Plum Shrub a great Coca-cola substitute! YouTube video by Uncle Pete's Cocktail Shop

Shrubs?

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Yes, That’s a Real Renoir in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’—Here’s How It Got There Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme, is stuffed with artworks—some of them original masterpieces.

TIL: Wes Anderson employs a registrar...

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If books could kill: The poison legacy lurking in libraries New technology at St Andrews University helps librarians detect when old books are bad for readers' health

Collections hazard management in the news

Librarians at St Andrews have developed a new tool for detecting the presence of arsenic in book covers 📜

Morven jump scare

Welp…

I support the decision by the IWM not to renew the 15-yr loan of the Ashcroft Victoria Cross collection. The taxpayer has indemnified & funded the costs of security & exhibition of his investment in a prestigious national museum, increasing its value & probably recouping his £5 million. 1/

A museum display case containing a metal harpoon with an arrow shaped tip. The shaft is twisted four times in a neat corkscrew. A model ship and a rusty metal anchor sit in the background. The label reads: This hand harpoon was recovered from a whale. Its fantastic twisted shape gives some impression of the animal's strength in its struggle to escape. ANSFM:1969.1.40

For #Museum30 Day 10 #Ocean I'm reminded of this incredible Twisted Harpoon from the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther. It looks quite elegant and yet it conveys the massive force of the whale's struggle.

A Collective Statement Calling on the University of Edinburgh to Protect Speech on Palestine, Addres...

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A book of handwritten notes mentioning 'Climate' and the 'Recent', surrounded by dimpled shards of rock and sediment preserving marks left by rain and hail.

Checking in on Charles Lyell's notebook and 'fossilised' raindrops today at Talbot Rice, where the galleries are filled with the scent of incense and the sound of hand claps mimicking rainfall #Museum30 #Senses

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For me, this is the one.