prose2passion
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Science writer covering everything from nano to astro via bio. Also trying to make sense of my life in writing about family history. Bookish stuff. See also my serious/professional blog: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/
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A street scene in Chartres by Charles Kuwasseg
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Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter I explore new forms of comics design, including this three-dimensional page structure. What new forms will you create?
https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-poems-to-come
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apparently one whale years ago was observed doing this for hours and now more and more whales in the area are seen copying it so we think it’s a whole new behavior and it seems to be a response to shrinking food sources.
Instead of expending any energy actively hunting, the whale just holds its mouth open wherever fish are being hunted by birds. To escape the birds, the fish try to hide in the whale’s mouth because it’s a darker area that looks like shelter.
…They’re turning into giant, sea-mammal pitcher plants.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mms.12557?referrer_access_token=bXLTS5BeSw_vlIKHkM0bYIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC654HjreJ8D19K86UreR5JPsSRb0CuGhiJSV1L1ht-N1Gf_K_1a9MREFzQGU9oJDNctsKDin_HXcYEdsLg3EbcTl
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JOMP BPC || March 2 || Currently Reading:
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
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She was called Phillis, because that was the name of the ship that brought her, and Wheatley, which was the name of the merchant who bought her. She was born in Senegal.
In Boston, the slave traders put her up for sale: “She's 7 years old! She will be a good mare!”
At thirteen, she was already writing poems in a language that was not her own. No one believed that she was the author. At the age of twenty, Phillis was questioned by a court of eighteen enlightened men in robes and wigs.
She had to recite passages from Virgil and Milton and some verses from the Bible, and she also had to vow that the poems she had composed were not copied. From a chair, she underwent her lengthy examination, until the court approved her: she was a woman, she was Black, she was enslaved, but she was a poet.
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American writer to publish a book in the United States.
✍🏾: Black History Studies
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THE MOON PRINCESS: A Fairy Tale by Edith Ogden Harrison. (Chicago: McClurg, 1905) Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
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very clearly a model of the hydrocarbon C20H20 dodecahedrane.
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist
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