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soniaI've had this one open since before the mass murder in Orlando. Presented without further comment (except I thought it would be about how I as a cis person could help, not putting all the responsibility on trans people). 8 Ways to Fight Anti-Trans Bias on the Job
Songs when you need them: Ysaye Barnwell and the music of community, resistance, and power by Kimberly French. Kumbaya does not mean what you think it means.
In the middle of slogging through Stephen Porges' book on Polyvagal Theory, I saw (elsewhere) this lucid article about a different aspect of the brain. This makes so much sense, and yet is brand new research. A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved.
Descendants of Holocaust refugees tend not to have family heirlooms. I was touched by this story about the one thing a family held onto. Tea, Pride, Mystery: For One Family That Fled The Nazis, A Tin Canister Held It All by Camila Domonoske
This is scary around climate change, but also somehow delightful. Very old tree exists! And is flexible! 5,000-Year-Old Tree in Scotland is Changing From Male to Female.
Speaking of climate change, a couple of world population links.
Watch world population growth, 2050 years in 6 minutes. Spoiler: most of it is right at the end. Also, watch for some of the dots disappearing from the Black Death.
Population graph by year. Hover over your birth year to see the population then. Population has doubled since I was born!
Songs when you need them: Ysaye Barnwell and the music of community, resistance, and power by Kimberly French. Kumbaya does not mean what you think it means.
In the middle of slogging through Stephen Porges' book on Polyvagal Theory, I saw (elsewhere) this lucid article about a different aspect of the brain. This makes so much sense, and yet is brand new research. A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved.
Descendants of Holocaust refugees tend not to have family heirlooms. I was touched by this story about the one thing a family held onto. Tea, Pride, Mystery: For One Family That Fled The Nazis, A Tin Canister Held It All by Camila Domonoske
This is scary around climate change, but also somehow delightful. Very old tree exists! And is flexible! 5,000-Year-Old Tree in Scotland is Changing From Male to Female.
Speaking of climate change, a couple of world population links.
Watch world population growth, 2050 years in 6 minutes. Spoiler: most of it is right at the end. Also, watch for some of the dots disappearing from the Black Death.
Population graph by year. Hover over your birth year to see the population then. Population has doubled since I was born!
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Date: 2016-06-14 11:18 am (UTC)Sussman, Rachel. The Oldest Living Things in the World. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Date: 2016-06-14 07:12 pm (UTC)