“Art Is A Weapon That Penetrates The Eyes, The Ears, The Deepest And Subtlest Human Feelings.”

Cloudy and cool start to the day. Fabulous doggie walk. #Sunday #shropshirehills #shropshire

A Caiman Covered in Butterflies Photographed by Mark Cowan

Andrey Remnev

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“My paintings are distinguished by attention to detail and meticulous decorating a conditional Russian style. Other works are written in a different, more symbolic way… I tried to convey a sense of wonder, the unique experience of touching the mystery.”

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If you’re curious about Europe’s witch hunts and what Europeans believed about witches in general, Dr. Justin Sledge has an amazing set of videos on this topic: Witchcraft - The Witch Flight to the Sabbat - From Inquisitional Myth to Psychedelic Flying Ointment

Witchcraft - Malleus Maleficarum - The Hammer of Witches - History and Analysis of the Inquisition 

Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials Witches Witch-Hunting and Magic in Early-Modern Europe (FIA Lecture) The Witch Trials and the Rise of Modernity and Capitalism - Sylvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch These are all great videos, and I recommend them because they go into depth that’s hard to find elsewhere. If the history of magic and witchcraft interests you, these will not disappoint!

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Happy Fat Tuesday!!! Making pancakes tonight? Here’s a recipe from the 16th century which includes “two or three spoonefuls of ale”: To make Pancakes Take new thicke Creame a pine, foure or five yolks of egs, a good handful of flower and two or three spoonefuls of ale, strain them together into a faire platter, and season it with a good handfull of sugar, a spooneful of synamon, and a little Ginger: then take a friing pan, and put in a litle peece of Butter, as big as yourthumbe, and when it is molten brown, cast it out of your pan, and with a ladle put to the further side of your pan some of your stuffe, and hold your pan …, so that your stuffe may run abroad over all the pan as thin as may be: then set it to the fire, and let the fyre be verie soft, and when the one side is baked, then turn the other, and bake them as dry as ye can without burning. (from a book entitled “The Good Huswifes Jewell”, courtesy of the British Library)

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own universe. No matter who has tainted it, who has hurt it, who has hurt you, no matter if somebody has torn through it like a black hole to a quasar. It is still yours, and they cannot take that away from you. They cannot take away your beauty, even beauty that is born from destruction; our universe is proof of that.

- physicists-need-love-too, on my alien invasion