Narratives – unreliable narrators
Fiction readers are well familiar with unreliable narrators. Wikipedia summarizes like this: In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence…
Too much light for plants protects them from insects?
This post I stumbled upon from The Guardian. The key to the post was a research paper in Frontiers in Plant Science. Here’s the Guardian’s summary that should get everybody’s attention. Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found….
A reminder from Stonehenge: we’re the same
Stonehenge continues to teach us important lessons – as long as we reject the distractions. Reuters of all places was where I found a new study in Nature about the provenance of the Altar Stone – Scotland, almost 500 miles away per this study. Here’s the summary from Nature article: Understanding the provenance of megaliths…
Are you doing anything about earth overshoot?
Grist published an article explaining the day – there’s a day called “Earth Overshoot Day”. “Earth Overshoot Day” reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior. Grist Humans have taken more from earth than the earth can supply within balance since 1971. The question for…
Plastic pickers – is this the root problem?
A Grist post on plastic pickers really got me this morning. Here’s the set up and helps answer, ‘who are plastic pickers?’ an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called “waste pickers,” and though their work is essential…