Dear Desolation, 2017. — Eliran Kantor (Israeli, b.1984)
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Dear Desolation, 2017. — Eliran Kantor (Israeli, b.1984)
https://elirankantor.com/
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Perché c’è poco da ridere di chi credeva agli occhiali ai Raggi X
I più giovani di voi, sicuramente, non hanno la più pallida idea dell’oggetto di cui stiamo parlando, o forse ne avranno sentito solo vagamente parlare: gli occhiali ai Raggi X. Fino agli anni 70/80 del secolo scorso, infatti, la pubblicità di questi mirabolanti occhiali faceva capolino nelle principali riviste e giornalini, come “Monello” o “L’Intrepido”. Per poche migliaia delle vecchie lire, promettevano a chi li avrebbe indossati degli incredibili poteri. Quanti hanno pensato di farci un pensierino nella speranza di vedere attraverso i vestiti delle persone?
E quanti il pensierino, invece ce lo hanno fatto davvero ricevendo, ovviamente una sola? Parecchi. Gli occhiali erano di cartone, con due buchini nel centro delle “lenti” e, naturalmente, non assolvevano neanche in minima parte al loro scopo. Allora non c’erano le normative sulla privacy che ci sono ora, per cui il pacco arrivava pure con la scritta “Occhiali a Raggi X” in bella vista. Se aveste comprato un giocattolo sessuale, il postino avrebbe sicuramente sogghignato meno.
Perché vi stiamo parlando di questo oggetto vintage? Perché oggi pensiamo a quanto quelle generazioni fossero tanto ingenue da credere che un prodotto del genere funzionasse davvero, ma basta aprire la nostra home di facebook per renderci conto che, in realtà, c’è poco da ridere: a quei tempi, almeno, c’era l’attenuante nel voler toccare con mano e verificare in prima persona che l’articolo fosse una bufala (chissà, magari in molti lo acquistarono proprio con quell’intento, o solo per il gusto di avere questo oggetto del desiderio, pur essendo consapevoli del suo non funzionamento).
Oggi questa attenuante non c’è: se ci capita sotto il naso una notizia di qualsiasi tipo, abbiamo tutti gli strumenti per verificarne quasi in tempo reale l’autenticità. Non ci vuole molto, se non fosse per la volontà di credere a tutti i costi a qualcosa che ci fa piacere credere. Se credere agli occhiali ai Raggi X era più che altro una questione di ingenuità, credere che il 5G diffonda il Coronavirus è ignoranza colpevole e senza giustificazioni. Così come per tutte le bufale che circolano massicciamente in rete: ce ne sono tante, ogni giorno ne fioccano di nuove, ma è anche vero che esistono strumenti e servizi adeguati per non abboccare a esse.
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“Ma gli uomini che nei selfie mettono la bocca a culo di gallina fanno le uova?”
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Max Conteddu
Bella lotta tra bocche a culo de gallina 😂🤣
La verità è che noi genitori del terzo millennio siamo pappamolla.
Questi figli li trattiamo con i guanti e abbiamo mille accorgimenti, neanche fossero statuette dei Thun.
E siamo troppo informati.
Se nostro figlio si sveglia con le pustoline di sudamina, andiamo su Google e cerchiamo “Puntini rossi sul corpo”.
178 malattie trovate, di cui 12 sindromi rare.
Tolto morbillo, rosolia e varicella che son vaccinati, sulle altre non resta altro che fare la conta.
“Ronaldo vieni qua, solleva la maglia che devo controllare se il tuo esantema corrisponde a quello di questa foto. CHe se è uguale dobbiamo correre dal dottor House”
Quando eravamo bambini noi e ci veniva un eritema, la soluzione era il sapone SOLE. Il pannetto da 300 grammi, quello giallo.
“Lavati con quello, che ti passa”
“Mamma ho un certo prurito intimo”
“Sapone Sole”
Herpes? Sapone Sole.
Dermatite? Sapone Sole.
Acne? Sapone Sole.
Oggi se i bambini cadono e si provocano un'abrasione, c'è il disinfettante che non brucia.
Quando ero bambina io, c'era l'acqua ossigenata che reagiva con il sangue, faceva una schiuma a forma di fungo di Hiroshima e bruciava, oh se bruciava! Ma non dovevi piangere, perchè era stata colpa tua e se piangevi, le prendevi.
Se ti spaccavi il labbro c'era lo zucchero e per le ecchimosi il burro. Se ti spaccavi il labbro, ti graffiavi lo zigomo e contemporaneamente ti usciva il bernoccolo, diventavi in pratica, una crostata umana. Alla marmellata di fragola.
Da bambini noi potevamo sporcarci, stavamo in strada tutto il giorno e ci lavavamo prima di andare a letto. Nella vasca da bagno restava la figura come la sindone.
Oggi i bambini non possono sporcarsi, devono stare attenti ai germi ma soprattutto alla maglietta di marca. Lavano le mani talmente tante volte che si stanno rimpicciolendo. Nel 2100 per evoluzione, avranno i polsi che terminano a pallina, come Doraemon.
I bambini oggi non si sporcano e non possono toccare nulla che non sia disinfettato. Noi mangiavamo l'acetosella pisciata dai gatti.
Se ci cadeva il pane in terra, la mamma lo buttava? No lo soffiava. Il famoso soffio ammazzabatteri. “Mangia, sono anticorpi”.
Oggi se cade il pane ad un bambino, parte l'urlo della foresta “NOOOOooooOOOOooooOOOOO!” Che al bambino si ferma il cuore e la crescita per 10 secondi.
“No Ronaldo, ora lo buttiamo perchè questo è cacca”
A occhio e croce mamma, è cacca pure quella che mi son fatto addosso quando hai urlato.
Oggi i bambini stanno tutti a dieta, dallo svezzamento alla patente. Quando eravamo bambini la mamma ci faceva l'uovo sbattuto con lo zucchero e lo spalmava sulla fetta di pane.
I bambini oggi hanno l'iguana come animale domestico, io avevo la gallina. Si chiamava Claus e faceva un uovo al giorno. Le davo da mangiare granturco e crusca. Mi piaceva così tanto darle da mangiare che era diventata un tacchino.
Oggi i bambini vanno sulla bici, sullo skateboard o sul monopattino con tutte le protezioni. Noi andavamo in giro sulla bici d'estate a petto nudo, maschi e femmine e frenavamo con le infradito di gomma.
Al mare ho messo il pezzo di sopra del costume a 13 anni per la prima volta.
“Mamma ma mi vergogno”
“Ma se non hai niente, vai che almeno ti abbronzi meglio”.
Oggi ci son bambine di 5 anni che non escono di casa se non son vestite come dicono loro.
Ogni tanto pure mia mamma mi vestiva bene. Era quando uscivamo dal paese, cioè per i matrimoni. Ai matrimoni mi annoiavo quanto ai funerali. Oggi fanno il menù bambino, l'animazione. Quando andavo ai matrimoni da bambina, non mangiavo nulla e stavo seduta al tavolo ore e ore senza fare nulla, con lo sguardo da malata. Oggi se vedi un bambino con quello sguardo gli chiedi subito se sta male, a cosa sta pensando, come mai è triste e gli prenoti la visita dal neuropsichiatra. All'epoca se stavi immobile a fissare il vuoto con uno sguardo da psicotico, eri bravo. Non ti chiedevano nulla ma per tutti eri proprio bravo.
Oggi se la maestra mette un 7 al bambino i genitori vanno subito a lamentarsi con lei che non ha messo un 10.
“Non capisco perchè Ronaldo ha preso 7!”
“E’ la maglia”
“Come?”
“No niente, signora, cerchi di capirmi è anche uno stimolo per il bambino a fare di più ed è ingiusto nei confronti di altri bambini che il 10 lo meritano davvero”
“Lei non capisce niente! Mio figlio è da 10 proprio come Francescototti Puddu! E io mi rivolgerò al ministero della pubblica istruzione, se ne pentirà”
Quando andavo a scuola io, la maestra era autorizzata non solo a mettere i voti che riteneva più opportuni, ma anche ad alzare la voce e rimproverarti se non ti comportavi bene.
Oggi i bambini si traumatizzano facilmente e nessuno dice loro che non hanno ragione, che le ansie non devono esistere. Anche io da bambina avevo ansie e paure, ma son sparite perchè nessuno dava loro da mangiare.
Perchè alla fine, non è che questi bambini devono sapere proprio tutto tutto. C'è tempo per le tragedie, la guerra, la morte, perchè è vero che capiscono, ma non metabolizzano e si lasciano sopraffare.
Io a mia mamma chiesi
“Mamma come sono nata?”
“Le due cellule si sono unite e hanno formato te”
“E dove erano le cellule?”
“Una mia e una di tuo padre”
“E dove si sono unite?”
“Nella mia pancia”
“E come c'è entrata quella di papà nella tua pancia?”
“Chiedilo a lui visto che era sua”
…
“Papà come ha fatto la tua cellula…”
“Andiamo a fare l'altalena nel cortile, non volevi l'altalena?”
“Sìììììììì altalenaaaaaaaa”
Fine. Risolto.
Papà aveva la 126 rossa. Poi ha preso la Seat Fura (che era una 127 ma spagnola) sempre rossa. In casa nostra aleggiava lo spirito di Berlinguer. La 126 aveva gli interni in plastica radioattiva e d'estate dovevano intervenire i vigili del fuoco per scollarti da lì. Le macchine con gli interni in pelle erano in origine con gli interni in plastica, poi la pelle ce la lasciavi tu.
Al mare si andava con il tavolino pieghevole, quello con le seggioline dentro, la pasta al sugo, le fettine impanate e l'anguria. Le seggioline erano capottabili, se non le piantavi bene nella sabbia ti ribaltavi all'indietro e con te volavano gnocchetti al sugo e fratello seduto di fianco, perchè ti ci aggrappavi e lo tiravi con te all'inferno.
Dopo il pranzo erano tassative le tre ore. Oggi è stata smentita questa leggenda della digestione, ma se c'era una certezza per mia mamma, non era stessa spiaggia stesso mare, non era la canzone dei Righeira al Festivalbar, erano le 3 ore prima del bagno.
“Mamma mi annoio, cosa faccio per tre ore?”
“Fai un buco”
“Mamma in tre ore di buco trovo le tombe etrusche”
“Se non la smetti lo fai tra 4 ore”
Allora andavo a camminare sulle rocce, con i sandaletti di plastica e la sera quando li toglievo potevo fare il sudoku sui piedi. Piedi a scacchi.
Oggi i bambini al mare son super accessoriati. Ne ho visto uno con la maglietta in tessuto tecnico, le scarpette da scoglio, la maschera da snorkeling, il coppo… mi son girata e ho detto a mio marito “Ma dove cazzo sta andando quello?”
E lui “Guarda che è tuo figlio”
“Ah”.
-Ilaria Corona
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The utopian life
The Ten Commandments
1. Be your true authentic self.
2. Make time for those you love.
3. Treat others people as you’d like them to treat you.
4. If it hurts you, let it go.
5. Change your thoughts - and that will help change your feelings
6. Don’t put it off till another day. If it is important, then do it today.
7. Enjoy the journey – it’s not just about goals.
8. You only have one life – so make it meaningful for you.
9. Be kind to others.
10. Always find a reason to laugh and smile.
Beh
Women In History
I grew up believing that women had contributed nothing to the world until the 1960′s. So once I became a feminist I started collecting information on women in history, and here’s my collection so far, in no particular order.
Lepa Svetozara Radić (1925–1943) was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during WW2. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades and leaders identities. She responded that she was not a traitor to her people and they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People’s Hero of Yugoslavia, awarded in 1951
23 year old Phyllis Latour Doyle was British spy who parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for D-day. She relayed 135 secret messages before France was finally liberated.
Catherine Leroy, War Photographer starting with the Vietnam war. She was taken a prisoner of war. When released she continued to be a war photographer until her death in 2006.
Lieutenant Pavlichenko was a Ukrainian sniper in WWII, with a total of 309 kills, including 36 enemy snipers. After being wounded, she toured the US to promote friendship between the two countries, and was called ‘fat’ by one of her interviewers, which she found rather amusing.
Johanna Hannie “Jannetje” Schaft was born in Haarlem. She studied in Amsterdam had many Jewish friends. During WWII she aided many people who were hiding from the Germans and began working in resistance movements. She helped to assassinate two nazis. She was later captured and executed. Her last words were “I shoot better than you.”.
Nancy wake was a resistance spy in WWII, and was so hated by the Germans that at one point she was their most wanted person with a price of 5 million francs on her head. During one of her missions, while parachuting into occupied France, her parachute became tangled in a tree. A french agent commented that he wished that all trees would bear such beautiful fruit, to which she replied “Don’t give me any of that French shit!”, and later that evening she killed a German sentry with her bare hands.
After her husband was killed in WWII, Violette Szabo began working for the resistance. In her work, she helped to sabotage a railroad and passed along secret information. She was captured and executed at a concentration camp at age 23.
Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who invented the first ever compiler. Her invention makes every single computer program you use possible.
Mona Louise Parsons was a member of an informal resistance group in the Netherlands during WWII. After her resistance network was infiltrated, she was captured and was the first Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the Nazis. She was originally sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was lowered to hard lard labor in a prison camp. She escaped.
Simone Segouin was a Parisian rebel who killed an unknown number of Germans and captured 25 with the aid of her submachine gun. She was present at the liberation of Paris and was later awarded the ‘croix de guerre’.
Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to have ever won an American Medal of Honor. She earned it for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War. It was revoked in 1917, but she wore it until hear death two years later. It was restored posthumously.
Italian neuroscientist won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor. She died aged 103.
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jinxedinks added: Her name was Rita Levi-Montalcini. She was jewish, and so from 1938 until the end of the fascist regime in Italy she was forbidden from working at university. She set up a makeshift lab in her bedroom and continued with her research throughout the war.
A snapshot of the women of color in the woman’s army corps on Staten Island
This is an ongoing project of mine, and I’ll update this as much as I can (It’s not all WWII stuff, I’ve got separate folders for separate achievements).
File this under: The History I Wish I’d Been Taught As A Little Girl
Part 2
Annie Jump Cannon was an american astronomer and, in addition to possibly having one of the best names in history, was co-creator of one of the first scientific classification systems of stars, based on temperature.
Melba Roy Moutan was a Harvard educated mathematician who led a team of mathematicians at NASA, nicknamed ‘Computers’ for their number processing prowess.
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman was a chemist who developed the concept of conformational topology, and studied at Johns Hopkins University before it officially allowed women entry in 1970.
Vera Rubin is an astronomer and has co-authored 114 peer reviewed papers. She specializes in the study of dark matter and galaxy rotation rates.
Mary Sherman Morgan was a rocket scientist who invented hydyne, a liquid fuel that powered the USA’s Jupiter C-rocket.
Chien-Siung Wu was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as experimental radioactive studies. She was the first woman to become president of the American Physical Society.
Mildred Catherine Rebstock was the first person to synthesize the antibiotic chloromycetin.
Ruby Hirose was a chemist who conducted vital research about an infant paralysis vaccine.
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander was a pediatrician and microbiologist who developed a remedy for Haemophilus influenzae, and conducted vital research on antibiotic resistance.
Marie Tharp was a scientist who mapped the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and provided proof of continental drift.
Mae Jamison is an astronaut who holds a degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University and was the first black woman in space.
Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
Patricia E Bath is ophthalmologist and the inventor of the Laserphaco Probe, which is used to treat cataracts.
Barbara McClintock won a Nobel prize for her discovery that genes could move in and between chromosomes.
That’s it for now, part three will be on its way. (Josephine Baker was requested in the first installment, just know I did not forget her! She’s in a different folder, titled ‘famous people you didn’t know were complete badasses, and she, along with Hedy Lamar and Audrey Hepburn will be in the next installment :) )
Part 3
Josephine Baker, though today remembered for her dancing, singing, and larger than life personality, actually played a significant role in WWII. She joined Women’s Auxiliary of the Free French Air Force, got her pilot’s license in 1933, and by 1944 she raised 3,143,000 francs for the war effort. She entertained the troops, which was a doubly whammy of justice. She refused to entertain segregated troops, so the French military was forced to integrate the troops for all her performances. She also smuggled secret messages in her music across countless borders.
Audrey Hepburn is known as one of the most beautiful and talent actresses of the 1950′s, but her contributions to the world started far before her first film and continued until well after her cinematic heyday. In WWII stricken Austria, Audrey, then an aspiring ballerina, would give secret ballet performances to raise money for the Austrian resistance. She even helped smuggle secret messages for the resistance. On one such occasion, she was stopped by an enemy soldier. He asked her what she was doing and she, pretending not to understand, presented him with a bouquet of wildflowers she’d been absentmindedly picking. She was let go and the message was delivered safely. It was her experience in the war which would later prompt her to become one of the founders of UNICEF.
Hedy Lamarr was an actress well known for her piercing gaze and deadpan wit. What she’s less known for is being a brilliant mathematician who invented the frequency hopping spread spectrum. Without her invention, we wouldn’t have bluetooth or wifi.
Ching Shih was one of the world’s most successful pirates. At the death of her (pirate) husband, the former prostitute took command of his ships and started her pirating career. At the height of her career she commanded 1800 ships and more than 80,000 male and female pirates. She became powerful enough to challenge every empire’s naval forces in the world and her Red Flag Fleet was feared from the Chinese coast to Malaysia. Unable to defeat her, the Chinese government caved and offered her amnesty. She surprised everyone by taking it and became one of the few pirates in history to retire. She also took care of her crew even after her retirement; most of Ching’s pirates were pardoned. She died a respectable millionaire.
Sophie School was an active member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in WWII Germany. In 1943 she, along with her brother and the rest of the White Rose were arrested for passing out leaflets encouraging passive resistance. She and her brother were beheaded by guillotine just a few hours later. Her last words were “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
(Written by Emporer-of-nerds) Constance Markievicz (was a) Very important figure in the Irish independence movement, first woman elected to the British House of Commons, and one of the first women to hold a cabinet position in government (Minister for Labour of the Irish Republic (which was a short-lived revolutionary state predating the current Ireland/Éire))!
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English ambassador to Turkey in the early 1700s, and documented her experience carefully. When she saw the Turkish perform an early method of small-pox vaccination, she urgently wrote home. She is responsible for the first variolation small-pox vaccinations in Europe.
Marie Curie is fairly well known. Unfortunately she’s often known as the ‘assistant’ to her husband. She was a pioneering physicist and chemist, who’s work with radiation was groundbreaking. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only one to win one in two fields for her discovery of polonium and uranium. It’s also notable that she was the first woman in Europe to receive a doctorate degree. Her discoveries made the x-ray machine possible, and Curie immediately put it to work. She invented a small, mobile type of x-ray machine and worked with her daughter at casualty collection points in WWI, using the machine to locate shrapnel and bullets in wounded soldiers. She died of pernicious anemia, a result of years of radioactive exposure. Many of her notebooks are still too radioactive to be read.
Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist and became administrator of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory, bringing it to renowned respect and fame. She was a prolific science writer and was awarded the Targa Giuseppe Piazzi for the scientific research, and later the Cortina Ulisse Prize for scientific dissemination. Asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honor.
(This installment was a little all over the place as far as achievements go, and short, since it was mostly requests! Hypatia of Alexandria was also requested but she, along with Sappho and others, are getting their own installment. The next installment will center around women of the literary world!)
Great respect for this!
Note that there were many many more, both before and after photography was invented.
Don’t ever let some fuckboy tell you that women just cleaned and cooked until very recently.
So important.
John Lennon - Imagine (by a-dead-inside)
the way they look at each other…