Notices by Global Museum (globalmuseum@mastodon.online), page 3

It’s never too late ~ irrepressible 18th century Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard painted this still-life of a tea set when he was in his 80s. The details of the light falling on the porcelain and silver surfaces are wonderful (Tea Service, 1783, Getty).

http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.com/2015/01/still-life-tea-service-by-liotard-circa.html

Journal of Art in Society
@artinsociety

The Brothers Grimm Did Much More Than Tell Fairy Tales.

A recent discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that were thought to have been lost sheds light on the breadth of the German scholars’ work.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/polish-university-discovers-27-works-belonging-to-the-brothers-grimm-180984427/

Did you know? This colorful bird might be one of the Dodo’s closest living relatives! Meet the Nicobar Pigeon, which inhabits forests & mangroves on islands like the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. A gizzard stone in its stomach helps it break down tough foods like seeds & nuts!

American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #birds

Is it real or is it biscuit? 🍪

We’re celebrating #NationalBiscuitDay with these crumb-elievable biscuit designs by @EllaMcHawk 🧵

First up, William Morris, 1884 - orange, cardamom, and vanilla 🍊

V&A\
@V_and_A #biscuits #design

On the subject of academic/science peer reviews!

#science #research #academic #peerreview

A German pro surfer, rode a wave over 115 feet tall at Nazare, Portugal, a record breaking surf!

#Portugal #surfing #surfer

Amazing sculptures you (probably) didn't know existed

Statue of King Arthur, England #sculpture #England #KingArthur

Bet you didn't know this?

The colours on a barbers pole usually reflected the blood and bandages used to clean up during bloodletting.

Patients grasped a rod or staff tightly to make their veins show. Then barbers cut open their arms and bled them. The red and white pole is still used to identify barbers.

#Barbers #bloodletting #surgery #history

@surgeonshall

The first open-access issue of the Getty Research Journal is now available!

This free peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the visual arts features 19 essays on subjects from manuscripts to architecture, from photography to poetry.

Explore the new issue: http://gty.art/GRJ #research #Getty #journal

The bird has flown!

Twitter is officially no more. The platform has been completely migrated to X.com.

so..... www.twitter.com/globalmuseum

is now www.x.com/globalmuseum #Twitter #X

People Are Getting Scammed into Buying Seeds of Non-Existent Cat-Face Flowers Generated by AI.

Scammers are always finding new ways of taking advantage of gullible people, and apparently selling seeds of fake flowers generated by artificial intelligence is one of their latest techniques.

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/people-are-getting-scammed-into-buying-seeds-of-non-existent-cat-face-flowers-generated-by-ai.html #AI #flowers #scams

What happens when your baby and dog swaps places! #dogs #babies #baby #humour #humor

Emma Lilian Todd (1865-1937) was a self-taught inventor who liked to take things apart and put them back together to see how they worked.
A lawyer and a clerk in the US patent Office, she would type up patent applications, and she learned what worked, and what didn’t work.

Inspired by airships she saw on a trip, Todd began creating designs around 1903, trying & eliminating different features until she successfully designed a working #aircraft that improved upon the Wright brothers' model.

A family of owls in a clock tower in France

[📹 Nicolas Dubois / _nicolasdubois]

Massimo @Rainmaker1973 #owls #photography #France

While bumble bees live socially in hives usually located underground (with 50 - 500 individuals), foragers or males can happen to sleep in flowers, especially when tired after too much work

#Bumblebees #insects

@Rainmaker1973

Life and death in Hong Kong during the Second World War (National Archives)

Katrina Lidbetter volunteers at The National Archives cataloguing records relating to British and Allied Prisoners of War during the Second World War. In this blog she explores a series of nominal cards that highlight the experiences of those impacted by the 1941 invasion of Hong Kong.

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/life-and-death-in-hong-kong-during-the-second-world-war/ #WWII #HongKong #history #Archives

Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum

‘Honzōgan’ (true inlay), is central to Japanese metal-working. With many different metals and other materials, they carefully insert pre-cut designs into perfectly matching recesses, using just pressure and a small lip of material to attach them.
#japan #katana #museum #swords #metalwork

@BO_SwordMuseum

How the Museum of London is packing up its huge collection as it moves to its new home in Smithfield.

@BBCLondonNews

#museum #smithfield #londonhistory #londonfacts #history #london #bbcnews

Sky camping in the mountains of China 😮

#Skycamping #China #travel #tourism #NationalGeographic

National Geographic Wild Planet · ·

In 1925, Alaska was swept with a deadly sickness called diphtheria. It badly threatened over 10,000 people in Nome. They urgently needed medicine, called antitoxin, to save them. This is the story of a superhero dog named Togo, who led a team across the coldest, most dangerous paths to deliver this cure. Many know the story of Balto, the dog who completed the last leg of the journey. However, it was Togo who traveled the farthest and faced the toughest challenges https://trendingamerican.com/story-dog-togo-true-hero/ #dogs