Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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Sunday, November 20, 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
Artographer, Kali
After palling around with the likes of Richard Chamberlain in Malibu, she moved to a house in Palm Springs once owned by Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee, and began creating “Artography” in earnest: haunting portraits and double-exposed landscapes made with film, developed in her Roman bathtub, and finished by hand coloring with dyes, spray paint, and even dirt and bugs, in her swimming pool. Trippy, painterly, intensely colorful prints and later Polaroids were made and seldom seen outside a tight circle . She published a few pieces in photo magazines, but by the late 70s locked the work away in suitcases inside her garage, never to be seen again for over 40 years.
Kali’s daughter, when cleaning out the house after her death, discovered the work and something more.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The Unseen Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s.
Ukraine's secret weapon
"I have the most amazing job in the world. I defend heroes," says Valeria, an assistant anaesthetist.
In southern Ukraine, the city of Kherson has been liberated, but in the east, close to the Russian border, fighting still rages and casualties mount. In a trauma centre under daily Russian shelling, a dedicated team of medics - many of whom volunteered for service at the start of the war - are saving lives.
Wealthy Countries Propose 'Global Shield,' a Climate Change Insurance Plan
Tensions at the United Nations climate change conference known as COP27 have been running high, largely over the issue of what’s called “loss and damage” — shorthand for the disproportionate suffering that the developing world is already experiencing at the hands of climate change.
In the most concrete response yet to the issue, on Monday a group of countries led by Germany announced their commitment to developing “a Global Shield against Climate Risks” to help people in the least developed countries better prepare for climate-fueled disasters.
World Population: 8 Billion
On November 15, 2022, the world population will cross eight billion people.
The UN is not looking at this milestone as a catastrophe- the reason why the population is that high is that people are living longer on average, and fewer children are dying.
This interactive video graphic illustrates the change in death rates. Russia is a notable outlier.
The number of people living in extreme poverty has also fallen, from from 44% in 1974 to 10%.
But there are still challenges, as the world is currently reeling from pandemic, war, and climate change.
Monday, November 14, 2022
This guy put water inside his acoustic guitar to produce some incredible sounds
In the video above, the musician Bernth fills his acoustic guitar with water and subsequently plays a killer track.
The Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul by Talia Argondezzi
The eyes are the windows to the soul. The soul is a house that has windows that are eyes.
The soul is a house that has an unusually small number of windows—only two. Don’t say anything.
The soul is self-conscious about it. It’s pretty dark inside the soul, on account of there being only two windows.
The under-eye bags are the window-box planters to the soul.
The eyelids are the window shutters to the soul. They’re on the tops and the bottoms of the windows, instead of on the sides. The soul has always got to be different. It’s a little annoying.
How common are female psychopaths ?
Instead it is grouped under the wider term of antisocial personality disorder, although psychopathy is widely used in global clinical environments. It is broadly understood to be a neuropsychiatric disorder, where a person displays unusually low levels of empathy or remorse, often resulting in antisocial and sometimes criminal behaviour.
Ana Sanz Garcia, a psychology PhD student at the University of Madrid, and her colleagues conducted a more recent analysis in 2021 of published research studies that included over 11,000 adults who were evaluated for psychopathy. She agrees that there need to be more studies that focus on women and non-criminal people with psychopathy. She told the BBC that the studies to date show women with psychopathy show less propensity for violence and crime than men, but more examples of interpersonal manipulation. "It would be interesting to study the factors that explain why among women high in psychopathy have a lower probability of committing antisocial and criminal acts than males," says Sanz Garcia. "If these factors are discovered, a programme could be designed to prevent both women and men high in psychopathy from committing those antisocial and criminal acts."
Again, there has not been enough research to determine why, but one recent study in France points at a potential answer – coldness and lack of emotion appears to play a far more central role in women's psychopathy than it does with men. Women also exhibit fewer of the violent and antagonistic behaviours seen in male pyschopathy.
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Ana Sanz Garcia, a psychology PhD student at the University of Madrid, and her colleagues conducted a more recent analysis in 2021 of published research studies that included over 11,000 adults who were evaluated for psychopathy. She agrees that there need to be more studies that focus on women and non-criminal people with psychopathy. She told the BBC that the studies to date show women with psychopathy show less propensity for violence and crime than men, but more examples of interpersonal manipulation. "It would be interesting to study the factors that explain why among women high in psychopathy have a lower probability of committing antisocial and criminal acts than males," says Sanz Garcia. "If these factors are discovered, a programme could be designed to prevent both women and men high in psychopathy from committing those antisocial and criminal acts."
Again, there has not been enough research to determine why, but one recent study in France points at a potential answer – coldness and lack of emotion appears to play a far more central role in women's psychopathy than it does with men. Women also exhibit fewer of the violent and antagonistic behaviours seen in male pyschopathy.
Read more
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Happy Faces
Svitlana and Viktor, and their 10-year-old daughter Anna, in the liberated village of Pravdyne in Ukraine.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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