#galton

[railwayhistorical]

Galton, Illinois

Bright mid-morning light finds a southbound train on the Illinois Central main line. Galton is just about four miles south of Tuscola, Illinois. While there are two all black locomotives in the consist, this image was made during the Illinois Central Gulf years.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken November 20th 1976.

[fishiesflowers]

hear that? it's your gun beggin' for blood.

[zippocreed501]

Comedy heroes writers Ray Galton OBE (1930 – 2018) and Alan Simpson OBE (1929 – 2017)

Hancock's Half Hour

Steptoe And Son

[corpyburd]

Portable Fingerprint Kit -Sir Francis Galton 1892

On display in the South Cloisters of University College London.

Photograph by courtesy of the Galton Collection, UCL.

[sergchesan]

Al reflexionar Muller sobre el futuro de la eugenesia y la posibilidad de alterar el genoma humano, se preguntó si Galton y sus colaboradores no habrían cometido un fundamental error conceptual. Al igual que Galton y Pearson, Muller simpatizaba con el deseo de usar la genética para aliviar el sufrimiento. Pero, a diferencia de Galton, Muller empezó a darse cuenta de que la eugenesia positiva solo era realizable en una sociedad que ya hubiera logrado una igualdad radical. La eugenesia no podía ser el preludio de esa igualdad. Al contrario: la igualdad debía ser una condición previa de la eugenesia. Sin igualdad, la eugenesia inevitablemente admitiría la falsa premisa de que los males sociales, como el vagabundeo, el pauperismo, la desviación, el alcoholismo y la debilidad mental, son males genéticos, cuando en realidad simplemente reflejan la desigualdad. Las mujeres como Carrie Buck no eran imbéciles genéticas; eran pobres, analfabetas, enfermizas y desvalidas; víctimas de su destino social, no de la lotería genética.

Siddhartha Mukherjee. El gen

[fishiesflowers]

beings of a much higher origin, from august 24'

[railwayhistorical]

Mainline of Mid-America

Bright mid-morning light finds a southbound train on the Illinois Central main line. I believe the location to be Galton, just about four miles south of Tuscola, Illinois.

While there are two all black locomotives in the consist, this image was made during the Illinois Central Gulf years.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken November 20th 1976.

[brownhillsbob]

June 8th - A lovely evening after a grey, dull day so I fell out of work and hit the canals into Birmingham, then over Sandwell Valley Park to Smethwick, then back through the City Centre, a curry in Aston and home.

The summer really is excellent this year, I must say, and in the unexpectedly golden evening, the canals, city and park glowed beautifully and were beautiful and vibrant. 

I don’t think I’d rather live anywhere else as long as all this is just a short ride away.