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Autumn Market at Les Halles, Marie-François Firmin-Girard; oil on canvas, roughly 33 x 46″ (83 x 117 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, with access to high-res file. Original is in a private collection. 19th century French painter Marie-François Firmin-Girard (alternately, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) worked in a naturalistic, often highly detailed manner that carried forward traditional values and resisted the influence of the Impressionists that eventually swayed many of …

When nineteenth-century German painter Carl Rottmann produced this dusk view of Hoher Göll, a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps bordering Germany and Austria, he included two subtle atmospheric optical effects. The first is a diffuse brightness around the crescent Moon. This is a corona, caused by the diffraction of light around tiny cloud particles – perhaps ice crystals in the high layer cloud Cirrostratus or water droplets in the very …

JUNGLE JIM (1948) – Decades before Raiders of the Lost Ark, “Jungle Jim” Bradley, mercenary jungle guide and adventurer, was fighting Nazis, Communist Spies and other menaces while finding lost cities & ancient artifacts, all while romancing lovely ladies. Throw in the occasional dinosaur, giant spider or huge, man-eating eel and enjoy! A modern Jungle Jim franchise could combine the best elements of Indiana Jones, Crocodile Dundee and Allan Quatermain. …

It’s been a whirlwind ever since Fujifilm announced the X100VI, the much-anticipated successor to the much-desired-but-hard-to-find X100V. According to Fujirumors, the X100VI has had the most preorders of any other Fujifilm camera ever. According to Sonyalpharumors, the new Fujifilm camera has 50 times more preorders than the Sony A7cII and Sony A7cR combined. Amateur Photographer states that the “Fujifilm X100VI breaks all records as sales are off the charts.” There …

Okay, Color Spaces Fantastic interactive explanation of how color spaces work by Eric Portis. Via Lea Verou

As we start to sense the possibility of Spring, plans for future walks start to take on a new tone of intent. One such plan is to pick up the trail of this enlightening walk exploring a dramatic stretch of the River Medway in Kent from Gillingham to Rainham with the brilliant Professor Kate Spencer. Last summer, we started at Strand Leisure Park, then passed Horrid Hill, Bloors Wharf, Eastcourt …

Economic growth slightly below trend. CFNAI-MA3 is -0.02, so slightly below trend in January — but still above the -0.07 threshold for contraction. WEI y/y growth is 1.87% for week ending 2/17.

Hez Parfums Café Beignet transports us to NOLA's Café Du Monde that has been serving classic beignets and café au lait since 1862. The post Hez Parfums Café Beignet (Hez Binkowitz) 2023+ Café Du Monde giveaway appeared first on ÇaFleureBon Perfume Blog.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming one-night only concert performance of coming-of-age rock musical Bare at the London Palladium in April. As previously announced Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie and Clyde, Arts Theatre/Garrick Theatre, & Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre) will play Jason opposite Laurie Kynaston (Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre, Mates In Chelsea, Royal Court) as Peter. They will be joined by Cassidy Janson (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre, Beautiful: The Carole …

Things that are Englandy. That first drive down super narrow streets again, good heavens. Rain, then. All of it, non stop since I got here. Wouldn't have it any other way, good to be back for a bit.

A senior Greenwich councillor fought back tears while discussing the conflict in Gaza after the town hall held a minute’s silence for the thousands of victims of the conflict in the region. Adel Khaireh, the cabinet member for communities, became emotional after being asked what the council could do to support families affected by the […] The post Greenwich councillor fights back tears after minute’s silence for victims of Middle …

1. Not to take away from Caitlin Clark's incredible achievement in scoring, but it turns out there are other high scorers, who, due to changes in the divisions and such, who's achievements should also be noted. 2. I agree with this column on trigger or content warnings and how good ones let you make informed decisions, and how good media will suck you in regardless. 3. Mychal Threet's library videos …

Someone recently asked me some questions about my article from a few years ago, Honesty and transparency are not enough. I thought it might be helpful to summarize why I’ve been promoting this idea. The central message in that paper is that reproducibility is great, but if a study is too noisy (with the bias and variance of measurements being large compared to any persistent underlying effects), that making it …

In public opinion polls, one of the primary concerns about rising levels of immigration is the extent to which it might increase crime rates. But several puzzles arise here. The evidence that immigration systematically leads to an increase in local crime rates turns out to be meager. However, Olivier Marie and Paolo Pinotti explore these issues “Immigration and Crime: An International Perspective” in the Winter 2024 issue of the Journal …

NEW RESOURCES Simon Fraser University: Digital repatriation of Tse’k’wa archive democratizes 50 years of archaeological and cultural knowledge. “Fifty years of archaeological knowledge and scholarship from one of British Columbia’s most significant cultural and archaeological sites is being digitally repatriated to the Dane-zaa people. Tse’k’wa, or ‘rock house’ in Dane-zaa/Beaver language, is a cave that has been home to the Dane-zaa ancestors for more than 12,500 years. Archaeological excavations at …