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Thu Jul 1 06:00:01 EDT 2021
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Slept from ten to seven, though somewhat fitfully.
Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing.
Scattered showers and chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the mid 70s.
North winds 5 to 15 mph.
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
Wind chill readings around 120 below.
Work
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- mitigate PrintNightmare
Done.
- check for PW updates from Bullseye
Done.
- follow up on Entrata tickets
No.
- submit vacation pay form?
No.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Partly sunny, a few rain drops.
Saw a little white butterfly and a Carolina locust.
A slightly busy day.
Home
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- finish packing videos
Done!
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/obigpv/study_suggests_that_conservatism_is_associated/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/eabf1234
> Results confirm that conservatives have lower sensitivity than liberals, performing worse at distinguishing truths and falsehoods. This is partially explained by the fact that the most widely shared falsehoods tend to promote conservative positions, while corresponding truths typically favor liberals.
> We provide robust evidence that American conservatives discriminate between political truths and falsehoods less well than liberals when assessing a broad cross section of real-world political claims.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues
> And yet, anyone who has ever held their camera up to the blazing sky knows that a brilliant firework show can rarely be captured to any satisfying degree. Perhaps this is what makes a nineteenth-century series of catalogue advertisements for Japanese fireworks so mesmerizing: denied the expectations of photorealism, these images are free to evoke a unique sense of visual wonder.
> Of the many intriguing images in these catalogues, it is their inclusion of complex figures, which seem pyrotechnically impossible, that most captivates the contemporary eye. To understand these scintillating and unfamiliar forms (daylight bombshells, parachute light-balls), it is helpful to go back into the annals of a British fireworks dynasty. Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making (1922) is written by a man “the eighth generation of a family of pyrotechnists”: Alan St. Hill Brock, a descendent of John Brock, who founded Brock’s Fireworks Ltd in 1698, publisher of the catalogues under question and still in existence today. According to Brock the author, daylight fireworks originated in Japan and were not really “fireworks” as we have come to know them. Instead of pyrotechnic effects, the daylight projectile contained “a grotesque balloon in the form of an animal, human figure, or other form, which, being open and weighted at the lower end, becomes inflated as it falls and remains in the air for a considerable period.” In the catalogue images gathered here, you will see daylight balloons shaped like frogs, mounted jockeys, and a tortoise-riding fisherman (probably the fairytale protagonist Urashima Tarō, on a journey to the submarine Dragon Palace).
> Despite the novelty of daylight fireworks, the Japanese “night shells” are no less disarming. While explosions were traditionally orange-colored, Hirayama was instrumental in introducing radiant displays. A keen-eyed viewer might even pick up several examples of katamono style — a rarer form of firework capable of spelling out letters and drawing stick figures or faces in the night sky. You can browse the complete catalogues of nineteenth-century Japanese fireworks through the Yokohama City Library., and browse our highlights below. For further reading, pyrotechnic enthusiasts can borrow a digital copy of George Plimpton’s ode to explosions, which discusses Japan’s Ogatsu firework family, at Internet Archive.
Started watching Brockmire, which is actually pretty funny so far.
Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 3/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: left-over pizza, coffee
Lunch: orange, cucumber and tomato sandwich
Dinner: chips and salsa
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