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VOGELSCHEUCHE

[noun]

German: scarecrow; an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.

[Jeremy Masson]

If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956 ⁠—  Aurelia Schober Plath, 18th July 1951

I want you to imagine a ten year old version of yourself sitting right there on this couch. Now this is the little girl who first believed that she was fat, and ugly, and an embarrassment.

CORDOLIUM

[noun]

heartfelt grief; sorrow of the heart.

Etymology: from Latin cor, “heart” + dolor, “pain, sorrow”, dolere, “to ache”.

[Jean Osborne - Grief]

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PERVIGILIUM

[noun]

1. a watching all night; a vigil; a night vigil.

2. Pathology: disinclination to sleep; wakefulness.

3. a nocturnal festival in honour of a god, especially the Bona Dea.

Etymology: from Latin, “the vigil”, “a devotional watch”.

[25kartinok - Night Watch]

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Absolutely precious.  See the full video of this sweet girl taking her horse for a walk here.

May 1, 1851, was the most exciting day in London, ever. It marked the launch of the “Great Exhibition” in the brand-new Crystal Palace—13,000 exhibits under one glass roof.

From May to October, six million visitors attended this head-spinning mega-show of technological and design wares from around the world, all housed in a massive hall created from the shockingly modern material of glass. Queen Victoria presided over the opening with Prince Albert, writing in her diary that it was “one of the greatest and most glorious days of our lives.”

Views of the Crystal Palace from the Getty collections by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, Philip Henry Delamotte, Negretti and Zambra, Joseph Nash, and the Dickinson Brothers

Epigenomics starts to make its mark

Analysis of chemical patterns on DNA shows promise for explaining disease, but few results have yet been replicated.

Obesity may be written not only in the genes, but also on top of them. One of the largest studies so far to probe the human epigenome — the collective name for the patterns of chemical groups that adorn DNA sequences and influence their activity — has found some tags that are linked to differences in body mass index (BMI).

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