I've been enjoying the #ColorOurCollections shares this week, and I thought I'd make a post listing all the ones I've found so far in case anyone else was interested. I may repost this in my public/academic blog, but I'm not sure yet (plus it's far easier to blog here since I don't have to switch Google logins, etc.)

NYAM Center for History roundup, includes a PDF list with links to all/most participants. See also their Pinterest board for images share only via Twitter and Instagram.

• Bodleian Library:
  2016 Colouring Book - 10pg PDF


• Corning Museum of Glass:
  Pinterest


• Chemistry Heritage Foundation:
  9 printable PDFs


• Europeana:
  Europeana's Colouring Book for Grown-Ups - 18pg PDF


• Oregon Health & Science University:
  Color Our Collections: OHSU Historical Collection & Archive - 14pg PDF


• Anchorage Public Library:
  9 downloadable JPGs
  where links don't work, right click and get the image URL and open that manually.


• The National Archives (US):
  The National Archives of the United States Coloring Book of Patents 2016 - 17pg PDF


• The National Archives Experience (US):
  Emancipation Proclamation Commemorative Coloring Book - 14pg PDF


• The Getty:
  Color Our Collections - 9pg PDF


• University of Scranton:
  University Archives Coloring Book - 28pg PDF


• Biodiversity Heritage Library:
  Flickr stream
  Pinterest
  26pg PDF eBook


• The Jefferson Monticello:
  Links to 5 PDFs


• JSTOR:
  Study Break: JSTOR Coloring Pages - 4 PDFs


• The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University:
  6pg PDF booklet


• Museum of Domestic Art & Architecture:
  Pinterest


• Folger Shakespeare Library (Folgerpedia):
  Color Our Collection images - 10 downloadable PDFs of illustrations & woodcuts


• Riker Library of Architecture & Art (University of Illinois):
  Facebook photo album - PDFs to follow(?)


• Wellington City Libraries (NZ):
  Summer Reading & Children's Books
- 2x 1pg PDFs

• Linda Hall Library:
  Public Domain images for ColorOurCollections - 5 downloadable PDFs


• New York Academy of Medicine:
  A Coloring Book from our Collections (2014)
  #ColorOurCollections 2016


• Falvey Memorial Library (Villanova University): Coloring book versions of
  Jack B. Yeats's The Bosun And The Bob-Tailed Comet (1905) - 22pg PDF
  Comfort Year-Round journal (Jan 1914) - 13pg PDF
  Weird and Wonderful Animals - 13pg PDF


• Z. Smith Reynolds Library (Wake Forest University):
  Flickr set


• McGill University Library:
  2 architectural drawings - Heraldic drawing (1916) & Redpath Library (1922), both PDF


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(Posting and editing as I find more)

Part 1 of a random series:

http://www.archaeology.org/0607/abstracts/raiders.html

Seing the fresco in context and then the appauling condition of it after it has been wrenched from the walls makes me feel almost physically sick!

I've been reading this on the New Scientist website, and the comments made me utterly boggle!

http://www.newscientist.com/special/blueprint-for-a-better-world

Comment number one is from a conspiracy theorist. A semi-intelligent one, but a numpty nonetheless. As he admits later in the comments, all his information comes from one source, which is in itself funded by non-partisan research... >.< The thing that boggles me though, is that someone who is so clearly not an educated reader* is reading such a site. And that there is more than one out there.

Agreeing or disagreeing is all part of academia and science in particular, but 'Mark's comments belie any academic relation. I find it very puzzling as to why he is reading the New Scientist at all!

* Note, not saying he isn't educated, just that he has not been taught about reading and evaluating sources, etc.

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Note to the sensitive - put your tea down before reading, or your keyboards may suffer!! :P

With much love to nickys for the link:

Daily Mail Readers in Revolt over Black Ancestors

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Source: http://www.layscience.net/node/547

I am not going to comment because he's said it all already. Can I be less English please, if this is what English is! Bigots.

Alexithymia (pronounced /əˌlɛksəˈθaɪmiə/) from the Greek words λεξις and θυμος (literally "without words for emotions") is a term coined by Peter Sifneos in 1973^[1][2] to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.

Classification

Alexithymia is considered to be a personality trait that places individuals at risk for other medical and psychiatric disorders while reducing the likelihood that these individuals will respond to conventional treatments for the other conditions.^[3] Alexithymia is not classified as a mental disorder in the DSM IV. It is a personality trait that varies in severity from person to person. A person's alexithymia score can be measured with questionnaires such as the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (BVAQ)^[4] or the Observer Alexithymia Scale (OAS).^[3]
Alexithymia is defined by:^[5]

1. difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations of emotional arousal
2. difficulty describing feelings to other people
3. constricted imaginal processes, as evidenced by a paucity of fantasies
4. a stimulus-bound, externally oriented cognitive style.

In studies of the general population the degree of alexithymia was found to be influenced by age, but not by gender; the rates of alexithymia in healthy controls have been found at 8.3% (2 of 24 persons) 4.7% (2 of 43), 8.9% (16 of 179), and 7% (4 of 56). Thus, several studies have reported that the prevalence rate of alexithymia is less than 10% in healthy controls.^[6] A less common finding suggests that there may be a higher prevalence of alexithymia amongst males than females, which may be accounted for by difficulties they have with 'describing feelings', but not by a difficulty in 'identifying feelings' in which males and females show similar abilities.^[7]
The alexithymia construct is strongly inversely related to the concepts of psychological mindedness^[8] and emotional intelligence^[9][10] and M. Bagby and G. Taylor state that there is "strong empirical support for alexithymia being a stable personality trait rather than just a consequence of psychological distress".^[11] Other opinions differ and can show evidence that it may be state-dependent.^[12]
Bagby and Taylor also suggest that there may be two kinds of alexithymia, 'primary alexithymia' which is an enduring psychological trait which does not alter over time, and 'secondary alexithymia' which is state dependent and disappears after the evoking stressful situation has changed. These two manifestations of alexithymia are otherwise called 'trait' or 'state' alexithymia.^[13]

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Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...

Conscientious, Fulfilled, and Spiritual

40 Renaissance, 22 Islamic, 17 Ukiyo-e, -38 Cubist, -46 Abstract and 0 Impressionist!
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Garnett
1. BM with traps and surefooted.
2. BM with added crit and AP and new replacement for surefooted.

Uli
Full Tree!

Amey
0/66/5

Malakhite
Moving her from Affliction to Demonology.

Granitet
Full arcane as the fire stun is too deep into the tree now.

Korsaira
Subtlety with a hint of combat. I want shadow step :D