"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
For your reading pleasure.
The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS,
for 2020 11 06
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For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
For 2020 11 05
(Note: I had to flatten this file to get it under 100MB, so a small loss in quality)
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For Everybody here:
It's Friday !
Every Friday, I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I set them to expire after a month. So grab them now.
If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.
Find them here:
(weekly)
(monthly)
"As Antoine Lavoisier noted in his Law of Conservation of Mass, nothing ends, but everything changes. If we are to understand activists as harbingers of change, then are our very lives not statements of activism? We are activists by nature, agents of transformation, matter in motion, miracles of metamorphosis. What if activism isn’t only about action, but activation, that of humankind’s highest potential?"
~ William Defebaugh
Good Morning.
📚
Taking kids on a trip to the library.
Curbside drop-off and pickup, (by appointment only).
I will be in town only about an hour:
Online for a minute: Then going back into the forest. Wanted to say something.....
( I hate the "intercept", but a good explainer.)
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/04/oregon-drugs-decriminalization/
Just dropping in for moment:
I am sure you heard this news, but I am very happy about this one vote in my state.
Oregon becomes 1st state in the US to decriminalize drug possession.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/04/oregon-measure-110-decriminalize-drugs/
Folks:
I spent an extra night in town.
But now I am out of here.
Going back home.
See you all late Saturday night.
(Thanks to @b4cks4w for reminding us)
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
“May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.”
To Watch:
What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election? | Van Jones
( it is going to get very crazy)
Fermentation as Metaphor
An Interview with Sandor Katz
Sandor considers the liberating experience offered through engagement with microbial communities. He shares that the simple act of fermentation can give rise to deeply intimate moments of connection through the magic of invisible forces that transform our foods and our lives, generation by generation.
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/fermentation-as-metaphor/
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54958889-fermentation-as-metaphor
A few moments ago I posted some stock photos.
I want to be absolutely clear about these. I am NOT a gun nut.
I am a refined tool user. I believe that one should own the best possible tools for the job. The highest quality, and proven reliability.
I posted not to show off, or brag. Nor to cause discomfort. I posted only to say, I have good, well maintained tools, and am fairly expert at using them.
As i like to say "leave that bravado at the range."
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books.
“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.” An antilibrary is a reminder of everything we don’t know.
By Anne-Laure Le Cunff
To Read:
(Lots of Book links in this.)
What necromancers in space can teach us about the science of death.
From haunted space stations to medieval lecture halls, death science and death magic have crossed paths in surprising ways.
By Maddie Stone
https://scioffi.substack.com/p/what-necromancers-in-space-can-teach
Un-Fracking Futures.
"The last couple of hundred years, we’ve systemically externalized costs and damages to the future: We’ve exploited natural resources and burned up all the fossil fuels we could lay our collective fingers on. We’ve created (relative)short term wealth at the direct expense of future generations, of future wealth and health."
By Peter Bihr
To Watch:
Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society
Wonderful lecture by Professor Ruha Benjamin on racism in technology and society and the impacts and dangers of default settings.
"If inequity is woven into the very fabric of society, then each twist, coils, and code is a chance for us to weave new patterns, practices, and politics. It’s vastness will be its undoing once we accept that we are pattern makers."
Just enjoying Jo Brown’s illustrations today.
Secrets of a Devon Wood has been recently published in the UK (US edition is out soon — Amazon is the only place I could find it.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780724373/ref=nosim/0sil8
And
https://twitter.com/bernoid/status/1121778177771220997
And
Mathematicians specify the criteria for the emergence of Turing patterns.
Turing patterns are mathematical expressions of the structures formed in chemical and biological systems, such as spots and stripes on the animal skin.
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-mathematicians-criteria-emergence-turing-patterns.html
Paper:
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018