Lost Splendor

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Vanitas Still Life, 1630, by Pieter Claesz (c. 1597-1660)

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"Portrait of Anna May Wong", c. 1939 via Library of Congress on Wikimedia Commons.

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Black Venus, 1957, Margaret Burroughs

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The Last Judgment (detail) by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1486-1510.

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Hercules and the Hydra (detail) by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1537.

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Alchemy: 15th cent., MS22, ca. 15th century via Wellcome Library, Public Domain.

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some blushy ragdoll kitties!

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Unpaywall finds free versions of paywalled papers

"New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature."

“An online widget that trawls the Internet searching for free-to-read versions of paywalled papers has been installed more than 10,000 times since its prerelease debut on 10 March, its inventors say. 

Officially launched on 4 April, Unpaywall is a free web-browser extension that hunts for papers in more than 5,300 repositories worldwide, including preprint servers and institutional databases.

Once installed in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, Unpaywall brings up a green or grey tab on the side of the screen when a user hits a paywalled paper. A green ‘unlock’ sign means that a free version of the paper is available elsewhere, whereas a grey ‘lock’ icon means that the tool could not locate a free version.” - Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Nature.com

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Stilleven, Osias Beert ca. 1600 - 1624 via Wikimedia Commons.

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Detail from Room Corner with Curiosities, Jan van der Heyden , 1712

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Still Life - Vanitas, Willem Claeszoon Heda c. 1628 via Wikimedia Commons.

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Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie, Willem Claeszoon Heda c. 1631 via Wikimedia Commons.