co-author of Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur with @bfeld #Wellesley '88, Alaska born & raised
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Sundogs and the sacred geometry of wonder – the fascinating science of the phenomenon that inspired Hilma af Klint, born on this day in 1862 themarginalian.org/2023/05/1…
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
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20 favorite books from 20 years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
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Today (10/24/26) is Pythagorean Theorem Day.
The month, day, and last two digits of the year are a Pythagorean triple and satisfy the Pythagorean theorem equation (a² + b² = c²).
10² + 24² = 26²
This is the final Pythagorean Theorem Day of the 21st century.
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Gunta Stölzl, Wall hanging "Slit Tapestry Red/Green" 1927, the artist ran the pioneering weaving workshop at the progressive German design school, the Bauhaus #womensart #BauhausWomen
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How to grow old without letting life become a parody of itself themarginalian.org/2026/10/2…
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Born on this day in 1919, Doris Lessing was 14 when she dropped out of school and 88 when she won the Nobel Prize. Her timeless, increasingly timely meditation on breaking free from the prisons we choose to live inside: themarginalian.org/2024/11/1…
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough now has a way to permit cloud-seeding and other types of geoengineering. Borough assembly members enacted a section of code that requires detailed applications from anyone seeking to modify weather on borough land.
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Here is a look at the damage left behind by a suspected tornado in Heber-Overgaard last night. The National Weather Service is en route to confirm whether a tornado is responsible.
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘vocation.’
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ALT WORD OF THE DAY Merriam- Webster OCTOBER 22, 2026 vocation noun | voh-KAY-shun an occupation, or a calling to do a certain kind of work
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Driving and seeing incredible multicolored aurora out the window! Filmed in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Alma Thomas, Wind and Crepe Myrtle Concerto. 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Its palette, rearranged as painted swatches, colored cubes and a hundred-square study.
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2. 1918.
With painted swatches, colored cubes and a color keyboard.
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The aurora's colors come from gases high in the atmosphere. Oxygen glows green and, higher up, red. Nitrogen adds the purple.
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❄️ Check out the fresh snow from our office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks this morning! We've measured just over an inch of snow so far today. Snow showers will continue throughout the day across the Interior, with up to 2-3 inches of snow around the Fairbanks area. #akwx
ALT UAF webcam image highlighting the fresh snow in the Fairbanks area.
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The #WordOfTheDay is ‘syncretic.’
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ALT WORD OF THE DAY Merriam- Webster OCTOBER 17, 2026 syncretic adjective | sin-KRET-ik involving different forms of belief or practice