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Isidre Nonell y Monturiol (1872-1911) was a Catalan artist who is known for his paintings of the poor, gypsies, and other people living on the margins of polite society. His colors are bold, and his brushwork very heavy. He died early from typhoid fever.
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The above video explains the workings of electron microscopes. A beam of emitted electrons is guided and shaped into a focal point by a lens of electromagnets. There can be multiple electromagnet lenses to further focus the beam. Eventually they can narrow it down to resolving individual atoms. It was not clear to me how the image was captured, but then again, most of the details of it all passed well over my head.
It reminded me of the 1957 movie The Incredible Shrinking Man. In it the hero, Scott Carey, is exposed to a radioactive cloud while out sailing. This causes him to start shrinking a few days later. As he continues to get smaller his shrinkage starts to ruin his marriage (insert your own joke here) and, when word of his condition leaks out, it turns into a media circus. He gets small enough to move into a doll house. Unfortunately for him, his pet cat spots him and decides he would make a tasty appetizer. In escaping the cat, he falls down the stairs into the basement and is too small to climb back up. He monkeys with a mouse trap to get some cheese to eat and is interrupted by a giant spider -- well it is a giant to him -- and has to battle it for the cheese. Below is the ending, where he climbs through a screen and ponders his fate. It is a good, albeit very odd, movie.
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OK, hotdogs aren't really finished, but the end of summer means it is the end of grilling them on the patio. So, to prevent our memory of hotdogs from fading into Paul Revere and the Raiders territory, here is a picture post showing hotdogs and hotdog carts. I particularly like the last picture of the Japanese woman trying to daintily eat one with chopsticks.
I used to follow hockey. I started following it when I was but a young sprout in 1967 when hockey doubled its size via expansion. They did that expansion by creating what was a 6 team expansion division, which faced off against the older 6 team division when it came to Stanley Cup time. As a result, for years the older division routinely clobbered the expansion division in the Cup playoffs.
Since I didn't have a team, I decided to root for the St Louis Blues, the best of the new expansion teams. My sports heroes were Red Berenson as well as Bob and Barclay Plager, which caused many a confused look among my peers because none of them payed any attention to hockey back then. The early Blues dominated their division, but the Stanley Cup eluded them until 2019.
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John F. Peto (1854–1907) was a painter who was unknown in his day. Early in his career he entered paintings to the Philadelphia Academy, but in 1899 he moved to the resort town of Island Heights and his public work as an artist ended. He rented rooms and played clarinet in a local band to support himself. Occasionally he sold paintings to tourists. He primarily painted still lifes.
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