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Why is it in the midst of plenty to do I find myself reaching for intellectual activity? Although it is always different intellectual activity. Whenever I feel bogged down in my majors (Oh the Humanities, the Humanities of it all), I crave science books. Or just news, which is why I present to you Little Bat's Friday Link List!
1. Indonesian city waits for real king to reveal himself. Feels like someone grabbed a fairytale or myth, squodged it into my medieval reading from last year, & changed the dates to this millennium. I keep thinking of stories out of this.
2. India's first transsexual celebrity. She blames British-imposed Victorian morals for a lot of India's current problems of close-mindedness around sexuality. (Could be said for the US as well...I wouldn't be surprised.)
3. Black leader shifts from Clinton toward Obama. But you know why he started to shift? Get this: he said that as a superdelegate he could "never, ever do anything to reverse the action" of the voters of his district, who overwhelmingly supported Obama. YES. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work! Am I the only one who wonders where that went recently? That now we elect people we hope agree with us, rather than people we know will represent us? Representation doesn't mean having the same view as your constituents, although obviously that helps & it will be the same often. It means carrying their views to the higher level of government when they can't, regardless of what you might personally believe. Thank god for Representative John Lewis.
4. Taryn Simon Shoots America's Best-Kept Secrets. & that's "shoots" as in with a camera--this is a slide show of her photographs of places like Hanford, a cryopreservation unit, and a corpse decomposing at the forensic anthropology research center.
5. And finally, the Astronomy Picture of the Day! Just....beautiful.
1. Indonesian city waits for real king to reveal himself. Feels like someone grabbed a fairytale or myth, squodged it into my medieval reading from last year, & changed the dates to this millennium. I keep thinking of stories out of this.
2. India's first transsexual celebrity. She blames British-imposed Victorian morals for a lot of India's current problems of close-mindedness around sexuality. (Could be said for the US as well...I wouldn't be surprised.)
3. Black leader shifts from Clinton toward Obama. But you know why he started to shift? Get this: he said that as a superdelegate he could "never, ever do anything to reverse the action" of the voters of his district, who overwhelmingly supported Obama. YES. This is how representative democracy is supposed to work! Am I the only one who wonders where that went recently? That now we elect people we hope agree with us, rather than people we know will represent us? Representation doesn't mean having the same view as your constituents, although obviously that helps & it will be the same often. It means carrying their views to the higher level of government when they can't, regardless of what you might personally believe. Thank god for Representative John Lewis.
4. Taryn Simon Shoots America's Best-Kept Secrets. & that's "shoots" as in with a camera--this is a slide show of her photographs of places like Hanford, a cryopreservation unit, and a corpse decomposing at the forensic anthropology research center.
5. And finally, the Astronomy Picture of the Day! Just....beautiful.
