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Ocean Wave

Sappho at Leucate (1801) by Antoine-Jean Gros

it's incredible how far these people have travelled. With our 21st century hindsight its easy to imagine someone like Obama or Malala two thousand years later not only still being talked about, but travelling and being displayed in places that we don't even know exist yet, but i don't think anyone from then would easily be able to conceive of it. technology and the amount of knowledge available to the average person has increased exponentially within a single persons lifetime, and its hard for us to not take that for granted

I work at a dinosaur museum and this is our desktop background. Thought you all should know

Ahh, history. There's been a lot of it. Enough to go around, you might say. There's been a fair few billions of years of this most elusive metaphysical substance, and a few things of note have happened within that time: dinosaurs roamed the Earth, then didn't. Cities emerged. The Greeks ate very well and sh*gged each other senseless, then didn't. The wheel was invented somewhere down the line, as was sliced bread. Dogs were domesticated (as were cats, sort of). Some smart folk put the alphabet together. The printing press was invented. The Industrial Revolution happened and sent us on a violent forward and backward trajectory simultaneously. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at The Oscars (2022). It's been a busy old time, that's for sure, but the clock keeps-a-tickin', and the wheel keeps-a-turnin'. Come tick along with us as we celebrate all that is strictly past tense: #history. 

Assorted displays of mounted insects  - Insectarium in Montreal, Quebec - August 2022

This is why you shouldn't give small people power.

Podcast episode rec for museum folks and interested onlookers. Discussion about queer programming and Black Lives Matter etc.