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Are you in the mood for a story about gangs of roving children, a mechanical pony, anthropomorphic trees, playgrounds that give you ouchies, and crippling loneliness? You're in luck; please read my first foray into speculative fiction below. Thank you @EvergreenReview!
“She scrolled the internet for articles written by other unhappy women. Breast is best. Fed is best. Safe is best. Keeping the baby alive is best.”
Up now: “A Mother Makes a Death,” a new short story by @ElizabethBrus. Art by Tidawhitney Lek.
evergreenreview.com/read/a-m…
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"Every day learn something new."
Chemistry laureate Louis Brus highlighted the importance of lifelong learning in his Nobel Prize lecture. He also shared his other top tips for success… and they don’t include being a genius!
Watch his lecture here: bit.ly/3tqi79Z
ALT Louis Brus delivering his Nobel Prize lecture.
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As we mourn Louis E. Brus, Bell Labs legend, Nobel Prize winner, & the inventor of #quantum dots, remember his words:
"We are all trapped by our educational background. So, learn something new every day. This is the greatest skill we have."
See more ➡️ nokia.ly/4bKOeoB
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“When a person identifies himself with a group, his reasoning faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance or positive feedback.”
– Arthur Koestler
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Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. David Young
ALT LOVESONG How shall I manage my soul so that it doesn’t touch against yours? How shall I lift it past you to get to other things? Oh, I would gladly shelter it in darkness, near something lost, in a strange and silent place that doesn’t hum and resound each time your depths vibrate. But everything that touches you or me takes us together, as a violin bow strokes one sound from two adjoining strings. What kind of instrument are we stretched out on? And what musician holds us in his grasp? O sweet song.
This seems like a great day to post this article I wrote for @The_Belladonnas in 2021. Should I write a follow-up?
thebelladonnacomedy.com/gove…
I know Lesotho. I lived there for two years. These cuts are ripping life-saving medicines out of people's hands with no recourse to find them elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of people, including children, will die. Personal friends of mine will die.
Nine things about Lesotho - the country 'nobody has ever heard of' bbc.in/43iZXGU
Elizabeth Brus retweeted
"Every day learn something new."
Chemistry laureate Louis Brus highlighted the importance of lifelong learning in his Nobel Prize lecture. He also shared his other top tips for success… and they don’t include being a genius!
Watch his lecture here: bit.ly/3tqi79Z
ALT Louis Brus delivering his Nobel Prize lecture.
As a lifelong middle and high school teacher (and now tutor) in many different settings (public and private), I can say this is mostly true. However, this pressure to read less is decidedly NOT coming from English teachers, but from parents and admin.
At elite colleges like Columbia, many students are showing up unprepared to read full books. It’s not that they don’t want to, @rosehorowitch writes. Middle and high schools have stopped teaching them how: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
“Indifference is not/the absence of care. It’s the enlargement of so much life/ that it dulls heart song, even sweet you./ My interiority has nothing on this city.” Loving this little gem by @mfernandespoet
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[Me at age thirteen listening to Trent Reznor scream about the violent self-destruction and bottomless despair of heroin addiction] god this is just like going to middle school
Woo! I just got a "this manuscript is not right for us in spite of its evident merit" rejection from The New Yorker. I shall take this elitist crumb, press it into my heart, and nourish on it for many days as I toil away on my silly projects. #WritingCommunity
