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A history of booksellers : the old and the new : Curwen, Henry, 1845-1892 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Publisher's device on t.p

You may find these two links of interest, Morrison you may have seen ..the second book is a trip to the past where long form essay was the rule.

Looking forward to your book ..!

www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

archive.org/details/hist...

05.03.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Earliest geometries: A cognitive investigation of Howiesons Poort engraved ostrich eggshells This article presents the first quantitative geometric and spatial analysis of engraved ostrich eggshell (EOES) fragments from the Howiesons Poort (HP) technocomplex of the African late Middle Stone A...

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

05.03.2026 20:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Rocky’
from Hail Mary ..!!

05.03.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Remember to breathe....... the world is crazy. 🧘‍♂️

A view from the interior of the Byodo-In Temple.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInteriors

#Photography #EastCoastKin #OMSystem

#Buddha #Temple

#ValleyOfTheTemples #Hawaii

04.03.2026 15:09 👍 113 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
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Glacial Longings – Elizabeth Rush Aboard the first shipbound expedition to the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, writer Elizabeth Rush puts her ear to this massive body of ice. But can something so large, so vast, so ancient, ever reall...

emergencemagazine.org/essay/glacia...
Extraordinarily evocative & elegant prose …! A must read..!

03.03.2026 14:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rock art may be far older than modern humans in Sulawesi Dating of a panel with two handprints puts their production sometime before 68,000 years ago.

www.johnhawks.net/p/rock-art-m...

02.03.2026 23:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did not , does not the U-2 have a narrow margin during the first hours of flight with lots of fuel ? I seem to recall comments on this, Ernie Gann mentioned it when writing about his U-2 flight for Flying magazine . Back in the day .

01.03.2026 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A heaven-sent, incredibly rare event is unfolding in the outback In the centre of Australia, there are whispers that Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is experiencing conditions strangely similar to those that set a record depth of 6 metres in 1974.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

01.03.2026 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eliza ? 1977 ?

28.02.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Alerts and brokers | Rubin Observatory An overview of alerts and brokers.

rubinobservatory.org/for-scientis...

27.02.2026 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lasair. A UK Alert Stream Broker and Transient Science Platform. Lasair is developed by The University of Edinburgh and Queen's University Belfast with the ultimate goal of serving transient alerts from the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to the astron...

lasair.lsst.ac.uk

27.02.2026 16:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks so very much ! While looking by word search I found this, new to I but you maybe aware of it . So much reading, so little time..!

‘HISTORY OF BOOKSELLERS,
THE OLD AND THE NEW.’

BY HENRY CURWEN.

27.02.2026 13:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

May I ask where this delightful excerpt is from ?

27.02.2026 13:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Odyssey: An Evening with the Creators of a New Opera | American School of Classical Studies at Athens

www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/detai...

26.02.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Global Average Surface Temperature Anomalies / TCC Tokyo Climate Center Home Page

ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/prod...

23.02.2026 22:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Paleontology talk - Fossil whales and dolphins of the Pacific northwest and origin of baleen Just before Valentine's Day I was invited by my colleague Dr. Win McLaughlin to fly up to Coos Bay, Oregon, for a few days to give a talk ...

coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/02/pale...

23.02.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Undetected past contacts with technological species: implications for technosignature science In the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), the highly incomplete sampling of the technosignature search space is often considered as a plausible explanation for the persistent lack of det...

arxiv.org/abs/2602.17736

23.02.2026 13:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Fellowship of the Telescopes
The Fellowship of the Telescopes YouTube video by NASA Goddard

m.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Fk...

22.02.2026 13:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review, Ritchie, Paul D L, Steinert, Norman J, Abrams, Jesse F, Alkhayuon, Hassan, Arnscheidt, Constantin W, Bochow, Nils, Chapman, Ruth R, Clarke, Joseph, Dennis, Donovan P, Donges, Jonathan F, Flores, Bernardo M, Garbe, Julius, Högner, Annika, Huntingford, Chris, Lenton, Timothy M, Lohmann, Johannes, Lux-Gottschalk, Kerstin, Milkoreit, Manjana, Möller, Tessa, Pearce-Kelly, Paul, Pereira, Laura, Quinn, Courtney, Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich, Stuenzi, Simone M, Swingedouw, Didier, Van der Laan, Larissa N, Zickfeld, Kirsten, Wunderling, Nico

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

20.02.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Species on east-west coastlines are more likely to go extinct than those on north-south shores – new study 500 million years of fossils reveal how ‘escape routes’ along coastlines can decide who survives climate change.

theconversation.com/species-on-e...

20.02.2026 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature: His Revi… Sm Quarto, , PP.351, His Reviews Of A Hundred Memorable…

Thanks for the link, loookg for your review soon. The article reminded me of Morrison’s book, splendidx, wide ranging essays ….!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

19.02.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hydrothermal System Helped Life Recover After Dino-Killing Asteroid - Astrobiology About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species

astrobiology.com/2026/02/hydr...

18.02.2026 22:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Break In A Longstanding Mystery About The Origin Of Complex Life - Astrobiology The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart.

astrobiology.com/2026/02/a-br...

18.02.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why the Shape of Continents Mattered Across 500 Million Years of Climate Change New fossil evidence shows how geography influenced who survived Earth’s climate shifts

climateages.substack.com/p/why-the-sh...

18.02.2026 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If Alien Signals Reached Earth, Why Haven't We Seen Them? - Astrobiology astronomers have scanned the Milky Way for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations

astrobiology.com/2026/02/if-a...

17.02.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If Alien Signals Reached Earth, Why Haven't We Seen Them? - Astrobiology astronomers have scanned the Milky Way for signs of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations

astrobiology.com/2026/02/if-a...

17.02.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

global-tipping-points.org

17.02.2026 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Decline of Bismark's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890 The Decline of Bismark's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890 [George F. Kennan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Decline of Bismark's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875-1890

May I recommend this book by Kennan? There are few equal or better for clear elegant insight prose and analysis. Different era but the tangent to today’s issues are chilling. Best regards ..!

www.amazon.com/Decline-Bism...

16.02.2026 14:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cognition spaces: natural, artificial, and hybrid Cognitive processes are realized across an extraordinary range of natural, artificial, and hybrid systems, yet there is no unified framework for comparing their forms, limits, and unrealized possibili...

I like this paper, and not just for the obvious reason. A great summary of where we stand in thinking about types of mind. Nice also to see this made explicit: "All living systems share a fundamental property: agency."
arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837

04.02.2026 23:46 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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MacLeod's Books (2026) - All You MUST Know Before You Go (with Reviews) This is the version of our website addressed to speakers of English in the United States. If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu.

To help stock the shelves …MacLeods, they have a second building across the street..!
wonderful bookstore. Similar to Book Gallery in PHX & Second Story Annex in Rockville Md.

www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_R...

15.02.2026 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0