“My Herb Simon / Friendship is Magic slash finally can come to light!”
(a colleague whom I shall leave anonymous out of mercy)
“My Herb Simon / Friendship is Magic slash finally can come to light!”
(a colleague whom I shall leave anonymous out of mercy)
View of Pittsburgh, 1816 (via)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: March 18, 1816
Pittsburgh was incorporated as a city under an act providing for a mayor, one select and one common council, 12 aldermen, and a recorder. [Historic Pittsburgh]
Related: “Pittsburgh in 1816,” complied by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the 100th Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter, 1916.
I refuse to believe it was that sunny in March.
“I am such an idiot.”
“What do you mean, evolution?”
“I made animals that court each other, and make beautiful love; I made animals that protect each other and raise their offspring together and mate for life. But apparently I was just being naive. Apparently none of those things actually matter to anyone.”
“Whoo boy. Did genetic drift stop calling you back again?”
“Maybe, instead of cuddling after they mate, one of these praying mantises should just eat the other one’s head off and put it out of its misery.”
“You seem a little angry.”
“Love is dead.”
6dfb:
in honor of International Women’s Day
In this post, we will address what has long seemed to us a conspicuous shortcoming in the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (SDFB) data: the relatively small number of early modern women. As Helen Smith cheekily put it on Twitter, there’s “more sausage…