Dawn Del Vecchio

@dawndelvecchio.bsky.social

Math teacher. Dem. If you look like a bot, MAGA troll, fake celeb, techbro worshiper, crypto seller, wannabe porn star or post close to 0 you will be blocked. I am not here to buy anything. I love math, cats, ancient history/art. NO DMs, NO Lists.

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Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought:

‘You know what this needs? A leg!’

Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆

Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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This guy has been and still is my ‘human university’. By that I mean he’s taught, inspired and echoed my inner thoughts & theories more than any other human I’ve ever come across. Here he is talking about humanity’s “circling the drain”. His name — GEORGE CARLIN.

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📙 NEW in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: “Permanent Standard Time is supported by accumulated evidence related to health…”

Analysis of health impacts associated with adopting permanent standard time or permanent daylight saving time to inform policy in Canada Raymond W. Lam MD, Ralph Mistlberger PhD, Patrick Baylis PhD, Alexandra Choi MD Canadian Medical Association Journal 2026 October 5 Several regions in Canada are evaluating whether to implement permanent standard time (pST) or permanent daylight saving time (pDST) after eliminating the twice-yearly clock changes. Although the seasonal time changes produce long summer evenings and earlier winter mornings, the spring “leap forward” causes health harms, including sleep loss and short-term increases in adverse health and injury outcomes. Most, but not all, recent reviews have suggested that ending seasonal clock adjustments would eliminate transition-related harms, and major sleep and chronobiology societies have all called for abolishing the time change and implementing pST. However, North American jurisdictions eliminating time changes largely…
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This being the last hours of #WorldOctopusDay is a great excuse to post this superb Mycenaean stirrup jar with a hallucinogenic-stylized octopus. Somebody clearly ate the mushrooms. 😆 🏺

1200-1100 BCE. Met Museum.
📸 me

A stylized octopus with spiral, hypnotic eyes and flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques that originated on the island of Crete. Animated marine motifs adopted from Minoan art began to appear on Mycenaean vessels in about 1500 BCE and were initially rendered in a very naturalistic manner. Here, the symmetrical composition and abstract depiction of the sea creatures are characteristically Mycenaean. Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids. Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200-1100 BCE. H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm) Met Museum, New York (53.11.6)
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