#Human Impact

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playlist 01.31.24

Oranssi Pazuzu Muunta Utuja (Nuclear Blast) Zuli Lamda (Subtext) Fennesz Mosaic (Touch) Luke Sanger Dew Point Harmonics (Balmat) Marewrew Ukouk - Round singing Voices of the Ainu 2012-2024 (Pingipung) Gordan Gordan (Glitterbeat) Caxtrinho Queda Livre (QTV) C.Lavender Rupture In The Eternal Dream (Ideal) Crooks On Tape Fingerprint (Misra) Lord Spikeheart The Adept (Hekalu) John Elmquist Hard Art Groop 900 Nurses (Bandcamp) Penderecki Untrenja (Naxos) Nudbug Ensemble Third (Catsynth) Human Impact Gone Dark (Ipecac) Ezra Sims The Microtonal; Music of Ezra Sims (CRI) NewBand Dance of The Seven Veils (Music & Arts) The Muffins Double Negative (Cuneiform) Olivia Block The Mountains Pass (Black Truffle) Marco Beltrami Underwater OST (Hollywood Records) Christopher Cerrone Beaufort Scales (Cold Blue)

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How to disappear completely

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Paddy Hill spent more than 16 years in prison for murders he did not commit. One of the so-called Birmingham Six who were wrongfully convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974, he was proof that exoneration and financial compensation do not fix a miscarriage of justice. When I met him in July 2023, more than 30 years after his release from prison, his ordeal continued to haunt him. He was in his late 70s, looking frail and far from the “12 and a half stone” man he was in Parkhurst Prison. He had very little appetite and was in poor health. The little sleep he was able snatch was marred by screaming nightmares. Neither of us knew it at the time, but this was to be his final interview. He died aged 80, on December 30 2024. I sat down to talk with Hill in his living room. Struggling to control his emotions, he told me: “Sometimes I sit in the bedroom … and I’m crying my eyes out like a child and I don’t know what the fuck happened … I’ve been so fucking screwed up.” The ITV docudrama Mr Bates vs the Post Office thrust wrongful convictions into mainstream consciousness in January 2024 – a quarter of a century after the Post Office began prosecuting sub-postmasters and mistresses for fraud, theft, and false accounting and 15 years after Rebecca Thomson’s Computer Weekly article exposing the Horizon IT system as the potential culprit. Now the public could finally see the human impact of miscarriages of justice on these upstanding – and, more importantly, innocent – members of their communities. Public outrage followed.

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Noisy Streets, Angry Beaks!

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What happens when you try to talk to someone, but noise keeps interrupting you? Usually, you raise your voice, and sometimes, you even get irritated. Something similar has been observed in the yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia aureola), a small bird native to the Galápagos Islands. These islands, famous for Darwin’s studies, are now experiencing a strong human impact. The population is growing by 6% each year, increasing the number of cars as well. A group of researchers wanted to understand whether traffic noise could affect the territorial singing of warblers, which are among the most frequently road-killed animals.

Why focus on this type of song? For many birds, vocal signaling helps them avoid physical fights, as males can assess their rivals just by their song, without engaging in direct confrontation, thus reducing the risk of injury or death. However, if noise masks acoustic signals, it becomes harder to evaluate opponents, increasing the likelihood of aggression. To investigate this, scientists conducted experiments on two islands: Santa Cruz, home to one of the busiest roads in the archipelago, and Floreana, where both cars and people are rare.

The researchers recorded warbler songs and traffic noise, then played them back in territories near roads and in those more than 100 meters away. The results showed that warblers responded to playbacks with territorial defense behaviors, regardless of the type of sound. However, birds with territories near the road became more aggressive when the song was mixed with traffic noise, whereas those farther away became less aggressive. This may be due to noise interference with communication, making it harder to assess an intruder and leading to a greater reliance on physical defense.

The number of songs, however, did not change. Minimum frequency slightly increased with noise, while peak frequency—the loudest frequency—only increased in birds far from the road. Song duration increased in Santa Cruz but decreased in Floreana. Changes in frequency and duration suggest an attempt to compensate for noise, but there may be a limit beyond which communication is no longer effective. These results are crucial because, for a long time, the Galápagos Islands have been considered a natural laboratory, but growing human impact is already altering wildlife behavior.

See You Soon, and Good Science!

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Human Impact - "Lost All Trust"

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Human Impact "Corrupted"

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Yuriy while sandblasting the radioactive scrap metal. (Photographer, Pierpaolo Mittica.)

Inside the zone tons of metals lie abandoned, but over the years all this rusty gold has not gone unnoticed, and more or less illegally was recycled and today continues to be. Tons of metal leave the area each month. Since 2007, the Ukrainian government has legalized the recycling of radioactive metals with the blasting method. The workshop is close to the never finished number 5 and 6 reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a huge warehouse where twelve men clean and recycle radioactive metals. Their work is terribly dangerous, almost a death sentence in slow motion, as it forces the workers to continuously inhale radioactive particles like caesium, strontium and plutonium.

From the project "Chernobyl Stories" The Ukraine 2014-2019. (source)

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Human Impact "Hold On" (2024)

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Human Impact release live video for Collapse filmed in Paris

Footage from the May 21 show in Paris now available Human Impact have released a live video of Collapse, recorded during their set at Petit Bain, a floating venue moored along the Seine in Paris. The footage captures one of the few European dates in support of Gone Dark, the band’s second album, released in May 2024 through Ipecac Recordings. The video was directed by Jim Coleman, also…

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The Real Human Cost (Not Just Numbers) 💔

When policy becomes personal and everything hurts

Behind all these statistics are real people and I’m emotional about it:

Small business owners:

• Blue Rose Pottery facing closure over clay tariffs

• Simplified Stationery hit with $630,000 annual costs

• Local restaurants struggling with food ingredient prices

• Independent retailers can’t compete with corporate absorption of costs

Farmers getting demolished:

• Soybean exports down 75% due to Chinese retaliation

• $28 billion in bailouts during first term (taxpayer money)

• Permanent market share lost to Brazil/Argentina

• Multi-generational family farms facing bankruptcy

Working families:

• Choosing between necessities because everything costs more

• Lower-income households bearing disproportionate burden

• Consumer confidence at 12-year lows

• Middle-income families facing $58,000 lifetime losses

Manufacturing workers:

• Steel workers celebrating job growth

• Auto workers facing layoffs as companies struggle

• 740,000 projected job losses economy-wide

• Complex regional winners/losers creating political tensions

Students and young people:

• Electronics for school more expensive

• Starting adult life with higher cost of living

• Job market uncertainty

• Inheriting damaged international relationships

The emotional toll: Watching policies tear apart communities, damage relationships with allies, and create unnecessary suffering for political theater.

Why this matters: Economics isn’t abstract - it’s about whether families can afford groceries, whether small businesses survive, whether young people have opportunities.

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Human Impact - "Hold On"

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“ Lost All Trust”, Human Impact

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The human impact on nature was already evident in the Pleistocene, especially in its increasingly dynamic last phases.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper