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Ever heard of a Chatelaine? Well, they’ve been around in one form or another since Roman times up through the Victorian era.  They started out as toiletry kits (ear scoops, nail cleaners, and tweezers) but evolved into highly personalized, sometimes symbols of statuses, for specific hobbies, professions and stations.

Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a woman’s dress, bearing tiny useful accessories, from notebooks …
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From Chinese astronomers, to Medieval monks to Arabic scholars, humans have always known the world is changing around them and by studying those changes they might be able to understand and predict how best to weather (literally, in this case) those changes. Glad to see that scholastic tradition continue, particularly in an age of denial and outright lies.

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When it comes to producing definitive proof of climate change, one limitation is the lack of data about past weather conditions. In a newly published study in the journal Weather, Spanish scientists turned to an unexpected source for …
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