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The French called them mouches or “flies,” because of the dark spots’ resemblance to small insects alighted on fashionably pale skin. In Eng
Random things I learn about after reading historical fiction novels....But also, this definitely seems like a trend that's going to come back any time now.
don’t know what to put here except acd Holmes/Watson have my heart so here’s more of ~them~
"I'm strange but friendly so people tell me things" might need to be added to my life mottos
History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.
Sometimes who history chooses to forget doesn't stick, thankfully
Dr. Tashko explores anacyclosis, Polybius’ cycle of political change, revealing its impact on historical and modern governance.
Polybius' time lacked an option for broad education to the populous, which could potentially shift things back away from a reversion to tyranny, theoretically....
"Mad as a Hatter" - how the Danbury Shakes were finally defeated
Despite the known dangers of prolonged exposure to mercury, the hat-making industry was slow to safeguard workers against its toxic effects.
The long-forgotten natural blue dye was called "folium."
An amazing restoration of medieval knowledge by these scientists in Portugal. The study itself: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz7772
The plant in question (Folium, aka Chrozophoridin): https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:340969-1
In the four decades since a group of grocers adopted the U.P.C. symbol as we still know it today, the bar code has become the core technolog
The very first product barcode scanned for purchase was for a pack of Juicy Fruit, in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.
The pack of gum was chosen to test the small size of the UPC against the scanner's capabilities - it passed!
Our culture has two types of forgetting.
The concept of 'collective memory' and the loss of it is so natural to successive generations (between shifting fashion, science, stars etc) that most people would hardly give it a second thought in today's world. Which in a way makes it even more important to notice.
"... Some people would say collective memory decays based not on calendar time but the speed at which new content is being produced. We forget Elvis because the Beatles came up and we forget the Beatles because Led Zeppelin came and we forget Led Zeppelin because Metallica came up, and so forth. But things become very dear to a generation and people will not forget about them just because new content came in. So decay would be something characteristic of humans, not the volume of content. To separate those two things, we would need to look at content from very different time frames. At the moment, we don’t have the richness of data that we would need to answer that question."
Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
Statistics can be nefarious not just because of what this article talks about, but how they can be used to skew just about any perspective when combined with linguistic framing/psychology/clickbait.
That doesn't mean that stats have no quality for empirical use (they are SO useful in science and progress!), it simply means they can be more easily co-opted to push a narrative instead of revealing a truth.
Companion planting is all about identifying mutually beneficial plants and growing them together.
A garden can be beautiful, it can be useful, it can be wild or stringently rowed. But a successful garden is rarely one that is on the extremes of any of it, and incorporates all of it.
There's a reason people used Companion Planting for thousands of years before mega-farming took over.
Naming conventions vary across the globe, but here’s the history behind some of the world’s most storied surnames.
Think you know which name is the absolute most commonly held name on Earth? I bet you're wrong....!
What you think you know depends on how you look
From the article: '"...More recently, researchers have also documented intersex horses, dogs, moose, sheep, fish, and many different types of invertebrates. Intersex animals are rare across species, Crossman says, but they’re “more common than we historically thought.”"'
Humans know so little still about the world around us, and yet so many choose to preach that they do...
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Leon (Lev) Theramin, a Russian inventor known best for the same-named instrument, was also the creator of the first technological passive listening device used in government espionage. The Americans were the first to be bugged, and it took years for them to figure it out.
The Great Seal was delivered to the US Ambassador in Moscow in 1945, just after the end of WW2. The schoolchildren who gifted this 'sign of friendship' likely had no idea what they were helping with. The spyware existed for 7 years before being discovered, with the US government having absolutely no idea how secure information was continuously being leaked.
Russia has been leading the way in espionage tech maneuverings ever since, right on through the 2020 USA presidential elections.
George Gorton II (1865-1955) was a manufacturer from Racine, Wisconsin (USA) at the turn of the 20th century. Unbeknownst to most, his company's machines contribute to our daily lives even now - through the little known "Gorton" engraving font.
A subtle reminder to keep your eyes out for the every day wonders we live in.
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
Arkansas is trying to do away entirely with their Library Board (& the local PBS channel) and punting it to the Department of Education to manage....that thing country leadership is trying to get rid of? Not sure how that's supposed to work...
https://www.kark.com/news/state-news/arkansas-legislature-bill-filed-on-monday-to-abolish-aetn-state-library-board/
The actual Bill 184 language:
https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB184.pdf
”Men think about the Roman Empire” “What’s the female version of the Roman Empire” SHUT UPPPPP. SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPP. AS A WOMAN I LOVE THE ROMAN EMPIRE. AS A WOMAN I LOVE ANCIENT HISTORY AND BATTLES AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY. THE “GIRL VERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE” IS THE ROMAN EMPIRE. IM GOING TO STAB YOU 23 TIMES
Ancient Rome was home to the first women's rights protest march in 195BC, to force the Senate to revoke a wartime law (lex Oppia) that persisted 20 years after the war it was made for (& the rest of the wartime laws abolished), restricting how much gold a woman could wear as jewelry. Woman marched to Rome from towns and hamlets to the city, proving it wasn't just an issue for women of economic means.
Cato (yes, that Cato) was railing against the protest in the Senate, saying if they removed the law that husbands would forever lose control over their wives....if only, eh?
The "usurper" Eugenius ruled for a mere 2 years after being deemed unacceptable by the eastern Christian emperor Theodisius I, due to Eugenius's reported tolerance for religious freedom.
"Secret" excavations in Luxembourg reveal 141 Roman gold coins from eight Roman emperors and one usurper.
