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He is best known for sending an owl and a pussycat off to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. But before he ever took up a pen to write poetry, Edward Lear was an extremely well regarded natural history painter, whose lifelike portraits of birds and mammals were among the most sought-after scientific illustrations of his day.
Now, a new paperback edition of
The Natural History of Edward Lear, is seeking to reignite interest in Lear’s “important” work as a talented natural historian, with 13 never-before-published illustrations that shed light on the relationship between the Victorian author’s art and his literature.
Virtual Youth Conference: “Youth, We Hear You!”: The State of New Jersey’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission will host a conference for youth to highlight the life and legacy of Dr. King. It will include young people as conference moderators and panelists for sessions including “Justice Matters,” “Health Equity Matters” and “How to Live Your Ideals through Service and Public Policy.” Also, Secretary of State Tahesha Way will lead a session on “Dr. King’s Global Impact” with the Consul-General of India and Ambassador from Ghana, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 18, register at hopin.com/events/njmlkyouth.
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Michele Harper is a female, African-American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn’t move with her. Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. Presented by Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Tuesday, Jan. 19, noon-1pm. Free.
The Crazy Story Of The Bone Wars Explained Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
By Marina Manoukian/Dec. 30, 2020 4:46 pm EDT
Over the course of the 19th century, people around the world were fascinated by dinosaurs and their fossilized bones that kept popping up. But no one seemed more obsessed than American paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh, and the rivalry between the two men became a stain on paleontology s history for decades after their deaths.
Although the two men are responsible for discovering and naming countless different types of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, they re also responsible for destroying an unknowable amount of the fossil record. And they did this solely to keep the other one from getting it. And in the interest of putting out as much of their own research as possible, both men published research that would be riddled with errors. Some of their mistakes plagued paleontology for years,