(or at least keep working towards celebration)
http://www.countdown2010.net/biodiversity/the-2010-biodiversity-target
http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/
http://onedollaraday.weebly.com/index.html
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Monday, 13 September 2010
Stop learning and the world will pass you by.
pg 6 of A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox by Anthony Weston
I have been a great-granddaughter and I hope to be a great-grandmother. That puts me in the centre of seven full generations of ideas and practices, of the changing of the world. "Remember who you are!" as the Native decree announces and you will be aware and engaged with your world, from the clothes you wear, the soil that grew your food, the people you bump into. Seven generations. Think.
Ethics is the awakening to the complexity of the world and all its issues and the internalization of how to fit into that world. Ethics is also "a concern with the basic needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as our own." (pg 5)
I have been a great-granddaughter and I hope to be a great-grandmother. That puts me in the centre of seven full generations of ideas and practices, of the changing of the world. "Remember who you are!" as the Native decree announces and you will be aware and engaged with your world, from the clothes you wear, the soil that grew your food, the people you bump into. Seven generations. Think.
Ethics is the awakening to the complexity of the world and all its issues and the internalization of how to fit into that world. Ethics is also "a concern with the basic needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as our own." (pg 5)
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
20
This is what it feels like to be twenty.
I’m happy with who I am and where I am.
Greatest accomplishments:
Getting into university
Winning NEOSEF and ISEF and going to the Nobel Prize ceremonies
Witnessing a unique fish behaviour
Running in a half-marathon
Kayaking 100 miles down the coast of Lake Superior – Pukaskwa 2009
Working at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History - 2009 - Mudpuppies
Seeing wild beluga whales
Seeing a wild polar bear
Seeing a wild black bear
Seeing wild moose
Seeing a Massasauga rattler
Seeing a wild arctic fox
Seeing wild hawks and eagles
Next ten years?
Have a picture featured in National Geographic
Publish a scientific paper
Fall under a spell
Learn German
Learn a dying language
Be fluent in Spanish
Run a marathon
Graduate with a Masters
Graduate with a PhD
Add to scientific thought
Kayak trip in the ocean
Camp in the winter
Ski a mountain out West
Write a book
Publish a poem
Sell a painting
Write until every page of a notebook is filled
Buy a new pen and write until it is empty
Line a room with books
Lifetime:
Study in the Antarctic
Study in the arctic
Study in a tropical rainforest
Study in a desert
Study in a tundra
Study in a boreal forest
Study on an isolated island in the ocean (Ascension Island?)
Study in Africa
Study at high elevation
Stand on a volcano
Visit each ecozone – Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropic, Neotropic, Australasia, Indo-Malaya, Oceania, Antarctic
Watch the sun rise for 24 hours continuously
Watch the sun rise on each continent
Physical
Intellectual
Emotional
Spiritual
I’m happy with who I am and where I am.
Greatest accomplishments:
Getting into university
Winning NEOSEF and ISEF and going to the Nobel Prize ceremonies
Witnessing a unique fish behaviour
Running in a half-marathon
Kayaking 100 miles down the coast of Lake Superior – Pukaskwa 2009
Working at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History - 2009 - Mudpuppies
Seeing wild beluga whales
Seeing a wild polar bear
Seeing a wild black bear
Seeing wild moose
Seeing a Massasauga rattler
Seeing a wild arctic fox
Seeing wild hawks and eagles
Next ten years?
Have a picture featured in National Geographic
Publish a scientific paper
Fall under a spell
Learn German
Learn a dying language
Be fluent in Spanish
Run a marathon
Graduate with a Masters
Graduate with a PhD
Add to scientific thought
Kayak trip in the ocean
Camp in the winter
Ski a mountain out West
Write a book
Publish a poem
Sell a painting
Write until every page of a notebook is filled
Buy a new pen and write until it is empty
Line a room with books
Lifetime:
Study in the Antarctic
Study in the arctic
Study in a tropical rainforest
Study in a desert
Study in a tundra
Study in a boreal forest
Study on an isolated island in the ocean (Ascension Island?)
Study in Africa
Study at high elevation
Stand on a volcano
Visit each ecozone – Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropic, Neotropic, Australasia, Indo-Malaya, Oceania, Antarctic
Watch the sun rise for 24 hours continuously
Watch the sun rise on each continent
Physical
Intellectual
Emotional
Spiritual
Friday, 20 August 2010
Favorite Movies
LOTR
The Last Samurai
Avatar
Star Trek 2009
WALL-E
Up
Lion King
Pocahontas
Dragon Heart
Sin City
Slumdog Millionaire
The Truman Show
Hot Fuzz
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Braveheart
Catch Me if You Can
Schindler’s List
Pleasantville
Ghostbusters
A Good Year
Dr Strangelove
Resevoir Dogs
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Inglorious Bastards
Blade Runner
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Quiescent
"Why was the secretary general quiescent in 2008? Because some UN member states – notably the United States – had openly supported Kosovo’s independence as the only practical solution after years of fruitless negotiations with Serbia. Since reconciliation within the Serbian state was impossible, recognizing secession appeared to be the lesser evil." -What does Kosovo mean for Quebec?
Quiescent:
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin quiescent-, quiescens, present participle of quiescere to become quiet, rest, from quies
Date: 1605
— qui·es·cent·ly adverb
Within surrounding horror,
there is solitary tranquility
when the quiescent tears freeze hell
acknowledgement in grief,
we shelter in restless repose
any instant, silence shatters, life initiates
horror indefinite, or annihilated,
endure, deny, or rise
to live
Quiescent:
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin quiescent-, quiescens, present participle of quiescere to become quiet, rest, from quies
Date: 1605
- : marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest
- : causing no trouble or symptoms
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| Quiescent Reflection Willis Gray Gallery, Decatur Alabama 24"H x 36"W |
we shelter in restless repose
any instant, silence shatters, life initiates
horror indefinite, or annihilated,
endure, deny, or rise
to live
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Anomalous
"The climate of Hudson Bay is anomalously cold in comparison with other regions at similar latitudes because of the presence of seasonally varying ice cover (Rouse, 1991)." Gagnon and Gough, 2005a
Anomalous
Function: adjective
Entomology: Late Latin anomalus, from Greek anÅmalos, literally, uneven, from a- + homalos even, from homos same
— anom·a·lous·ness noun
Of my anomalous nature, there is a contradiction because it is expected that I deviate from the expected. Therefore, if I deviate from the norm, which I believe is beneficial for my character, and if I, as I do, enjoy both of the dichotomous pairs that have been penned against each other in society, such as art and science, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, judgement and perception, then I am free to accept the label of anomalous. But if you expect me to be anomalous, as KI perceptions intend, thus classifying me and creating a norm for that classification, then am I no longer anomalous?
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| http://antisocialrap.com/blog/?p=16 |
Anomalous
Function: adjective
Entomology: Late Latin anomalus, from Greek anÅmalos, literally, uneven, from a- + homalos even, from homos same
- : inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular, unusual
- a : of uncertain nature or classification
- b : marked by incongruity or contradiction : paradoxical
— anom·a·lous·ness noun
Of my anomalous nature, there is a contradiction because it is expected that I deviate from the expected. Therefore, if I deviate from the norm, which I believe is beneficial for my character, and if I, as I do, enjoy both of the dichotomous pairs that have been penned against each other in society, such as art and science, sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling, judgement and perception, then I am free to accept the label of anomalous. But if you expect me to be anomalous, as KI perceptions intend, thus classifying me and creating a norm for that classification, then am I no longer anomalous?
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