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The Wheel was an obvious invention ─ after the fact,
So the final Judgment, when eternity's locked.
#couplets

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Elena Kats‐Chernin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Genevieve Lacey & Flinders Quartet:
🎵 Re-invention No. 4 For Tenor Recorder (after Invention No.1 In C Major)
#ElenaKatsChernin #JohannSebastianBach #GenevieveLacey

La guerre est-elle une invention récente ? Archéologues et anthropologues débattent
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/01/10/la-guerre-est-elle-une-invention-recente-archeologues-et-anth…

La guerre est-elle une invention récente ? Archéologues et anthropologues débattent
La guerre est-elle aussi vieille que l’homme ou est-elle née avec la révolution de l’agriculture ? Les spécialistes bataillent depuis des décennies sur le sujet.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention:
🎵 Hungry Freaks Daddy
#FrankZappaandTheMothersofInvention
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Zwcr6lymZaeTXtEMxlfXA

Good Morning #Canada
I hope you're waking up to a scrumptious smell from the kitchen because it's National Bacon Day. While you're waiting for it to finish cooking, here are some facts to salivate over:
- Canadian Bacon, aka Back Bacon or Peameal Bacon, is a Canadian invention. It's also healthier than regular bacon, with far less saturated fats
- 42% of Canadians prefer their bacon crispy while 49% enjoy it limp. I assume 9% eat it raw?
- Winnipeg, home of the Bacon Centre of Excellence, is the Bacon Capital of Canada
- Canadians consume over 50M kilos of bacon annually. I ate my 1.25 kilos this year.
- Canadian Bacon, the movie, was a box office flop, only earning $178K on a production budget of $11M
- The average weight of a pig prior to processing is 111.2 kilos
- Canadian producers exported 18.6M kilos of cured bacon and 202K kilos of back bacon
- There are over 14M hogs in Canada
- 82% of Canadians add bacon on their burgers
- Kevin Bacon is not Canadian
#CanadaIsAwesome #MMMBacon

La pire invention des dernières années est sans contredit la caisse libre-service.
https://www.lapresse.ca/societe/chroniques/2026-01-18/satanees-caisses-libre-service.php

In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…

The Renaissance book that heralded growth - Works in Progress Magazine
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.

Next in invention: ceiling panels that don't water stain.

I hate the ugliness of American English.
Why do they use the term 'douchebag'? Is that what I call a toilet bag, and if so, what is the sense of it as an insult?
However I also assumed the horrible 'dude' (Yankee for 'bloke') was a newish invention, but came across it recently in a C19th novel, Dickens 'Our Mutual Friend' (wonderful book) if I remember rightly.

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

"Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewater
Wastewater from washing machines is considered a major source of microplastics—tiny plastic particles that are suspected of harming human and animal health. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now developed a filter to curb this problem. Their invention was inspired by the gill arch system in fish.

Necessity is the mother of invention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0uXjE1GYi4

Sonnet 059 - LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your …