Seasons change. I am ready to embrace autumn. I live in the southwestern United States. I am ready for lessened intensity. I want to experience the gentle warmth of the season and the lengthened slant of light that provides respite from intensity. Leaves even turn to the traditional colors northerners expect if you visit higher altitudes, and sky islands, of…
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America First Who previously used this phraseology? The KKK Yep. They use it. But they were no where close to the first to do so. The America First Committee In the late 1930s America First sentiments rose with the isolationist belief that since the US was not likely to directly attacked by Germany, we should stay out of the European…
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I was an isolated child in a rural area. I went to a small town high school. It was worse than Peyton Place. Because of personal experience, I do not have any doubt that horrendous events, covered by the media and ignored by those in power in government, actually took place. I was very sheltered in grade school and junior…
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I took a sabbatical starting about 6 months ago (March 2019). I’m wrapping it up now (September 2019). Here’s the why, what for, and whodunit: If you’ve read along with me for a while you know that I have issues with my family, both living and dead, back home in Indiana. Resurfaced Memories from an Unexpected Trip I was more…
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I used to have an attitude. I still do. But I was suppressing it so as to appeal to the vanilla pablum of a broader audience. Screw that. My my niche-y bitchies love me and my old time friends who are gentile know that I am a bit outrageous at times. It has been so long since May; the Solstice…
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Click here to view original web page at www.globalsistersreport.org Speakers and co-sponsors of “Transformative Spirituality: Living in and Through the Spirit,” an event held during the 63rd session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (Margaret Capen) This year the 63rd United Nations conference on women (known as the Commission on the Status of Women) was […]
Click here to view original web page at gulfnews.com Lego or dolls, sport or chatting: … are male and female brains different? ‘The Gendered Brain’ book cover The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain By Gina Rippon, Bodley Head, 448 pages, £15 You might recognise Gina Rippon as the expert from […]
Click here to view original web page at people.com Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first-ever photo taken of a black hole — but one woman played an essential role in capturing the image. According to the Washington Post , Katie Bouman, a 29-year-old computer scientist, created the algorithm that made it possible to assemble the photo. Telescopes from […]