Blood Meridian for the Super Nintendo

Hans Neumann Colour Woodcut ‘Letzte Sonnenstrahlen’ 1908.

This magnificent pendant is the ultimate proof that the “Dark Ages” is an academic concept. Rather than Europe plummeting into darkness because of the “fall” of the Western Roman Empire, it’s more the lack of academic interest in the Early Middle Ages.

This Anglo-Saxon pendant was found on King’s Field (Kent) and is made of gold and garnet, but decorated extremely intricately with gabuchon, filigree and granulation. The garnet was used to form a triskele with round centre and ending in bird heads. At just 3,5 cm across, this was made by a master craftsman with materials from all over the known world.

The pendant might have been worn on a bit of string or rope, or it may have been worn as part of a glass beaded necklace. The pendant likely belonged to a woman.

The British museum, England

Museum nr. .1145.’70

New PM from Moderator:

As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”

She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.

Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)

She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)

Anthologia Palatina 6.241 = Antipater of Thessalonica (Julio-Claudian period) I, this helmet, received a double grace: I am both pleasant for my friends to look on And a source of dread for anyone who’s hostile. Piso has me, taken from Pylaemenes: Neither did the helmet suit any other locks, Nor would his hair suit any other helmet. ἡ κόρυς ἀμφοτέρην ἔλαχον χάριν· εἰμὶ δ᾽ ὁρᾶσθαι καὶ τερπνὴ φιλίοις, καὶ φόβος ἀντιπάλοις. ἐκ δὲ Πυλαιμένεος Πείσων μ᾽ ἔχει: ἔπρεπεν ἄλλαις οὔτε κόρυς χαίταις, οὔτε κόμη κόρυθι.