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Not really feeling up to things right now so here's some pictures from over a half-year ago, when I visited Ann Arbor to see my brother and his family. Not so many pictures right now because see the first sentence. Also because he doesn't want pictures of his kids online where he isn't in control of them, which is respectable data safety considering he's the guy who took a 23-and-me test.
Dinosaurs! Or their remains, as seen at the University of Michigan's museum of natural history. The exhibits are better in presentation to what they were like at the old museum building but they haven't had the time yet to age in engaging ways.
Still, they're not going to stop being interesting looking at. Look at those claws, right?
In the center of the building is this huge atrium, used for displaying a couple huge figures such as the whatever flying dinosaur or single-stage-to-orbit vehicle this was.
Also way down below people were getting ready for some kind of lunch that looks puny from up here.
Was not aware there was labor strife going on at University of Michigan but yes, the grad students should be paid better. You can see the SSTO dinosaur's wing in the upper left of the picture.
And now here, the long one that crosses three storeys' worth of windows? That's a whale-predecessor skeleton that I specifically remember seeing at the old museum, which didn't have such huge ceilings and so couldn't give so three-dimensional a spread, but did mean you were much nearer walking right underneath where you'd think you could touch it.
Trivia: Ferdinand de Lesseps's arrival in Constantinople --- seeking the Sultan's approval for the building of the Suez Canal --- without any sort of diplomatic credential was understood by the Sublime Porte to indicate that Emperor Napoleon III considered the project of extreme importance. Source: Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal, Zachary Karabell. Pretty sure this was also a Hope and Crosby movie plot point.
Currently Reading: We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, Richard Paul and Steven Moss.
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