My Virtual Reading Room

This is the introduction to Pushkin's "Ruslan and Ludmila", now animated, with cats ;) ~~

The world’s oldest octopus fossil isn’t an octopus after all, scientists say, from AP News

The earliest known public museum, from Wikipedia, via minoanmiss

Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina, from Carausius on Bluesky, via amaebi

Edible art:

The caption says: "When mice got into our house, we decided to get a cat. Now we're feeding everyone."

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Something I have found amusing, and perhaps you might, too--

This is a very interesting interview with Alexandra Arkhipova (she's a social anthropologist) I've watched recently. It now has professionally-translated English subtitles (they're good quality, I checked). You get to see some of Paris, and Musee d'Homme--and there's an absolutely hilarious story from Mongolia, do take a look at that one, if nothing else--it's at 2 hours 32 minutes in, and only a few minutes long.

(this is in Russian, but the close captioning is correct, so you can try with translation of captions)