#Darwin 200 project

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‘World’s most exciting classroom’ sets sail on Charles Darwin’s trail.

By Rob Harris

The Age - 15 August 2023

Under threat, the Galápagos still stuns in every way.

Long after the Galápagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin, they've become a natural selection for bucket-listers.

By Brook Turner

Good Weekend - July 28, 2023

The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald

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Book Review 5 - The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabrielle and David M. Perry

Okay, the Harper Collins strike is over, so I can finally post this! As you might notice, the wait has meant I have ended up writing far too much of it. Turns out people really are telling the truth when they say writing negative reviews is funner and easier.

Anyway, I did not like this book! It’s an ungainly thing, torn halfway between wanting to be pop history and wanting to be an intervention in the discourse, and entirely too short to do either well. Insofar as is it history, it’s far less revolutionary than it seems to think it is, and the subjects it actually focuses on either already fit entirely into the pop understanding the book is positioning itself against, or else entirely about symbolism and architecture and generally abstracted from (being partial and small-minded) the stuff I’m actually interested in.

All that said the first and fundamental is pretty simple – it’s just altogether too short to do what it wants to. The book tries to be a history of the European Middle Ages – a thousand years of history for an entire continent (more than, given the repeated digressions about the Middle East and also the Mongols one time) – in 200 pages. Which is just, like, I mean I don’t want to say impossible, but I can’t really see any way you’d do it. Which means what we actually get is a series of snapshots, scattered across space and time – just specific, particular dynamics or situations that rarely have much to do with each other. I’m pretty sure the only specific place we ever return to after focusing on it is Ravenna, and that’s for a big, dramatic bookend starting the age with Galla Placidia and ending with Dante. Also the return is really more about Italian city states as a whole. Which is to say only Florence gets any detail at all.

A necessary causality of the snapshot approach is that there’s wide swathes of the period that just, aren’t mentioned in the slightest. Which again, fair, but also it’s a bit much for one of the lacuna to be the entire Holy Roman Empire, right? (Okay, not the entire, there’s repeated off hand mentions of Emperors, and also talk of how the Italian city-states fought the Empire. Just never any description whatsoever of what it, like, was. Except for the specific disavowal of saying it started with Charlemagne, which was never followed up on.) Which is still better than what Poland or Hungary or Lithuania or Kievan Rus got – if any of them were even mentioned, it was only off hand. Which does end up giving the impression that Medieval Europe included Jerusalem but not Krakow – to be fair, something a lot of actual Medieval people might have totally agree with. But given the amount of time spent on the Crusades to the Levant and the Albigensian Crusade, not even mentioning the bloody Christianize of the Baltic in passing feels negligent to the point of being actively misleading.

Also it’s weird, given the books whole focus on connections and commerce between Europe and the rider world – the steppe is right there! You don’t need to wait for the Mongols!

Speaking of – they give a bunch of apologia for the Mongol Empire that’s – well, basically the same stuff all empires get, brought safety to the roads and allowed free movement and trade, brought people together, spread culture and technology, enlightened and cosmopolitan, etc. Which I mostly just find funny because of how obvious it is the authors would, uh, probably not endorse the same sentiment for any more recent imperial projects.

But okay – it’s not that you can’t tell a useful history in what might seem to be way too little space – John Darwin tries to tell a literal history of the world from the 16th century in ~500 pages and I’d still say After Tamerlane is absolutely worthwhile reading. You just need, you know, discipline. Focus. A firm idea of your thesis and an obsession of what’s relevant to it (or just be entertaining and full of fun memorable trivia). So, what are Perry and Gabrielle actually trying to do here?

Honestly, it’s a little bit unclear? The thesis they present is that the Dark Ages didn’t exist – they insist on referring the whole Medieval period as ‘the Bright Ages’ through the entire book, it’s incredibly annoying – and that the Medieval period get a horribly unjustified bad wrap as uniquely cruel and provincial and barbaric and full of disease, illiteracy, superstition, etc. They explicitly position themselves as being a reaction to the vision of the past you see in Game of Thrones or Vikings (I’d say ‘or the Witcher’ but again, for the purposes of this book Eastern Europe doesn’t exist). Instead, they fill the book with hand picked examples of medieval beauty, sophistication, and connection to the wider world with the quite explicit contention that everything good about the Renaissance (and later) was really just outgrowths of the Medieval, and it was only the bad stuff that was new.

(At the same time, they also do not like white nationalists, and go out of their way at length on numerous occasions to remind you that Nazis are bad. Those digressions do always leave me wondering who they’re for – no actual Deus Vult type is going to get more than five pages into it, and they rarely get much deeper that surface level refutation of things no one else is likely to actually believe.)

Anyway – look, the central, overriding problem of the book is that it’s not nearly as revolutionary as it seems to think it is. Very problematic, when it has such a high opinion of itself for being so. The assorted trivia the book uses as shocking examples of how cosmopolitan and tolerant the period was mostly just, well, fit perfectly fine into the popular imagining of the Medieval era? Like ‘royals and elites imported foreign luxury goods and status symbols at great expense; missionaries, adventurers and religious emissaries travelled across Eurasia to preach, trade and try to find someone to help them invade Muslims ; women often wielded significant political influence by virtue of royal birth of marriage, and were active political players’ – are these statements shocking to literally anyone? Basically all of that literally happens in Game of Thrones!

Part of that is that the book keeps almost committing to a really radical thesis – not to say pure unreconstructed romanticism, but close to it – and then always has an attack of professional ethics and cringes away from it, and just awkwardly brings up how, to be sue, there were serfs and slaves and atrocities, but nonetheless when you think about it the later Crusader States really were fascinating sites of cultural exchange, or whatever.

Psychoanalyzing the authors is bad form, of course, but like – reading this book the overriding sense you get is that they’re proud progressives, and have dedicated their lives to studying the Medieval era. But in the contemporary discourse people on their side use ‘Medieval’ as an insult to mean patriarchal, or brutal, or cruel, and the people who like the Medieval era are all in the Sack of Jerusalem Fandom. The sheer angst and righteous indignation they have about this state of affairs just about oozes through every page – honestly if I’m being maximally pithy and uncharitable, you rather get the sense that the real aim of the book is to make ‘being really into Medieval history’ a less reactionary-coded interest to bring up at professional-class dinner parties.

But honestly I could have forgiven almost all of this if the anecdotes and snapshots the book did focus on were informative and interesting. And this is almost entirely pure personal preference, I fully acknowledge but – the things that the book chose to focus on just really weren’t, to me?

Which is to say that The Bright Ages is incredibly interested in architectural and monumental symbolism, especially of the religious variety – there are whole chapters overwhelmingly dedicated to exploring the layout of churches and how their architecture and lighting was meant to convey meaning, or detailing at great length a specific monumental cross in northern England. These are used as synecdoches for broader topics, of course but, like, an awful lot of word count really is dedicated to describing how Gala Placedia’s chapel in Ravenna must have wowed people. And even as far as using them as synecdoches – the way that monasteries, bishops and the royal household in Paris competed to have the most impressive church/chapel as a way to convey religious authority is genuinely interesting, but I’d honestly have rather heard a lot more of the actual politics and sociology or how sacred authority and legitimacy was gathered around the Capetians in the later middle ages and a lot less about how specifically impressive the royal chapel on the palace grounds was. There’s a massive amount of symbolic and artistic detail, a fair amount of time spent charting great thinkers and proving that there was too such a thing as a Medieval intellectual, and almost none at all on, like, political and social and (god forbid) economic history. Which are, unfortunately, the bits of it I’m actually interested in.

The book isn’t just architecture of course, but much of the rest is either very basic – yes, the vikings were traders as well as raiders and travelled shockingly long distances, yes there was intellectual interchange between Muslim, Jewish and Christian thinkers across the Mediterranean, yes the Church acted as a vital sponsor of learning and scholarship. I’m sure these are new information to like, someone? - or so caught up in historiographical arguments and qualifications that it loses sight of the actual subject – I swear the book spent more time saying that it’s wrong to call it a Carolingian Renaissance because that implies there were actual dark ages before and after than it does explaining why anyone actually would.

Beyond that – okay, so as mentioned this book is really consciously progressive. Which, beyond a certain antiquarian distaste for how desperately they’re trying to get across ‘see, our field of study is Relevant! And Important! Please please please give us tenure/prestige/funding’ I wholly support. (I mean, like, I do think Medieval Studies deserves tenure/prestige/funding. Just slightly unbecoming to so transparently be grasping for it, and also more than a bit self-defeating) - but, like, the book’s politics are weird? Or weirdly surface level and slightly confused, given how much of the book is focused around them.

Like – the book spends a massive amount of time and attention combating the myth that women in the middle ages were all cloistered and politically mute and totally powerless. But the sum total of what it actually says is ‘did you know: elite women in the aristocracy and church exercised political influence? And a lot of the Christianization of western Europe happened through highborn christian women marrying pagan kings and raising their children Christian?” And while I suppose ‘elite women have influence even in patriarchal societies’ is a useful fact for someone to learn, I’m not sure examples that more or less cash out to ‘queens could have power by manipulating their husbands and sons’ is a particularly novel or progressive take, you know? More broadly – it’s a weakness of the book’s framework of jumping across countries and centuries between anecdotes that we never get any sense of gender roles and how power and influence were gendered systemically, so much as single (or if you’re very lucky, two or three) particular women with a vague gesture that they’re kind of typical. Not to complain about a lack of theory, but there’s really basically zero theory.

The book’s choices of examples for women to focus on are also – okay, not to be all ‘why didn’t you talk about my faves’, but insofar as you’re talking how women were able to exercise power, it’s really very odd that you never talk about any women who, like, ruled in their own right? C’mon, you mention the Anarchy offhand to introduce Eleanor of Aquitaine but don’t even say what it was about, let alone talk about the Empress Matilda? (I’d say the same thing about Matilda of Tuscany and the investiture Controversy, but it’s not like the book actually talks about the Investiture Controversy beyond the absolute basics, so). The final result is a book that talks a lot about how elite women had influence, and then the influence they actually bring up is almost always of the most stereotypically feminine-gender variety imaginable.

All that really pales to how confused the book seems when it talks about Christianity. Which it has to, of course, fairly constantly – it’s a book about Medieval Europe. But it’s kind of horribly torn between two imperatives here – on the one hand, it desperately wants to fight back against the whole black legend of the tyrannical, book-burning, Galileo-murdering, science-suppressing hopelessly venal and corrupt, all-powering Magesterium. But on the other, they really don’t want to come off as supporting, well, the heretic murdering and antisemitism or being the sort of guy online who posts memes of the Knights Templar. So you see this somewhat exhausting two-step where they go on at length about all the beautiful architecture and scholarship preservation the church did interrupted every so often by this concession about how of course it wasn’t all good and obviously pogroms and burning heretics wasn’t great, but- (The chapter on the vikings is much the same, except with a much clearer ‘it’s important not to romanticize these people because the people who do that are white nationalists, but also see how tolerant and far-ranging and cool they are?’)

Discussing the Church is also a place where the book’s whole allergy to social structure and institutions really serves it poorly. I at a certain point stopped keeping count of the number of times where the book called out that the centralized, papal-centric Church was a creation of the high middle ages, and not at all how things worked for most of the period. But then they just never actually explain how they worked instead, or really even how things changed to so enshrine the Pope’s power. They talk about how convents could be wealthy and powerful landholders and their abbesses’ wield significant power, but never even gesture at explaining how they interfaced with the institutional church. It’s really very frustrating.

Of course Christianity still gets far better treatment than Judaism or Islam – there’s a chapter which goes into some detail on the life of Maimonides in the process of extolling Medieval scholarship and talking about how classical learning was never really lost and the Renaissance is fake news. But despite the gestures to the presence of Jewish communities throughout Europe there’s essentially zero, like, description of how they actually functioned, or were organized, or (aside from the occasionally mentioned pogroms) how they interacted with their christian neighbours. The treatment of Islam is much the same – there are some mentions of the Islamic wold and its intellectual traditions, but essentially just to rehash the same points about the Islamic Golden age and Ibn Sina and all the other bits of trivia everyone probably picked up keeping up with the culture war during the Bush Administration. But again, only the most passing mentions of, like, politics or organization or even theology. It felt gratingly cursory, given the emphasis placed on the fact that eg Al Andulas was clearly part of Medieval Europe

Underneath all this is just the fact that The Bright Ages is almost an entirely a history of the elite. Peasants, serfs and slaves only exist in the for the sake of concessions about how of course things weren’t all good. The book has almost no interest in the lives of the lower classes, and barely seems to realize this. It starts to really, really grate, especially when you’re making all these implicit judgments about how the Medieval era was compared to what came after – in which case, the lives of, like, 90% of the population are rather important! Like unironically peasant life is fascinating! What did life actually look like of the overwhelmingly majority of people? If you want to give a sketch of the entire era, it’s kind of important.

I’m almost certainly being unfair here – basically everything about the book’s sensibilities grated on me, so I can’t say I was trying to be especially charitable. But really – the book’s perfectly fine light reading, but as intentional propaganda is hamfisted and it’s unclear who it’s for, and as an actual history it’s just...bad. It’s useful as a way to get a sense of the discourse, I guess, but otherwise I couldn’t really recommend it.

[inkofamethyst]

January 19, 2024

Think I might have to switch my program to computer engineering because I literally just replaced the battery of my own laptop after being afraid of doing so for four years?!?!?! For the past five years I've been able to get away with creative ways to not bring my unwieldy laptop anywhere because the battery couldn't hold a charge without the being plugged in (my fault tbh). Probably can't do that this semester with a coding class and a bio class with a coding project (might've been able to get away with it (and I'm definitely still going to try because a tablet is loads lighter than this beast) but was hesitant to chance it). Checked with a local repair shop, and they told me they'd have to send it away for two weeks for $150-200 (classes start in three days). Chatted with my parents, ended up buying a battery for a fifth of the price and replacing it myself. And it's holding a charge BEAUTIFULLY. Or, at least, better than that old shriveled up thing that'd last five minutes or less. I'm so proud of myself. And I know it was a relatively simply fix, but I've spent years being confused about computers and deciding that it wasn't important for me to understand. Well, this semester I'm going to make progress toward not being afraid of computers anymore. (And, sometimes, procrastination is the mother of massive savings, cha-ching.)

Today I'm thankful for Coloupop and NYX for being both affordable and decent quality brands. Esp colourpop, bc I have finally found a replacement for an old old old old pot of highlight that I adored for years and used to use for my inner corner but lost in the move. It goes on sheer (if I use a light hand), lasts all day, and doesn't irritate my eyes at all. In love.

Also thankful for a productive week in lab. I learned a lot! I did a lot (not a ton, but more than I had during the semester)! They were mostly half days but I think that was good for getting acclimated to the various spaces and such.

I have 150 pages of s c i e n c e to read before wednesday :))))) i sure hope darwin was a good writer

[axelreichel]

Pexels Alan Moes

Exponential increase in the diversity of flowering plants

It is perhaps a positive message and the hope that nature will be able to recover from the damage more quickly than we have been promised so far. International research team with participation from Göttingen investigates 8,000 plant genera

An international study involving researchers from Göttingen has investigated the evolution of flowering plants, known as angiosperms, in unprecedented depth using improved sequencing methods. The researchers have discovered that flowering plants evolved explosively at an early stage in an enormous diversity. Already in the early Cretaceous period 130 million years ago, more than 80 percent of the orders of angiosperms that exist today were present. The results of the study have been published in the scientific journal Nature.

A total of 279 scientists from 27 countries worked together on the study. They took samples from around 8,000 plant genera, which corresponds to around 60 percent of the genera found worldwide. The data set also includes centuries-old herbarium sheets, including plant species that have long been considered extinct. Using improved DNA sequencing technology, the researchers decoded 353 genes from the nuclear genome of each of these plants. The family tree of the plants was "calibrated" with over 200 fossils, i.e. an age was calculated for all branches in the family tree. Dr. Marc Appelhans, curator of the herbarium at the University of Göttingen, was part of the project as a specialist in the citrus family. "The constantly evolving sequencing techniques work very well with old plant material, as we know it from herbarium collections," he says. According to Appelhans, the study impressively demonstrates how important herbaria are for research. "Herbaria contain the genetic information of plants that have been collected all over the world over a period of several centuries," he says. The Göttingen herbarium, with an estimated 800,000 preserved plants, is one of the largest in Germany. The oldest treasures in this collection are more than 300 years old. "The study underpins an observation that Charles Darwin noted back in 1879," says Appelhans. In his studies of plant fossils, the naturalist had noticed that flowering plants became dominant worldwide within a very short geological time.

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Originalveröffentlichung: Zuntini, A.R., Carruthers, T., Maurin, O. et al., Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms, Nature 2024 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0

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Verona, al museo di storia naturale si celebra il naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace

Verona, al museo di storia naturale si celebra il naturalista Alfred Russel Wallace Venerdì 1° dicembre, in occasione dei 200 anni dalla nascita (8 gennaio 1823) del naturalista co-scopritore della teoria dell’evoluzione e padre della biogeografia, un’occasione di confronto sul ruolo dei Musei di Storia Naturale nella scoperta e nella conservazione della biodiversità e nella promozione della conoscenza scientifica. Alfred Russel Wallace è il naturalista, geografo, biologo ed esploratore britannico che formulò la teoria dell’evoluzione assieme a Charles Darwin. L’incontro scientifico, in programma venerdì 1° dicembre a partire dalle 9.30 alla sala “Sandro Ruffo”, ne celebra la figura e l’opera, ricordando uno dei più grandi scienziati del XIX secolo, pioniere della biogeografia e della zoologia, autore di iconici viaggi esplorativi in Sud America e nell'arcipelago malese. L’evento è organizzato dal Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona in collaborazione con il Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. L’appuntamento è anche l’occasione per fare il punto sui molti incontri che nell’arco dell’anno si sono susseguiti in vari musei naturalistici nell’ambito di #IniziativaWallace. Prendendo spunto dall’opera di Wallace, le cui collezioni sono conservate e tuttora studiate in importanti spazi espositivi, si parlerà dell’importanza dei musei di storia naturale e il loro ruolo nella scoperta e nella conservazione della biodiversità e nella promozione della conoscenza scientifica. I musei scientifici sono infatti depositari di un patrimonio straordinario di biodiversità e di reperti che documentano le grandi scoperte e le teorie scientifiche. Nel corso della giornata si susseguiranno interventi su vari aspetti, sia della biografia e dell’opera di Wallace, sia dell’uso e dell’importanza delle collezioni naturalistiche per lo studio e la valorizzazione della biodiversità, con particolare attenzione alle collezioni italiane. Fra gli appuntamenti anche la Lecture di George Beccaloni, alle 11.30, coordinatore del Wallace Correspondence Project, che interverrà all'incontro in collegamento da remoto. L'iniziativa è patrocinata da ANMS - Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici, Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza e Società Italiana di Biogeografia. La partecipazione alla giornata è libera fino a esaurimento dei posti disponibili in sala. Programma completo. Informazioni sul sito del Museo di storia Naturale.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Nature - and a voyage around the world!

Darwin 200 Project A Dutch ship, the Oosterschelde, a sailing ship designed like those that existed 200 years ago, has just set sail from England (on August 15th, 2023, from Plymouth).  It celebrates the journey which a famous botanist and scientist made 200 years ago; Charles Darwin who was the author of a book called “The Origin of Species”. The publication of this book in 1859 changed the way…

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Ship sets sail from England to retrace Charles Darwin's voyage nearly 200 years later

A schooner has set sail from Britain to retrace the voyage taken nearly 200 years ago by a young Charles Darwin that led to his theory of evolution. The Dutch ship Oosterschelde left Plymouth on Tuesday morning as a crowd cheered. The mission aims to inspire a new generation of naturalists to check on the state of species discovered by Darwin and develop projects to save them. Some 200 young…

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A Massive Project Is Helping Scientists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Mammals

In expansive new research out this week, scientists around the world have started to unravel the genetic secrets behind one of nature’s greatest success stories: mammals. They’ve catalogued and compared the genomes of more than 200 mammal species, including elephants, bats, and humans. Among other things, their findings should help us understand the origins of certain mammalian traits, as well as which species are most at risk of extinction in the future.

A Mononykus Hunts In ‘Prehistoric Planet’

Mammals aren’t the longest-lasting group of animals on Earth (that honor might belong to sea sponges), nor are we the most plentiful (by combined biomass alone, insects reign supreme there). But we might be one of the pluckiest.

The first mammal-like animals are thought to have emerged 200 million or so years ago, right as dinosaurs and their relatives became the world’s dominant land-dwelling vertebrates. Contrary to popular belief, early mammals did seem to thrive and diversify during this era. But it was the K–Pg extinction event 66 million years ago—likely the result of a giant asteroid impact—that really skyrocketed mammals to the top. Our surviving ancestors took advantage of the power vacuum left behind and gave rise to a wide variety of creatures that have occupied and often conquered just about every niche across the globe. Of course, humans are one of these many species, but we’re actually pretty late to the party, with the first human-like primates only thought to have arrived a few million years ago.

There’s still so much that we don’t understand about the journey that mammals took to get where we are today. That’s why scientists and research organizations decided to embark on a massive collaborative effort, known as the Zoonomia project. The name is a reference to the term coined by Erasmus Darwin, an 18th century English physician, philosopher, and grandfather to Charles Darwin, who set the foundation for the study of evolution. The project is being led by researchers from the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, but it has involved the help of more than 150 people.

“Humans are very good at studying humans. And we know an awful lot about humans,” said Elinor Karlsson, one of the project’s leaders and director of the Vertebrate Genomics Group at Broad, in a press conference about the findings. “But when you get out into a lot of other species, we just know surprisingly little about them and what they can do.”

Zoonomia is being billed as the largest resource of mammalian genomes of its kind in the world, with 240 non-human ones collected overall. Some of these were sourced from existing data, but the researchers newly sequenced the genomes of around 130 species and upgraded the genomic data available for a few others. Included in this list are animals like the African savanna elephant, the ghost-faced bat, the jaguar, the Brazilian guinea pig, the Yangtze River dolphin, and the domestic dog. These animals only cover around 4% of all mammalian species, but they should represent about 80% of mammal families in general; they also include over 50 endangered species.

The Zoonomia team didn’t just collect these genomes but also compared them to one another, in hopes of finding important similarities and differences scattered throughout the mammal tree of life. This week, the group has released the initial wave of papers based on these comparisons—11 in total, all published in the journal Science.

The studies cover lots of ground. One paper appears to show that roughly 10% of the human genome is highly conserved across many other mammal species, meaning that these regions have barely changed over time. These genes, which seem to mostly affect embryonic development and how RNA is expressed, are likely very key to mammals as a whole. The same team also found genes that appear to partly influence traits commonly found in mammals, such as larger brains and a great sense of smell, as well as traits found in only some mammals, like hibernation.

One study might help researchers pinpoint genetic mutations that could raise people’s risk of diseases like cancer. Another provides more support that mammals were diversifying even before the dinosaurs became extinct. Another looked at the genetics of Balto—the famous sled dog who helped save an Alaskan town from a diptheria outbreak in the 1920s—to find clues on how dogs of his time were able to survive their harsh environment.

One paper in particular suggests that we can use these genomes to predict which mammals are most likely to die out, based on factors like their expected population size thousands of years ago. These genomic assessments should be relatively cheap to conduct and could then help inform conservation efforts.

“Tens of thousands of species are at risk of extinction. Identifying those in most urgent need of conservation is often a long and costly process, and delays can further erode the prospects for survival of species on the brink of extinction,” co-lead author Aryn Wilder, a conservation geneticist at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, told Gizmodo in an email. “Our work suggests that a genome sequence, even if from only one individual, can provide information to gauge extinction risk, which is especially useful for the >20,000 species considered to be ‘Data Deficient’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).”

The initial lessons learned from the Zoonomia project will pay off in many different ways, the researchers say, for both humans and other mammals. And the sheer amount of data collected by the team will undoubtedly be used by scientists for years to come. It’s also likely that others will create similar genome projects that cover other broad groups of animals, aided by newer technologies that can provide more precise genetic data.

There is one major area of disappointment for the team, though.

“There’s one species we’re missing in there that will annoy me to no end, which is just the raccoon,” Karlsson said. “Like for some reason, we couldn’t get a raccoon DNA sample. And it was just like, how was that the one we’re missing?”

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Forget the poet hes a real Trevor Blue

Readings from the book, published by Allen & Unwin, will be broadcast on ABC National Radio next month. Dr Clark blames British academics, possibly with the help of MI5 and the CIA, for “this organized program against Australia”. What he revealed, he said, was the literary equivalent of getting the ashes back on English soil. Currency, The Complete Book of Australian Verseincluding works by hitherto unknown poets such as Rabbi Burns, Arnold Wordsworth, Warren Keats, Amy Lou Dickinson, Walter Burley Yeats, Kahliji Bran, TS (Tabi Sirius) Eliot, Sir Don Bettjeman, DH Oding, Louis “The Lip” MacNeice, Dylan Thompson and Sylvia Plath. Dr. Clarke said that some of the authors are related to well-known international poets with similar names. Ewen Coleridge, a plumber from Annandale who lived with Arnold Wordsworth, is not represented because his works, often written while undergoing one of the early methadone treatments, have been lost. However, Dr. Clark said, it was possible that some of Ewen’s work appeared under the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who smoked opium and wrote Crusted with an old navigator. Arnold Wordsworth, now believed to have written Narcissus It represents most of the works attributed to William Wordsworth Lines formed midway across the Pyrmont Bridge: Earth has nothing to show more fairness, It will be soft, imperfectly resistant, Who would willingly give up such an opinion, For, behold, the bird breaks its wind. And this whole joint doesn’t look so unpleasant, Stand back, because when she goes, she goes bloody. Dr. Clark noted that the works of writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare were not under challenge because white writers had only been in Australia for 200 years and blacks had no written culture. However, fragments were found around Stratford, near Horsham, Victoria, for Trevor Shakespeare’s work, beginning with: “Will there be any point in my formal some sort of comparison between you and the author of the absolute?” Why Australians emerged as the world’s greatest writers? “The depth and splendor of Australian culture, the wit and imagination of Australian writing – and perhaps the brew.” Why should the Australian revolution end in poetry? What about novels and dramas? loading “Of course. The history of Australian theater is littered with cobbled bits by less important people like Chekhov and Ibsen and other crooks from places like Scandinavia, where nothing can be verified, and Russia. Who knows what’s going on there?” “We found this guy named Gavin Tolstoy in Darwin somewhere. He wrote 87 tons in just one book. Four container trucks she brings from Darwin. Puts war and peace in the shade.” *John Clark says he completed his Ph.D. in Leipzig, and recently worked in the Department of Negative Reinforcement at Bond University, and on his own agrarian reform project. He is also known as Fred Dag, a comedian. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

[demi-shoggoth]

COVID-19 Reading Log, pt 18

Man, this past month has been a heck of a year, hasn’t it? I’ve still been reading books, but my pace has ebbed and flowed, and I forgot to update this for a while. So here’s my thoughts on ten of the most recent books I’ve read.

91. The League of Regrettable Sidekicks by Jon Morris. I had no idea this book existed until I was doing image searches for this project for the other “League of Regrettable X” books. This one covers the sidekicks, minions and goons of comic history. Unlike the other books by Jon Morris, the spread is more even of Gold/Silver/other ages of comic books. After all, the 70s is when Jaxxon the green rabbit appeared in Star Wars, and the 80s had a shape-shifting penguin named Frobisher in the Doctor Who comics. It also feels like it’s a little looser about what makes a character “regrettable”. Some of the sidekicks in its pages, like Woozy Winks and Volstagg the Voluminous, are legit great characters.

92. Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were by Michael Page and Robert Ingpen. I wanted to like this book; I really did. For one thing, it was recommended to me by @listmaker-lastcity​, who I was working with on commissions. For another thing, it was fairly pricy used. Thirdly, to its merit, it is gorgeous. Michael Page, the illustrator, is credited first, and rightly so. But for an “encyclopedia”, it makes up a lot of stuff. It opens with a disclaimer that “the creators of this book have… unlocked their own fantasies”, which means that it invents Arthuriana and Greek myths wholeheartedly. Several of the entries do not exist outside this book, and others are so distorted that their actual folkloric origins have been clouded and obscured by people using this as a source. For material I’m not familiar with the primary sources of, like Gulliver’s Travels, I have no idea if it’s reflecting the source material accurately, or making things up whole cloth. As a fantasy, it’s intermittently fun; some rather nasty misogyny does sneak in and the book is wildly anti-science. As a reference work, it’s useless to the point of actively harmful.

93. Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh. I was a huge fan of the “Hyperbole and a Half” blog back in the day, and knowing Allie Brosh’s history of mental health problems, I was worried when she seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. Her release of a second book was a pleasant surprise, but also showed that some worry was appropriate. This collection of essays, cartoons and heavily-cartooned essays is sadder than the first collection, as it was written during and after a series of family tragedies. It is still very funny in parts, however, and has an overall message of self-care and love that turned out to be extra relevant in the nightmare year that is 2020. It’s the only book for this project that I read in a single sitting. Highly recommended.

94. Mozart’s Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. This book is half memoir, half biography. The composer Mozart owned a starling during some of his most productive years as a composer, and even wrote an elegy to it when it died. The author used this as a launching point to adopt her own starling, and to examine how this invasive species is seen in American birding culture. The writing is humanistic and charming, and very self-aware (the author worries that her starling is going to die, because that’s what always happens in “this animal changed my life” books). The message is one of respecting all other creatures and of valuing the lives of animals, which is not much of a surprise from the author’s other books (I covered The Urban Bestiary earlier in this project.

95. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris. The subtitle says it all; this is a biography of Joseph Lister, focusing on his research into antisepsis and promotion of sterile technique in surgery. It takes ample digressions to talk about other major surgeons of the time, the state of hygiene and disease theory in Victorian England, France and the United States, as well as things like labor conditions and women’s rights. These bits and pieces are woven in successfully, so they feel like appropriate context setting. Fitzharris is empathetic despite the often grisly subject matter, but readers with a sensitive stomach and a low tolerance for gore might want to skip this one.

96. Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills! by Bryan Senn. This is a big book, 400 pages in full sized paper. It is an overview of the horror/SF double feature, covering every movie released initially in that format between 1955 and 1974 in the United States. As such, it reviews more than 200 movies, with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, critical opinion and box office, and general coverage of trends and themes in genre cinema at the time. I enjoyed this book greatly, especially since it covered some movies I’d never even heard of. The timing is perfect, too, as I read this book just before @screamscenepodcast​ covered the first entries in it, Revenge of the Creature/Cult of the Cobra. My one complaint is that the author seems biased against Japanese films. He discredits the special effects and monster suits in kaiju movies compared to even movies like Attack of the Giant Leeches and The Killer Shrews, and complains about acting and scripts in Japanese films much more than he does for other dubbed films. He also consistently refers to Ishiro Honda as “Inoshiro Honda”, which is how his name was misspelled in the 60s. That level of disrespect for some of my favorite genre pictures is a constant low-level irritation in what is otherwise a fine resource.

97. Cursed Objects by J. W. Ocker. This is a fun catalog of objects said to be cursed, including the whys, supposed effects and current locations of these artifacts. The book is sorted into categories, like “cursed objects in museums”, “cursed furniture”, “technological cursed objects”. It takes a skeptical, folkloric look at the topic, being more interested in the stories than in any legit supernatural powers. It even talks about things that “should” be cursed because of their odd appearances or eerie provenances, but aren’t, like the Crystal Skull forgeries. The book is a pleasant and breezy read, and the author has a good sense of humor on the topic. He curses the book itself with an epigram against thieves, and buys a cursed dog statue on eBay that sat on his desk throughout the writing process.

98. Death in the Garden by Michael Brown. This book is wildly misnamed, being light on both the “garden” and the “death”. It’s supposedly a social history of poisonous plants, but is more interested in English herbals specifically. It refers to the authors by name extensively as if we should have all of these memorized, and the only place where the prose has any energy is in the biographical section for these herbalists. There’s very little information about the actual plants and their poisons. I would use the word “doddering” to describe the prose style, which is simultaneously rambling and boring. The photography is pretty, though.

99. Ripley’s Believe it Or Not! 1929-1930 by Robert Ripley. IDW puts out lovely volumes of vintage American comics, and this is no exception. Being a kid into weird facts and trivia, and an adult who is still into them, the Ripley franchise was a major part of my childhood. This is the first modern collection organized chronologically, covering the first two years the strip was in national syndication. The strips cover the typical Ripley mix of sports trivia, weird facts, word riddles and puzzles, misleading statements and the occasional outright lie. The book has a warning about the racial attitudes of the time, which is fair, but it’s not nearly as bad as I feared. Ripley’s habit of drawing from photographic references means that people in ethnic minorities look like real people. But the language is decidedly “of its time”, with slurs used to identify foreign ethnicities (particularly Asian ones). So be warned.

100. Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed by Cynthia Ceilan. I’m ordering material to pick up from my local library again, which is great! This book was actually recommended by the library website based on the morbid slant of some of the other books I was putting on hold. Unfortunately, this book sucks. It’s pitched as a “weird deaths” book, something like a more literary version of the Darwin Awards. But the deaths are often not all that bizarre, instead being typically sad accidents or murders. It just comes off as mean spirited and misanthropic. Not recommended.

[jungleindierock]

Rebjukebox Selects 25 Songs for 2021 - Vol 4

Tracklist

Ded Rabbit- All Fired Up (Scotland)

A Projection - Darwin's Eden (Sweden)

Static In verona - Let Us Be Reckless (USA)

Juliana Hatfield - Mouthful Of Blood (USA)

The Rubens - Muddy Evil Pain (Australia)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - CYHSY, 2005 (USA)

The Drives - The Comedown (USA)

Kynsy - Elephant In The Room (Ireland)

Pondarosa - As You Think (England)

Per och Olof - Balkongen (Sweden)

Sister Wives - I Fyny Af / Rise (England)

Skegss - Valhalla (Australia)

Charming Liars - Pieces (USA)

Cloning - Messed Up (Australia)

Verandan - Hideaway (Finland)

The Pale White - Medicine (England)

Holy Monitor - Naked In The Rain (Greece)

Augustine - Prom (Sweden)

Another Michael - Big Pop (USA)

BAIO - Never Never Never (USA)

Gold Baby - Captain Dorego (England)

IS TROPICAL - Hummingbird (England)

Little Hurt - Messed Up (USA)

Rainn Byrns - Same Shit Different Year (England)

Wasuremono - I Feel Fine (Hallelujah) (England)

4th in my series of new music, 25 tracks all from 2021, compiled for your enjoyment!! The bands / artists on here are mainly unknown but a few famous ones do creep in.

The tracks are mixed genre and the position in the playlist is not based on songs, is mixed by me to mix the genres, but all are there on merit.

I have also posted this playlist on my spotify account, you can listen to it here on tumblr via this post or directly on Soundcloud or Spotify via the links provided below. But sometimes all the tracks are available on Spotify, so the missing tracks are added via the description.

The bands featured are from 8 different countries, England, Finland, Australia, America, Scotland, Sweden, Greece and Ireland.

Links: Soundcloud | Spotify

If you would like to send me a track for consideration for one of the future edtions, then send me a link by message on my Soundcloud account here. This does work i listen to everything that is sent.

These playlist are hard work, selecting 25 tracks from the 200+ tracks i start with, then playing and eliminating tracks, after about sweep number 4 i have the desired 25 songs. But then i have to mix those 25 into the running order. Then i have to search for the countries the bands / artist originate from and type it all up.

So please take your time and have a listen, hopefully you will enjoy and find some bands that are new to you!! So listen, share and enjoy these playlists of new music from Jungle Indie Rock.

Stay safe Reb

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21 May 2021

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Hames Sharley named largest architecture firm in WA for the third year in a row

Hames Sharley has been named the largest architecture firm in WA for a third consecutive year, according to Business News.

Hames Sharley boasts a diverse portfolio with 45 years of design excellence. Specialising in nine key sectors – Education, Science & Research, Health, Office & Industrial, Public & Culture, Residential, Retail & Town Centres, Sports & Recreational Urban Development and Workplace.

Brook McGowan, WA Studio Leader, says, “The list acknowledges that Hames Sharley has found resilience in the past year and turned its challenges into a positive impact. We did more than survive, we thrived.”

Hames Sharley currently has a significant array of projects in WA, including its own studio on the Hay Street Mall, Karrinyup Shopping Centre Redevelopment, One Subiaco, Australis at Rossmoyne, Wearne Cottesloe, Kardinya Shopping Centre Redevelopment, Carillon City Redevelopment, and the TL Robertson Library Redevelopment for Curtin University.

The annual survey ranks firms based on the number of architects they employ.

Full article here: https://www.hamessharley.com.au/article/hames-sharley-named-largest-architecture-firm-in-wa-for-the-third-year-in-a-row

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Australian Architectural Designs by Hames Sharley

14 May 2021 UWA Early Learning Centre, Perth, Western Australia image © Hames Sharley UWA Early Learning Centre The UWA Early Learning Centre outcome is an environmentally sustainable design with a fun environment for children to play, learn, and explore.⁠⁠ Nestled into a quiet, leafy corner of the UWA campus, the building’s single-storey scale and residential character relate well to the neighbouring residential area. ⁠⁠

23 Apr 2021 Picnic Point High School Redevelopment , Picnic Point, City of Canterbury-Bankstown, 23 kilometres south-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia image courtesy of Hames Sharley Architects Australia Picnic Point High School Building, NSW Picnic Point High School (PPHS) is a government high school located in the Picnic Point, New South Wales suburb. The redevelopment project, which involves the refurbishment of some existing buildings and the construction of a new learning facility, responds to the expansion of the school’s catchment to provide the East Hill’s and Picnic Point communities more choices for co-education.

18 Feb 2021 NEXTDC Data Centre, Perth, Western Australia image © Hames Sharley Hames Sharley New Home in Perth A major international planning, design and architecture firm is moving its 80-strong workforce into a high-profile derelict site in Perth’s Hay Street Mall in a vote of confidence for the lacklustre precinct.

14 Dec 2020 East Village Karrinyup Apartments, Perth, Western Australia image © Blank Canvas East Village Karrinyup Apartments, Perth Hames Sharley is proud to have designed the first stage of the East Village Karrinyup residences for Blackburne. This important milestone starts to complete the picture of this $800 million mixed-use activity centre development with AMP.

1 Sep 2020 Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Master Plan, Perth, Western Australia image courtesy of Hames Sharley Architects Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre Master Plan The Hames Sharley Team and their consultants engaged with stakeholders extensively for the Master Plan of Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre (QEIIMC), which ensures a carefully planned future for the development of the campus over the next 50 years.

23 July 2020 Australis at Rossmoyne Waters, Perth, Western Australia photograph : Douglas Mark Black Australis at Rossmoyne Waters in Perth The result of the Australis Development at Rossmoyne Waters by Hames Sharley was an intelligently designed communal space that heavily focused on being legible and easy to navigate. The design resulted in a centrally focused spine of activity and green encouraging a connection of spaces, both internally and externally.

6 July 2020 Tonkin Office, Adelaide, South Australia photograph : Peter Barnes Tonkin Office Adelaide In designing the Tonkin Office Fitout Hames Sharley set out to create an environment that is conducive to ‘Building exceptional outcomes together’, Tonkin’s core vision.

1 May 2020 Essence Apartments, Perth, Australia photograph : Douglas Mark Black Essence Apartment Building in Perth Essence Apartments encapsulates a balance of vibrancy and intimacy for its residents through the design response that focuses on the end-user’s desires and comfort while still playing its role in its important local context.

26 Mar 2020 Aurecon Darwin Office Fit-out News, Berrimah, Northern Territory Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design image Courtesy architecture office Aurecon Darwin Office Fit-out A collaboration between multi-disciplinary design firm Hames Sharley and international engineer, Aurecon has ensured a hugely successful outcome in Aurecon’s own Darwin office fit-out.

19 Feb 2020 Forrest Chase Perth Shopping Mall, 200 Murray Street, Perth, WA Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design photograph : Douglas Mark Black Forrest Chase Perth Shopping Mall, Western Australia The redevelopment of Forrest Chase has positioned the complex as a world-class retail and entertainment precinct that was executed in multiple stages to maintain both the building operation and movement of people along Padbury Walk. A related article: Forrest Chase Mall, Perth

25 Jan 2020 One Subiaco Concept, 10 Rokeby Avenue, Subiaco, inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia image courtesy of architects practice One Subiaco This Australian architect studio explore architectural individuality, character and refined elegance in their latest project, One Subiaco. The interior palettes reflect a contemporary yet timeless aesthetic ensuring a luxurious haven from the vibrant Subiaco life.

23 Jan 2020 Charles Darwin University City Campus Concept, Darwin CBD, Northern Territory Design: Hames Sharley Architecture, Urban & Interior Design image Courtesy architecture office Charles Darwin University City Campus Building Elevating the base of the buildings and lowering the carpark creates Darwin’s first proposed “public plaza” – a focal point for students,community events and CBD users.

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This Australian architecture practice has offices in the following cities:

Adelaide Level 15, 19 Grenfell Street Adelaide South Australia 5000

Brisbane Level 2, 235 Edward Street Brisbane QLD 4000

Darwin Level 1, Tower 3 19C Kitchener Drive Darwin City NT 0800

Melbourne Level 3 Podium, 530 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000

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[wrathkitty]

JUST STAY HOME.

To those of you out there operating under the belief that social distancing is a bunch of bullshit and we are all overreacting and need to calm down and take a klonopin:

Congratulations! Congratulations for participating in the massacre of stupidity that is unfolding around us. Kudos to you for ignoring the news and thinking that just because it happened in China that it can’t happen here.

Except it is happening here. And because we didn’t have the common sense of Australia, who cracked down on this shit ASAP, what we are facing is going to get exponentially worse. Planet Earth is the only game in town right now (God knows Australia sure as hell doesn’t want us), and there are no safe havens left.

But one of the very few ways we can try to stop the situation from getting worse is to for as many of us as possible to STAY HOME.

Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not make the assumption others like me who are SCREAMING this message from the rooftops are a bunch of tin foil-hat Chicken-Little proselytizing doomsday preppers. I’m the kind of parent who lets her kid eat food after it’s been dropped on the fucking floor.

Now?

I am sanitizing every goddamn thing in sight. 

I have put my parents in lockdown because they are over seventy and my mom is immunocompromised. My husband and kids and I are not leaving the house for two weeks in hopes we can see them again in person – after which my mom and dad will remain in lockdown, and we will continue to practice stringent social distancing. The alternative means facing 18 months or more of what is essentially house arrest, as indicated by some projections of how long it will take for COVID-19 to be within our control.

So listen up, humanity:

No one wants your Darwin award by proxy. If you have the ability to stay home, then STAY HOME.

Stay home for the people who HAVE to go to work – our asses staying inside means it helps reduce the chances of them getting sick.

Stay home for those who are immunocompromised or in some way are medically fragile.

Stay home for the emergency responders who can’t come save us in the event they are unable to time their 14-day quarantine with when your house catches on fire.  

Stay home for the medical professionals who show up to work and willingly march into a life-threatening health hazard in order to keep us alive. 

Stay home for those who are suffering from domestic violence and now are literally trapped under the same roof as their abuser.

Stay home for the kids who rely on school lunch and breakfast to eat, or for the kids whose only safe respite is school.

Stay home because you now have a once-in-a-lifetime legit reason to not go to the gym, or Netflix and chill, 100% guilt free. Unless you’re a parent of young, curious children who are easily bored and if so, best of luck to us all.

Stay home for everyone who is self-employed, or are small business owners, or anyone whose form of income is reliant upon people showing up in person. 

Go out only for essentials, stridently demand others respect your personal space (if they’re smart, they’ll be running away from you, too), and go straight back home. And once you’re home, sanitize everything you brought in with you, including yourself.

This is not the time to go do this really cool thing with a bunch of other people because reasons and you’re so tired of being stuck indoors.

This is the time to try and bridge the gaping intellectual chasm that is our leadership, and hope that it is not too late -- not just for ourselves or our countries, but OUR PLANET. There are no Avengers around to avenge us. STAY HOME.

(Please reblog, write your own missive, whatever. Or share why you’re staying home, who are you staying home for -- or why you cannot stay home, and why it’s important those of us who are able to keep our asses inside actually STAY inside. Spread the word like it’s COVID-19.)

Edited to add friends who (I think?) may be like-minded and increase chances of more people reading this ranting PSA. Please let me know if you want me to un-tag you -- and I apologize for making assumptions! 

@mareebird @emeraldrosequartz @villainousshakespeare @devilish--doll @caffiend-queen @nildespirandum @alexakeyloveloki @realityhelixwrites @texmexdarling @toozmanykids @latent-thoughts @michellearel1

#juststayhome #stayhome #COVID-1 #socialdistancing #keepyourassindoors #introvertsunite 

[general-thinks]

I know nothing about Fate and it's a hole I don't really want to dive into, but I must ask, does anyone with a servant just, like, ask them what history was like? Because, like, fuck, if I could summon Parasurama or Cleopatra or DaVinci or some shit my first orders wouldn't be "Hey go fight these nerds for me.", it'd be some shit like "What did you all have for breakfast? What was it like living under this king? What are the small things no one writes down in the histories? WHO WAS FUCKING?"

Ok, this is hard to explain because I'm 200% on your side. I mean, if you can call spirits from the past, I would constantly talk with them and know more and more about their times. If I had Quetzalcoatl I would spend DAYS asking her about mesoamerican history and culture, same with Gilgamesh, Romulus or Ektor.

The main problem are the mages themself. You see, in the Nasuverse mages are assholes idiots that keep clinging on the dying art that is magic. Every family works on a project that should increase the knowledge about magic, but since mages are bastards idiots instead working togheter they keep kill and troubling each other, thinking that only their family (but more themself) should obtain that knowledge and no one else. Add the fact that mages, as the cumbrains idiots that they are, practice social darwinism and that Servan are apparently a special class of Familiars (and so mages see them only as tools), and the fact that they don't believe in friendship, love or kindness, and you get those idiots