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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Tribal Definitions: Sydney Storytellers

An essay on the differences between how Kenyans think of “tribe” and what history and social science have to say
↩︎ The Elephant
Do ships sail on railroads?
Do stones float in the air?
May meat be cut with a knife?
Lovely poetry emerges from a literacy test given to recruits during WWI.

 Sadly the French Storytelling in Sydney is coming to an end on Tuesday night and Malchkeon exposure to slavery begins next week ... Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2018 in Australia

50 IS THE NEW 30 | MARIE-FRANCINE:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: These Are The Only Things That Can Cure Baldness, According to Science.

Profanity was long considered low and dirty, the opposite of the sublime. Then came Philip Larkin, Eileen Myles, and the rise of poetic profanity Bohemian Harmony calling a spade a shovel 

How forests invoke awe: with a sense of solitude, vastness, and human insignificance.↩︎ Nautilus

Top Tips:

-       Hold Hands

-       Wait to watch the next episode of your favourite TV series together

-       Cook a home-made meal

-       Run a bath for your partner after they’ve had a long day

-       Have a cuddle

-       Let your partner choose the movie you watch

-       Plan a spontaneous trip away
-       Organise a candle-lit dinner

Oldies, but goodies.





My job is not to define literature for them, but to give them the vocabulary and tools—and the inspiration—to define it for themselves. It was the rising energy of the students putting something new and weird and daring into the world, and me straining to connect with it and help them find a shape for it—that’s when I felt most like I was doing a job that mattered. This Thursday night at the MCG, the 28-year-old, who is now regarded as the best defender of his generation, will stand in front of 90,000 people and watch Richmond unfurl the premiership flag.

Going from zero to hero hasn't changed Alex Rance




RELAUNCHING YOUR BRAIN: A new startup called Nectome says it can preserve your brain, but there’s a catch: You have to be euthanized for it to work. The idea is for your brain and body to be frozen like a glass statue for hundreds or even thousands of years, until the day comes that they can scan your brain and turn it into a computer simulation. Crazy? Not really:  “... you should pay attention to Nectome,” notes the MIT Technology Review. “The company has won a large federal grant and is collaborating with Edward Boyden, a top neuroscientist at MIT, and its technique just claimed an $80,000 science prize for preserving a pig’s brain so well that every synapse inside it could be seen with an electron microscope.”



HIRED: Sludge, a news site exposing the hidden influence of lobbyists and special interests, has added four journalists to its team. Josefa Velasquez, formerly of POLITICO and the New York Law Journal, will lead coverage around the 2018 midterm elections, with a focus on statehouse lobbying. Jay Cassano, formerly of the International Business Times and Fast Company, will focus on government secrecy — specifically, how federal agencies are circumventing conventional ethics. Alex Kotch, a contributor to the Young Turks, will follow dark money and how nonprofits are being used for political advocacy. Roseann Cima, a Knight Fellow, will enhance Sludge's campaign contribution analyses, especially around tracking LLC contributions  back to owners. Sludge is one of the first newsrooms on the Civil platform.
 
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