In 1922, Hans Riegel Sr. of Bonn, Germany, studied the reproductive methods of die Gummibärchen in 1922 and bred numerous varieties. Gregor Mendel would be proud.
[Found here.]
Category: True Stories
Lafuente’s Bunkhouse
Julio Lafuente was a Spanish architect who worked mainly in Italy. This is a summer cabin he built with structural engineer Gaetano Rebecchini on Capocotta Beach near Rome in 1965.
Wilder Mann – Pagan Christmastime monsters
“In 2010 the French photographer began traveling to rural farming villages in over a dozen European countries to document people, pictured mostly alone, out in the wilderness, wearing homemade costumes used in celebratory events marking the solstices, the harvest and coming of winter—calendar dates that, after millennia and the ‘civilizing’ of Pagan populations, eventually mutated into Christmas and Easter. The costumes referencing human/animal hybrids are cobbled-together, yet visually astounding.”
Traditional European Christmastime monsters photographed by Charles Fréger. Other images found here, caption from here.
Media Bias
Images reposted from here and here for commentary on news media’s frequent use of Lying By Omission only, and has nothing to do with the conflict between Antinous and his attack on Odysseus.
Top image (uncolored) found here, with story: Continue reading “Media Bias”
My WebEx Meeting Notes 11 October – 19 November 2021
9AM daily. Pen on paper, 8-1/2 x 11, 3.34 square inches per day.
Finally got some work. I can breath again.
“You live in the WHAT house?”
Dorkworm of the Deep
Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.
Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”
[Image found here.]
Armistice Day – The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month 1918
1 November 1918
On the Front
Mom and Dad:
Well a few lines. I received two letters from you last evening, and they made an excellent way for me to spend “Halloween.” Reading and rereading them.
A new drive started last night. The fellows called the start, “Holly even”, the Kaiser. Some noise. I suppose our kids tore off the usual stunts didn’t they.
You mentioned in one of you letters that you wanted to know the happenings for a while. Well, here is my diary for a day. And since almost every day is the same, you can get an idea from this: Continue reading “Armistice Day – The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month 1918”
Mr. Edison’s Hands
The Only Authentic Photograph of Mr. Edison’s Hands Ever Taken Publisht Here for the First Time. The Spots on the Hands Are Chemical Stains Which Could Not Be Washt off at the Time the Picture Was Taken.
IF THE WORLD WERE CALLED UPON TO MAKE AN INVENTORY OF WHAT MR. EDISON’S HANDS ACTUALLY WROUGHT IN ENRICHING THIS PLANET, THERE WOULD NOT BE GOLD ENOUGH TO PAY HIM.
Copyright by E. P. Co., 1919 All rights reserved.
[Image from Electrical Experimenter Magazine, December 1919, p. 20.]
P. K. Kunze’s Contribution To The World – A Vise With Oscillatable Cheeks
According to the U.S. Patent, the machine was described as a Device For Obtaining Intimate Contact With Engaging, Or Clamping Bodies Of Any Shape, or DFOICWEOCBOAS for easy. It contained 30 nested rotating jaws.
Application filed March 21, 1912.
Serial No. 685,288.
The invention purposes to effect by means of rotatable and oscillatable cheeks, an intimate contact, engagement with or clamping of bodies of any shape, the contact being effected at as many points as possible, Whereby owing to the reactions or the automatic adjustment to the position of equilibrium of all the cheeks, if the latter are symmetrically arranged, the pressure is uniformly distributed over all points of contact, while if the arrangement is unsymmetrical there is a greater pressure to one side.
Inventor Paulin Karl Kunze was a “subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Vienna.”
The term fractal was coined by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1973 and is defined as “never-ending pattern.” Jump to 34:00 for a silly but cool demonstration of the completed restoration.
[Found at BustedNuckles & the U.S. Patent Office. Images of Mantle & Co. vise found here and here.]
Tacky Raccoons 