Notices tagged with culture

How best to tell the story of Texas’s frustration with Gov. Greg Abbott? Through the medium of song. “Young Greg Abbott: A FuQusical” had its first two full performances on Oct. 18 in Austin. @oconnell reviewed the show for @TexasObserver. The team behind it now want to take it on the road. “We really don’t want him to have a national profile, and, if he thinks of having one, we want to be in his ear as this very annoying little pesky punk show following him around,” co-creator Brently Heilbron says.

https://www.texasobserver.org/young-greg-abbott-musical/

#Texas #MusicalTheater #GregAbbott #Culture #Music #Theater #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @thetyee.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/Journalist-Escapes-Eritrea-Geographies-Heart/

#RefugeesWelcome #Books @bookstodon #Culture #Canada #Journalism #Media #Eritrea #AsylumSeeker #Immigration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Nikon's annual Small World competition is a beautiful mashup of art and science, celebrating the best images taken through a light microscope. This year's winner shows mouse brain tumor cells and was taken by Bruno Cisterna, a faculty member at Augusta University's Medical College of Georgia. Take a look at it, and other winning images of an electrical arc between a pin and a wire, a cannabis plant leaf, and more.

https://flip.it/ugx5bP

#Photography #Science #MicroPhotography #Culture #Photos #SmallWorld

Neolithic Scandinavians used animal skin boats for hunting and trading, study suggests
https://archaeologymag.com/2024/09/neolithic-scandinavians-used-animal-skin-boats/

#OfInterest #Culture #Archeology #ArcheologyMagazine

#meme #culture #virtuesignal #blm #military #us #usa #politics #entertainment #simpsons

How can poets write about the unspeakable horrors in Palestine? Gabriel Fine writes for @TexasObserver about poetry’s function in wartime as a beacon of moral clarity, and the work of writers including himself, Fady Joudah, Mosab Abu Toha and Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.

https://www.texasobserver.org/palestine-israel-texas-poetry-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Poetry #Literature #Culture #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

If you’re on Flipboard, you can now follow Texas Observer over there: https://flipboard.com/@texasobserver.

As Martina Canchi Nate walks through the Bolivian jungle, red butterflies fluttering around her, a team of journalists has to ask her to pause — they can’t keep up. Martina, 84 years old, is one of 16,000 Tsimanes (pronounced “chee-may-nay") — a semi-nomadic indigenous community living deep in the Amazon rainforest, north of Bolivia’s largest city, La Paz. Scientists have concluded that the Tsimanes people have the healthiest arteries ever studied, and their brains age more slowly than North Americans and Europeans. The BBC examines what Tsimanes consume, what they don’t, and what the rest of us might learn from them. https://flip.it/qkbnqO
#Culture #Health #Lifestyle #Diet #Humans #Bolivia #SouthAmerica #AmazonRainForest

#news #politics #culture #war #israel #ukraine #jews #military #draft #government #scam #crime #tyranny

This #amazing #news #anchor #surprised his #colleagues by #comingout #onair after a #career spent “#living in a #glass #closet.”

#JasonHackett wants to set an #example for #young #queer #Black #boys who don't often #seethemselves in the #media.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #ComingOut #Entertainment #Media #News #Representation #Culture

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/this-amazing-news-anchor-surprised-his-colleagues-by-coming-out-on-air/

Microbial art — the process of creating living paintings with bacteria — has been around for nearly 100 years. It was first created by Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin in 1928 and was also an amateur artist. Atlas Obscura looks at this blend of art and science, some of the skilled folks who make it, and the potential health risks if it's not done carefully.

https://flip.it/vnxNsp

#Art #Science #Culture #Microbes

I conducted an interview with the creator of the "Okey Dokey" meme playing homage to KC Green's "This is Fine" viral sensation!

#Fallout #FalloutPrime #TV #TVSeries #FalloutTV #FalloutGame #FalloutSeries #Television #Writing #Art #Meme #Review #Artist #Artists #Creative #Fun #Humor #Culture #PopCulture #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Gaming #Writers #WritingCommunity

https://odinhalvorson.com/spooky-daggers-fallout-interview/

"Overall, we are pretty much like Russia now, only it isn't official yet with us. That may actually be worse, because if it were official, at least we'd be able to fight it," says Adar Shafran ("Running on Sand"), the director and head of the Israeli Producers Association. "When they want to submit a film to a festival, the Russians are told in advance not to do so. We aren't told that – our films simply aren't accepted."
Haaretz

#Israel #Culture #Gaza #BDS #Boycott

https://archive.is/RbCxq#selection-1215.0-1215.42

#news #culture #politics #law #crime #prison #justice #tor #silkroad #crypto #scam #technology

In the headlines this week: Finland ranks as the world's "happiest country." But happiness isn't the only form of well-being and can be seen differently in various cultures and societies.

Science News reports "while there may be benefits to moving past standard economic factors as markers of a country’s success, the definition of happiness isn’t necessarily standard around the globe."

https://flip.it/FDCclC

#Happiness #Psychology #Culture #Society #Science

"More than 100 music acts and individual musicians dropped out of the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival this year in Austin, Texas to protest the event’s sponsorship by the US Army and major defense contractors."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/16/wixj-m16.html

#SXSW #USArmy #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Boycott #Resistance #Culture #USA

Voyager, Chandrayaan, Curiosity: How do spacecraft get their names?

@popsci reports: "Bits of different countries’ cultures are launched into space with each space exploration project."

https://flip.it/kFy6nW

#Space #NASA #Voyager #Culture

“The prey is already dying when the hunters arrive.

The sky is dark gray, the air thick with the threat of rain. But that hasn’t stopped over a dozen from gathering. They’re mostly, but not exclusively, older folks—frequently retirees with the ability to take a weekday morning off—and they’re armed with Digital SLR cameras and macro lenses. ...”

Read it: https://www.texasobserver.org/insect-lbj-wildflower-valerie-bugh-austin/

I really had fun putting this one together for @TexasObserver magazine's Postcard feature. It's always fascinating to meet someone who has such specialized knowledge as Valerie Bugh, and all her photographer/admirers were good company too. Even though the piece is a lighter one, they're very aware of the toll that #ClimateChange is taking on #Texas:

The naturalist bug hunters are strongly aware of the harm climate change has brought on our region, and there’s a bittersweet feeling to parts of the morning, a subtle sense that someday soon could be the last day one of these fauna appear in a count.

“The ecosystems are moving east, including tornado alley. It’s not great for the people in the way, and not great for us on the edge of deserts. Think of Austin without any trees. I really like trees,” Bugh says wistfully.

Read it: https://www.texasobserver.org/insect-lbj-wildflower-valerie-bugh-austin/

#science #ClimateChange #environment #photography #news #culture #wildlife #nature #animals #insects

Prehistoric jewelry reveals 9 distinct cultures across Stone Age Europe
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/prehistoric-jewelry-reveals-9-distinct-cultures-across-stone-age-europe #europe #arhaeology #jewelry #culture #Gravettian #beads

Her small body is in my hands.
I'm running to the hospital.
- Mosab Abu Toha

#ceasefire #gaza #genocide #palestine #freepalestine #poetry #stories #literature #art #culture

Reno commissioner who insisted on religious invocations at county meetings walks out when Satanist gives opening prayer (video)
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/18/reno-commissioner-who-insisted-on-religious-invocations-at-county-meetings-walks-out-when-satanist-gives-opening-prayer-video.html

#OfInterest #Culture