Climate Change Action
yesterday at the Melbourne ABC studio
Precipitation
Overhead the albatross …
My ham radio friend, Jeanne Socrates (76) published this photo on her blog while at the final stage of her non-stop globe circumnavigation in her little boat SV-Nereida. A little old woman and the sea…. willpower and determination on a solid foundation of skill and knowledge. Presently she is avoiding two hurricanes near Hawaii but all is good on board.
Sadhguru at Inner Engineering program in Melbourne 27-28th, 2019
Is who you are the best you could be ?
A colder world
“There is a dead body lying there [and] they’re not informing family, they’re not contacting family – maybe they’re not sad about it even,” Abdul Aziz’s distraught uncle, Abdul Baseer, told The Age from the family home in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard
Typing notes may be ever-so-advanced – but it is less effective in terms of learning.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581
The words of the president
15th July, 2019: “Go back…” – these words have been used by some individuals in connection with refugees and migrants. However, if the president of the US says them, it becomes a sort of legitimising template for others. “Well, that’s what the president said, so I can also say it.” This then goes way beyond the freedom of speech. So, the effect of the same words is entirely larger when they come from the top. Everything a president says, becomes important because he is the president. We may call this “power” (with a lot of simplification). History has shown what can happen, if the people of a country are misled by their leader. Suddenly, there is a licence for what otherwise would be simply illegal. A very dangerous playing field indeed.
5th August, 2019 Today I hate to see that my worst fears are confirmed. No doubt, there is a measured responsibility of the leadership for what happened in El Paso and Dayton. You simply cannot talk as a leader in the same way you would talk as an ordinary person. 29 people are dead now because of the missing gun law review and because of the loose tongue of the leadership.
Youth mental health and smartphones
A very worthwhile read for any parents of children with smartphones.
Dete's Words and pics 