Perhaps a more accurate vision of future womb technology is not the baby in the bag, or the jar on the shelf, but a spinning chamber, its apertures a metal honeycomb of human embryos perfectly calibrated to revolve around some unheard, vital rhythm. Perhaps the questions we ask are not so hypothetical, after all; perhaps we delude ourselves by thinking that our reproductive future holds divergent paths: one of flesh, one of steel. Perhaps there is no “if”; there is only “when.”
~ Leah Hazard, Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
Human beings are the ones that hold earth’s fate in our hands. We really do need to pay attention and look these animals in the eye. Hopefully then people will decide whether the future of life on earth is worth it. ~ Joel Sartore
The kilns in which I bake my work have taught me much concerning the violence of fire; but among other things they have made me know the strength of the elements which generate earthquakes. ~ Bernard Palissy
The Smith & Vallee Annual Bird Invitational. Always a vulnerable process (as well as an educational one) to have your artwork on display. A big thank you to Camille for allowing artists from all over the PNW to submit and show their creative expressions.
Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping? ~ Jessica Simpson
Light
Signaling Device
Fire Starter
Warm Clothes
Pocket Knife
Shelter
Water
Food
First-Aid Kit
Navigation
Communication: Cell phone
“The lack of light is the single most cause of overdure hiker calls for NSR. It is so easy to under estimate the amount of daylight left especially if you are deep in the forest. That is why carrying a good quality flashlight or headlamp with extra bulb and batteries per person, is number 1 on our list of the ten essential items. It is also prudent to carry green cyalume light sticks as an emergency backup ONLY. These lightweight items will illuminate the trail around and in front of you sufficiently for you to travel slowly in darkness fro several hours.”
“Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain respiratory diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although acceptance of such masks is increasing in the Western hemisphere, many people feel that social interaction is affected by wearing a mask. In the present experiment, we tested the impact of face masks on the readability of emotions. The participants (N = 41, calculated by an a priori power test; random sample; healthy persons of different ages, 18–87 years) assessed the emotional expressions displayed by 12 different faces. Each face was randomly presented with six different expressions (angry, disgusted, fearful, happy, neutral, and sad) while being fully visible or partly covered by a face mask. Lower accuracy and lower confidence in one’s own assessment of the displayed emotions indicate that emotional reading was strongly irritated by the presence of a mask. We further detected specific confusion patterns, mostly pronounced in the case of misinterpreting disgusted faces as being angry plus assessing many other emotions (e.g., happy, sad, and angry) as neutral. We discuss compensatory actions that can keep social interaction effective (e.g., body language, gesture, and verbal communication), even when relevant visual information is crucially reduced.”
Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions via Frontiers in Psychology.
JACQUELINE P. ASHBY 