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Sunday, January 2, 2022
Data Talks
From 2000-2020 the US experienced four F/EF5 tornadoes
— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) December 12, 2021
From 1954-1974 the US experienced 36 (!) F/EF5 tornadoes
Via @NWS
Two Friends on the Shore of Long Island, 2009 by Devin Leonardi
Two Friends on the Shore of Long Island, 2009 by Devin Leonardi
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Saturday, January 1, 2022
History
Detail from the Church of the Mother of God Pammakaristos. Early 14th century. Istanbul, Turkey. pic.twitter.com/RbijHIM3Lk
— Eastern Rome (@romebyzantium) December 13, 2021
An Insight
One of the most disturbing aspects of the covid era is hearing affluent “liberals” and “progressives” demand that other people be excluded, punished, or even killed because of a personal medical choice. Many highly educated individuals seem to have learned nothing from history.
— alex g (@galexybrane) December 14, 2021
I see wonderful things
Neptune's Grotto is a stalactite cave near town of Alghero on island of Sardinia, Italy. Cave was discovered by local fishermen in 18th century and has since developed into a popular tourist attraction. The grotto gets its name from Roman god of the sea.#archaeohistories pic.twitter.com/1TB2Cgzw2d
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) November 23, 2021
A sloth of bears
I was watching a pleasant action drama, Zoo, last night. At some point in the dialogue, the zoologist referred to a sleuth of bears for a pack of bears. I am not sure I have heard that collective noun before. A little googling reveals that a sleuth, or a sloth of bears is indeed a proper collective noun of bears.
©2008, Tom Sears
James Lipton in An Exaltation of Larks shines some light.
A Sloth of BearsWhen Dame Juliana wrote a Sleuth of beeris in The Book of St. Albans, she opened the door to a host of errors. Following doggedly in her footsteps, generations of compilers confused her sleuth with the sleuth in a sleuth of hounds (q.v.). The "Lover of the Arts" who revised the ninth edition of Dr. John Bulloker's English Expositor, 1695, attached the term to a "company of wild boars." In 1611, George Turberville got it right again: Not sleuth of bears, but "a Slowth of Beares. The are so heauie that when they be hunted they can make no speed but are alwaies within sight of the Dogges . . . when they wallow then they go at most ease."
Sleuth and sloth are both correct collective nouns for a group of bears. Even dancing bears.
Dancing Bears by William H. Beard
Data Talks
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale are all just different varieties of the same one species – like Labradors and bulldogs. And like Labradors and bulldogs, they're all human-made products: that is, products of selective breeding. https://t.co/8pVTTySBw8 pic.twitter.com/F0bWCzoRSf
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) December 14, 2021
Landscape, 1947 by Otto Dix (German, 1891 - 1962)
Landscape, 1947 by Otto Dix (German, 1891 - 1962)
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