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The Tumblr poll has spoken!!

Great timing, Randy. Appreciate it. 🙄

He doesn't wanna talk about it. (in his defense it was very dark)

The second time's the charm, it seems! No more fungus zombie infection to worry about for now.

I think Laursen is feeling a little overprotective of his fellow cultists after the close call we've had, bless his heart <3

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Summary, Week 7

Bauhaus and Beyond Bauhaus designers explored purity of form, geometry, material integrity, and function to produce an entirely new aesthetic. Their functional rationalism was perfectly suited to tubular steel, and many of the most successful Bauhaus designs include metal tubing. Designers around the world were aware of the new ideas being explored in Germany. American designers, with a greater interest in manufacturing, and with an interest in consumer needs, incorporated some Bauhaus thinking, and LOTS of tubular steel, to create production furniture with less artistic integrity, but a much wider acceptance. The struggle to balance good design with ease of manufacture, and to include customer preferences, is visible in the goods produced by American Industrial Designers at this time. people you must know: • marcel breuer • marianne brandt  • wilhelm wagenfeld • mies van der rohe • le corbusier • charlotte perriand  • peter behrens • eileen gray • donald deskey • gilbert rohde people you really should know: • henry van de velde • walter gropius • lilly reich • poul henningsen • gerrit rietveld • kem weber people you could know, if you want to know more people: • mart stam • lilly reich • pierre jeanneret • hans & wassili luckhardt  • laszlo moholy-nagy • rené herbst • wolfgang hoffmann

other people included in the lecture whom you need not know but might want listed:

• reinhard and max mannesmann • john vassos • herbert bayer • gerhard behrend • gerhard marks • hans przyrembel • hin bredendieck • pierre jenneret • heath robinson • anton lorenz • louis sognot • charlotte alix • andré sornay • adrienne gorska (Tamara's sister) • jean burkhalter • oliver bernard • practical equipment limited (pel) • serge chermayeff • giuseppe terragni • walter knoll • j.j. oud • erik gunnar asplund • paul schuitema • nathan horwitt • peter bang • emile guyot/Guillot • alfred zeffner • arie willem verbeek • william lescaze

people we all need to know more about: • ilonka karasz • pola hoffmann • alice louise roth

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Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia

Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, I can’t diagnose you. If you think you have a mental illness please reach out to your doctor or a mental health professional.

For schizophrenics like myself, some of the most stigmatized, and sensationalized symptoms are the positive ones, meaning delusions, hallucinations, and movement disorders to some extent. You see them in textbooks and in the media; seeing, hearing, smelling or feeling things that aren’t real. Believing strange ideas, and this is my own example, like that the alien government lizard people are coming after you. These draw the most attention from the public eye, and I can’t blame them, alien government lizard people is pretty out there. But what about the less talked about symptoms such as negative and cognitive symptoms? Well, this essay will examine the cognitive side of a schizophrenia diagnosis.

According to Columbia University (2016), “many people with [Schizophrenia] also have cognitive deficits, including problems with short- and long-term memory.” They go on to say that cognitive factors can be the most disabling for people, leading to difficulty holding down a job and maintaining social relationships. They don’t have many answers as to the cause or cure for memory problems. Sucks to be us I guess. I personally have a plethora of issues with memory, short term and long term. I find myself lost when the dialogue of TV shows gets even slightly complicated because I immediately forget what was said, maybe that’s just me but it takes a toll on my self-esteem when I can't follow slightly complicated dialogue. But anyway, back to memory. Apparently when a group of healthy controls were compared to a group with schizophrenia, the healthy group, unsurprisingly, did better at memory tasks. In fact the health control groups brains showed increased brain activity the tests got harder and decreased activity when it got easier while the people with schizophrenia showed significantly weaker activity across the board.

According to Bowie and Harvey (2006) cognitive symptoms are the central feature of schizophrenia. As well as that these impairments may even present before the emergence of positive symptoms. They also found that there were “moderate deficits in attention, verbal fluency, working memory, and processing speed, with superimposed severe deficits in declarative verbal memory and executive functioning.” What is executive functioning? Well to quote Goodman (2021), “[e]xecutive functioning skills help you get things done. These skills are controlled by an area of the brain called the frontal lobe.” Things executive functioning helps you do is “manage time, pay attention, switch focus, plan and organize, remember details, avoid saying or doing the wrong thing, do things based on your experience, and multitask” (Goodman, 2021).

I’ll cover some ways to deal with executive dysfunction in a later essay.

Most people with schizophrenia will show some kind of cognitive impairment, but the severity will vary across different people. One interesting thing about these cognitive impairments is that they will remain relatively stable over time. There are some different types of impairments that I will summarize.

General Intelligence

I take some offence at the description that all people with schizophrenia have lower IQ’s, I mean there are/were some very smart people with it, like John Nash, or the people Cernis, Vassos, Brebion, McKenna, Murray, David & MacCabe (2015) studied, finding that there is “a high-IQ variant of schizophrenia that is associated with markedly fewer negative symptoms than typical schizophrenia” However the science seems to be overwhelmingly favourable in the direction that people with it have lower IQ’s as a group. On the other hand, I don’t know what kind of people they picked for their healthy control group, because if they were all university grads then it’s not really fair. So take this with a grain of salt. While the tests say that we are as a group, less intelligent than the “general” population it doesn’t mean you specifically are not intelligent. We can be just as successful as anyone else.

Attention

This one is simple, people with schizophrenia have a deficit in their ability to maintain their attention, this occurs even before the first psychotic episode.

Working memory

I have a terrible working memory, bad enough for it to be considered a learning disability. However I’m not alone in this, many people with schizophrenia have some kind of dysfunction in working memory, and apparently specifically verbal working memory. Bowie and Harvey (2006) state that “Working memory can be conceptualized as the ability to maintain and manipulate informative stimuli.” This is in contrast to attention span, with working memory being more cognitively challenging and attention span being more simple. In working memory, “The information must be held online for processing, but does not necessarily transfer to long-term storage, unlike episodic memory” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). And poor memory can even affect social and interpersonal relationships because of the inability to pay attention to “multiple streams of information” Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

Verbal fluency

People like us sometimes find it rather difficult to speak in a coherent fashion, I remember many instances where I’ve tried to speak only for word salad to spill out of my mouth, and the looks of confusion and worry on other peoples faces is just great, really what I wanted to happen, not embarrassing at all. This inability to speak is due to “poor storage of verbal information as well as inefficient retrieval of information from semantic network” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). Furthermore, "information that is stored is not always retrieved as a result of this inability to properly access semantic networks” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

Verbal and learning memory

A main impairment of schizophrenia is the difficulty of retaining verbal information. From what I understand, recognition memory seems to be able to work well in most cases, but “the pattern of deficits in schizophrenia tends to be reduced rates of learning over multiple exposure trials and poor recall of learned information” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006). So basically it takes a while for us to learn something but once we do we have good recognition memory. Now, recognition memory is the ability to recall something when you’ve seen it before, so I think what happens is if you’re able to process the information into long term memory you’ll be able to recall when you encounter that information again. Maybe I’m totally wrong, I don’t know.

Executive functioning

Now most schizophrenics have difficulties with most of all of the processes involved with executive dysfunction. Bowie and Harvey (2006) say that “schizophrenia patients have trouble adapting to changes in the environment that require different behavioral responses” which is directly due to issues with executive dysfunction. Furthermore, this “inflexibility” is highly associated with what Bowie and Harvey call “occupational difficulties.” This makes sense, when someone can’t plan, practice self-care, engage in social and interpersonal matters or participate in community functions, it’s gonna take a toll on your work life.

Treatment

Atypical antipsychotics seem to be the best treatment for cognitive impairments, though the results are sorta weak, Bowie and Harvey (2006) admit that “they have had very limited, if any, success in producing cognitive improvements. However, the search for new compounds designed specifically for cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia continues to be a promising area for future research.”

However there is also behavioural treatments, but there isn’t a lot of research on this topic. On the other hand, what little research there is, is very promising. “These strategies include training on computerized tasks similar to existing cognitive tests, teaching new learning strategies, training on novel tasks, and/or performing tasks repetitively” (Bowie and Harvey, 2006).

In the end, it seems that a combination of medication and therapy is the key. On the other hand, research by Everding (2005) states that “memory problems in schizophrenia can indeed be reduced and suggests that helping people use the right memorization strategy is critical to success.” The right strategies seem to be to remember more ‘deeply’ or according to Jantzi, Mengi, Serfaty, et al., (2019) to engage in retrieval practice, also Antzi, Mengi, Serfaty, et al.’s (2019) study is “the first to demonstrate that retrieval practice is also superior to restudy in improving later recall in patients with schizophrenia presenting with episodic memory impairment.” This is great news for us because it presents a real way of improving our memories, which apparently most of us need.

REFERENCES

Study finds brain marker of poor memory in schizophrenia patients: possible key to understanding and treating cognitive symptoms of the disease, (2016). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/study-finds-brain-marker-poor-memory-schizophrenia-patients

Bowie, C. R., & Harvey, P. D. (2006). Cognitive deficits and functional outcome in schizophrenia. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2(4), 531–536. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671937/

Černis ,E,. Vassos, E,. Brébion, G,. McKenna, PJ,. Murray, RM,. David, AS,. MacCabe, JH. (2015). Schizophrenia patients with high intelligence: A clinically distinct sub-type of schizophrenia? Eur Psychiatry. (5):628-32. Retrieved from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25752725/

Gerry Everding (2005). Memory study shows brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation: need cues, memory aids. Washington University. Retrieved from https://source.wustl.edu/2005/07/memory-study-shows-brain-function-in-schizophrenia-can-improve-with-support-holds-promise-for-cognitive-rehabilitation/

Jantzi, C., Mengin, A., Serfaty, D. et al. (2019). Retrieval practice improves memory in patients with schizophrenia: new perspectives for cognitive remediation. BMC Psychiatry 19, 355. Retrieved from https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-019-2341-y#citeas

Goodman, B. (2021). Executive function and executive dysfunction disorders. WebMD. Retrieved from https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/executive-function

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A man got COVID-19 twice, but don’t panic

By Vasso Apostolopoulos and Maja Husaric (Victoria University) and Magdalena Plebanski (RMIT University)

A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID-19 more than four months ago has reportedly been reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This time he didn’t have any symptoms.

Hong Kong scientists report case of man reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after his first bout – the world's first proven case of reinfectionhttps://t.co/dTc5MQ6bxx

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 24, 2020

This is not necessarily unexpected, because very few natural infections generate an immune response that completely prevents reinfection. Instead, what generally happens after an infection is that the body’s immune response gradually declines over months after the infection is cleared.

Specialised immune cells in the body are tasked with remembering each particular infection, so if you get infected again your body quickly starts producing the relevant antibodies and other immune cells (called T cells) in large numbers. This helps clear the new infection more rapidly and effectively. So you can still get reinfected, but you’re more likely to have fewer symptoms or be asymptomatic.

This is what seems to have happened to the 33-year-old Hong Kong man at the centre of the latest reports. The first infection caused symptoms, which he reportedly suffered from for some time. But the second time around he was asymptomatic, presumably because his body effectively repelled the disease.

The same phenomenon has previously been shown in monkeys, with one experimental study showing reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 is possible, but that reinfection did not result in the development of disease.

However, we have to be careful about over-interpreting what we know about this case. This is just one person. Is he the exception or the rule? We don’t know yet for sure, and we have to wait for further research. Also, his case was announced via a press release, so we have to wait for the paper to be officially published to be able to properly scrutinise the data.

A different strain

There have been anecdotal reports of people being reinfected before, but many of these seem to be cases in which the initial infection simply persisted for a long time, or in which the person’s lungs were expelling dead virus.

But in this case, the virus isolated from the man’s two separate positive COVID-19 tests had slightly different genetic sequences. This suggests they had a different origin and are therefore different strains.

So far, there have been many SARS-CoV-2 mutations detected around the world. One particular mutant strain, known as the G-variant, seems to be more infectious than the original virus.

We must remember, however, it’s common for viruses to mutate. So it’s also possible we’ll need several different vaccines to account for multiple strains of the virus, like is often done with the flu vaccine.

What does this mean for our immune system?

The good news is this particular person’s immune system seems to have recognised the second infection, as shown by the fact his blood boosted antibodies against it. Despite the mutation, the man could still mount a good defence against the new strain.

Antibodies usually last in the blood for roughly 120 days following a stimulus such as natural infection with a virus or injection with a vaccine, though it varies depending on the disease. Both the B cells that produce antibodies, and the T cells that kill infected cells, also wane over time after the stimulus.

Vaccines can induce longer-lasting responses. But the key point is both natural infections and vaccines do generate memory B and T cells. So when the body comes in contact with the infection the second time, the memory cells respond rapidly and in high numbers. This can be so quick and strong that in some cases it can even result in “sterile protection”, effectively preventing the virus from infecting our cells. More commonly, there may be a small lag time for the immune system to respond fully, but in the end the virus is still unlikely to infect many cells.

In this case it appears the first infection was enough to teach the person’s immune system how to deal with the virus a second time. So he was reinfected, but didn’t develop symptoms. Credit: Alessandro Di Marco/EPA/AAP

He didn’t develop symptoms, but could he still pass it on?

At the moment it’s unclear if asymptomatic carriers can transmit infection. Indeed, there may be different types of asymptomatic carriers. Some asymptomatic people might transmit the virus, while others don’t. We don’t know why this is the case.

But based on our experience with other diseases, the higher the number of viral particles being spread from person to person, the higher the chance of infection. Therefore, asymptomatic carriers, who do not shed lots of virus through coughing or sneezing, should in theory have a lower risk of infecting others.

Does reinfection mean herd immunity is impossible?

Herd immunity is still possible if we get a successful vaccine, because vaccines can be more powerful and protective than the immunity conferred by being naturally infected with the virus. Some epidemiologists suggest at least 70% of a population needs to be immunised to achieve herd immunity.

What’s more, becoming reinfected does not mean the virus will necessarily be transmitted — it depends on the viral dose and the susceptibility of people around the infected person. If they are all immunised with a vaccine, we generate a ring of fire that can contain spread of the virus.

It’s also possible SARS-CoV-2 becomes an endemic virus, like many viruses circulating in the population. But as long as there are diagnostics, vaccines and treatments, we could continue functioning normally just as we do with influenza present in the population. Ultimately it’s about what level of risk society is willing to accept. And we may need to use infection control methods like masks and hand hygiene for some time.

Vasso Apostolopoulos, Professor of Immunology and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University; Magdalena Plebanski, Professor of Immunology, RMIT University, and Maja Husaric, Lecturer; MD, Victoria University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Chris Evans has discussed his remarkable weight loss on his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show with co-star Vassos Alexander. The 53-year-old radio DJ revealed he had dropped to 12 stone following a “super tip” on how to lose weight. As part of the diet plan he cannot drink while eating, but must instead consume beverages 45 minutes before or after a meal. He said the change has helped him shred a…

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In the last article we introduced a basic approach for Inventory-Aware Pathfinding (IAP), a pathfinding algorithm capable of interacting with obstacles and not just avoiding them. If you have not read it, I encourage you to go back and read it to understand the basic challenges and the main ideas behind the proposed solution.

For instance, we can have a pathfinding algorithm that can solve small plans and “puzzles” involving reasoning like “before passing this door, I need to get that key”. This is definitely planning territory. However, if we focus on a small subset of the problem, we may squeeze the algorithm into the pathfinding search itself.

In order for the red NPC character to reach the King, he needs the KEY to open the door. But to get the KEY, he needs to give the MEAT to the DRAGON. But to do this he needs to kill the SKELETON with the MAGIC AXE. Or he can talk to the MONKEY and get a SPECIAL ARMOR that allows him to pass the LAVA RIVER.

We have already seen that, if we focus on this type of item-related problems, then we can tweak the problem in such a way it can be naively solved by a traditional pathfinding algorithm with just a minimal set of changes.

The goal of the offline preprocessing step is to analyze the game map and extract information on the different regions that are connected through obstacles. The basic concept is this: a region represents an area of the map that can be fully explored by a character starting in it with no items.

Computing this is crucial. This structure allows us to reason on the high-level relation among items, obstacles and reachable locations on the map. In particular, using this information we can:

Understand how different regions of the map are connected through the different obstacles.

Understand how obstacles are related with each other. For instance, certain obstacles can be encountered only if we remove other obstacles first.

Understand how different map regions are connected. For instance, if we ask for a path between two disconnected regions, then we can return a failure without even starting with the search.

For this task, we take as input the map annotated with the location of every obstacle and we  generate two different outputs.

The first one on the left is the connected area map. It is a copy of the original map in which each location (tile, mesh or whatever) is annotated with an integer. If two locations are labeled with the same integer, then they belong to the same connected area (and vice versa).

The second on the right is the obstacle connectivity graph, a graph in which each node is a connected area and each edge represents the obstacle connecting two areas. This graph is the core of the preprocessing method and it is used to answer questions like “which obstacle I will encounter if I move from start to destination?”

If we traverse the graph from the starting point region to the area where the destination point is, the edge we traverse represents the obstacles we necessarily need to unlock to reach the destination.

Once we have got these two pieces of information, we can serialize them and store them on disk.

Step 2: The online pre-search

The second step is where we do the actual magic. This step takes as input the precomputed data from Step 1 (connected area map and obstacle connectivity graph) and the pathfinding query (current location and desired goal), and produces a subset of the total items on the map that “should be sufficient to reach the goal within a range of confidence”. In fact, the bad news is this algorithm, in general, cannot guarantee that the output set of items is enough to reach the destination. However, the good news is that we can control this behavior by allocating more resources to the algorithm. In the extreme case, we can also obtain a complete subset of items (that means, we can be sure that this set can allow us to find a solution, if it exists).

We will explore the preprocessing step with the above example. Disregarding the effort to do pathfinding inside a single region (which we know is is always possible), the goal is to go from the yellow region (where the NPC starts) to the purple region (where the King is) using the items on the map. At first glance, it is clear that some objects are unnecessary as there are 3 obstacles (namely the BAT, the DRAGON and the DOOR) and 5 items!

In Step 2 the pre-search algorithm works in this way. First, we look at the graph and we search all the possible paths going from YELLOW to PURPLE (without loops, obviously). This produces a set of sequences of the form “region -> obstacle -> region -> …”. In the example there is only one possible path: YELLOW -> DOOR -> PURPLE.

If we take any of these sequences, then we know that all the obstacles in it MUST be unlocked to reach the destination traversing all the areas in that sequence. If we take all the sequences in the set, then we know that to solve the problem we need AT LEAST ALL THE ITEMS IN AT LEAST ONE sequence. For now, let’s be on the safe side and consider that we need to unlock all the obstacles in all the sequences.

We can then use this information to generate a set of significant obstacles in the map; we call this set Necessary Obstacles Set (NOS). In the small example above there is only one sequence available and therefore the NOS trivially contains only the DOOR. In general, things are more complicated and there are different ways to choose this set. However, as we said before, we can try to be safe and put into NOS all the obstacles for every sequence.

Once we have our NOS set, we can produce the corresponding set containing the items that unlock all the obstacles in NOS. We call this set Necessary Items Set (NIS). In the example above, the DOOR is unlocked by the KEY, therefore the NIS set contains only the KEY.

Now we can start an instance of Inventory-Aware Pathfinding that uses only the items in the NIS set ignoring everything else. We managed to go from 5 items to only 1, i.e., the KEY! Not bad!

A slightly more complex example

However, in general, the items in NIS may be not sufficient for reaching the destination. Consider for example that the KEY is in the GREEN region (the one blocked by the DRAGON). If we are allowed only to take the KEY, we are stuck because we cannot remove the DRAGON.

To solve this problem we can use a recursive approach. We call the NIS set obtained so far with NIS(0). Then, we need to repeat the above algorithm using as destination the region of every item in NIS(0). In other words, we look for all the possible paths from the starting point to the i-th item in NIS(0)  and add all the items returned by the algorithm to NIS(0). We call this  new set NIS(1).

Let’s look at the example. As we have seen before, NIS(0) = { KEY }. Then we set the region containing the KEY as a destination and we repeat the algorithm. Looking at the connectivity graph, the only path from start to KEY is (YELLOW -> DRAGON -> GREEN). The NOS set will contain { DRAGON } and, therefore,  the corresponding NKS set will be { AXE }. We add this to NIS(0) and we get NIS(1) = { AXE, KEY }.

Now, we repeat the same thing again for every item in NIS(1). However, you can verify this time NIS(2) will be the same of NIS(1). As a consequence, we can stop iterating and return { AXE, KEY } as the final NIS set. We can easily see how AXE and KEY are the only two items we need to reach the king!  Finally, we can apply a IAP algorithm limited to AXE and KEY, and solve the problem.

Unfortunately, with this approach we lose general optimality. For instance, this algorithm will not include items that can be used to open a shortcut in the same region. As a consequence, the final path may not be optimal. I will leave the details of this for another time. However, in many practical cases, removing more than 50% of the items on the map is more important than solving the optimal problem.

Additional Resources:

This work has been done in collaboration with Stavros Vassos and Sebastian Sardina. You can get more info and ask question about IAP by visiting my website.

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Four-year-old Night Stalker wakes up, dons a flophat, begins working at the crematorium, and chooses violence. Big day for such a little guy!

Speaking of violence, Magic Man and Fracturedivine did some damage of their own to poor Flea, who wound up in our small hospital with a few bitten-off toes. Nice work, M.M.?

Buckeye is being strange, and it made me wonder if she has some sort of psychic link to her un-sprouted child that gives her pregnant lady mood swings.

Euclid continues to be the best tailor I've ever had in a colony.

I imagine cooking back-to-back with someone who has massive wings and a long prehensile tail is uncomfortable at best, and downright impossible at worst. Blackdragon seems to be making the best of it, though.

I've been doodling the mechanitor from the next run on everything, and getting the Archonexus popup in the wrong colony amused me.

Then finally, we had some heartfelt reunions as visitors came to see us. We're going to see if we can recruit Mr Zannakos (Vasso's dad) and Synesthete (Socks' wife) before the guests leave. It will upset their faction, but family reunions are more important, dammit!!

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Against all odds, asexual Buckeye and reduced-fertility-gene Magic Man have managed to make a baby! However, because Buckeye is Animakin, she needs to plant the baby in soil... And there is no soil in the ocular forest where Monster's Basin is. Only red sand and red dirt and other nasty red stuff, which apparently doesn't count.

So, we have unexpectedly had to up and move in order to give this new baby the best possible chance of survival! We were hoping to be able to prepare a bit more first, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We'll leave everything behind for the sake of one of our own if we must.

However, moving means it's time for another (rather rushed, I'm afraid) colony tour! Presenting: Monster's Basin!!

Here's the whole thing from above. If I had to describe it in one word, I would say "red".

Here is the central room, the kitchen/dining/ritual room. Next to it, we have two bathrooms and our freezer. Magic Man is already packing some of our human leather kneel sheets, as you can see.

Some bedrooms: Top left is Vasso and Laursen's room, top right is Euclid and Socks' room, bottom left is Dire Wolf and Pro (and formerly Bella's) room, and bottom left is Magic Man, Buckeye, and Dopey the razorjack's bedroom.

We also have a small, utilitarian hospital.

Up above the bedrooms and the main room are our dinosaur museum (we can't go without a dinosaur museum) and our research laboratory. Also a better view of the freezer.

Our farms and a huge stack of red bricks that we'll never get to use.

Here's a nutrient-paste barn that we got from a prefab some traders sold us. Mostly so we could see what it was, but our animals seemed to appreciate it.

Bella's room that she was given when she grew up into an adult, the sauna, and Blackdragon, Duchess, and Night Stalker's room.

The wardrobe, the chemfuel room, the miscellaneous devices room, the hot spring, and the small place where we attempted to plant Buckeye's sapling child before we realised it didn't work in this biome.

Finally, our animal pen/archery range. We were very fond of the moose named All-Powerful (she fell out of the sky), but we'll probably release her into the wild (along with a self-tamed hare and three baby wolfchickens some traders gave us) to help us conserve food on our abrupt journey.

And that concludes the tour of Monster's Basin! I wonder where our caravan will take us. Hopefully, somewhere with plenty of fertile soil for a growing sapling child...

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