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Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.”
Edith Renfrow Smith, part of Northwestern’s ‘SuperAgers’ study, dies at 111
She was the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.”
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If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - CORVIDATA: A global dataset of morphology, ecology, sociality, and life-history in Corvidae
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦
doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)
Another sign that Christmas is near: youtu.be/a8qE6WQmNus?...
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Official Video)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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December 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Another sign that Christmas is near: youtu.be/a8qE6WQmNus?...
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And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
APOSTOLIC LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE LEO XIV ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
www.vatican.va
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
More 1984 gift ideas.
#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider
#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
More 1984 gift ideas.
#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider
#Sears #Wishbook #1980s #tshirts #IndianaJones #BuckarooBanzai #TV #knightrider
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Ain't No Haint Gonna Run Me Off: https://tcrex.net/2025/10/27/aint-no-haint-gonna-run.html
October 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Ain't No Haint Gonna Run Me Off: https://tcrex.net/2025/10/27/aint-no-haint-gonna-run.html
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REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
October 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
United Steelworkers Building (also known as the IBM Building, and several other names) in #Pittsburgh PA. Built in the early #1960s with a steel load-bearing exoskeleton, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Pla... https://tcrex.net/2025/09/15/united-steelworkers-building-also-known.html
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
United Steelworkers Building (also known as the IBM Building, and several other names) in #Pittsburgh PA. Built in the early #1960s with a steel load-bearing exoskeleton, it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Pla... https://tcrex.net/2025/09/15/united-steelworkers-building-also-known.html
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MAC (Mike Cumella), longtime host of WFMU's "Antique Phonograph Hour," was featured in this New York Times article on cereal-box records (gift link).
Cereal Box Records Sound Horrible. They Still Look Incredible. (Gift Article)
Decades ago, singles were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
MAC (Mike Cumella), longtime host of WFMU's "Antique Phonograph Hour," was featured in this New York Times article on cereal-box records (gift link).
September 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Who writes these headlines? Shouldn’t it always be “Boffins Baffled by…”?
Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned
It's exhausting being an archaeologist
It's exhausting being an archaeologist
September 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Who writes these headlines? Shouldn’t it always be “Boffins Baffled by…”?
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We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
How to find lost objects: 6 techniques that really work
We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.
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Passenger Pigeon bones from Minnesota, from Otter Tail County (ca. 1000 years old) and 19th century Fort Snelling, posted in memory of Martha, the last of her species who died on September 1, 1914.
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Passenger Pigeon bones from Minnesota, from Otter Tail County (ca. 1000 years old) and 19th century Fort Snelling, posted in memory of Martha, the last of her species who died on September 1, 1914.
