Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series - NYTimes.com
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Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series - NYTimes.com
Power cord obtained. Am duly thankful.
*or family, as the case may be
Forgot laptop power cord at home while packing for Thanksgiving. The battery isn’t even dead yet and I’m feeling withdrawal symptoms.
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Sideshow Preemies

How did I not know about this? Premature infants provided entertainment as a Coney Island summer amusement for 40 years, starting in 1903. Dr. Martin A. Couney used gas-heated glass incubators to simultaneously rear and exhibit the babies. Sideshow barkers solicited outside, and visitors paid admission to file past rows of tiny preemies ensconced in the “peanut roasters.” A team of wet nurses provided milk, and could be summarily fired for eating the wrong food, such as a hot dog.
Winter preemies were SOL, since the show closed for the winter. Serves them right, being born in a non-revenue generating time of year.
Bonus Trivia: Cary Grant was once a barker for the show.
David Littschwager, Larva of the slender mola, Ranzania laevis
“A blast of highly explosive magnesium flash powder allowed photographers Longley and Martin to photograph underwater life for the first time. When the men wanted to take a photograph, they clicked the camera’s shutter, which tripped a battery on a raft they dragged behind them. The battery, in turn, triggered the magnesium powder explosion, which illuminated the sea down to 15 feet (4.6 meters).”
William Longley and Charles Martin invent underwater photography in 1926.
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Josef Spacek, Vessel Architectonics of Leaf of Lime
Spacek gets bonus points for use of the word “architectonics.”
David Millard, Urania riphaeus (Sunset Wing Moth Scales)
The tiny scales on the moth’s wing surface. Its colors do not come from pigment. Rather, the cuticle of the scales and their shape act to scatter certain wavelengths and reflect back others.

