Just read this. Congratulations Ragu (belated though) and welcome to the neighbourhood.

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Science is miraculous. Vaccines are miraculous. Just because we now know (more or less) how they might work does not make them any less miraculous.

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Michigan painter Jef Bourgeau has come across my feed a few times in the last two days. His website: detroitmona.wixsite.com/artgarage To my untrained eye his snowscapes seem to nod to Lawren S. Harris, who often painted thenorth shore of Superior. First two: Bourgeau; second two: Harris.

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17th century Dutch master of still-lifes Abraham Mignon depicts a bouquet of flowers which has been overturned by a cat playing with a mousetrap (lower L ~ see the shadow of the mouse?) But the startled face of that cat is peculiar (Rijksmuseum)

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In this idyllic woodblock print, Living National Treasure Kawase Hasui depicts the Pine Beach at Miho, with Mt Fuji in the background (Art Inst of Chicago, 1931)

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