Covid-19 round-up.
- Covid-19 und das Grundgesetz
- Corona-Triage
- Gesundheits- und Pflegearbeit in der ‘Corona-Krise’
- Diagrammerl
Another unholy cult of personality died. For good.
Groupthink and Other Painful Reflections on Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
(…) coercing Fanni Tutti into unprotected sex, resulting in an unwanted pregnancy; pressuring her to join orgies orchestrated by P-Orridge; wielding a knife, and repeatedly beating her during attempts to end their relationship; and most horrifically, nearly murdering her by hurling a cinder block that narrowly missed her head while she sunbathed. Other sundry episodes of casual brutality and calculated subjugation are also named, such as smashing her typewriters, hurling pet cats against walls, and clandestinely opening and replying to her fan mail.
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Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel.
Before I knew what phubbing was, I didn’t have the guts – or the word – to call out my friend for phubbing me (snubbing me for her phone) in the middle of a conversation. And now… I still don’t – not when I myself can barely resist the urge of being figital (excessively checking one’s digital device) and curb my own performative busyness.
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Hunting humans: A future for tourism in 2200.
This papers aims to provide a provocative account of the ‘potential future meaning of tourism’, through the application of current knowledge, and significantly, it is our relationship with death and violence that are central, death and violence are becoming diluted and thus, will be a source of future entertainment and a tourism activity – in less humans can reach a level of transcendence that has never been present, to transcend the culture they have created, one that has always witnessed violence as a means to survival.
Does the quoted sentence even make sense at all?
Tired: Seti@home Wired: Folding@home
By downloading the Folding@home software you are supplying us with the computer power we need to find new cures.
The History of the URL.
“The conclusion in this area was that the current ‘user@host’ mailbox identifier should be extended to ‘user@host.domain’ where ‘domain’ could be a hierarchy of domains.” And the domain was born.
Extinguished Countries is the first guidebook series about countries that no longer exist. We don’t follow today’s borders but take you on a journey through time and space to lost kingdoms, republics and empires, looking for what unites us rather than what divides us. (Via atlasobscura.com).
Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived.
The young medical professionals came down with fevers. Within weeks, they were both lying in hospital beds, hooked up to IVs or oxygen machines.
Relevant: “You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus.”
Tropical carbon sinks are saturating at different times on different continents.
A survey of tree establishment, growth and mortality shows that the rate at which Amazonian tropical forests take up carbon dioxide has slowed since the 1990s, whereas signs of a potential slowdown in Africa appeared only in 2010.