Nora Thorburn

Nora used to be a pharmacist and then an avid crafter and scrapbooker, thus the handle. Now she studies medical recipes found in ninth-century manuscripts.

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@WebObservatory @Microsoft365 There is a great belief, especially among the young, that sans serif is easier to read, while I was taught the other way around. Turns out it is what you are most familiar with. Skeena for me hints at serifs without having them.

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@Microsoft365 Skeena please.

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What doesn't suck in early medieval medicine? Hint: They are slimy!

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@prof_gabriele A book with a legit Top Secret stamp on it.

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@misfitbookclub @DeondreSmiles @caromholland It helps that one of the texts I am studying is called a Hermeneumata. But yes.

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@amisamileandme So many medicines.

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@DrCTDoyle Non-medical use of medical texts is so fascinating. Really adds to the use conversion.

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@DrJenGunter The secret to butter tart bliss is the perfect proportion of lard based crust to filling and the absolute exactly right viscosity of the filling which is movement without actual flow. With those two elements in place the filling variations just add to the enjoyment.

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@aescalante0 @tori__lane @sarajudym @heylovekat I think a lot of it is not that we can't write, but that we can't write exactly the way they want us to. They also have no idea how to explain what that would be and how to get there.

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@JJD2017 @Melissa46465829 An ice cream truck usually goes down our street at least once a day. There's a playground half a block away. They started late this year due to Covid and the first time they went by I missed it. I ran yelling like a mad woman and caught it the next day. It's the small things.

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@manmugar Symbol charts or words. I find the symbols far easier to follow.

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@josie_walwema @MereSophistry OneTab to rule them all.

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@WinstonEBlack Your Nova Scotia plants are fully edible. The flowers and leaves are fantastic in salads, and the seeds can be pickled and eaten as a caper alternative.

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@MarshalHolliday @Constantguide @DShadowgazer Ontario Canada here, different codes I guess.

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@MarshalHolliday @Constantguide @DShadowgazer Should be, load bearing or no, 16 inches on centre. But that doesn't mean that's what happened.

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@CreedonUna @cemhend @UofT I have to say that almost every TATP class I took was disappointing.

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@Jotabonito @AllegedlyMiri What's brutal is how much climbing up and down and up and down is involved in going anywhere inside this building. Also around, and around.

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@Adam_Crymble My dissertation is about antidotes especially those found in St. Gall 751. Today I was trying to untangle a set of recipes on pp. 172-175. The first one is for lice and requires a full body application of an ointment made from rue and oil. Seems right.

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@ShaneSheehy @eatinginmycar @majorityfm The Deity's Diaphragm. The All-powerful's alveoli.

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@mrfw17thc Ancient Greek, Arabic, Syriac, etc. Too many and I am way past the years of easily picking up languages. The more you learn, the less you trust translations. Another thing readily solved with time travel and immortality.