Ugly dolphins and other good reads

[NotHardUp1]

While researching the dissonance between fish-looking dolphins in Roman sculpture, with the real non-fish-looking mammals we know and love, I found a great read:

Don’t Look Now, But There’s an Ancient Roman Depiction of a Dolphin Under Your Bed

a horrifying inquiry, with pictures and Benjamin Franklin

eidolon.pub

The author writes with wit and contemporary cultural references, opining how we went from the ancient Greeks depicting realistic images almost 3500 years ago . . .

. . . to how Romans and later Italians depicted them with gargoylish grotesqueness, complete with serpentine tails.

What interesting finds have you come across lately on the web?

 

[purina]

This is the most interesting thing I've come across today. It was on the radio, but there's a transcript.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/humans-are-fueled-by-food-but-we-run-on-electricity-1.6797674

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is indeed a great read. So much is being done in neurology that it is amazing.

Thank you for referring it.