Spent a while on mugwort today. The Old English charm names mugwort the first and eldest of the nine herbs, and bids it remember what it made known. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), in the Materia Medica: thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/mugwort 🗃️ #history #histsci

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This is why I like writing the Materia Medica: Herodotus describes the Egyptian embalmers filling the body with pure myrrh and cassia. Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha), in the Materia Medica: thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/myrrh 🗃️ #history #histsci

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We know the sun will eventually set, yet we still rush to see it time and time again; perhaps what people chase in life is never eternity, but rather those fleeting moments of beauty.

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Thiselton-Dyer records that “the germander is known as horse-chere, from its growing after horse-droppings.” Water germander (Teucrium scordium), in the Materia Medica: thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/water-germander 🗃️ #history #histsci

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El sistema StarShield, que ha alertado a Ucrania sobre la llegada de misiles rusos y les ha permitido dirigir sus drones, ha sido desactivado o ralentizado.La única duda ya radica en si esto se debe a órdenes del presidente o si Musk ha asumido las funciones de Comandante en Jefe. Daily Cartoonist.

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