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#CoSoPhotography

Two items in the 37th Annual Leitz Photographica Auction.

Not something you want to use in a major city.

https://www.leitz-auction.com/auction/en/auktion34/auction37/article/231.html

https://www.leitz-auction.com/auction/en/auktion34/auction37/article/226.html

#CoSoPhotography

Nikon has announced the winners of its Small World Photomicrography competition for 2020.

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2020-photomicrography-competition

#CoSoEnergy

Virus crisis an opportunity to reshape climate reponse: IEA
by Richard Lein

It calls for additional investment of $1 trillion a year for the next three years towards improvements in energy efficiency, low-carbon power and electricity grids, and more sustainable fuels.

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-virus-crisis-opportunity-reshape-climate.html

International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2020
Part of World Energy Outlook.

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2020

#CoSoArt
#CoSoMusic

Step into synaesthesia’s visual soundscape, built with the music of John Coltrane

The Israeli animator and artist Michal Levy is among the roughly 3 per cent of people who experience synaesthesia – a neurological condition in which people have a recurring sensory overlap, such as ‘tasting’ words or envisioning letters and numbers each with their own inherent colour.

https://aeon.co/videos/step-into-synaesthesias-visual-soundscape-built-with-the-music-of-john-coltrane

#CoSoBooks
#CoSoHistory

A review of:
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World.
By John Dickie

"... that doesn’t mean that their own history is without stain. Dickie lays bare the chequered nature of the masons’ past, grappling not only with their resistance to female membership but also with their role in facilitating imperial conquest in places like Australia and in perpetuating racism in the United States."

https://literaryreview.co.uk/with-a-nudge-a-wink

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49089580-the-craft

#CoSoEconomics

Trouble On Main Street.

(There is a shit load of money available, but if you need it, you can't qualify, and if you qualify, you don't need it.)

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/10/13/922199563/trouble-on-main-street

To Read:

( I usually avoid "the intercept", yet is is a great overview.)

The Fight For Reproductive Justice In A Post-Ginsburg World.

The Trump administration has already offered the eight-member court an opportunity to restrict abortion access amid the pandemic.
By Jordan Smith

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/11/abortion-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/

#CoSoBooks

I review of:
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich

Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory
By Daniel C. Dennett

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-joseph-henrich.html?searchResultPosition=1

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51710349-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world

To Read:

Liberalism and Its Discontents.

The challenges from the left and the right.
By Francis Fukuyama

The evolution of liberalism into neoliberalism after the 1980s greatly reduced the policy space available to centrist political leaders, and permitted the growth of huge inequalities that have been fueling populisms of the right and the left.

https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/liberalism-and-its-discontent/

#CoSoEconomics

Three podcasts that anyone left of center should listen to.
And if your not left of center, yet interested in finding out more about MMT, or what current thinking about economic theory is all about. Check these out.

Just search your favorite podcast app for:

1. The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

2. Money On The Left Podcast

3. Superstructure Podcast

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

So read this....

Sarah Eagle Heart On Indigenous ‘Inclusion At Every Level’

Indigenous women have all of these solutions; they’re in the middle of their communities. They’re in the middle of their families, and they are the organizers. They’re the caretakers; they’re the culture bearers. And I thought: This is where we need to focus, especially in the environmental movement. These are the leaders who need to be supported.

https://atmos.earth/sarah-eagle-heart-jenni-monet-return-to-the-heart/

#CoSoPhilosophy
#CoSoBooks

A review of:
The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs.
by Lisa Bortolotti

... an attempt to make sense of the idea that our irrationality supports us when we navigate the physical and social world. We sometimes succeed not in spite of, but thanks to our irrational beliefs. If that is the case, then we need a framework that helps us sort irrational beliefs.

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2020/10/12/epistemic-innocence-lisa-bortolotti.aspx

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51704810-the-epistemic-innocence-of-irrational-beliefs

#CoSoEnvironment

Atmos is launching a new newsletter all about environmental justice by Climate Editor Yessenia Funes. Welcome to the movement.

"The threat isn’t always an orange ash-laden sky. Sometimes, it’s the cop posted up on the block. These issues are all connected."

I’m focusing this newsletter on frontline communities. These are low-income communities, communities of color, towns founded by formerly enslaved people, tribal nations, immigrant bordertowns.

https://atmos.earth/the-frontline-environmental-justice-newsletter-yessenia-funes/

Hiking Into the Wilds of Hong Kong

“Despite being one of the densest cities on Earth, Hong Kong boasts a remarkable amount of green space. Roughly three-quarters of the city’s 1,100-square-kilometer territory is natural landscape, from rocky coastlines and beaches to forested hillsides and mountains. About 40% of it is protected in vast “country parks” that are easily accessible from around the city.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/seeking-nature-and-solitude-in-crowded-hong-kong

#CoSoArchaeology

The deep Anthropocene.

A revolution in archaeology has exposed the extraordinary extent of human influence over our planet’s past and its future.

By Lucas Stephens

A clear-eyed appreciation for the deep entanglement of the human and natural worlds is vital if we are to grapple with the unprecedented ecological challenges of our times. Naively romanticizing a pristine Earth, on the other hand, will hold us back.

https://aeon.co/essays/revolutionary-archaeology-reveals-the-deepest-possible-anthropocene