“The Superbowl of Taxidermy”
From 2015:
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Any owls…?
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Uh-hu.
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Taxidermy; Not 100% Male Dominated
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I do not have a single clean reply to that. 
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Maybe one or two lurking out of focus in the back, but none featured.
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At the risk of repeating myself… 
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New cyriak
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So, apparently, the main security force on the outside of area 51 are private contractors…
Also, are any people dumb enough to show up for this?
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Trick question, right?
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DINGO: You must spank her well. And after you have spanked her, you may deal with her as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS GIRLS: And spank me. And me. And me.
DINGO: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
Spank Canada too please. (Trudeau was elected on dropping the F-35 boondoggle from consideration, but seems to lack the fortitude to carry though.)
(Strange, you’d think they’d want Turkey to have fighters with US kill switches backdoored into the avionics.)
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“It’s complicated.”
Some day I must find out how Germany managed to stay out of it.
(Edit: eradicate all the mispelings.)
Networking in the Middle Ages:
The Graduate Scholars of the Holy Roman Empire, 1250 - 1550
The Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG) is a research project that records and evaluates the biographical, social and cultural data of university scholars of the Holy Roman Empire. The prosopographic database of the RAG contains information on the elites of the medieval student body: Masters or Licentiates of Arts and graduates of the three higher faculties (jurisprudence, theology and medicine). Additionally nongraduates from the noblity who attended an university are also taken into account.
Not registered are nongraduate visitors of the arts faculties ( scholares simplices ) as well as graduates with lower degrees ( baccalaurii artium ).
The aim of the RAG is to develop the history of the cultural reach of a pre-modern intellectual leadership group and to gain a comprehensive insight into the medieval origins of the modern knowledge society with around 60,000 people.
English version of the database (which for some reason doesn’t seem to support https despite the URL and won’t inbox):
https://en.rag-online.org
Write-up in Der Standard, if your German is up to it:
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000106373494/datenbank-zeigt-persoenlichen-netzwerkeein-linkedin-der-mittelalterlichen-gelehrten
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Attempting to sue someone who didn’t go through with their part of a criminal undertaking is surprisingly common.
For some people, it really is all about the principle…
That principle being that they should always get what they think they are entitled to. Minor issues like everyone else thinking they should go to jail are irrelevant.
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Does anybody have a considered opinion on whether this is worth reading or not?
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Two can play that game. Wander through public spaces in West Palm Beach playing Baby Shark on the boom box.
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I haven’t read it, but sometimes enjoy Kakutani. People seem to either love her or hate her. I don’t plan to read this, because honestly, what new can it tell anyone who has been paying attention to the news?
(Her father was a hell of a good mathematician, and I have read several of his papers.)
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Elon Musk’s new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?
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