Giving a new meaning to the phrase "whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop nyaaaaaah"
@eguimont
Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience. Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023) Be on the lookout for The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out soonish from Palgrave Macmillan
Giving a new meaning to the phrase "whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop nyaaaaaah"
My article about the Rocky Mountain Martian hoax of 1864-5. A real hoot! www.historycolorado.org/story/2025/0...
Yesterday was crazy, so you might have missed my newest Patreon piece, on Alex Jones and the early days of QAnon. This one is free, but subscriptions are always welcome!
www.patreon.com/posts/151479...
My next book getting closer to being released.
www.routledge.com/Darwin-and-t...
Ha ha Hancock! Things keep getting redacted...
Two papers related to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis by the Comet Research Group have been retracted after the journal editors found fundamental problems with the core evidence and interpretation.
Walked by here by complete chance a few weeks ago in Boston.
Our inaugural episode of Science Counterpunch with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social is out now: www.protagonist-science.com/p/science-un...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PF...
Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/s...
Full convo π½
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While not in NYC, there's also the location of the house Sonia lived in in Elmira, NY (815 John Street) before moving to NYC, though today there are modern condos at the location.
Auchincloss is below-replacement-level. A smart guy who somehow can't think his way out of a paper bag. #mapoli
The moment many have been waiting for has arrived as the fantastic documentary 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks,' based on Adam Gorightly's excellent book of the same name, is now available to rent or buy. Check it out!
saucersspooksandkooks.vhx.tv
This week on BoA: The Revival, writer Robert Skvarla joins us for an enlightening conversation about Havana Syndrome, a wild story involving the CIA and Credence Clearwater Revival, conspiracy culture, paranormal conventions, and a whole bunch more. open.spotify.com/episode/4p6T...
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
black and white illustration, in the style of a Victorian periodical. A reimagining of a shot in Jurassic Park, where Alan Grant confronts the T-Rex holding a flare, next to the upturned jeep with the kids inside, and the broken fence. here, a Victorian gentleman in long coat and hat holds a lamp, illuminating our favourite Megalosaurus, and an upturned horse-drawn carriage, with two children peering out the back. a breached cast iron gate completes the scene
please allow us to share one our all time fave bits of Crystal Palace Dinosaur art: βJurassic Park 1854β, by the amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social
back then, Richard Owen wrote that Megolasaurus βprobably waged a deadly war against its less destructively endowed congeners and contemporariesβ
Title section of a journal article: The Legend of Ea-Nasir: How a Babylonian Businessman Became an Internet Meme. By Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JCA/article/view/30204 https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.30204
Just published a paper on the complaint tablet to Ea-nΔαΉ£ir meme, the decade-old tumblr in-joke that continues to impact the public understanding of the ancient world. Paywalled but email me if you want a copy. πΊ
New in my library: The book chapter from 1930 that gave rise to the modern myth of living pterosaurs hiding in the American West, now public domain and published online for the first time. www.jasoncolavito.com/living-ptero...
1950-something
Our first research seminar of the new term is next Thursday, when @eguimont.bsky.social will be talking about the history of Flat Earth beliefs.
You can check out our other upcoming seminars and register for email invitations here - online and open to all: www.eclasproject.org/our-upcoming...
i just found out trump can't do all that stuff cuz it's illegal
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
Wrote about the Labour Party's failed popularist experiment as feckless quant-brain U.S. liberals toy with the idea of a popularist agenda in 2026 and beyond: badfaithtimes.com/a-blaring-wa...
Happy New Year! Excited to announce that as of January 1, @sarahmpicks.bsky.social and I are the new co-editors-in-chief of the Endeavour history and philosophy of science journal. If ever you had an idea for an article in that realm, now is the time to pitch it to us!
Buenos dΓas. Se me lean ustedes esto, por favor πAvi Loeb y los cientΓficos que se pasan al βlado oscuroβ: cuando el enemigo de la razΓ³n duerme en casa www.eldiario.es/1_c3aebe?utm...
Auchincloss is bought by AIPAC
Hey @aipac1.bsky.social , Massachusetts's 4th Congressional District includes 35 municipalities. That's Brookline and Newton β but also Fall River, the largest city in the district, along with Taunton, Attleboro, and dozens of working-class communities you seem to have forgotten exist.
NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the βspacemenβ failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment weβre losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
Got a Black Hebrew Israelite history book at the airport bookstore on the way to #HSS2025
Maybe Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby. As for specific examples, not sure what sources go into them best, but Porphyrios the Byzantine whale, and the story of Alexander the Great's bathysphere and his fight with a sea monster.
Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
Hope Alexandra Pelosi makes a documentary about this that I can hear @willsloanesq.bsky.social talk about some day.
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."