Project Stack. Yesterday I sent back comments to everyone who needed those comments to move on to Week 8, and now I can start working through the stack as usual in the order received, starting with the Saturday items. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.
Hump Day of the semester. In honor of the hump-day of the hump-week of the whole semester, here is some beautiful shaved-camel art from Rajasthan in India:
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. People are sharing some cool graphics in their review blog posts this week; I really like this one from Payton's blog! :-)
And from the British Museum, this is a theater mask for the rakshasi Tataka; it comes from West Bengal.
Something to keep in mind when writing: don't perpetuate the oppression of Native Americans in cliches. You can learn more about these phrases here: Phrases that Perpetuate the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples.
Plus one of my favorite forms of stillness: sleep. What would happen if you didn’t sleep?
October 14: National Fossil Day. The second Wednesday of October each year is National Fossil Day, and in honor of that day, I want to recommend a wonderful book by Adrienne Mayor, who is one of my favorite authors: The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Mayor used the evidence of Greek vast painting to determine what kinds of fossils the ancient Greeks might have discovered, and how they explained those fossils as being the bones of monsters:
She is also the author of a book about robots and mythology, Gods and Robots; here's a TED-Ed video based on her work, telling the story of the ancient Greek robot, Talos.
