I am newly in possession of a
coin I’ve been looking for for many months: a silver English coin minted in
2016. So now I have both ends of my coin
collection that covers one thousand years, beginning with Canute and ending
with Elizabeth II. The coin was sent
from England
at the request of a local friend to Barnaby Wilde, who writes a mystery
series. So now I have to look him up and
buy an example of his writing, then post a review on Amazon. The coin, by the way, is beautiful, a bi-metallic
with the usual portrait of Her Majesty on the obverse, but a gorgeous reverse:
a crown with a Tudor rose, a thistle, a shamrock and a leek rising out of it. Take a look:
There are still eleven coins
missing from the collection. It’ll take
me awhile to get all of them; the Harold II, for example is rare and costly, so
unless it turns up at a price someone absent-mindedly sets too low, it will
probably come last. Meanwhile I’m in the
market for a William and Mary or perhaps a George IV.
Looking for a story
idea? Remember those spooky (and
sometimes unintentionally hilarious) old movies about human brains being kept
alive in big, bubbling glass jars? Well,
scientists at a university report keeping pig brains alive in glass jars for up
to 36 hours. Whether the pigs are conscious
is unknown, and the scientists seem curiously reluctant to try to find
out. They do admit that their success
means that any brain, including a human one, could be kept alive with this treatment, though any
attempt to place the brain in a body would very likely be unsuccessful. At least at this stage of experiment. Spooky.
Warm and sunny yesterday,
light rain this morning. Grass is
greening, new grown everywhere. Ahhhhhh
. . . spring.
3 comments:
Congrats on receiving the coin--and interesting novel ideas can definitely come from the living pig brain!
I know I couldn't write a serious scary novel about a free-floating brain, except perhaps as a young adult comedy, or a take-off on those old movies.
After all that snow, spring must seem even sweeter.
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