Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Art Museums Around the Globe are Sending Each Other Virtual Bouquets
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Teddy bear hunt helps distract kids under lockdown
Stuffed toys are being placed in windows to give children a fun and safe activity while walking around their neighbourhood with parents.
The hunt is inspired by the children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, written by UK author Michael Rosen. Teddies have been spotted around the world, including in the UK and US.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also joined in, putting two bears in the window of her family house in Wellington.
Tanya Ha, a resident of Melbourne in Australia, told the BBC she had been inspired to put cuddly toys in her window after hearing about other hunts around the world.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Theron Humphrey and his best friend, Maddie the coonhound.
Nowadays, there is less standing, but she and Humphrey are still traveling. They take plenty of time to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors and moments with their human pals.
Through Humphrey’s photographs, it’s clear that a home is wherever the two are together.
Although there is a book based on Maddie balancing on different objects, Humphrey more often captures her being a “lazy” coonhound. He showcases Maddie living her best life; she’ll snooze in a camping chair, sprawl on in a field of wildflowers, and find her moment of zen wrapped up in bedsheets.
In each photo, she’s perfectly content enjoying these simple moments in the solitude of rural America.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Croatians took to their balconies and windows on Sunday night to thank those tirelessly working to fight the coronavirus.
During the week, at exactly 8 p.m. everynight, citizens up and down the country went out on their balconies or from their windows and applauded doctors, medical staff, pharmacy staff, police, truck drivers, and everyone else working during the pandemic in Croatia.
Tonight it was a little different as the applause was replaced by singing as citizens answered the call to sing the iconic song ‘Moja Domovina’ from their balconies.
Croatia’s total number of coronavirus cases currently stands at 713. Six people have died and 52 patients have recovered so far.
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
New Evidence Indicates Intelligence Not Contagious
In a controlled experiment documented by the study, a seventy-nine-year-old man with intelligence was placed in close proximity to a seventy-three-year-old man without it for a period of several weeks to see if even a trace of his knowledge and expertise could be transmitted.
After weeks of near-constant exposure, however, the seventy-three-year-old man appeared “a hundred per cent asymptomatic” of intelligence, the researchers found.
“In terms of facts, data, and wisdom, there was zero community spread,” the report stated.
The researchers, however, left open the possibility that intelligence might be transmissible to other people, just not to the seventy-three-year-old who was the subject of the experiment.
“There is evidence to suggest that this subject has developed a super-immunity to intelligence, making it impossible for even rudimentary information to permeate his extraordinarily thick cranium,” the study indicated.
The Borowitz Report
Friday, March 27, 2020
Zagreb’s healing heart
Zagreb’s healing heart (Voona for Okolo // Around festival, photo Borut Planinc)
While volunteers, authorities, civil protection, military and ordinary citizens organised to help their fellow residents in need, messages of support from Croatia and all over the world flooded social media, but one in particular stood out and quickly became the symbol of hope and healing for Zagreb residents – a patched wool heart covering a cracked facade of an old Zagreb building.
The healing heart originally was conceived last August as a street art intervention by Zagreb based artist & designer Ivona (Voona Design) as a part of a street art project Okolo // Around.
The heart-shaped wool piece placed on top of a wall crack was exhibited in Habdeliceva 1 on Zagreb’s Upper Town during the project and remains there until this day.
The original idea behind the art had nothing to do with the catastrophe, the artist revealed – it was to show imperfections as something unique and not ugly but authentic and alive.
But after Sunday, March 22 a new layer of meaning has been added to her art piece – people saw it as a message of hope for their wounded town and Ivona commented on her Instagram: Sadly, many Zagreb residents have lost their homes – the first informal estimates say around 7000 objects were struck and the reparations will last 2 to 7 years.
Zagreb bounced back after the devastating 1880 earthquake and will bounce back again thanks to the spirit and unity of the people.
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Croatia now at 586 coronavirus cases, 37 full recoveries.
Health Minister Vili Beros said at a press conference.
To date, 4,482 samples have been analysed, including 524 in the past 24 hours.
Three persons have died and 37 have recovered from the novel coronavirus.
Patients are aged 48 on average, 54% are men, and 25% are over 60. Indications for testing for COVID-19 among medical staff are being expanded, Croatian Institute of Public Health head Krunoslav Capak said on Friday, adding that 23 doctors, six residents, nine nurses and two dentists in Croatia are infected.
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