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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 12h

Frogs are your friends!

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 14h

Charlie Rouse's solo inspires Monk to dance:

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 15h

A WWII vet had stolen it from a bombed museum while stationed in Italy. 🙄 Gentilly lady sees report and remembers, lol...

Mystery solved: How an ancient Roman tombstone ended up behind a shotgun house in New Orleans

YouTube video by WWLTV

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 15h

Coyotes, the solution to our iguana crisis? plus it'll teach'em to hide! 🦎

Video shows coyote-iguana encounter in South Florida neighborhood.

YouTube video by CBS Miami

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes it just feels like a poem was written exactly for you. I've read this one a hundred times, have even heard WB read it, but when I began to read it this morning the first line brought tears to my eyes.

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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 1d

WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Music score displayed on a well-known tablet device. A piece for clarinet and orchestra. Clarinet part is sometimes in two lines, sometimes in tablature. There is a lot of my scribble: “delicate/mellow/mysterious”; “corporeal/incorporeal”; “fast mordents”; “quiet high harmonics”; some fingerings; some notes that will be produced from the tablature if I get it right.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 2d

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

On Carrollton where it bends to become St. Charles:

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

Just to b moire transparent, lol... since history, Franklin was a Sputnick school, and became the pub school w/the most Rhodes Scholars in the US, but, in NOLA, one had to pass a 'test' to get in. Anyways, long story, great school for whites and my godfather told us to move to NOLA so I could go.

Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 2d

We watched the Watergate Hearings live during class for weeks at my high school in N0LA, Ben Franklin. Our teacher was super cool, a self-id'ed rich Osage like in Flower Moon teaching kids for the common good. There wasn't much discussion or debate, but a feeling of wasted opportunity and shame.

Jeremy Beck @jeremybeckcomposer.bsky.social · 2d

John Mitchell was convicted and went to prison for crimes he committed as Attorney General during the Nixon administration. Just saying.

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

Really, Spotify? I'm 12 and standing in front of the Jeffrey Pine I was named after... new playlist graphic is actually totally appropriate.🙃

open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

Home from above:

Timelapse created using images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center, ISS053-E-394450-396465 eol.jsc.nasa.gov.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

John Ruskin, the excitable Victorian critic, thought Fra Angelico was not a painter at all: “not an artist, properly so-called, but an inspired saint.”

That canonization — a friar must be a recluse, and novelty is incompatible with eternity — is the easy way out....

𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...

Fra Angelico and the Miracle of Faith Made Visible

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

Nanobots cure mice Alzheimer's w/fix to blood-brain barrier. News for any BBB-related illness like #MS?

(Apologies foir the Telly link).

Alzheimer’s reversed in mice under breakthrough treatment

Injection of nanoparticles “reminds” blood-brain barrier to work properly, allowing brain cells to communicate again

www.telegraph.co.uk

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

at least it was four diff snogs each time. variety enables tolerance! 😜

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 3d

loud trance music with the subwoofers seemingly facing our beds from the ceiling blasted for a few minutes and then screaming matches about 'chaos' in spanish for 4 times over an hour was the high point of last night. and then the other apartments started fighting too:

George Frederic Watts – Chaos

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted news of this is now spreading. Congratulations to my department colleagues involved in the project.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 5d

As early as May 1764, when the first Anglican missionaries were sent out from England to the newly British Florida, occasional services of the Church of England were held in the area of what is now Lake City, later called Alligator by the newly independent Americans, and renamed Lake City in 1859.

History — St. James

www.stjameslakecity.org

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 5d

Sixty+ years ago, I'd have been here, at St. James Episcopal in Lake City FL either in the choir (we actually had a black choral dir.) or as an altar boy. We went to church every sunday here in the 60's, except for one year when my dad decided that Jacksonville Beach was a kind of church, too. 😎

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Joel Fan Music @joelfanmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Police arrested Ella, Dizzy and Illinois Jacquet at Houston's Music Hall for gambling #OTD.

They'd just ended the 1st set of a concert for an integrated audience in Jacquets hometown.

They paid the fines at the police station and hurried back for the 2nd set to end the show.

#weekend #goodvibes

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 5d

New toys deployed in Chi-town - drones:

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 6d

A Trump administration official said that agents fired upon the woman after “officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” in Chicago. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 6d

The agents exited their vehicles and fired “defensive shots,” hitting the woman, McLaughlin said. The woman, who was a U.S. citizen but not identified, drove herself to a nearby hospital, according to DHS.

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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 6d

Patented renewable research thwarted by big oil. Exxon, etc. sued him into oblivion finally settling out of court, 10 years later.

Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Jan 11

He actually believed his chemical research discoveries, which he had discovered in dream, could help replace oil.

When I was a kid, I'd actually tell people my dad had discovered a renewable substitute for petrochemicals that could help save the world, but the oil companies had stopped him...