A Little Unrational

Vancouverite. Old. Kinda grumpy. var sc_project=7428198; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="4b91b020";

[soberscientistlife]

My reading was not supervised and I know I read some books I should not have.

[unrational]

Clan of the Cave bear and a ton of early Ken Follett novels in elementary school was maybe not age appropriate.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, February 21, 1947

[existentialdreadhead]

[retroness-is-fabulous-deactivat]

[unrational]

Man, it’s been awhile. What’s new Tumblr folks

[catchymemes]

[frogingly]

[unrational]

This could be us...

[marsixm]

i might have just done something great

[caduceus-tealeaf]

[catchymemes]

[steejie]

me trying to get through life

[screenshotsofdespair]

[memescomedy]

[abloodymess]

[c-bassmeow]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

BC currently has the worst air quality in North America (MAP)

British Columbia has the worst air quality in North America, due to an excess of forest fires that are drawing support from the federal government.

Not only is air quality currently the worst in the continent but similar to last year, it’s beating out several major areas in Asia, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing.

[…]

The interactive map displays near real-time information on particulate matter air pollution that’s less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5).

According to Berkeley Earth, PM2.5 is the most damaging form of air pollution likely to be present and is often linked as contributing to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory infections, among other diseases.

The data is an accumulation of thousands of surface station measurements from around the globe. The display is only a few hours behind real time, at most.

The “epicentre” of BC’s air pollution stems from the interior of the province, where tens of thousands of hectares of land are currently up in flames.

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Submitted by @caesuria.

[unrational]

Yeah it’s gross.

[olcarcajou]

Year after year it seems. It’s brutal. I don’t remember this being so regular as a kid or even in my 20s.

[unrational]

Has to be the worst few years for this in my life I think. My eyes burn today.

[litafficionado]

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation

[allthecanadianpolitics]

BC currently has the worst air quality in North America (MAP)

British Columbia has the worst air quality in North America, due to an excess of forest fires that are drawing support from the federal government.

Not only is air quality currently the worst in the continent but similar to last year, it’s beating out several major areas in Asia, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing.

[…]

The interactive map displays near real-time information on particulate matter air pollution that’s less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5).

According to Berkeley Earth, PM2.5 is the most damaging form of air pollution likely to be present and is often linked as contributing to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory infections, among other diseases.

The data is an accumulation of thousands of surface station measurements from around the globe. The display is only a few hours behind real time, at most.

The “epicentre” of BC’s air pollution stems from the interior of the province, where tens of thousands of hectares of land are currently up in flames.

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Submitted by @caesuria.

[unrational]

Yeah it's gross.