Notices by Das (srdas@mastodon.online)

#SilentSunday

@joejoetom huh I vaguely remember something like that - looked up pics - took this on our brief 2016 trip
Lens Search says it's some kind of wind tower onisland

https://www.e-nexco.co.jp/en/pressroom/head_office/2022/0412/00011212.html

Getting interesting!!!

The lawsuit is in 3 parts:
1 Exploitation of labor, peer review
2 Anti-competitiveness
3 Control (over knowledge), access

6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit

The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done “tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/6-major-academic-publishers-face-antitrust-lawsuit/727106/

#Publishing #Academia

3,500 year old cheese - likely oldest ever found - on necklaces in mummies! Analysis in a report in Cell

"World’s oldest preserved cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China"
via @popsci

https://www.popsci.com/science/worlds-old-cheese-china-mummies/

#Cheese #Science #Dairy #FoodHistory

#SilentSunday

As good a day as any to remember to be kind and gracious.

A short and lovely poem
Small Kindnesses - by Danusha Laméris

https://www.danushalameris.com/poems

#Poetry #Poem

Solo #Movie night - for a rewatch partner & I had seen 20 or so yrs ago. No recollection of it at all except it was pretty cool. Been meaning to rewatch a while now.
Fun start - I do remember the insistent beat

Run Lola Run
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/

@WataruTenkawa read through (translation) and idk everything seems off

@WataruTenkawa the questions seemed off or skewed - not sure how much due to translation. But the results are also seem quite odd.
Really?

Some more pics from #Nagasaki Peace Park
#Japan

Remembering #Nagasaki I was fortunate to visit very briefly last year. The peace park was beautiful and so were the exhibits - but mostly I thought how much some of this should be in the US (and other places)

#NagasakiDay

@LifeTimeCooking fried is staple in Bengali cuisine. Thick slices, plain or thin slices in (besan) batter
I've never tried with tamarind soak or accent. (Though eggplant pieces in tamarind soured sambar are pretty great)

@LifeTimeCooking eggplant is a favorite (vegetable) - but for sambar, I'd have to say vengaya (onion - these are the small shallot like pearl reddish onions) sambar for me. But then again it may have been the specific sambar podi and maker (aunt-in-law in Chennai)

@LifeTimeCooking yes
Also a lot of ghee
😄

#TIL about Shizo Kanakuri - Guinness world record holder for longest time to complete a marathon!
Pretty amazing story from the 1912 Stockholm #Olympics

"It was a long trip. Along the way, I got married, had six children and 10 grandchildren."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri
Edit: Scroll down to the 1912 Olympic appearance and then return to Stockholm

I'm so enjoying these Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from the 1930s ! These were after his trip to India.
Thread 🧵 - I'll add one here everyday till I can find no more (in this series)

2/n
This one is
Ajmer Gate, Jaipur (Jaipuuru no Ajumeru mon)

see this blog post I found on the gates of Jaipur, for a pic and info
https://jaipurthrumylens.com/2016/10/06/history-old-city-gates-of-jaipur-architectural-design-elements/

Just learned about the works of Yoshida Hiroshi
Woodblock prints from the 1930s following a trip to India

This one is
Morning Mist on the Taj Mahal No. 5, Shôwa period, (1932)

#Japan #India #Art

6/n of daily (till I run out)
Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from his 1930s series - India and South East Asia
following his visit

I really like this one - the shiny floor, the squatting, clothes, turban, the latticed window and arches beyond.

A Window in Fatehpur-Sikri (Fuwatepuuru Shikuri)

#Art #ukiyoe

5/n
Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from 1930s following his visit to India

High Gate in Ajmer (Ajumeru no Burenderuwajaa)

More info here: https://asia-archive.si.edu/object/S1996.14/

#Art

4/n
Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from 1930s following his visit to India

Khanchinjanga, Afternoon (Kanchienjiyanga, gogo) 1931
(Kanchenjunga)

#Art #Ukiyoe