Robin Waples: University of Washington (NOAA Fisheries, retired) Topic: On the shoulders of giants: Under-appreciated studies in salmon biology with lasting influence. In 1675 Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This idea epitomizes the way that science progresses by incremental steps, punctuated occasionally by …
Note: I was not on Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, the dumb phone for 24 hours! Whew, less stress in one day equaling thirty days of stress with all that crap I check out since I am a writer, journalist, educator and non-consumer of mainstream or stupid stream media! +–+ The Covid Insnaity stopped face-to-face fun of …
for Lisa on her 53rd** you look into dreamsthose chambers of memory warpedbent images on broken mirrors these you say are an umbilicalto another layer of spiritmaybe matter in the quantum senseconsciousness that flies likea giant moth looking for stellar light now you follow roads backunderstanding origins, faded photographssongs long forgotten still emanatingfrom those souls, …
I’m attempting to concentrate on the Consortium News “feature” covering Sy Hersh. The Committee for the Republic was hosting investigative reporter Seymour Hersh at the National Press Club in Washington Tuesday evening at 7 pm EDT to speak about his Nord Stream reporting. “Watch it live exclusively on Consortium News.” This is a dog and pony show, and this …
Yeah, a trite saying, for sure, but what does it mean when it comes to green, sustainable design, permaculture, all sorts of building and planned community magic? Capitalism: The Elephant in the Room (another person I worked with, i.e. Democracy School, riverkeeper, Center for Justice, Rights of Nature — Thomas Linzey) I definitely do not want …
Tax time is coming around for the year, 2022 = The Year of Water Tiger, and that Zoidiac went completey 180 degrees the other way: The 2022 year of the water tiger promises a year of positive changes. Your business will be stable, and finances will flow smoothly throughout the year. This year is favorable for …
In the incendiary words of Radical Women founder Clara Fraser, whose 100th birthday would have been this month: “It is time for swift-striking gender insurgency. Time for women guerrillas, [21st] century Amazons, mad shrieks of protest, and careful mobilization of political battalions. Goddammit, sisters: Let’s get revolutionary. Let’s understand that the private profit system is …
Spokane – Just the Way Light of Sun Touches the Backs of Earth Volunteers By Paul K. Haeder for the people who worked, for the people who shared Earth Day 2010 Takin’ it to the Streets, Spokane! she came into life from glaciers implodingbasalt columns ripped from geological corescarring earth, the lift of eagles brokenby …
“My colleague Rachel Yehuda studied rates of PTSD in adult New Yorkers who had been assaulted or rapes. Those whose mothers were Holocaust survivors with PTSD had a significantly higher rate of developing serious psychological problems after these traumatic experiences. The most reasonable explanation is that their upbringing had left them with a vulnerable physiology, …
Here, my response to Ed Curtain’s latest piece: ‘Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”‘ Great emotional rattling, as always, Ed. Thanks. Cảm ơn! +–+ I was in Vietnam in 1994 and 1996. Working on bat studies, transect of forest near the Laotian border. Age 36, with Brits. My old man was 36 in Vietnam, as a Big …
