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Diagram showing what various lunar eclipses would look like with differently shaped Earths. Johannes Buno, ca. 1711.⠀ ⠀ Featured in the German theologian and educator’s Universal Geography. Buy a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/four-diagrams-of-solar-eclipses/
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Alan Gutierrez's cover art for Worlds of If: A Retrospective Anthology, 1986.
Who knows where the road may lead us, only a fool would say
Who knows if we'll meet along the way?
Follow the brightest star as far as the brave may dare
What will we find when we get there?
things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees
LOTR abridged
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undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.
The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human
Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.
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My latest cartoon for New Scientist
p.s. I'm coming to Germany soon with my new book of science cartoons. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Some of these books were lost and never found; others were never even written.
My latest for Atlas Obscura is up! I reported on Reid Byers's truly wonderful "imaginary books" collection on display at the Grolier Club in Manhattan right now—and I got to sit in on his class about how to make an imaginary collection at the Center for Book Arts!
These are physical books that were mentioned in other books, split into three categories: "lost," "unfinished," and "fictive." All three are delightful, but the fictive category has *so* many fandom favorites—Death's memoirs from Discworld, a monograph by Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Maturin’s Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases Most Usual Among Seamen, an entire case of the in-universe books of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, and many more.
The collection is on display at Grolier until February 15th and it's free to the public; in March it moves to San Francisco. (You can also look at it online—but seriously, these books are incredible in 3D if you're in the area in the next few weeks.) I think fanbinding folks would be especially interested in the material aspects of this project. (And I suspect some fanbinders will have also created in-universe books from their favorite source material!)
Some of my favorites from the online version of the exhibition:
Kubla Khan by Coleridge (if the man from Porlock hadn’t gone and interrupted him at a crucial moment)
Outside the Town of Malbork—but due to a printing error, this volume contains a different book entirely—Leaning From the Steep Slope. (All of them fictional books found in fragments in If on a winter’s night a traveler)
A concise francophone guide to English poetry by an intellectual gentleman by the name of Humbert Humbert
That famous volume of the Encyclopedia of Tlön discovered and described by Professor Borges.
Hannah Jarvis’s seminal monograph on the hermit of Sidley Park, whom she proves conclusively was the former tutor Septimus Hodge.
The manuscript of The Oak Tree: A Poem, which its author/authoress labored over through four hundred or so years (and multiple genders)
Jonathan Strange’s masterwork, The History and Practice of English Magic.
And finally—and maybe this is the funniest one of all:
A GODDAMN SAMUEL FRENCH ACTING EDITION OF THE KING IN YELLOW
“They were three months passing through the forest”, an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931, at the age of just 30. See more of her magical illustrations here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-french-fairytales-illustrated-by-virginia-frances-sterrett-1920 #OTD
Bill Watterson
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Mr Gently Lovely Kissy Nice-Nice Benevolent
I’m a Merlin wizard who experiences time backwards, and I blocked you because you sent me an angry message asking me why I blocked you.
Actor was known around the world for his role as librarian Rupert Giles in the hit Nineties show ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, and later as fo
Rest in peace an absolute legend.
A recent New Scientist cartoon.
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i just saw someone misspell guardian angel as 'gardening angel' and i am absolutely sent
