Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Well, isn't this special...


Port Talbot: Bletchley Park codebreakers finally meet at 100


Netflix Cold War docuseries Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Historians Gar Alperovitz v. Richard Rhodes on use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, from the first episode. Oh my, "Fear, gore, nudity, smoking, suicide" - Now streaming.


"It was if the sun came up tremendous." Journalist/historian/author Lesley M. M. Blume quotes Trinity survivor Barbara Kent. The quote is used as the title of the first episode of Netflix's TURNING POINT docuseries telling her chilling story of the Trinity-adjacent dance camp article at NatGeo:

U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test (Archived link)





The Unmutual


Dreaming of electric sheep no doubt...


Link to Robopsychology and Computers: Love At First Byte article.


Apparently, Ralph knew his art history. 'Flaming June' by Fredric Leighton


Behind her, the Mediterranean sea glimmers with the last rays of the sun.
It is possible that through the beauty and eroticism of Flaming June, the artist wanted to explore the aesthetic connection between sleep and death, a concept that many Victorian artists were drawn to. This association has been postulated by the oleander (upper right), a beautiful but toxic flower that appears in various poems at the time, and that connotes death.

Flaming June is an oil painting by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895 on a 47-by-47-inch square canvas. The Victorian masterpiece is currently on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where it will be on display until 12 January 2025.


Fly in comfort, Pan Am 'Yankee Clipper' (Boeing 314). For its wing, Boeing re-used the design from the earlier XB-15 bomber prototype. The first was christened by Eleanor Roosevelt on 3 March 1939.


The Plane That Had It All: The Rise and Fall Of The Boeing Clipper 314



Belief that some of them are ours, intensifies...


Thinking of switching to Lockheed Martian.


Save me, save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools.


Karl Wallinger, World Party "Ship of Fools" Private Revolution album (1986)



R.I.P. Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger, Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer, born 19 October 1957 in Prestatyn, Wales, UK. Died 10 March 2024.

Another song titled, "Holy Water" from the B-side of the "Private Revolution" 7-inch single in the UK.