Category Archives: News to use

Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

The Beautiful Anarchy of the Earliest Animated Cartoons: Explore an Archive with 200+ Early Animations | Open Culture

Source: The Beautiful Anarchy of the Earliest Animated Cartoons: Explore an Archive with 200+ Early Animations | Open Culture

Happy New Year: We’re All Perfectly Imperfect + Video + Podcast – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Screenshot from "Kintsugi – The Art of Transformation – The Final Piece" https://youtu.be/tgQ0T_moQPg?feature=shared
Screenshot from “Kintsugi – The Art of Transformation – The Final Piece” https://youtu.be/tgQ0T_moQPg?feature=shared

Kintsugi, a Japanese art, honors our breakages. Pottery that holds only sentimental value, when it accidentally breaks, is mended using precious materials. Visibly scarred and remade, it’s beautiful and noteworthy….

Source: Happy New Year: We’re All Perfectly Imperfect + Video + Podcast – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

COVID Mask Mandates Return in California, Illinois, New York

Hospitals in areas across the U.S. have reintroduced mask mandates to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses.

City hospitals in New York City have reinstated masks after data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a spike in cases in the state.

In New York, officials in hospitals felt the rise in hospital admissions in parts of the state including Suffolk and Nassau counties—both coping with a 33.2 percent rise in hospitalizations compared to the week before—was enough to reintroduce a mask mandate…

Source: COVID Mask Mandates Return in California, Illinois, New York

Definitions are essential to science, but they are increasingly hijacked. – Virology Down Under

It’s a funny old time to be a scientist. Advances are being made as ever, and new knowledge around airborne virus infection and transmission is accruing like never before. Not long ago, we were even marching for science. But it now feels very much like science is not only being ignored by those who should be listening, but actively being undermined – even its advances being hijacked.

Photo by Snapwire on Pexels.com

We each have an armchair and a megaphone now, and there is a tribe for every megaphone. I think it’s an amazing time for the public to learn and then ask the questions that learning fosters. It’s been a chance to challenge and open the minds of scientists to new and different kinds of questions. But these new times have brought with them an increase in misinformation, disinformation, attacks and the further splintering of our already siloed lines of communication.

One of the areas being weakened by the darker side of an epidemic of pandemic-emboldened and billionaire-facilitated, confident non-expertise is the language of science and discourse that relies upon it…

Source: Definitions are essential to science, but they are increasingly hijacked. – Virology Down Under

What Bounces In The Corridors Of Filosofa’s Mind? | Filosofa’s Word

Abortion/women’s rights should NOT be a political football.  LGBTQ rights should NOT be a political football.  Support for Ukraine in their defense against the Russian bear should NOT be a political football.  These are all human rights issues … game playing to gain political power using women, the LGBTQ community, and the people of Ukraine is simply WRONG!  It is not justifiable, not moral and certainly not humanitarian.  LIVES are at stake … you know, lives … people … ordinary, average people like the ones who put together your sandwich at McDonalds or build your car at the Ford Motor plant or stock the produce in your local grocery store.  We are humans, not some pawns on the bureaucratic chessboard!

Source: What Bounces In The Corridors Of Filosofa’s Mind? | Filosofa’s Word

From Balloons to Tyres – Kaushal Kishore

 

Today, I’ll share the remarkable story of K.M. Mammen Mappillai, who transitioned from selling balloons to becoming a prominent tyremaker, founding the renowned Indian multinational tyre company, Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). Despite facing challenges, he successfully built his own empire.

Source: From Balloons to Tyres – Kaushal Kishore

So, or: So-so – Daily Observation

A Sijo I observe passengers paying for bus rides with new smart phones; increasingly, things get easier thanks to technology; life’s so, so convenient… but no one’s got cash for beggars Sijo? A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains […]

So, or: So-so

Just the other day, I thought

Only one group hasn’t got a pay gadget yet:

Those on the street who have met

Deprivation ~ those who support we ought

@douryeh

Source: So, or: So-so – Daily Observation