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I'm to stressed to read fiction, but last Friday, just before the war began I finished: Venomous Lumpsucker
Three words: Extinction Credit Economics
How would capitalism react to fines placed on causing extinction?
I was impressed by Beauman's understanding that you don't need to be evil to participate in the ecology's destruction. The extinction industry arseholes aren't competent or smart, just indifferent and greedy.
What a stunning 12th century definition of the work of lexicographers by Marie de France! Her passage beautifully captures how earlier scholars often wrote in metaphorical or obscure language, requiring future readers to decipher and interpret the meaning. But Marie is also remarkably prescient in recognizing this interpretive process as the essence of creating a gloss (or dictionary) elucidating the symbolic "letter" of a text by bridging context and definitions.
For all the dictionary-makers – and their forever unfinished yet deeply meaningful job: Happy Dictionary Day!
[Illustration: Marie de France writing, Paris, BnF, Français, 2173, f.93] #DictionaryDay#AngloNorman#Medieval
#AllStarTrek I love me some #StarTrek but for Pity's sake, #Worf and #Dax are of two separate species from completely different biospheres. How the heck are they supposed to successfully mate? It's ridiculous!
My workgroup (@idealab) at the Department of Evolutionary Biology @unibielefeld has an open PhD student position in evolutionary genetics. We study experimental evolution with freshwater gastropods and would love to have somebody with previous experience in ddRAD-seq and ATAC-seq to join us!
I have two children diagnosed years ago as being on the Spectrum. My partner has suggested I am probably undiagnosed. I feel like it may explain some things.
So some questions:
Does anyone know that there is a hereditary link?
For those who've been tested later in life, I am late 50s, how has it affected you to know? Interested in both confirmed and negative test experiences.
Attention bookworms: What are people using to get information about good new books that are out there? I'm a huge fan of science fiction, for example, and I know there's got to be tons of good books I haven't read simply because I've never heard of them. Sometimes I'll go window shopping, basically searching Bookshare and Kindle for certain words, just to see what comes up, and doing that I do stumble across some books, but I know there's a ton I'm missing because I don't even know it exists. Boosts appreciated.