Weekly Links 26-12
My Mother's Dying Wish Took Me on a Trip I'll Never Forget (gift link) — Good read, and it also made me aware of scattering tubes.
Thomas Jackson Photography — Gorgeous photos!
“This Is Not The Computer For You” — This is beautiful writing.
Learn Ancient Greek, with Prof. Leonard Muellner— Want to learn Ancient Greek? I do! Will I learn Ancient Greek? Probably not.
Why was the British women's suffrage movement more violent than the American one? — I had no idea the two movements differed so much.
Ars Magica Open License— This is great. More open licences please!
The World's First 'Active' Greenhouse — I had no idea greenhouses were such an old invention.
Field of Clones: How Horse Replicas Came to Dominate Polo — This is bonkers.
On Geldings and the 'Natural' Social Order of Horses — More on horses, and the “naturalness” of geldings, specifically.
Setting Up a New Mac the Easy Way — Useful! For when I next need to set up a Mac, hopefully many years from now.
Manuscriptions — Eleanor Konik’s blog is endlessly fascinating. I was going to link to her recent book review Rise & Reign of Mammals by Steve Brusatte, but decided to link the blog itself too, because it’s so good.
Links found via my RSS feeds, Manuscriptions, Mastodon, The Browser, and general internetting.