Jane Fonda led a Kennedy Center rally Friday with ~100 invited guests, including journalists Jim Acosta and Joy Reid, to protest free speech threats under Trump (David Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/jane-fonda-kennedy…
Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/seafaring-history-mary-ann…
There are some among us who live in rooms of experience we can never enter
https://ofwhiskeyandwords.com/31-john-steinbeck-quotes-to-make-you-think/
Nicht mehr Tim Cook: John Ternus ist Apples neuer „Designchef“
Seit Abgang von COO Jeff Williams hatte Apples CEO beim Design das letzte Wort. Nun darf der Hardwarechef ran – als potenzieller Cook-Nachfolger?
ht…
Pleasant morning wandering around Villefranche-sur-Mer, a small and charming town. Not depicted: the Chapelle Saint Pierre which is fully decorated in paintings by Jean Cocteau. It is marvelous.
Visit our newly redesigned modern galleries, and you'll find a sculpture by John Rhoden, part of a gift of several works by this important artist. Read on to find out more about how this gift came to pass...
https://georgiamuseum.org/museum-receives-sculptures-by-joh…
"Tower Hamlets mayor acted unlawfully in attempted removal of LTN schemes"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #AirPollution
Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin
and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle
have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge
and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany.
The fragile specimens, ink drawings and watercolour illustrations of plants belonged to
Darwin’s teacher and mentor,
Prof John Stevens Henslow,
and have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium…