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Where has this Amazing Comic Book Art Been all My Life?
By MessyNessy
June 30, 2016

François Schuiten, like the creator of Tintin, is Belgian, and he’s best known for his drawing in the series Les Cités Obscures, a collaboration with his childhood friend, Benoît Peeters. They first worked together at the age of 12 on a school magazine; Benoît wrote the fictional stories, Fançois made the imaginative drawings, and pretty soon the faculty tried to stop them from publishing it, preferring Latin translations and moralizing anecdotes as more appropriate subject matters.

I think my favorite is the young ladies in the sex ed class in 1929:

http://brightside.me/article/30-captivating-historical-photographs-which-you-need-to-see-2355/?image=91655&utm_campaign=art-images-share#image91655

Neat stuff:
http://mashable.com/2015/11/10/arnold-genthe-chinatown/#kj7s77_JSkqS

And lots of cute little kids walking around.

It's pretty cool:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/26/powerpoint-should-be-banned-this-powerpoint-presentation-explains-why/

It confirms my desire to get away from flashy, poppy .ppt presentations. I use the "slides" as slides.

This is what real scientists look like.

The author, Kate Clancy, takes NPR to task for using the phrase "boys with toys" when describing science.

.... As a scientist, I enjoy not only the broad theoretical questions of my field of biological anthropology—questions such as what it means to be human or what environmental pressures motivated our most interesting adaptations—but also the day-to-day fun of designing studies, collecting data, analyzing it in the lab, and creating statistical models to make sense of it all. My lab has freezers full of human piss and spit, my hard drive is full of ultrasound images of uteruses and ovaries, and I rub my hands with glee at the thought of buying both a new ultrasound machine and multiplexer—a piece of equipment that will allow my students to measure multiple hormones and biomarkers from a single sample at once—this summer. I am definitely a girl with toys.

More:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

And that's the point:

A Museum in England Is Hiding a Forgery Among Its Masterpieces:
A South London gallery is asking its patrons to identify the fake in order to spark discussion about how and why we appreciate the art

... “It’s not just a ‘Hey, spot the fake’ stunt,” Fishbone told the Guardian. “It raises serious issues of how we view, appreciate and value art. Hanging it at Dulwich gives our picture some provenance, and it’s interesting to see if that changes its value.”

I read one of the "OMGOMGOMG stop reading at night you'll kill yourself!!" articles, in which it recommended "f.lux" which is a program that automatically turns down the lights from your computer screens (based on the time & your longitude & latitude) at night to help to prepare your brain for sleep, & turns up the lights in the day.

Here's the article (followed by the link to f.lux):
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/23/reading-before-bed_n_6372828.html

https://justgetflux.com/
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.

Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. f.lux will do the rest, automatically.

I downloaded it & have put it. I can shut it off for an hour at a time, or change the colors/light possible. And it will take a few days to adjust. It might be interesting.

A Helmet For Encouraging Concentration

Fortunately it has a hose that connects to an oxygen tank.