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Making ground lamb jambalaya. Bit of a culinary mixed metaphor, but it sure smells good cooking.

More snow on the way. Also, more groceries. Wot larks!

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“ The $50 Registration fee can be waived if you have a current license to Carry a Concealed Weapon (CCW).

— spooky shit from Minuteman Border Fence

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Series XII. Midget Schedules

“Midget schedules” from 1934, filed alphabetically by last name. The data was compiled from midgets who were assembled from around the world to work in the “Midget Village” at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933 and in 1934. The “midget schedules” include measurements and trait descriptions. Also in this series are files of clippings, correspondence, notes, and photographs concerning the Midget Village, including an oversized photograph of the midgets who worked there. There is one card file containing bibliographical citations about midgets, as well as traits for individual midgets.

— Eugenics Record Office Records , American Philosophical Society. On this same page, compare the voluminous Trait Files and associated material with, e.g., Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman. We are re-inventing some mighty strange wheels. Which is not to suggest that anyone actually gives a shit.

White People on God

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Department of Genetics (1904-1971)

The Station for Experimental Evolution was established in 1904 at Cold Spring Harbor in Long Island by CIW [Carnegie Institution of Washington] under the suggestion of Charles B. Davenport. He would become the department’s first director. The name changed to the Department of Experimental Evolution in 1906 and combined with the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1921 to form the Department of Genetics. During these years, researchers studied how genetic information was passed through familial lines. “They also studied human traits, and that is where Davenport ran into trouble. He became a leader among eugenicists, who sought to use scientific principles of heredity to solve social problems….This shameful initiative was ended by Vannevar Bush almost as soon as he became president of the Institution.” (Trefil 49)

— Carnegie Institution of Washington