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zygotriadic calendar. https://xeno.cx/posts/calendar.html

Very cool geography phd project.

Geography phd project with collaborative zine, photographs, stories.

Weeknight dinners around the world, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/dining/family-meals-around-the-world.html

#portraits #family #photography #food #dinners

https://www.google.com/search?q=want+me+to+kill+them+waterboy&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj81LP9o97lAhVNihoKHRZbDdgQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=want+me+to+kill+them+wat&gs_l=img.1.0.0l3j0i5i30l2j0i8i30l3.30762.31066..32571...0.0..0.183.461.0j3......0....1..gws-wiz-img.l7en50JVVTQ&ei=fkvHXfydBs2Uapa2tcAN&bih=884&biw=1584&safe=strict&hl=en

Dinner around the world

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/dining/family-meals-around-the-world.html

Enchanted forests: the women shaking up nature writing

"A chilly breeze blows through the wood and the old tree trunks creak as they are rubbed together by the wind. A grey squirrel twists around a grove of ancient yews, its claws scrabbling drily on the dark bark. A great tit’s seesawing song is the only note of spring. There is no sign, however, of the newest inhabitant of Leigh Woods.

Zakiya Mckenzie, one of the Forestry Commission’s new writers in residence, can’t find her way to this nature reserve just west of Bristol. Mckenzie, chosen from more than 1,000 applicants to write about woodland life for the commission’s centenary year, is extremely lost, somewhere on the wrong side of the city where she lives.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/11/women-nature-writing-forestry-commission-writers-in-residence

Pareidolia

1. To be queer in 2019 is to experience a kind of vertigo. It is to not know left from right. Beneath the nod of legal protection, the showy condemnation of homophobia, and the smooth gloss of Netflix shows, something bloody and sinuous writhes. I feel it move underneath under my feet, I feel its tug and its weight and its slippery crimson mass. Beneath the rainbow, the war machine.

https://www.the87press.com/post/field-notes-queer-vertigo-by-sita-balani

https://www.theworlds50best.com/The-List-2018/1-10/Mugaritz.html

https://histography.io/

#history #data #visualisation

In July, 1937, Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow and local magistrate, attended a flower show in Woodbridge, a picturesque, red-brick town on the Suffolk coast, in search of archeological advice. Pretty, who was fifty-three, lived with her son on a five-hundred-acre estate named Sutton Hoo, a few miles outside the town. In Old English, Hoo means a spur of land, and Pretty’s house, a large, pale villa, sat on a bluff overlooking sandy heathland that sloped down to the river Deben. Pretty had always been curious about a strange set of mounds that was visible from the house. The hillocks were marked on maps as Roman tumuli—burial mounds—and a guest who stayed with Pretty once claimed to see a ghostly warrior on horseback, riding through the grounds. An elderly laborer on the estate, known as Old Pettit, swore that the mounds contained treasure. Now Pretty wanted to investigate. At the flower show, she approached a history teacher and antiquarian named Vincent Redstone and asked what she should do next. Redstone introduced her to the curator of the Ipswich Museum, who suggested that she hire the museum’s freelance, self-taught archeologist—a local man named Basil Brown—to take a look at the tumuli.

Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial by Sam Knight https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/revisiting-sutton-hoo-britains-mythical-ship-burial

#sutton hoo #early medieval #medievalism #reception #new yorker

Global Chaucers (GC) is a multi-national, multi-lingual, multi-year project to locate, catalog, translate, archive, and analyze translations and appropriations of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Th…

#film #to watch

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