Breton Village by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Breton Village by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

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History

I love this #Roman leather mouse which was found at #Vindolanda last year - excavators at the site have suggested it might have been a child's toy (which would be a rare find for the site), or could have been used to play practical jokes #RomanArchaeology

Photo: Vindolanda Trust pic.twitter.com/wgyvUHbU2R

— Dr Jo Ball (@DrJEBall) April 16, 2021

 

An Insight

Watching a whale documentary where a whale eats a stingray: hell yeah lunch time
Watching a stingray documentary where a whale eats a stingray: you son of a bitch

— vineyille (Story Thing OUT NOW) (@vineyille) April 23, 2021

I see wonderful things

Every year this mother duck hatches her eggs on the roof terrace on the fourth floor of an hospital in Utrecht.

But when the job is done, she needs some help from animal protection to get her ducklings towards the ditch.

Sound on! 😊

Via @ursulavanduin pic.twitter.com/yB01t98PBX

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) April 25, 2021

 

Offbeat Humor

Best art meme of the year so far (h/t: Matthew Cobb) pic.twitter.com/cAAEsl4tK6

— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) April 16, 2021

 

Data Talks

One-year breakup rate for couples who meet on dating apps: 16%. Meet thru friends & fam: 9%. Workplace: 6%. Church: 1%. #MakeYourMoveBook

— Jon Birger, author (@jonbirger1) April 21, 2021

 

Moonlit Coast by Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1877-1932)

Moonlit Coast  by Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1877-1932)

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Dialing down the signal

Another example of hiding the signal.

/1. Yesterday at the ACS Data Users Conference, the Census Bureau described its plans to replace the American Community Survey (ACS) microdata with “fully synthetic” data over the next three years. pic.twitter.com/8btLxiA3iM

— Steven Ruggles (@HistDem) May 21, 2021

Click to read the thread.  The Census Bureau are pretending that there is the potential of breach of confidentiality for respondents even though that has never occurred.   

Social scientists are up in arms because the American Community Survey is a central and always revealing and informative mechanism for understanding reality and cause and effect.  Take it away and we will know less.

Which seems to be the real plan.

All life is divided into three types of problems

For whatever reason, this 

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put me in mind of the opening of Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar:

All Gaul is divided into three parts.

There are three types of problems

Some of your problems can be solved - Focus, clarity, prioritization, creativity, and effort are required but they can be solved.

Some of your problems are your own fault - Those problems of your own making which cannot be solved because they represent a choice on your part. 

Some of your problems are tragic - They occur for reasons beyond your control with a dangerous predictability.  You may be able to mitigate the impact to a degree but you cannot avoid the consequences.

 

 

 

 

Quote

If the left is an incoherent shambles in the U.S., it’s partly because the visionaries lost their bearings on drugs, and only the myopic apparatchiks and feather-preening bourgeois liberals are left. (Salon 9/9/2009)

— CamillePagliaQuotes (@PagliaQuotes) April 23, 2021