for the collector of rare grooves and scrapped singles. ]