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Surgeon by trade, radical by nature, and a publisher for good measure — George Robert Skene never met a cause he didn’t like. From fighting unfair taxes to handing land to the poor, his 19th-century hustle game was strong. Meet the Victorian multi-hyphenate you didn’t know you needed. https://edintone.com/george-robert-ske…

George Robert Skene (1802–1867): Surgeon, Reformer, Publisher, and Advocate - Miscellanea Edintone
Forgotten reformer, country doctor, and radical newspaperman — George Robert Skene shaped 19th-century debates on everything from church rates to poor law reform. Dive into the story of a man whose restless mind left its mark on politics, publishing, and social justice.

10th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Rumours and 19th-20th Century Religious Resistance, State Repression and Maoist Campaigns in China”
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The remarkable story of Dr. James Mackness — a 19th-century village doctor whose quiet compassion and tireless service touched lives from Wellingborough, Turvey and Northampton to Hastings. A life of duty, resilience, and heart. https://edintone.com/james-mackness/

A Life of Quiet Duty: The Story of Dr. James Mackness (1804–1851) - Miscellanea Edintone
The remarkable story of Dr. James Mackness — a 19th-century village doctor whose quiet compassion and tireless service touched lives from Wellingborough, Turvey and Northampton to Hastings. A life of duty, resilience, and heart.

I am willing to be pleasantly surprised, but... when all I see from these "major projects" is oil and gas and other 20th century backwards nonsense, I can't help but be pessimistic.
Ironically, a real "nation building" project that would be a huge benefit to Canadians would be more akin to something from the 19th century: Standing up a true public railway corporation and rebuilding a high speed electrified rail network from sea to sea to sea that could reduce transportation costs and increase flexibility and convenience for millions of Canadians and businesses including in remote communities.
But our current leadership is too beholden to existing capitalist interests and status quo business to be that bold. And they're positively allergic to anything done purely in the public interest. How dare we not include some profiteering private corporation… /sarc
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #NaitonBuilding #Transportation #rail
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/premiers-meeting-prime-minister-carney-major-projects-1.7549577

Unbounded knapsack problem and double partitions
Boris Y. Rubinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23499 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.2349…

Unbounded knapsack problem and double partitions
The unbounded knapsack problem can be considered as a particular case of the double partition problem that asks for a number of nonnegative integer solutions to a system of two linear Diophantine equations with integer coefficients. In the middle of 19th century Sylvester and Cayley suggested an approach based on the variable elimination allowing a reduction of a double partition to a sum of scalar partitions. This manuscript discusses a geometric interpretation of this method and its applicati…

Milwaukee Peeps! A photographer friend of mine is working on a really cool project..
"Using 19th century dry plate photography to create a new body of work focused on Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
➡️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15128

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

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Another fascinating success story for genetic genealogy. Not exactly a #coldcase, but very interesting nonetheless. #NewJersey

Calamus 44 Here my last words
In which the poet outs himself through talking about his poetry.
It's a short piece of Whitman talking about his own writing. But he's so twisted up!
Here I shade down and hide my thoughts—I do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
I read this as him talking about Calamus, the cluster of gay poems. And directly telling us that he's censored and hidden what he really wants to say. And yet still these poems still expose his true self. It makes me feel sad for Whitman, imagine his writing if he felt less fettered.
Still, he published some of the most clear gay poems of the 19th century. And got famous and mainstream doing it.

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…

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Tube into pearls: A membrane-driven pearling instability shapes platelet biogenesis
C. L\'eon, N. Brassard-Jollive, D. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, D. Riveline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19966

Tube into pearls: A membrane-driven pearling instability shapes platelet biogenesis
At the end of the 19th century, Rayleigh and Plateau explained the physical principle behind the fragmentation of a liquid jet into regular droplets commonly observed in everyday life from a faucet. The classical Rayleigh-Plateau instability concerns liquid jets governed by inertia and surface tension, whereas biological tubes are membrane-bounded and inertia-free. We therefore refer to the process observed here as a pearling instability, formally analogous to Rayleigh-Plateau but dominated by …

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography
Maria Florencia Muratore, Alejandro Gangui, Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio, Carmelo Cabrera, Juan Antonio Belmonte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18161

On the orientation of historic Christian churches of Fuerteventura: conciliating tradition, winds and topography
We present the results of an analysis of the precise spatial orientation of colonial Christian churches located in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura (Spain). Our sample consists of 48 churches, most built during the period between the Castilian conquest led by the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the 15th century and the end of the 19th century. We examine whether the standard tradition was followed regarding the orientation of the apses of historic churches eastwards. While most of the religiou…

Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172

I’m a Luddite. You should be one too
Why a workers’ rebellion in 19th-century England is relevant in the age of data extraction, gig labour and management by algorithm.

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140

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@… The stereotypical US breakfast is eggs, toast, fried potatoes, and ham or sausage. The continental breakfast is just a pastry and maybe some fruit. It is much more like what they eat for breakfast in France.
The 18th & 19th century US usage of Continental referring to the whole US (Continental Congres…

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"Social Darwinism offered a moral justification for the wild inequities and social cruelties of the late 19th century — the era when, according to Trump, “we were richest.”
The Reemergence of Social Darwinism - Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism

Darboux formulae for linear hyperbolic equations in discrete case
Sergey V. Smirnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18603 https://arxiv.or…

Darboux formulae for linear hyperbolic equations in discrete case
In the second half of the 19th century Darboux obtained determinant formulae that provide the general solution for a linear hyperbolic second order PDE with finite Laplace series. These formulae played an important role in his study of the theory of surfaces and, in particular, in the theory of conjugate nets. During the last three decades discrete analogs of conjugate nets (Q-nets) were actively studied. Laplace series can be defined also for hyperbolic difference operators. We prove discrete …

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01993 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

A refinement of the Lorentz local field expression with impact on the Clausius-Mossotti and Lorentz-Lorenz models
In the 19th century Mossotti and Clausius formulated an expression that relates electrical permittivity of a dielectric to the product of molecular polarizability and number density. Lorenz and Lorentz extended the use of that expression to also cover the dielectric s refractive index. These expressions successfully predict the change of the dielectric s permittivity and refractive index as a function of a wide range of its number density, using the consideration that molecular polarizability s…

Energy as a Primitive Ontology for the Physical World
J. E. Horvath, B. B. Martins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12692 https://arxiv.org…

Energy as a Primitive Ontology for the Physical World
We reanalyze from a modern perspective the bold idea of G. Helm, W. Ostwald, P. Duhem and others that energy is the fundamental entity composing the physical world. We start from a broad perspective reminding the search for a fundamental ``substance'' (perhaps better referred to as ous\'ıa, the original Greek word) from the pre-Socratics to the important debate between Ostwald and Boltzmann about the energy vs. atoms at the end of the 19th century. While atoms were eventually accepted (even by…

A refinement of the Lorentz local field expression with impact on the Clausius-Mossotti and Lorentz-Lorenz models
Jeroen van Duivenbode, Anne-Jans Faber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01993

A refinement of the Lorentz local field expression with impact on the Clausius-Mossotti and Lorentz-Lorenz models
In the 19th century Mossotti and Clausius formulated an expression that relates electrical permittivity of a dielectric to the product of molecular polarizability and number density. Lorenz and Lorentz extended the use of that expression to also cover the dielectric s refractive index. These expressions successfully predict the change of the dielectric s permittivity and refractive index as a function of a wide range of its number density, using the consideration that molecular polarizability s…