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href weekly | April 7 – April 13 2024

Sound & Music

In 1974, musician Connie Converse drove away from home and was never heard from again. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-259-if-im-long-unheard-from

This 2,000-Year-Old Peruvian Rock Art May Depict Psychedelic Music https://www.iflscience.com/this-2000-year-old-peruvian-rock-art-may-depict-psychedelic-music-73677

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God?”

Nightfall – Issac Asimov

https://archive.org/download/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusOne55-12-07028Nightfall.mp3

Comics

https://xkcd.com/2914/

Politics & Economics

“by the end of the decade, barring some massive cash infusion of grants, we’re probably going to see rises in average student debt on the order of 20-25%, meaning the national average student debt for a bachelor’s degree (among those who borrow) would top $35,000. And that’s without factoring in much in the way of tuition or other cost increases.” https://higheredstrategy.com/why-student-debt-might-be-about-to-rise/

Terms like “record” or “outlier” start to sound inapt, less than fully accurate. The charts are hilariously underpowered attempts to depict just how out-of-balance we have rendered the world. https://www.splinter.com/the-climate-charts-are-not-okay

Great series from Canada Commons .. the history and ever-changing present of what it means to be a worker in https://www.canadaland.com/shows/commons/

The low snowpack would be a challenge for electricity producers in some areas of the province, he said. BC Hydro relies on melting snowpacks to fill reservoirs and allow power generation. https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/04/12/How-Lowest-Snowpack-50-Years-Will-Hit-BC/

href weekly | March 17 – 23 2024

Bits

“exit-seeking behaviors” https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a36352107/elderly-couple-escapes-from-assisted-living-facility-using-morse-code/

a reverse city builder in which you have to basically undo all of humanity’s worst habits and leave a planet with a thriving ecosystem https://www.terranil.com/

THE HTML REVIEW is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the – Vol III EXPEDITIONS – Journeys guided and unguided, walks, feats of endurance https://thehtml.review/03/

Humor

What can 5000-year-old abstract art and magic mushrooms tell us about St.Patricks Shamrock? https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-story-of-saint-patrick

Politics & Economics

Will the social and environmental contributions of be overshadowed by its huge footprint? https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854

Privileging outputs over experiences is a steering away from quality. This was true before – It’s not quite more true now, except that the existence of a technology that can create the simulations has given folks qualms about the “integrity” of the work. That work never had integrity because it was already tainted by privileging a box-checking product over a meaningful process. https://12ft.io/https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/03/20/chatgpt-offers-choosing-moment-higher-ed

there’s another way to practise politics in this country, and it’s one Canadians find deeply appealing. https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalobserver.com%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fopinion%2Fwe-need-more-wab-kinews

Belonging as learning outcome .. https://theconversation.com/how-a-first-year-university-writing-course-for-indigenous-students-fostered-skills-and-belonging-224486

While winter’s end is typically marked by the climatologists look at what’s known as meteorological the three-month period from December to February. Over that period, was 5.2 C warmer than average .. that’s 1.1 degrees warmer than the previous record set in 2009-2010. https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalobserver.com%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fnews%2Fcanadas-warmest-winter-record