ARCHAEOLOGY AFTER DARK

Archaeologist, among other things.

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Daguerreotype of Pompey’s Pillar with then-recent graffiti written on it in Alexandria, Egypt, 1842. Originally built in 297 CE to commemorate the victory of Roman emperor Diocletian over an Alexandrian revolt. [1336x3500]

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Cottonwood Triangular series projectile point from the Mojave desert.

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Over a San Juan freeway overpass, near the low-income Playita community, there’s a sign that reads, “SOS Playita Needs Water and Food.”

It was a cry for help put up by residents who say they waited more than a week after the storm without receiving any outside aid.

There was a feeling, says 21-year-old Edison Rodriguez, that his community was “running out of time. That you can only have so much water, so much food [between] each other. That’s why they put out those signs outside.”

Now, like many other parts of the country ravaged by Hurricane Maria, there are small signs that the situation here is improving — but for the residents living through it, the progress is painfully slow.

Just five percent of the island has working electricity from the hurricane-devastated grid, and cellular service is slowly getting better but is still at about a third of capacity, according to Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.

Infrastructure problems that predated the hurricane dramatically worsened the situation in Playita. There’s a small lake right behind the neighborhood, where pumps usually prevent the water level from reaching flood levels.

Slowly, Painfully, A San Juan Neighborhood Sees Small Signs Of Improvement

Photos: Angel Valentin for NPR

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The moais of Rapa Nui, Chile, circa 1922. 

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The Metamorphosis of the Lovers, 1938, Andre Masson

Medium: oil

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Paleocalifornia

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Nalut, Libya

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Camarasa, Catalonia, Spain

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Paranonia, 1935, Salvador Dali

Size: 46x38 cm Medium: oil, canvas

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William Morris - Honeysuckle (1876)

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Sometimes you just get consumed by existential dread, and it’s all okay because there’s nothing you can do about it. 

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Out-of-doors - Rosalie Arthur - 1902 - via Internet Archive

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Astronaut Tim Peake of the European Space Agency captured these video clips while orbiting Earth on the ISS earlier this week. These videos are real time; this is how fast the planet appears to move to astronauts on the ISS.

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Australopithecus afarensis - bone, muscle and flesh, by John Sibbick