Yes, this is my hand holding a real unicorn (narvahl) horn!

Today I’m giving a lecture on the continuation of alchemy in the 18th century. Come and listen if your in Wroclaw, Poland. If not you just have to miss out! hist.uwr.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration https://theonion.com/diplomatic-talks-break-down-between-trump-motion-activated-ghost-decoration/

A little morning treat: Rosalind Franklin’s and R. G. Gosling’s confirmation of Watson and Crick’s DNA model. A part of Arne Engström’s collection. Engström was a key player in the Nobel assembly, held the Nobel speech to Watson and Crick, and was, as we can see, aware of Franklin’s contribution.

This may been the best climate news I have ever seen. Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.

”Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.” William Morris, How I Became a Socialist (1894).

BREAKING: Ireland will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year if Israel is allowed to take part, RTE has announced news.sky.com/story/irelan...

45 mins of deep talk about alchemy with the briliant Per Faxneld. I just wish I hadn’t been hungover.

Note the quote by Mark Twain. Book release by historian Anders Ottosson tonight. An interesting story of how American and English medical actors invisibilized the Swedish origins of chiropractic and osteopathy.

Reading the Swedish National Library’s copy of Jacqueline Van Gent’s marvellous book ’Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden’ and find that a previous reader has made a marginal annotation referencing my work!

"generera en bild av svenska kungalängden"

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

You Are Getting... Generous! Go support LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology (which was just on fire!!) and get deeply odd swag like this levitating lenticular homunculus (?). Read about the museum and fire here: lawrenceweschler.substack.com/p/july-17-20... Donate/join here: www.mjtgiftshop.org

My sock got toe teeth!

Hjalmar Fors @hjalmarfors.bsky.social discussed the shift in focus from sensory experience and sensory-derived, embodied knowledge, towards an approach that prioritised the kinds of knowledge derived from analytical chemistry. Embodied knowledge is crucial for Preservare as well. #14ichc

Daniel Sabater Salabert, _Eso es progreso humano_. Detail. At the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.

Även i Valencia påminns man om existensen av Borås…

Lukas J. Meier, Our Hagströmer fellow of 2025 lecture on Icepicks, brains and Nobel Prizes: the history of lobotomies in Sweden. Briliant stuff.

Har använt word sen början av 90-talet. Snart troligen helt oanvändbart pga enshittification med påtvingad värdelös AI-funktion. Som att ha en demon som sitter på axeln och låtsas hjälpa en, men som egentligen försöker lura en till helvetet.

The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of-the-khawalat-urges-us-to-rethink-how-we-preserve-trans-histories/

The board of Uppsala University has called on the Swedish government to condemn Israel’s actions, to resume funding UNRWA, and take all available measures (including trade sanctions against Israel) to prevent a genocide in Gaza (see: www.uu.se/en/news/2025...). I urge Lund University to do the same.

Visited the Ytterby mine today. Eight chemical elements (rare earths) were discovered in mineral specimen from this site. The site is beautiful but very low key like most heritage sites connected to Swedish history of science.

Vilka amerikanska kulturuttryck kommer man sakna o vilja hålla fast vid nu när USA gör sig allmänt omöjligt i världen? Blå canvasbyxor? Hackebiff serverad i fralla?

Auzoux model made from papier mache (late 19th C.) A recent addition to the Hagströmer library collections courtesy of the Friends of the Library.

Outside Tesla in Manhattan

On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to escape the Soviet Union and the communism that brought only suffering and poverty. This power stretched 600 km. Last days of USSR

An interesting thing for me as an European is the present US self-destructionism. Do Americans realize how fast the US can become globally insignificant when it can’t project military power anymore? Cultural and industrial influence goes next. Bye bye global hegemony of blue jeans and hamburgers.

Anyone else who feels like this today?

Jar of root of devil's-bit at the pharmaceutical museum, Stockholm. Apparently the devil grazes the roots of this plant from below because he does’t want its healing properties to relieve the suffering of mankind.

Smygöppning av Stockholms Apoteksmuseum ikväll. Otroligt fint lokal och utställning skapad av Annika Wickman.

Skara domkyrka! Sweden’s oldest and prettiest cathedral 😍 Should you happen to be in Skara, come and listen to my talk on alchemy, industrial project making and religious deviancy in the 18th century. Länsmuseet in 45 mins…

På genomresa och imponerad av Skövde! Särskilt kulturhuset. Skara nästa…

Sloe gin in the making! Recipe is easy 1) Pick berries after first frost (or before, and put in freezer and forget about them for 2 months and find again at about christmas. time). 2) Cover w. vodka for a month. 3) Filtrate. 4) cover berries w sugar for a week. 5) Filtrate berries and mix to taste.

Äntligen fredag och äntligen ett färskt nummer av Göteborgs enda relevanta magasin för nyheter och granskande journalistik.

Strange this. The nerds, so oppressed when I was a teen, came out on top. And it didn't change much. Good article too "...combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for. " is a marvellous quote.

Bruno Latour hade kunnat bli poet. (Förutom filosof, sociolog, historiker.)

Jag när USA jiddrar med D*nmark

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Surprise 🙄

It is 2025 and time to read Valerie Solanas! 80% profound wisdom, 20% utter madness...

"This may be the most significant lesson of the UnitedHealthcare assassination. The cloud isn’t real. Νor is corporate messaging. Human beings & the things we create are what’s real, & the source of true change comes from flesh and bone, breath&spirit" beiner.substack.com/p/best-serve...

The reactions and responses, over three centuries, to the posthumous revelations that Isaac Newton was a practicing alchemist #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/c...

Me: You’re not supposed to bite the hand that feeds you! Cat: Bites. Me: Sigh. I suppose the left hand is alright, then.