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Tamara Rose
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Day Job: CSI, evidence & forensics
Night Job: Following along wherever my weird magpie brain leads me
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Tamara Rose @tamara-rose.bsky.social · Nov 15
I never really used that other site, and I probably won't say much here because I'm fairly guarded with my thoughts, but if you like interesting (to me, anyway) things to read, and looking at random images I find and photos I take, you are welcome to hang out with me here.
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Bought a bundle of mistletoe from this little roadside druid just now.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The true story behind The Fall cover of 'Jingle Bell Rock'
Revisiting The Fall and their Christmas cover of 'Jingle Bell Rock' from back in 1994, when a mishap meant Mark E Smith had to improvise lyrics on the spot.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Rendlesham Incident: the Christmas alien invasion in the UK
A look at The Rendlesham Incident, a supposed sighting of an alien craft near an RAF base in Suffolk, and why it's the most famous English UFO sighting.
dangerousminds.net
December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Making Sense of The Nutcracker’s Libretto - JSTOR Daily
Early audiences loved it, even as critics questioned its structure. Returning to the story helps illuminate what makes the ballet so strangely captivating.
daily.jstor.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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How cozy Yuletide traditions got their start with raging parties and animal sacrifice
Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.
www.npr.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Killing the Dead by John Blair review – a gloriously gruesome history of vampires
Shroud-chewers, lip-smackers and suckers populate this fascinating study of ‘the unquiet dead’ across the centuries
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes
In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing to enter the world in marginalized circumstances.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Simply Viewing Art Can Improve Mental Well-Being, Major Psychological Review Finds
Simply looking at visual art can measurably improve mental well-being, according to a new international review of psychological research.
thedebrief.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Why ice skating is a miracle of physics
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
bigthink.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Why do so many love a good ghost story at Christmas? A psychologist explains
The short days and long nights of winter provide us with the opportunity for reflection on dark topics such as the supernatural.
theconversation.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Starting the day right with a hot coffee and sfogliatelle at Ferrigno's.
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The vital importance of 'Feeling Good' by Nina Simone
Nina Simone has always been vital to life itself, but her importance never struck deeper than the bold positivity of her iconic track 'Feeling Good'.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Police agency Europol has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots.
futurism.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Were classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress Magazine
Many claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs.
worksinprogress.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tol­kien
My first interest in J.R.R. Tol­kien was apparently caused by the infamous Barbara Remington artwork used for the covers of the Ballantine mass-­market editions. When my father bought his paperback…
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December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The Messy Family Drama of Ancient Egyptian Gods
We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.
hyperallergic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping
Modern neuroscience is reshaping how we understand free will, meaning, and the self by revealing them as emergent features of the brain.
bigthink.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Jane Austen celebrated Christmas with dancing, dinner parties and dangerous games
It is likely that Austen met one of her earliest romantic interests at a Christmas party.
theconversation.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Drizzly day spent in Santa Rosa. Lunch at Mac's Deli (their tongue and swiss on pumpernickel is SO GOOD!) followed with a stop at Steinhouse for the best chocolate, then book shopping at Treehorn.
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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A few months ago, I ordered this Cranes box set and it's been on regular rotation at Chez Bombs & Bones ever since. How is this band not more popular? Every single track
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Maria Yudina: What to do when a tyrant loves your art
A look at how tyrants love art just like the rest of us, and the way they treat their favourite artists, via Maria Yudina and her biggest fan, Joseph Stalin.
dangerousminds.net
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM