Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>>

Meanwhile here there's a Heated Rivalry Dance Party downtown the youths are going to, but I be in my comfy chair with my jammies and my kdramas.

This one’s for the real ghoulies! In honour of The Bride! film, here’s a fantastic 15th-century depiction of La Danse Macabre des Femmes (the Dance of Death of the Women) from @labnf.bsky.social MS. Fr. 995, f. 30v ☠️🎞️🖤#monstermash

I just find it so interesting in retrospect that this is one of the only handful of books that are reflexive of their makers in this way!!

Portraits of the artists behind Leonhart Fuchs’s New Kreuterbuch, 1543.

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RBML has a book with the handprint left behind in a sheet of paper. Does that count or are you looking specifically for ink?

Ooh thank you, I'm putting a request in now!!!

Cool, thanks!! I was focusing on the Mousouros one because I find his connections to the early Greek printers fascinating!! :)

Another day, another Greek poem I run across and need to write about. (Aldine Greek Dictionary, 1497.)

exhibition case for pop-up exhibit on K-pop in Harvard-Yenching Library

A pop-up exhibition this week in our main reading room, showcasing items from our "K-pop Fandom Collection": photobooks, audiovisual, ephemera, posters, and lightsticks from 1990s-present. This collection was developed in support of a new Harvard undergrad class on "Korean Stars"

(📸: Adrianne Gren)

Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information The U.S. Interior Department said a database revealing how President Donald Trump's administration planned to revise information on key phases of ​American history at national park sites was deliberat...

Ministry of Truth and all that

Research in progress.

Then I got caught in a rainstorm and water seeped through my backpack and I feel guilty.

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Did ancient Greek priestesses brew a mind-bending potion drunk by Cicero and Marcus Aurelius? Researchers found the psychedelic elixir would have been possible to make using ingredients and techniques available in ancient Greece

i love science

"Still, just because the scenario could have happened doesn’t mean it did"

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The Getty Villa to offer rare look at ancient Egyptian 'Book of the Dead' One of the manuscripts dates back nearly 3,500 years.

This week, the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles begins offering a rare look at its ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" scrolls. The collection of 19 manuscripts includes one that dates back nearly 3,500 years.
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

"So today, when we utter words such as humanitarian, humane ideal, humanism, we may have trouble suppressing the ironic smirk or the dismissive yawn. Fine words, but what is their real purchase when so much is being done to diminish, transform, transcend, and even surpass the merely human?"

1) ffs 2) ew ew ew

Went down a rabbithole, enjoy these engravings of a typecasting handmould and the equipment necessary for finishing type. From Fournier’s Manuel typographique, 1764-68.

Viola Davis presents at the 2026 Actor Awards

Viola’s reaction to Michael B. Jordan winning is iconic! #ActorAwards

Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370–415 CE), brilliant Greek mathematician, astronomer, and Neoplatonist philosopher—the first woman known to head a major school of learning; she taught advanced mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, advised civic leaders, and became a symbol of reason and intellectual freedom despite the era's gender and religious barriers. The black-and-white engraved portrait shows her in profile, facing left, with a serene, contemplative expression; she has an elegant neck, large eyes, and elaborate braided hair styled in a high bun wrapped with a headband, rendered in fine line work with soft shading on a plain background.

Hypatia of Alexandria (d. March 415) was a mathematician, astronomer & philosopher. First woman known to lead a major school of thought. She taught advanced math & #science & defied gender/religious barriers. There have been #WomenInSTEM for millennia.🔭📐

#WomensHistoryMonth #astronomy

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Good morning. It is meteorological spring.

The horrors persist, but so do we.

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

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Honorable mention (he IS technically a handmaiden here)

If you see this, post a knight ⚔️

Mediterranean Summer Skills

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The Hughes bros, Megan Keller, and Hilary Knight on SNL with Connor Storrie

Head of Queen Nefertiti ~
Made out of quartzite, the head once belonged to a composite statue assembled from several separately carved pieces
Egyptian Museum
New kingdom: 18th Dynasty
Archaeological Site / Provenance: Upper Egypt