Èze, France

Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

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I’m almost in the position to start answering questions about bar prep fyi, if you have any questions about how I’ve approached it, or what I’ve thought about the process, or what it’s been like to study for this exam in 2020, feel free to ask them. I probably won’t get around to answering you until the end of next week earliest, but I will eventually answer!

Frederick Douglass, February 14, 1818* - February 20, 1895

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879 Series: Portraits, 1862 - 1884. Collection: Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862-1884 

Born into slavery in Maryland two hundred years ago in 1818, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, author, orator and statesman.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

More African American history resources at the @usnatarchives

(*While the actual date of Douglass’ birth is unknown, he reportedly chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14.)

Views of Earth and Intrepid, Apollo 12, 14 Nov 1969.

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (via philosophybits)

another lab day!

today I extracted some DNA from our fli1a:eGFP background and1/2 mutants so that we can genotype them. I ran an RT-PCR and I’ll do the gel tomorrow to determine their genotype (all with the help of the amazing MSc. student i’m working under).

the fish are all currently really small so it was harder to cut their fins, but I think it went well for my first time! hopefully my PCR is successful too...

the fins regenerate in about a week, so these fish will be good as new soon!

Frank Lloyd Wright / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City, 1939; image © Stephen Russell Shilling.

dark academia literary works: a masterlist

Hello! I replied to this post on Reddit today, trying to compile all the dark academia books I could think of, and then thought that maybe all of you here might find it useful too, so here you go. It is a very, very broad list, a mix of classic and contemporary literature, and there is no set criteria besides having a dark vibe (this includes murder and crime but could just be the way it’s written as well) and portraying an academic setting, most of the time from the student’s point of view. I haven’t read all of these myself and so I can’t judge on quality, but hopefully this will inspire people to add on to it in the comments.

Here you go!

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson The Secret History, Donna Tartt If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio Maurice by E. M. Forster The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Possession by A.S. Byatt The Truants by Kate Weinberg The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Vicious by V. E. Schwab The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (tangentially related) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Likeness by Tana French The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (coming out tomorrow!) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman Oleanna by David Mamet Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Other classics that are not Dark Academia in content, but which I would include in a list of the DA canon: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Hamlet are good ones to start with) A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Bacchae, Euripides Greek tragedies (a good one to start with is Antigone, very popular and staged many a time) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Beat generation literature Jane Austen’s books (light academia, anyone?)