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There’s an art show coming up here in Portland centered around “love-themed propaganda posters”, and I couldn’t resist getting ornithologically esoteric with my submission.
So, here’s Monsieur Bowerbird.
He’s going to be displayed as an 11”x17” digital print.
GIVE THE GIFT OF BLUE!
Two of Swords by Anna Christenson
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Flooded
I ramble a bit about this piece on my insta.
RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
Please study this manual before you are born.
You will receive a body. Quality varies. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours for the entire period.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life."
Your assignment is to figure out what your assignment is. It will take all your life to complete this assignment.
Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
You will be graded not on what you accomplish, but on how you achieve.
What you respond to (love or hate) in other people is merely a mirror of yourself. This program called life provides other people around you so they can illuminate the inside of you. You can not understand yourself without them.
You have been provided with ALL the tools and resources you need for your lessons. You lack nothing essential.
Greatness is overrated; happiness not promised. The only thing guaranteed is a full 3D sensorama (highest resolution, smell and taste included) with unlimited opportunities to use matter, energy, and love to affect others and to create.
Try to make new mistakes.
Good results come from treating others the way you want to be treated.
Don’t be distracted by the successes of others. Your assignment will be unique. You can’t get to the next level imitating someone else.
Everything will turn out okay in the end. If everything is not okay, it is not the end.
You will forget all this.
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
Meant to upload this much earlier! I’ve been working on commissions recently, and it’s always lovely to take time for a personal piece.
If you want to stay up to date on my art, definitely keep an eye on my instagram (@vetyyr) and twitter (@vetyyr)—I’m less scatterbrained about posting there!
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
-Stephen Jay Gould.
This quote is great because so was Einstein himself! He never saw himself as a genius, as a mind like no other. He saw himself as a guy who studied alot and he was very dedicated to give that opportunity to others. He also spoke very openly against racism and was one of the few professors that thought black people at the time. Here are some great pictures of him in 1946
Adding onto this: I really recommend Einstein’s short, entry-level essay “Why Socialism?”, found here. It’s ~10 min read and it does a great job of explaining the crux of socialism.
Here are some of his major points:
The individual and society form a symbiotic relationship. A healthy individual needs a healthy society and a healthy society needs healthy individuals.
Capitalism undermines democracy by concentrating wealth into the hands of an economic elite, which in turn funds a political elite to represent its interests in government. The ultra-rich also control the media and educational systems to manipulate public opinion and prevent free thought. (Here Einstein is pre-empting Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman’s propaganda model).
Capitalism’s profit motive entails human needs going unmet to satisfy human greed.
The “worst evil” of capitalism is the crippling of individuals, which begins in school where an exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student.
A transition to socialism is necessary to overcome these problems, and is in fact imperative to avert constant warfare and ecological catastrophe. We need a fully democratic society where society’s productive capacity is not concentrated into the hands of a few, but owned by workers and society itself.
Please do not ignore one of the bedrock reasons why Einstein identified with black people in America: Einstein was a German Jew. Check those dates. He fled the Nazis.
The essay (linked above ^) by Einstein was an excellent read. Thank you for sharing it!
[Let’s make big pharma eat its own tail]
when the tree has no leaves - 2/10
Frontiers for Young Minds is an open-access scientific journal written by scientists and reviewed by a board of kids and teens.
I just found the coolest thing! Frontiers has an open access scientific journal that is reviewed by kids and teens. I’d love to publish something in here :o
one more GRIS (a video game) + SU crossover art i had waiting in my files. the gems protect and watch over him, and he thinks the gems are larger than life. later in the story they wouldn’t be statues anymore..
this is still a wip, i occasionally remember it exists and work on it a little by little, hopefully to one day finish it ✌️
This feels far too accurate 😅 📷 : @xkcd
Last Brood X event for 15 states including New York, Ohio, Illinois and Georgia occurred in 2004 while insects to surface in mid-May
Hey, let's help out some scientists this summer! They developed an ap called Cicada Safari to help track the Brood X cicadas and if you're going to be out and about in nature this summer we might as well help out the bug people.
Romantic summer things to do with your partners: take a walk in the woods and catalogue things that are screaming. It's like a scavenger hunt, but loud.
I have created matter
Update: I figured out why my enzymes were mysteriously generating more metabolites with inhibitors! It turns out the metabolite in question was being generated by *other* enzymes through metabolic shunting, meaning that when my enzyme of interest was inhibited, different isoenzymes picked up the slack and generated additional metabolites from the extra unused substrate. Life finds a way!
Did you know that plants can get STIs?
I don’t know why I’ve never thought about this before; it makes a lot of sense. Pollinators can serve as vectors for pathogens that are spread through contact with a plant’s sexual organs. It’s pretty fascinating stuff:
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Figure caption: Diploid teliospores are produced in the anthers (A) and are transmitted by pollinators (B) onto a healthy plant (C). The teliospores germinate, undergo meiosis, and produce yeast-like sporidia (D). Conjugation takes place on the plant between sporidia of opposite mating types (E). Dikaryotic hyphae grow in the plant (F) and overwinter in vegetative tissues (G). The following year, infection is systemic (H) and all flowers produce teliospores (A).
Pond life. Art by M. A. Koekkoek (1, 4) and Ned Seidler.
Image 4—a version of image 1 as you can see; I’m not sure which one came first—used to hang on the wall of the staircase in my aunt’s house. I passed it often, and I always looked at it. Sometimes it was just a sideways glance, other times I studied it more thoroughly. But I always had to look. To live among those creatures beneath the surface... Somehow that idea appealed to me. I can easily get lost staring at these illustrations, especially the fourth one, with its twilight haze and its misty floor, teeming with life and yet so quietly mysterious.
Art by Leif Heanzo
