Science Art: Sun not in Plane of Moon's Orbit - Eclipses Impossible, etc., 1898

New Palm Court Podcast: Lorax, Vonnegut, A Bag of Hair, Merlin Mann.

We talked about nostalgia, New College, communities, and, you know. A lot of things. It's here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/PLMD5177451124

Science Art: X-2 After Drop from B-50 Mothership, 1957.

Science Art: MeerKAT telescopes, 2018

Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.

Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.

Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.

Listen/download: Grant Balfour by Burd

No relation.

Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.

Science Art: Four Phymata species from "Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II," October 1951.

SONG: Great Big Love

Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN - NARA - 17393787, by NASA.

I miss the purity of the 4-track recording device, and also of the folk-punk cover version. This was my 90s.

Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.

Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.

So, in case you missed it, the New College "conservative" admin have put out a couple rather lame admissions videos lately. This is one that another alum fixed solely by putting a new soundtrack. You have to wait for the sax to kick in. (The admin yanked this video after posting ... almost certainly because the only prof in it is a trans person who left the college, which got pointed out online.) Well, today, news broke that the videos have not been made by some new staffer's teenaged nephew with an iPhone for an afterschool job, but by Taryn Fenske, the former spokesperson for a DeSantis PAC. Who has been getting paid $15k per month for this. Since last July. Full story is here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article285988301.html I mean, it would be one thing if they were actually trying to create a real conservative college. But there isn't even a 2023-2024 budget yet. The president just appointed a provost who not only never taught a class, but doesn't even have a PhD - although he is a wealthy lobbyist. Wait for the sax. Or SACS, as the case may be. (That's an academia joke. SACS is the accreditor... thus far, also a joke.)