Motivation of Trump voters

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-supporters-california-clinton-fake-news-vote-2020-a9214131.html

As someone who grew up in small town America (Redding in far Northern California) and left, this rings true

Spatchcocking

https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/how-to-spatchcock-cook-turkey-thanksgiving-fast-easy-way-spatchcocked.html

Smart murders/birds

https://www.mpg.de/12401947/1024-verh-060830-new-caledonian-crows-compound-toolshttps://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/facts-about-crows-corvids

the cautious nature of scientific assessments

https://smile.amazon.com/Discerning-Experts-Scientific-Assessment-Environmental-ebook/dp/B07P2JYNNY/

A general study shows that climate crisis assessment follows the trend in understating the degree of risk to our future.

an interesting and very revealing article on Leninism

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2019/10/leninthink

Chilling.  Worse than I thought back in the day.

generative art

As I praised the art galleries we visited in DC and Manhattan, Artechouse, I also thought I would pass along these links to a software studio that makes tools and art in a similar fashion:

http://www.variable.io/, the studio, and http://www.nodes.io, a tool they developed.

Robert Hunter obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/27/robert-hunter-obituary