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Middle aged human, accidental homeschooler, defender of the little grey cells 😷🧠, trying to be a Good Ancestor 🇨🇦
For those that haven’t seen it before, this interdisciplinary article about trends that emerged in 1918 may be of interest/relevance
definingmomentscanada.ca/1918-influen...
definingmomentscanada.ca/1918-influen...
In the Prime of Life – Defining Moments Canada
Cracking the Mystery of High Young Adult Mortality during the 1918 Flu Pandemic Alain Gagnon, Ann Herring, Stacey Hallman and Matthew Miller Young adults are not usually very susceptible to
definingmomentscanada.ca
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
For those that haven’t seen it before, this interdisciplinary article about trends that emerged in 1918 may be of interest/relevance
definingmomentscanada.ca/1918-influen...
definingmomentscanada.ca/1918-influen...
How fascinating! When it was top-notch engineers like Joseph Bazalgette who problem-solved London’s way out of cholera outbreaks… not the medical establishment.
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How fascinating! When it was top-notch engineers like Joseph Bazalgette who problem-solved London’s way out of cholera outbreaks… not the medical establishment.
And another resource for those interested in how designing-for-health and fresh air can have beautiful results.
www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/p...
www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/p...
Paimio Sanatorium, 1929–33 | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
To design the Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar and Aino Aalto leveraged the best science available at the time, which called for cross-ventilation and heliotherapy (exposure to sunshine) to treat and prevent ...
www.cooperhewitt.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And another resource for those interested in how designing-for-health and fresh air can have beautiful results.
www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/p...
www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/12/10/p...
I love to share this fascinating article about architecture, design, and the need for fresh air. Folks, we already know how to do this! (for schools, hospitals, prisons, offices, and more)
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when...
When Fresh Air Went Out of Fashion at Hospitals
How the hospital went from luxury resort to windowless box
www.smithsonianmag.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I love to share this fascinating article about architecture, design, and the need for fresh air. Folks, we already know how to do this! (for schools, hospitals, prisons, offices, and more)
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when...
This excellent piece is worth a read (ahem) if you’re wondering exactly why this type of throwaway technology is so particularly enraging
gregscaduto.substack.com/p/the-unmaki...
gregscaduto.substack.com/p/the-unmaki...
The Unmaking of the Reader, Part 1
Professor Jonathan Fine, PhD, has watched the literary inner life vanish from his students at Brown
gregscaduto.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This excellent piece is worth a read (ahem) if you’re wondering exactly why this type of throwaway technology is so particularly enraging
gregscaduto.substack.com/p/the-unmaki...
gregscaduto.substack.com/p/the-unmaki...
Yeah, those are my Friday vibes too, Ahab.
August 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yeah, those are my Friday vibes too, Ahab.
Neat! You may find this organization of interest. Their early 20th century photography archives (under ‘Historic Collections’) is absolutely fascinating and may help you understand even more about the easy-to-draw-hard-to-spell province:
www.skhistory.ca
www.skhistory.ca
Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society
www.skhistory.ca
July 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Neat! You may find this organization of interest. Their early 20th century photography archives (under ‘Historic Collections’) is absolutely fascinating and may help you understand even more about the easy-to-draw-hard-to-spell province:
www.skhistory.ca
www.skhistory.ca
Also wildly eccentric, slightly tipsy Neo-Gothic mentor? Side hustles as a witch. Wears bonkers hats & novelty shoelaces. Weirdly reliable in a fight.
July 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Also wildly eccentric, slightly tipsy Neo-Gothic mentor? Side hustles as a witch. Wears bonkers hats & novelty shoelaces. Weirdly reliable in a fight.
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In the words of C. S. Lewis: “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
May 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In the words of C. S. Lewis: “I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
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Chatgpt is not a car, and the assignment is not to "get someplace".
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
May 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Chatgpt is not a car, and the assignment is not to "get someplace".
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
The assignment is to learn to drive and chatgpt is taking the bus.
Take the bus as often as you like, but you're not learning to drive.
My favourite so far!
February 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My favourite so far!