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silveradeptShould mention it here, too: November means I'm soliciting ideas for this year's December Days prompt. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Let's begin with the understanding that having an elite education by itself does not make someone part of the elite.
I'll pair this with a guide for maxing maximum visible progress on cleaning a space for the reason that sometimes you need to know both the things you got the high-class education for and the things that make living bearable.
And then give you the endorsement here about how a to-be-read (or played) list can and should be discarded, ruthlessly weeded, labeled, and otherwise returned to a state where reading something off of a list will be enjoyable and fun. On top of that, I also recommend Nancy Pearl's 100-minus-age method of determining whether a book should be finished. (Subtract your age from 100. The book has that many pages to convince you to read further. The decision to read further can be revoked at any time.)
In counterpoint to shredding your TBR pile, the idea that having a library of unread material is useful in reminding people of what they do not know, and fostering intellectual humility from that. And the other benefits related to children growing up in a house that has books to hand.
Students would like libraries that cover the basics of what a library is known for. Here's the secret: they want that because they've almost never been taught how to use a library in a scholarly context and those needs are the most immediate ones they have. If everyone came to university already cognizant of how to use the resources present in a library, some of the projects being scoffed at, like VR demonstrations, would probably be much more warranted and solicited, because they would be looking for what else could be brought to them by the library, instead of needing to use it for their most basic academic needs.
Rebooting Nancy (the name of the comic strip) has been an exercise in playing with a more modern media audience, rather than trying to keep it in the same temporal space the original was, Which is, to some degree, an acknowledgement of the prevalence of transformative works in the culture (and not just because fanfic gets name-checked during the interview. There are Hugo Award-winning authors who started in fanfic and continue to write it, because fanfic is a giant writing workshop with real people and real feedback. And, sure, there are some jerks, too, but they're generally not the rule.
Taking the idea that people like being around warm bodies in the cold season and extrapolating it out to the idea that people get into relationships to get them through the winter. Which we contrast with the idea that more women are choosing not to settle for a man, because they can finally do so without social or financial penury. That this pisses off dudes who feel entitled to women because they're dudes is a bonus, but also a thing that needs time and working out, because a lot of those dudes then decide to take it out on the women they perceive have turned them involuntarily celibate. (Proving, yet again, that speck-plank problems exist everywhere.) Several spaces that would otherwise be about a silly challenge of trying to abstain from masturbation for a month can become breeding grounds to recruit people for the incel ideology. And they're not using the really kinky things that supposedly help with avoiding masturbation.
Remember that people with disabilities or health issues are doing more than able-bodied people are to get the same results.
Companies could do a lot more (and better) to improve their hiring process by spending a lot more time and expertise on getting good candidates to interview, rather than making it a mostly automated process that screens people by algorithm and keyword.
Fatalities at a gender reveal party where explosives were involved. Because of the visceral fascination with the genitals of unborn children and making things explode is a very U.S. sort of thing.
Slavery was not limited to the United States - Australia also has a legacy to be examined and brought to light.
Ways to address colleagues that don't rely on seteotype nor leave you open to harassment claims. Because there are still plenty of people who say inappropriate things and either don't realize they are, or say them knowing full well they're terrible and expecting no consequences to happen because of it.
The first Chick-Fil-A in the UK is not getting a renewed lease, after strong calls for it to cluck off because of its virulently anti-anything-not-allo-cis-peri-het. Which is a far better way of handling things than the school district that decided they'd rather sacrifice trans students than go after people making death threats.
What happens when your language helps you come to the identity that you want to have, because it delineates pronouns according to whether you're alive or not?
The suggestion that earlier translations of the Christian Foundational Writings meant to criticize a system of older men grooming and sexualizing young boys as abominable, not the act of two men having sex. This is the part where having a scholar with knowledge of the appropriate languages used and what their translatable meanings are would be very handy, not that they would necessarily be listened to by the part of the population that wants to use their religion as a cudgel against what they don't like, instead of trying to fid an accurate translation of works.
Kids do not have the same things available to them as kids of previous generations, and it's making childhood a different experience than what their parents remember.
A lot of what humans do and think about requires the ability to both focus in to the details and to synthesize those details into a wider picture. Some of us are better at one end than the other, and sometimes neurochemistry makes it difficult to be able to swap modes, but that's the idea. If we can swap back and forth betweenn the 3-inch and the 30,000 foot view, we do good things for ourselves.
Trying to read all of John Updike and then make sense of it all is a daunting task, because Updike wrote about all of himself, including the prejudices and the foibles, and it all got published.
An old city in Turkey is having the residents displaced so the nearby waterway can be dammed for hydroelectric power.
Teaching traditional recipes and showing traditional crops to a Youtube audience of hundreds of thousands.
Redeifining the idea of the capsule hotel to make it more upscale and to attract a different set of clients.
Wash and remove cat toys so your cat has maximum fun times, pay attention to the ways animals have been used as compare and contrast to humans regarding sexuality, what makes a rabbit cute to humans might make them have significant health problems (and the referenced study), the winner of Fat Bear Week 2019, the best wildlife photography of 2019, the use of the chainsaw to produce stunning works of art, the large-scale experiment being run that shows how quickly evolution can work when organisms are subjected to the same pressures, like humans and their cities, which generate enough light on particular wavelengths to affect the environment around them, and getting a state designation for an amphibian to help bring attention to water quality in their habitat.
In technology, an app to help people commute into Brussels by hitchhiking with friendly drivers.
Phones are highly private and intimate and access to them should be guarded very carefully.
The increasingly online world had produced more data centers to handle the traffic and storage, which in turn, has produced significant levels of background noise for the communities those data centers are around, as the waste heat generated by the servers is combated with large, loud chillers.
Starface offers patches to help flatten pimples that also serve as stars to decorate one's face with.
The contents of emergency services vehicles (and persons), laid out in a grid to see just how much fits inside.
An Australian power company is installing local solar generation stations in communities that could be left without power if fires took down the kilometers of wires between the communities and a power generation station. I like it, and so long as it's the kind of place that can generate enough energy needed for the community, it sounds like a great idea.
In Coppenhagen, power generation by burning waste and also a roof covered in material to make it into a ski slope-type experience, whether there is snow on the roof or not.
A funerary practice of having a wheel of cheese available for the mourners and guests at your funeral.
The theory of plate tectonics is evolving as new models that suggest better ideas of how the plates and slabs move allow models to more accurately predict observations. Which in turn suggests that the space where plates affect the surface runs a lot deeper than previously theorized.
After an attribution that a new design for border fence couldn't possibly be climbed, and that 20 good mountain climbers allegedly failed to summit it, a person built a replica of the design and invited other climbers to come climb it competitively. Because when you make a challenge like that, people are going to want to show up to defeat you. If the picture of the replica is indeed faithful, I think we're going to find out that there are plenty of people who will be able to climb that structure without too much difficulty. (Starting with eight year-old girls.) (And that assumes that they can't just carve their way through it.)
The person suspected of trying to abscond with several millions of dollars by manipulating a payroll system has been found and arrested and charged with committing fraud to the tune of $70 million USD, which is to say that apparently they got greedy? And also, that, asthewayne pointed out, MyPayrollHR is a terrible name for a company (and yet, I can still see it not raising an eyebrow because there are a lot of terribly named companies that do this kind of business all the time.)
Phone cameras aren't capturing what is, they're capturing what is and then performing manipulations on it so that it looks like what you (or your horde of followers) expect it to be.
The cultural and technological differences between UK/US folk and the rest of the world regarding bathroom habits and technologies.
Tips for home cooking that come from culinary schools, many of which make good sense once you see them.
The increasing demands of time and lack of consistent schedules are making it ever-harder for people to do anything other than work or be monitoring for when work might arise. Which makes the shareholders happy but guts the morale and energy of the people forced to go through not knowing what their schedules will be in any sort of advance.
Last for tonight, Solomon Howard sings You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch and it is delightful. Excepts from a biography of Carrie Fisher, including the reach she had and the movements she inspired.
The surreal photography of Miss Aniela, putting elegant evening wear in the same context as fantasy photography. And also, the winners of the 2019 World of Wearable Art Awards.
PostModern Jukebox takes a medley of Super Mario themes and lets a very good tap dancer provide embellishment. And, for comparison, the main theme of Game of Thrones, performed primarily by handbells. And also, the process of turning a carrot into a functioning recorder.
Also, the possibility that Tetris and other visual-spatial games might help reduce the incidence of flashbacks in those that have suffered traumas.
The ways in which the stories of Ursula LeGuin were profoundly interested in change and imagination of something different, if not also better than what was there.
Let's begin with the understanding that having an elite education by itself does not make someone part of the elite.
I'll pair this with a guide for maxing maximum visible progress on cleaning a space for the reason that sometimes you need to know both the things you got the high-class education for and the things that make living bearable.
And then give you the endorsement here about how a to-be-read (or played) list can and should be discarded, ruthlessly weeded, labeled, and otherwise returned to a state where reading something off of a list will be enjoyable and fun. On top of that, I also recommend Nancy Pearl's 100-minus-age method of determining whether a book should be finished. (Subtract your age from 100. The book has that many pages to convince you to read further. The decision to read further can be revoked at any time.)
In counterpoint to shredding your TBR pile, the idea that having a library of unread material is useful in reminding people of what they do not know, and fostering intellectual humility from that. And the other benefits related to children growing up in a house that has books to hand.
Students would like libraries that cover the basics of what a library is known for. Here's the secret: they want that because they've almost never been taught how to use a library in a scholarly context and those needs are the most immediate ones they have. If everyone came to university already cognizant of how to use the resources present in a library, some of the projects being scoffed at, like VR demonstrations, would probably be much more warranted and solicited, because they would be looking for what else could be brought to them by the library, instead of needing to use it for their most basic academic needs.
Rebooting Nancy (the name of the comic strip) has been an exercise in playing with a more modern media audience, rather than trying to keep it in the same temporal space the original was, Which is, to some degree, an acknowledgement of the prevalence of transformative works in the culture (and not just because fanfic gets name-checked during the interview. There are Hugo Award-winning authors who started in fanfic and continue to write it, because fanfic is a giant writing workshop with real people and real feedback. And, sure, there are some jerks, too, but they're generally not the rule.
Taking the idea that people like being around warm bodies in the cold season and extrapolating it out to the idea that people get into relationships to get them through the winter. Which we contrast with the idea that more women are choosing not to settle for a man, because they can finally do so without social or financial penury. That this pisses off dudes who feel entitled to women because they're dudes is a bonus, but also a thing that needs time and working out, because a lot of those dudes then decide to take it out on the women they perceive have turned them involuntarily celibate. (Proving, yet again, that speck-plank problems exist everywhere.) Several spaces that would otherwise be about a silly challenge of trying to abstain from masturbation for a month can become breeding grounds to recruit people for the incel ideology. And they're not using the really kinky things that supposedly help with avoiding masturbation.
Remember that people with disabilities or health issues are doing more than able-bodied people are to get the same results.
Companies could do a lot more (and better) to improve their hiring process by spending a lot more time and expertise on getting good candidates to interview, rather than making it a mostly automated process that screens people by algorithm and keyword.
Fatalities at a gender reveal party where explosives were involved. Because of the visceral fascination with the genitals of unborn children and making things explode is a very U.S. sort of thing.
Slavery was not limited to the United States - Australia also has a legacy to be examined and brought to light.
Ways to address colleagues that don't rely on seteotype nor leave you open to harassment claims. Because there are still plenty of people who say inappropriate things and either don't realize they are, or say them knowing full well they're terrible and expecting no consequences to happen because of it.
The first Chick-Fil-A in the UK is not getting a renewed lease, after strong calls for it to cluck off because of its virulently anti-anything-not-allo-cis-peri-het. Which is a far better way of handling things than the school district that decided they'd rather sacrifice trans students than go after people making death threats.
What happens when your language helps you come to the identity that you want to have, because it delineates pronouns according to whether you're alive or not?
The suggestion that earlier translations of the Christian Foundational Writings meant to criticize a system of older men grooming and sexualizing young boys as abominable, not the act of two men having sex. This is the part where having a scholar with knowledge of the appropriate languages used and what their translatable meanings are would be very handy, not that they would necessarily be listened to by the part of the population that wants to use their religion as a cudgel against what they don't like, instead of trying to fid an accurate translation of works.
Kids do not have the same things available to them as kids of previous generations, and it's making childhood a different experience than what their parents remember.
A lot of what humans do and think about requires the ability to both focus in to the details and to synthesize those details into a wider picture. Some of us are better at one end than the other, and sometimes neurochemistry makes it difficult to be able to swap modes, but that's the idea. If we can swap back and forth betweenn the 3-inch and the 30,000 foot view, we do good things for ourselves.
Trying to read all of John Updike and then make sense of it all is a daunting task, because Updike wrote about all of himself, including the prejudices and the foibles, and it all got published.
An old city in Turkey is having the residents displaced so the nearby waterway can be dammed for hydroelectric power.
Teaching traditional recipes and showing traditional crops to a Youtube audience of hundreds of thousands.
Redeifining the idea of the capsule hotel to make it more upscale and to attract a different set of clients.
Wash and remove cat toys so your cat has maximum fun times, pay attention to the ways animals have been used as compare and contrast to humans regarding sexuality, what makes a rabbit cute to humans might make them have significant health problems (and the referenced study), the winner of Fat Bear Week 2019, the best wildlife photography of 2019, the use of the chainsaw to produce stunning works of art, the large-scale experiment being run that shows how quickly evolution can work when organisms are subjected to the same pressures, like humans and their cities, which generate enough light on particular wavelengths to affect the environment around them, and getting a state designation for an amphibian to help bring attention to water quality in their habitat.
In technology, an app to help people commute into Brussels by hitchhiking with friendly drivers.
Phones are highly private and intimate and access to them should be guarded very carefully.
The increasingly online world had produced more data centers to handle the traffic and storage, which in turn, has produced significant levels of background noise for the communities those data centers are around, as the waste heat generated by the servers is combated with large, loud chillers.
Starface offers patches to help flatten pimples that also serve as stars to decorate one's face with.
The contents of emergency services vehicles (and persons), laid out in a grid to see just how much fits inside.
An Australian power company is installing local solar generation stations in communities that could be left without power if fires took down the kilometers of wires between the communities and a power generation station. I like it, and so long as it's the kind of place that can generate enough energy needed for the community, it sounds like a great idea.
In Coppenhagen, power generation by burning waste and also a roof covered in material to make it into a ski slope-type experience, whether there is snow on the roof or not.
A funerary practice of having a wheel of cheese available for the mourners and guests at your funeral.
The theory of plate tectonics is evolving as new models that suggest better ideas of how the plates and slabs move allow models to more accurately predict observations. Which in turn suggests that the space where plates affect the surface runs a lot deeper than previously theorized.
After an attribution that a new design for border fence couldn't possibly be climbed, and that 20 good mountain climbers allegedly failed to summit it, a person built a replica of the design and invited other climbers to come climb it competitively. Because when you make a challenge like that, people are going to want to show up to defeat you. If the picture of the replica is indeed faithful, I think we're going to find out that there are plenty of people who will be able to climb that structure without too much difficulty. (Starting with eight year-old girls.) (And that assumes that they can't just carve their way through it.)
The person suspected of trying to abscond with several millions of dollars by manipulating a payroll system has been found and arrested and charged with committing fraud to the tune of $70 million USD, which is to say that apparently they got greedy? And also, that, as
thewayne pointed out, MyPayrollHR is a terrible name for a company (and yet, I can still see it not raising an eyebrow because there are a lot of terribly named companies that do this kind of business all the time.)Phone cameras aren't capturing what is, they're capturing what is and then performing manipulations on it so that it looks like what you (or your horde of followers) expect it to be.
The cultural and technological differences between UK/US folk and the rest of the world regarding bathroom habits and technologies.
Tips for home cooking that come from culinary schools, many of which make good sense once you see them.
The increasing demands of time and lack of consistent schedules are making it ever-harder for people to do anything other than work or be monitoring for when work might arise. Which makes the shareholders happy but guts the morale and energy of the people forced to go through not knowing what their schedules will be in any sort of advance.
Last for tonight, Solomon Howard sings You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch and it is delightful. Excepts from a biography of Carrie Fisher, including the reach she had and the movements she inspired.
The surreal photography of Miss Aniela, putting elegant evening wear in the same context as fantasy photography. And also, the winners of the 2019 World of Wearable Art Awards.
PostModern Jukebox takes a medley of Super Mario themes and lets a very good tap dancer provide embellishment. And, for comparison, the main theme of Game of Thrones, performed primarily by handbells. And also, the process of turning a carrot into a functioning recorder.
Also, the possibility that Tetris and other visual-spatial games might help reduce the incidence of flashbacks in those that have suffered traumas.
The ways in which the stories of Ursula LeGuin were profoundly interested in change and imagination of something different, if not also better than what was there.
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Date: 2019-11-03 06:14 pm (UTC)