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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

What IS ‘Intelligence’?

Filosofa's Word

This morning as I was doing my usual scouring of the news in multiple sources, I came across a story titled, “The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting.”  Of course, I could tell from the accompanying picture that the story was about the search for life forms on other planets and in other galaxies, but for some reason that headline struck me as humorous.  My first thought was that we should be searching for intelligent life here on Planet Earth rather than spending trillions of dollars to look farther afield, and my second thought was … how will we know if we’ve found intelligent life – how do we actually define ‘intelligent’ … or do we?

Some would equate intelligence with knowledge.  But in my view, simply gaining knowledge, storing facts and figures, does not define intelligence.  It’s more a matter of what…

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What IS ‘Intelligence’? — Filosofa’s Word

This morning as I was doing my usual scouring of the news in multiple sources, I came across a story titled, “The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting.”  Of course, I could tell from the accompanying picture that the story was about the search for life forms on other […]

What IS ‘Intelligence’? — Filosofa’s Word

अनुचित / Unfair — Kaushal Kishore

मैं नहीं जानताऔर जानना भी नहीं चाहताकिसने और क्यों लिखाकि युद्ध और प्रेम मेंसब कुछ जायज होता है,अनुचित अनुचित ही होता हैचाहे वह युद्ध हो या प्रेमया कहीं और… 🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️ I don’t know anddon’t even want to knowwho and why wrotethat everything is fairin war and love,unfair is unfairwhether it is war or loveor anywhere […]

अनुचित / Unfair — Kaushal Kishore

Repost Del blog Stigmatis: Niñas trabajadoras domésticas: una realidad invisible en Latinoamérica — Stigmatis — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

“Por eso, el Estado debe generar atención para las mujeres, que tengan un trabajo bien remunerado, para que sus hijas tengan la opción de seguir estudiando”, sostiene la activista mexicana Marcelina Bautista.” -“For this reason, the State must draw attention to women, their need for well paying jobs, and for their daughters to have the […]

Repost Del blog Stigmatis: Niñas trabajadoras domésticas: una realidad invisible en Latinoamérica — Stigmatis — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ Eleanor Rigby ♫

Filosofa's Word

I haven’t played this one for a couple of years, and I know it is among the favourites of at least two of my long-time friends here on Filosofa’s Word, so …


Paul McCartney wrote most of this song. He got the name “Eleanor” from actress Eleanor Bron, who appeared in the 1965 Beatles film Help!. “Rigby” came to him when he was in Bristol, England and spotted a store: Rigby and Evens Ltd Wine and Spirit Shippers. He liked the name “Eleanor Rigby” because it sounded natural and matched the rhythm he wrote.

McCartney explained at the time that his songs came mostly from his imagination. Regarding this song, he said …

“It just came. When I started doing the melody I developed the lyric. It all came from the first line. I wonder if there are girls called Eleanor Rigby?”

McCartney wasn’t sure what the song was…

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Hundreds of Americans still dying of COVID-19 each day ahead of the fall – ABC News

The persistently high death rate, alongside concerns over the potential threat of a COVID-19 resurgence, has reignited the call for all Americans to get vaccinated. It is particularly important for those older or more vulnerable to get vaccinated and boosted with the new bivalent shots, which target not only the original strain of the virus, but also the omicron variant, experts said.

“We’re calling on all Americans: Roll up your sleeve to get your COVID-19 vaccine shot,” White House COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said during a press briefing last week. “If you’re 12 and above and previously vaccinated, it’s time to go get an updated COVID-19 shot.”

Source: Hundreds of Americans still dying of COVID-19 each day ahead of the fall – ABC News

I thought

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Phạm Hiền Mây
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


I THOUGHT… .

I could love people with all my heart

I could still love myself more

as forever will the wind blow

the lonely leaves through our lives

/

as forever will be the water-mark of the sky

the smoke’s affection for the passing clouds

the unconditional love for humanity

but self-love is three times that of the love for you and me… .

April 2022

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TƯỞNG… .

thương người bằng hết chân tình

tưởng thôi mình vẫn thương mình phần hơn

như muôn thuở gió hoài cơn

lá thương bày rụng cô đơn xuống đời

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như muôn thuở nước in trời

khói thương dòng bóng mây vời vợi qua

thương người tưởng rất bao la

mà thương mình lại gấp ba thương người……

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Sisters and the village

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Bạch Diệp
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm


Sisters and the village

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We are like wild thistle flowers at the spine of a hill

There to welcome the morning breeze

Abreast the moon on the fourteenth

A source of fresh laughter from a heavenly well

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Sisters, shouldering water from lotus ponds

Shattered pieces of a golden Sun

Scooping up birdsongs, jubilance of leaves

The village paths brilliant in the first light

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Little sister lulled(by her sister) in a hammock grandma weaved

A lullaby the wholeness of a home

A lullaby the sweetness of a cornfield

A village united in a happy song

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A sky damp with the rain

Fields, treasured chests of sadness

Only the ants in the nooks of the areca understand

Brimming breeze over the hedges

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Warm comforting scent of dry…

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the moments of inspiration late at night

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Những cơn cảm hứng giữa đêm
buộc tôi phải nghĩ đến anh

anh cướp hết những ước mơ của tôi
những khát vọng của một người đàn bà
biết say

ôi câm
quá lâu nay

The moments of inspiration late at night
sir, forced me to think of you

you robbed me of my dreams
the ambitions of a woman who knows how to drink
gosh 

shut-up
way too long


Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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