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by Mike Webster

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Late September Light

September 27, 2020

This is from my backyard, stuff accumulating by the fence.

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200 Years Ago

September 13, 2020

Photo from 200 Years Ago

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Photo of the Day

July 26, 2020

Sunrise at the Mount Vernon waterfront.

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Random Interesting Links – Updated Constantly

Economist / Anthropologist argues that “bullshit jobs” cause class resentmet and that pay is inversely related to how much a job is good for society.

Click to read a fascinating (and long) article from the New Yorker that details an American writing teacher’s experiences during the pandemic in China. I’m not putting it out there as any kind of “we should be doing this or that” recommendation, but it’s very interesting to see how different their approaches are to ours.

Great little art, and art history lesson from the New York Times, very easy to digest.

NYT: “Confident it had beaten the coronavirus and desperate to reboot a devastated economy, the Israeli government invited the entire student body back in late May. Within days, infections were reported at a Jerusalem high school, which quickly mushroomed into the largest outbreak in a single school in Israel, possibly the world. The virus rippled out to the students’ homes and then to other schools and neighborhoods, ultimately infecting hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.”

According to new research (via Kotke), experiencing pleasure or what you might call “hedonism” contributes at least as much to a person’s happiness and life-satisfaction as successful self-control. Who’da thunk it?

US Crime Rate Plummets, Despite What You May Have Heard from Internet Propagandists.

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