Friday, ehrm, several (made it to 5)
Paging the shade of Dr Marie Stopes, not for the usual reason, on account of she got a Royal Society grant to go to Japan to study cycads and chase up the Japanese professor she was keen on before she ever got into human reproduction, and wrote a really not at all bad travel book on the episode, A journal from Japan : a daily record of life as seen by a scientist (1910): Global heating: ancient plants set to reproduce in UK after 60m years: Cycad in Isle of Wight produces outdoor male and female cones for first time on record
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‘Nobody’s ever asked this before’ and other research question misconceptions. Alas, we can think of people who have writ whole books and gone around publicising them to the max (I mention no names here) on the basis of just such misconceptions.
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O dear, o dear, o dear. "[T]he reason women watch romantic comedies and read romantic fiction novels is because it plays into their fantasy of how they’ll meet the guy of their dreams."
And, honestly, that is not some creep coming up to them in the street while they are going about their daily business with some rote line he has learnt from a 'dating coach': Have You Been Daygamed? The New Method Men Are Using To 'Attract Amazing Women' I am not sure the word is 'attract': it's more like, 'get into conversation with woman who is too socially conditioned to be polite to stamp on your foot and make her escape'.
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Those lines are, perhaps, the C21st equivalent of the 'harlot's cry from street to street' (weaving England's winding-sheet) - I forgot to commemorate dear Mad William's birthday on the appropriate date this year, but do have this advance notice of a forthcoming splendid Blake exhibition at Tate Britain. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2967019.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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