June 10, 2021
These Colors Don't Run
After HOA banned their Pride flag, couple got creative. Rainbow lights on a Florida bridge were abruptly turned off. Now, the Pride Month display is back on.. Written in stone: For East Greenwich students, Pride message can't be erased [more inside]
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz the most recognized bee broker is Joe in Bakersfield.
Scientific Beekeeping's Randy Oliver gave the inside honeycomb perspective on the high stakes negotiations between beekeepers and California's almond growers. With the huge jump in almond acreage came an increased need for pollinators, an estimated 1.3 million bees were needed in 2007. With California home to only a half million bees total, what price would motivate Midwestern beekeepers to truck their bees into California? $50 per colony? $80? $125? $160? By 2012, some hives rented for $150 each, with each individual bee earning 1¢ for a month’s wages. [more inside]
It is but a quest.
Because many of us like a time sink: Hermeticism: the
nexus between science, philosophy and spirit has been a font of Art over the ages.
As Above, So Below. (Hermeticism Previously)
As Above, So Below. (Hermeticism Previously)
Bonsai Releaf
Fascinating 22 minute video of a Transformation of a Japanese Larch Bonsai Tree by its keeper.
Greetings from Henford-on-Bagley
The latest expansion pack for The Sims (Cottage Living) appears to place you in some kind of hypercoloured bucolic rural English village. You can grow vegetables, enter them in the village show, milk a cow, have chickens, get your children to bake a cake, do some embroidery, socialise in a pub garden and, of course, groom your llama. The trailer also features Agnes Crumplebottom.
An effective intervention against dengue fever
A pivotal mosquito experiment could not have gone better. A microbe which stops mosquitoes from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever was previously tested in Australia. In a recent experiment in Indonesia, it reduced the number of dengue hospitalizations by 86%. Previously.
How does it feel to lose a child?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this sculpture—Melancholy, by Albert György—is worth all the words, all the languages.
Les Vacances de Monsieur Videogamedunkey
The Man: a Compilation
The Man: a Compilation. A poem by Rebecca Hazelton about the particular man that many women have not encountered, but know regardless.
Child labor increases during pandemic
Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward is a new report from UNICEF and the UN's International Labour Organization that warns that "global progress to end child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years. The number of children aged 5 to 17 years in hazardous work – defined as work that is likely to harm their health, safety or morals – has risen by 6.5 million to 79 million since 2016. In sub-Saharan Africa, population growth, extreme poverty, and inadequate social protection measures have led to an additional 16.6 million children in child labour over the past four years." [more inside]
How to thwart the next American tyrant.
In this series, the Globe editorial board outlines the key presidential reforms that would prevent a future authoritarian president — perhaps a more competent one than Trump — from abusing their power and subverting our democracy. Just because President Biden has restored a semblance of normalcy to the White House, Americans should not be lulled into inaction. Our government survived a scrape with authoritarian corruption. Next time, we might not be so lucky. [more inside]
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