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Let's start with body-positive children's books. And the understanding that being able to goof off in stretches helps children process information more effectively.
The act of learning to read language rewires the brain on the surface and on deeper places. Even reading as an adult.
It may be worth throwing all your unused and dust-accumulating ideas into a big file and letting them out so that others can use them, should they want to.
The notes from the late Octavia Butler indicate very darker settings than the places that ended up published, and for possible sequels that might have made it to optimism.
Comics about the double standards for women and the ways that toxic masculinity hurts men.
A self-paced high-school and vocational training education experience in New Hampshire, which seems to be working well for those that attend. An entity trying to figure out how to make office work more doable by the neurodiverse. The experience of being trans* and a teacher. (There's some pronouns and deadnaming, but these were apparetly done with permission from the people interviewed, according to the note at the end.) Because there are still plenty of people who are of the opinion that "those people" can be find out in the world, but "those people" become threats or indoctrinators when "they're" teaching "our" children.
The movement of shirts generated a giant response, much of which wasn't actually connected to the shirts and their logos themselves. One of the items of criticism struck me as "there are much bigger things to care about than this", even though it was structured in the language of intersectionality. There may always be bigger things to care about, but there's something to be said for doing the thing that you can at the time that you can do it. If everyone focuses solely on the big terrible things, there are a lot of people who end up paralyzed or feeling helpless to do anything, because those problems are thorny and intersectional and almost Gordian in their nature.
If you are a city person or someone interested in homelessness and how the poor function in your city and society, going to the public library branches near you will show you much of what you want to know.
a piece of short fiction about the supposed power of Millenials to destroy anything - and how it can be harnessed.
Family of choice becomes more important to our happiness than family of blood as we age. Even more so for those persons whose family have, for reasons, become estranged.
It's still very difficult for a bi man to be acknoweldged as existing. Believe people when they tell you and all that.
Despite what many people believe about their codexes, the religious practices of the Abrahamic religions are always in discussion as to what should and shouldn't be there.
The end of the Ringling Brothers shows does not mean the end of the circus arts.
Archaeologists have found the likely living space of Sally Hemmings, slave to Thomas JEfferson and mother of more than a few childrem of his.
The Wonder Woman movie does a very good job at being a movie about a woman from a woman's perspective, shot with the same care given to male superhero characters in their movies. And that the two of them work as a partnership, rather than as a romantic couple. Not that the marketing did a whole lot with that idea - check out the cast of Amazons and more of the Amazons that you might not have seen in any of the marketing materials. Many of these women are athletes, sport players, or otherwise more than strong and talented enough to do the stuntwork needed.
The indigenous actor playing Chief was proud to be able to represent the Blackfeet in the movie, and the actor and character were allowed to represent themselves (including introducing the character as a trickster demi-god. He had the blessing of the director to do a deep dive of First Nations experiences during the Great War, as well.
The casting of Robin Wright makes for an interesting cultural change, with Princess Buttercup becoming the woman that trained Wonder Woman.
At least there are plans for a sequel. Because Wonder Woman is a very big thing. And a thing that changes with each new writing team and each generation that sees her. And a person that sees all of the reality of our world, and still chooses to fight for us. Until then, enjoy some fan posters of the movie and these gorgeous murals designed for the opening sequence of the movie.
The continual fight to pay workers an appropriate wage, including the ones working what are thought to be menial jobs such as fast food. The need for colleges and universities to be able to handle and help minority and poorer students succeed and graduate.
the ways in which a broken health care system means children can die from untreated teeth,
There used to be a lot of chauffeurs...who often had problems with reckless driving and other reckless acts.
Vigilantism has been a part of the United States' fabric, and often shows up at times and places that are frontiers where it is felt the law isn't working. I'd like to say that we've mostly gone the way of pranking people with a portable confessional these days, but that's not even close to true.
Some characters have their roots in actual people, although usually changed enough to make their fictional selves different.
What Norman Rockwell might have painted had he decided to paint Black culture.
The leak of highly-sensitive information about a drug cartel back to that cartel resulted in a lot of death, both of cartel members and the innocents that surrounded them and the residents od the town they had set up shop in.
Because manuscripts are precious, a librarian and a network of couriers were able to sneak out thousands of them away from intense combat zones.
Pink pineapples, golden rice, the incredibly useful art of camoflauge, goats that climb trees and spit seeds, redesigning roadways to be less lethal to turtles, trying to keep the bees from collecting poisonous dust delibrately put on crop seeds, the rate of mutation for organisms slows down significantly as the timeframe of study gets longer, a fish that borrows the egg of another fish to clone itself, the first attempt at fighting celiac disease involved copious amounts of bananas, there aren't enough botique slaughterhouses to keep up with the demand for farm-to-table meats, using the mating calls of fish to prevent them from being caught as they're spawning, trying to give tomatoes their original flavors back, raising soil acidity may be a way of helping plants fight drought, wolves reared by humans show affection for those humans that rear them, using modified yeast to detect the presence of harmful fungi, a rather large extinction event brought about by natural climate change, how the dog biscuit came to have a bone shape, reintroducing proghorn antelope to the places where it once was, the spiders that are transfized by green light. And that can see the moon. And that JUMP. the likelihood of survival increasing for squirrels if they're born earlier in the year, stories in which pets protect their owners from abuse, mass marine extinctions that happened at the end of eras that humans hadn't noticed until recently, ice cream traditions from around the world, amounts of lead found in baby food, photographic species before they go away, letting neural networks name guinea pigs, and illustrating the idea of an octopus as a pet.
In technology, the keyboard enthusiasts looking to create the perfect keyboard (for them), pictures of Jupiter from Juno, bamboo as a construction material, a firm offering free retraining for coal miners to become wind turbine operators, which might be much appreciated to get them out of the mines before a resurgence in the black lung family of diseases gets them, using DNA to put an extinct ungulate in the right part of the phylogentic tree, the need for clinical trials of the possibility that intravenous vitamin C could be useful in clearing up sepsis infections, the possibility of being able to receive vaccinations by patch rather than injection, the presence of ashtrays as safety devices, despite the ban on smoking on flights, obtaining a refurbished otherwise completely too expensive camera from a person who was the expert on those cameras, and who also made it possible for astronauts to take exposures on Luna, trying to reproduce the method by which Romans built walls that got stronger in the sea, home beer creation used to be the province of women, taking a visit to track the plastic floating in the ocean, gathering information about the temperature drop experienced during solar eclipses, snapshots of midwifery around the world, using sneaker data as a calibration for tracking pollution in water with satellites, understanding that the statuary of antquity was likely decorated in all sorts of colors, and visualizing the difference between a printed subway map and the actual geography it covers.
Scientists are used to traveling with odd things, and then having to explain their science to the TSA when those odd things are flagged for inspection.
Fidget toys are supposed to help with neurodiversity. And yet all we seem to get are the perspectives of the neurotypical on their use.
Google doesn't want to have to do the work to determine whether it's being discriminatory toward women on matters of pay. Even though the time and cost would not really be all that burdensome to the company.
An Armenian composer whose scores captured the mountains of Armenia, sometimes tracing the peaks in his scores.
Marvel gets smart about not putting a black man in an ape costume for the Black Panther movie.
Governmental demonstrations of how not to use various incidiery and explosive devices.
Last for tonight, a video perspective of New York, from 1927 and 2017. Photographs of New York City from 1979.
The pin-up art of early-20th century Hogwarts. And also, because it deserves re-mentioning every time I come across it, the Disney Princesses as competent and capable engeineers.
Let's start with body-positive children's books. And the understanding that being able to goof off in stretches helps children process information more effectively.
The act of learning to read language rewires the brain on the surface and on deeper places. Even reading as an adult.
It may be worth throwing all your unused and dust-accumulating ideas into a big file and letting them out so that others can use them, should they want to.
The notes from the late Octavia Butler indicate very darker settings than the places that ended up published, and for possible sequels that might have made it to optimism.
Comics about the double standards for women and the ways that toxic masculinity hurts men.
A self-paced high-school and vocational training education experience in New Hampshire, which seems to be working well for those that attend. An entity trying to figure out how to make office work more doable by the neurodiverse. The experience of being trans* and a teacher. (There's some pronouns and deadnaming, but these were apparetly done with permission from the people interviewed, according to the note at the end.) Because there are still plenty of people who are of the opinion that "those people" can be find out in the world, but "those people" become threats or indoctrinators when "they're" teaching "our" children.
The movement of shirts generated a giant response, much of which wasn't actually connected to the shirts and their logos themselves. One of the items of criticism struck me as "there are much bigger things to care about than this", even though it was structured in the language of intersectionality. There may always be bigger things to care about, but there's something to be said for doing the thing that you can at the time that you can do it. If everyone focuses solely on the big terrible things, there are a lot of people who end up paralyzed or feeling helpless to do anything, because those problems are thorny and intersectional and almost Gordian in their nature.
If you are a city person or someone interested in homelessness and how the poor function in your city and society, going to the public library branches near you will show you much of what you want to know.
a piece of short fiction about the supposed power of Millenials to destroy anything - and how it can be harnessed.
Family of choice becomes more important to our happiness than family of blood as we age. Even more so for those persons whose family have, for reasons, become estranged.
It's still very difficult for a bi man to be acknoweldged as existing. Believe people when they tell you and all that.
Despite what many people believe about their codexes, the religious practices of the Abrahamic religions are always in discussion as to what should and shouldn't be there.
The end of the Ringling Brothers shows does not mean the end of the circus arts.
Archaeologists have found the likely living space of Sally Hemmings, slave to Thomas JEfferson and mother of more than a few childrem of his.
The Wonder Woman movie does a very good job at being a movie about a woman from a woman's perspective, shot with the same care given to male superhero characters in their movies. And that the two of them work as a partnership, rather than as a romantic couple. Not that the marketing did a whole lot with that idea - check out the cast of Amazons and more of the Amazons that you might not have seen in any of the marketing materials. Many of these women are athletes, sport players, or otherwise more than strong and talented enough to do the stuntwork needed.
The indigenous actor playing Chief was proud to be able to represent the Blackfeet in the movie, and the actor and character were allowed to represent themselves (including introducing the character as a trickster demi-god. He had the blessing of the director to do a deep dive of First Nations experiences during the Great War, as well.
The casting of Robin Wright makes for an interesting cultural change, with Princess Buttercup becoming the woman that trained Wonder Woman.
At least there are plans for a sequel. Because Wonder Woman is a very big thing. And a thing that changes with each new writing team and each generation that sees her. And a person that sees all of the reality of our world, and still chooses to fight for us. Until then, enjoy some fan posters of the movie and these gorgeous murals designed for the opening sequence of the movie.
The continual fight to pay workers an appropriate wage, including the ones working what are thought to be menial jobs such as fast food. The need for colleges and universities to be able to handle and help minority and poorer students succeed and graduate.
the ways in which a broken health care system means children can die from untreated teeth,
There used to be a lot of chauffeurs...who often had problems with reckless driving and other reckless acts.
Vigilantism has been a part of the United States' fabric, and often shows up at times and places that are frontiers where it is felt the law isn't working. I'd like to say that we've mostly gone the way of pranking people with a portable confessional these days, but that's not even close to true.
Some characters have their roots in actual people, although usually changed enough to make their fictional selves different.
What Norman Rockwell might have painted had he decided to paint Black culture.
The leak of highly-sensitive information about a drug cartel back to that cartel resulted in a lot of death, both of cartel members and the innocents that surrounded them and the residents od the town they had set up shop in.
Because manuscripts are precious, a librarian and a network of couriers were able to sneak out thousands of them away from intense combat zones.
Pink pineapples, golden rice, the incredibly useful art of camoflauge, goats that climb trees and spit seeds, redesigning roadways to be less lethal to turtles, trying to keep the bees from collecting poisonous dust delibrately put on crop seeds, the rate of mutation for organisms slows down significantly as the timeframe of study gets longer, a fish that borrows the egg of another fish to clone itself, the first attempt at fighting celiac disease involved copious amounts of bananas, there aren't enough botique slaughterhouses to keep up with the demand for farm-to-table meats, using the mating calls of fish to prevent them from being caught as they're spawning, trying to give tomatoes their original flavors back, raising soil acidity may be a way of helping plants fight drought, wolves reared by humans show affection for those humans that rear them, using modified yeast to detect the presence of harmful fungi, a rather large extinction event brought about by natural climate change, how the dog biscuit came to have a bone shape, reintroducing proghorn antelope to the places where it once was, the spiders that are transfized by green light. And that can see the moon. And that JUMP. the likelihood of survival increasing for squirrels if they're born earlier in the year, stories in which pets protect their owners from abuse, mass marine extinctions that happened at the end of eras that humans hadn't noticed until recently, ice cream traditions from around the world, amounts of lead found in baby food, photographic species before they go away, letting neural networks name guinea pigs, and illustrating the idea of an octopus as a pet.
In technology, the keyboard enthusiasts looking to create the perfect keyboard (for them), pictures of Jupiter from Juno, bamboo as a construction material, a firm offering free retraining for coal miners to become wind turbine operators, which might be much appreciated to get them out of the mines before a resurgence in the black lung family of diseases gets them, using DNA to put an extinct ungulate in the right part of the phylogentic tree, the need for clinical trials of the possibility that intravenous vitamin C could be useful in clearing up sepsis infections, the possibility of being able to receive vaccinations by patch rather than injection, the presence of ashtrays as safety devices, despite the ban on smoking on flights, obtaining a refurbished otherwise completely too expensive camera from a person who was the expert on those cameras, and who also made it possible for astronauts to take exposures on Luna, trying to reproduce the method by which Romans built walls that got stronger in the sea, home beer creation used to be the province of women, taking a visit to track the plastic floating in the ocean, gathering information about the temperature drop experienced during solar eclipses, snapshots of midwifery around the world, using sneaker data as a calibration for tracking pollution in water with satellites, understanding that the statuary of antquity was likely decorated in all sorts of colors, and visualizing the difference between a printed subway map and the actual geography it covers.
Scientists are used to traveling with odd things, and then having to explain their science to the TSA when those odd things are flagged for inspection.
Fidget toys are supposed to help with neurodiversity. And yet all we seem to get are the perspectives of the neurotypical on their use.
Google doesn't want to have to do the work to determine whether it's being discriminatory toward women on matters of pay. Even though the time and cost would not really be all that burdensome to the company.
An Armenian composer whose scores captured the mountains of Armenia, sometimes tracing the peaks in his scores.
Marvel gets smart about not putting a black man in an ape costume for the Black Panther movie.
Governmental demonstrations of how not to use various incidiery and explosive devices.
Last for tonight, a video perspective of New York, from 1927 and 2017. Photographs of New York City from 1979.
The pin-up art of early-20th century Hogwarts. And also, because it deserves re-mentioning every time I come across it, the Disney Princesses as competent and capable engeineers.
