A gathering of screenshots

Star chart used 1400 years ago - before telescopes

Lots of people have no time for instagram and indeed it takes up as much time as you let it. I love to see the pictures and also like to send something along, occasionally, that would interest a friend. And ("once a librarian, always a librarian") I find things that would interest non-IGers, so for these I take a screenshot and - you know how it goes - don't get around to sending them along.

So here are the screenshots from January's posts. We'll start with a lot of info about dark energy, thanks to new discoveries of the Chandra X-ray telescope (click on pic to enlarge and read) -

 This New Yorker cartoon hit a nerve with lots of people! -

One for the woodblock printers - getting baren marks deliberately -

At first it looks like nothing, and then you realise it's a skilled and beautiful and evocative print of somewhere ... somewhere ... you've actually been -

Oh those old city directories - what a source of information! -

Rachel Whiteread's cast concrete house, turning the inside to the outside, looks lonely, the last one left standing ... andvit too is about to be knocked down -

One for those who re-read Virginia Woolf - the subtitle of Katharine Smith's book is "Seeking solace in Virginia Woolf" -

This photo makes me smile -

And so does this one -

Whereas this beadwork makes me gasp -

And this is quite a different view of a zen garden; what happens next? -