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Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

I keep losing this site and re-finding it, so am going to put it here.

I like how the author, Marc Balaban, takes the same basic facts as Sara Teasdale, and turns the conclusion into a positive.

(War Time)

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

1. Germany has cool parental retreats
2. History is, as usual, worse than I knew, but at least Things are being Done.
3. Fire situation in California is, as usual, even worse than I knew but at least there are People thinking of Things to Do.
4. Epigenetics ftw, mice fathers who do a lot of exercise pass down the benefits to their offspring
5. There may finally be an antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning
6. Mattel continues to be progressive (good, because they’re a mine canary for social movements)

Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

Here’s a good and science-fiction-worthy development – plants that have a different new way of taking in carbon dioxide (so, next step up from photosynthesis), which makes them literally wax fat. If the first thing that comes to my head is a plant apocalypse I blame sci-fi.