8 Slowest Animals in the World 🌎

A wise physician said, "The best medicine for humans is LOVE," Someone asked, "If it doesn't work?" He smiled and answered, "Increase the dose".

~ Yammering

Kristy McBain: Labor claims byelection win as Morrison loses key minister: Against the Odds

Kanye tweets he’s running for presidentThe Hill. Predicted by Sturgill Simpson on the Trillbillies back in February.

Billionaires are spending more on political contributions, here are the three biggest spenders CNBC

Dolphins Are So Smart They’re Learning Tool-Use From Their Friends ScienceAlert 

 

Yale captures first ever video of brain clearing out dead neurons New Atlas 

Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird’s epic migration stunned scientists Guardian

8 Slowest Animals in the World TreeHugger

A ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their TuneGizmodo 

OF COURSE, ONCE THEY LEGALIZE THIS THE BOTTOM DROPS OUT OF THE MARKET:  Wild confessions of a $300-an-hour NYC call girl.

 – As libraries go digital, paper books still have a lot to offer us – Ksenya Kiebuzinski, University of Toronto Libraries, offers perspective on how librarians face challenges in maintaining traditional means of accessing and delivering information to our users while embracing innovative media. We appreciate the value of both analogue (print books, manuscripts, maps, globes) and digital resources like Google Maps, databases and digital archives. 

‘Translationese’ — What Japan’s Most Important Modern Novelists Have In Common

Haruki Murakami famously wrote his first novel in English and then translated it into his mother tongue himself, resulting in a plainspoken, “neutral” (his word) style far removed from standard literary Japanese. Several critics referred to that style as “translationese.” Masatsugu Ono (both a translator and a novelist himself) makes the case that Murakami, Kenzaburo Oe, Yoko Tawada, Minae Mizumura all write in other languages and translate foreign literature into Japanese, and that this is what has made their work so distinctive. – The Paris Review

Czech Republic scraps face mask rule as Prague hosts outdoor party Guardian (resilc). Hope vlade will pipe up.