Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.
Having survived the chaos of the Ming-Qing transition, the Jesuit Martino Martini (1614-1661) was in Brussels in 1654, where Michaelina Wautier (c.1614-1689) painted this portrait of him, a standout in the excellent @royalacademy.bsky.social show of her work. What tales did he tell her as he sat?
this mimics the natural sugars made of sialic acid on the surface of cells and tricks the virus spike into binding onto the nanoparticle and not the cell; could go in an anti-viral nasal spray if it works as well as they hope
Good news: The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
*Greenblatt crawls in a hole, crying, having been utterly bodied*
Alrighty kittens we've got today's puzzle.
A saint, bishop and confessor, mid-November feast:
Emudi (or Erundi??) with an abbreviation mark for funsies.
Ideas?? I'm pretty good at this game but I'm coming up w/0s on this one...
there's so much enthusiasm on this site for Philly, and I am here for your joy, I am, but my god less than a mile west of 69th is another world and so it can be a bit hard to read the Phillystans sometimes
