Well we can relax when we get in the mri machine afterwards.
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The artist is quoted in the article:
FabiĂĄn ChĂĄirez said he had the idea for the painting after noticing that in most representations that âZapataâs masculinity is glorifiedâ.
âThere are some people who experience discomfort from bodies that donât obey the rules. In this case, where is the offence? They [the protesters] see an offence because Zapata is feminised,â he said.
Sounds like art to me.
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Iâm no evolutionary biologist, but I do have a background in English literature, and there are few points in this story which concern me:
- The repeated mentions of how pretty this genius evo biologist was, with less emphasis on how much of a certified genius she was.
- The repeated mentions of (unverified, undiagnosed) mental illness of various types. Itâs an odd thing to include unexamined in a psychology magazine article. People donât usually disappear without their reasons, but the âmad, pretty womanâ thing seems odd and out of touch.
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That eruption culminated furiously in May 2018, when the lava lake within the caldera, or crater, at the volcanoâs summit began to drain like a bucket with a hole in it. Simultaneously, the lower part of the Eastern Rift Zone came alive with lava fountains and new fissures, one of which spouted a river of lava that flowed through residential neighborhoods and into the sea. More than 700 homes and other buildings were destroyed before the eruption stopped in August 2018.
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also from 2012
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/missing-biologist-surfaces-reunites-with-family.html
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Interesting. Quite puzzling.
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This video has me reduced to inane cutesy-poo babble, right after hearing the little tiny kitten meow (why do Brits spell it âmiaowâ, is there a reason? Olde Englishe?)!
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a plurality of languages have settled on miau as the one true standard.
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I donât really know what to make of this article. I looked up the three peer-reviewed articles mentioned in the piece as being her big contributions. Only one has a higher number of citations than my most cited (non-software) article (with far less time to accrue citations). They donât make all that much sense to me, biologically.
My PhD adviser is a McArthur awardee. This article was years ago, but this is concerning. Even if the journalism is slanted, it sounds like she might need help from an extensive and well-connected network.
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That makes it sound like she became a nun. That would help to explain the gradual severing of ties â I know people who joined religious orders who did something similar.
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This thread is well in its way to becoming a book:
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Thirty years were added to average life expectancy in the 20th century, and rather than imagine the scores of ways we could use these years to improve quality of life, we tacked them all on at the end. Only old age got longer.
Misleading. Average life expectancy change was mostly due to very dramatic reductions in child mortality. Life expectancy for someone who lived to 60 only increased by about 6.5 years1, from 74 to 80. Lately both life expectancy and population growth have begun to level off or decrease.
Meanwhile retirement age is increasing, up to 67 now for the shrinking middle class and never for the working class. In the mid-late 20th century it was in the 50s for the middle class and those with pensions. If my grandparents were retiring now, theyâd only have half the retirement that they did, and it would be the later, less healthy years. My parents didnât get to retirement age, and few people my age and younger expect to hit that moving age target, or have enough money to retire if they do.
Interesting idea to focus on restructuring life, but I donât think it needs that much focus on the older years. Theyâd be better if people could live better up until then and be prepared to enjoy them more if/when they get there.
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Merry Christmas! (and look under the bed.)
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I once got into a long f;ame war over whether Yule was a pagan celebration derived from the Norse word for wheel.
It may originally come from a pagan calendar season, but is first attested in a Christian calendar, as Fruma Jiuleis or Naubaimbair. And Iâm not sure how youâd get from Ć to j.
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brings to mind that Julia Roberts show on Amazon-- Homecoming. The âmid-century modernâ set is creepy enough, but knowing that the design cues came from OSS employees?
eero saarinenâs cia file:
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