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A tiny steam engine on your fingertip. A snail gets a ride. Mushroom art exhibition. Didion on self-respect.

Issue #013

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Someone Cooked

Tiny Steam Machine, 5mm long

Robinwho: The new meaning of "power — wrapped around my finger"

Chronova Engineering built a tiny tiny steam engine that could sit on a pencil eraser.

Everything you’d associate with a steam engine is there, but just barely.

Can a mushroom make music? A group exhibition on fungi art

Robinwho: Ah, fungi, it's fun guys.

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (ramm) in Exeter presents Living Labyrinths, a group exhibition that explores the mysterious world of fungi through art, science, and sensory experimentation, bringing together contemporary artists and historical works. Among the installations, Jason Singh transforms electrical activity from fungal mycelium into sound, while other artists investigate the relationships between fungi, human bodies, and ecosystems. The exhibition invites visitors to reconsider organisms that are everywhere yet largely invisible, raising questions about intelligence, communication, interconnectedness, and the boundaries between living things.

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Ballin'

Philly sports: from Jalen Hurts to LeBron James

Robinwho: Must feel special to be a Philly sports fan these days

Speedy recovery, Jalen. The story sounds so scary. And here is to hope the Sixers stay healthy throughout the entire season. Really good game against the defending champ.

On the Beach

On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (1961)

Robinwho: for full disclosure: I am a fan of this woman's writing and self-respect.

In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues. The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. Nonetheless, character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.

Read the essay

Be Nice

Wild Bird Fund (WBF)

Robinwho: Booby is beside himself. He's off for a visit. Sorry, no Booby's Journal for this issue.

Wild Bird Fund (WBF) is a New York City–based nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center dedicated to rescuing, treating, and rehabilitating injured, sick, and orphaned wild birds and other urban wildlife. Its mission is to return animals to their natural habitats whenever possible. Through veterinary care, public education, and community involvement, WBF helps protect the wildlife that shares our city.

Get involved!

Melody Campaign: Wild Bird Fund

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Oh boy, we are speeding

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Committee decision: yes to both