A question for the social studies teachers here, should we consider bringing #sschat here from the other place? Social Studies Chat is the long running chat for social studies teachers at the other place. Would you participate? Would you want this?

Studies of Water passing Obstacles and falling https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/studies-of-water-passing-obstacles-and-falling

I don’t want to always participate in the collection of responses, polls, surveys, studies, reviews, and likes. I’m not a vending machine for whatever data one needs to support one’s agenda. That’s exhausting. Being able to choose to be quiet can feel liberating.

Joyce Allan (1896–1966) was an Australian conchologist, museum curator & scientific illustrator. She worked at the Australia Museum & exhibited artwork at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. She wrote Australian Shells, the first book to attempt to describe the majority of Australian mollusks.

Finished binge watching 3 Body Problem and am trying to figure out if I liked it or not. Some really interesting concepts and character studies but hit and miss as far as moments paying off for me. Intrigued and looking forward to season 2.

… not unlike how people in MENA studies have long noted that Spivak’s “white men saving brown women from brown men” has been leveraged in ways that align white feminists (ie, not just inherently centered white men) with war efforts in the Middle East: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

To this day my mom says, "Eyes Wide Shut" is a shaggy dog story. (You can trust her, she has two degrees in film studies.) And of course it was a very funny movie.

Badenoch and Jenrick at odds on tackling immigration He wants to use mathematics, she wants to add cultural studies Bad Enoch vision is particulary disturbing - proposing Big Sister watch over us, winnowing out elements that do not conform to her view of "Britishness" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick at odds on tackling immigration

As the Tories begin their party conference in Birmingham, two of the leadership contenders lay out their proposals on immigration.

New thread just dropped on theoretical studies of the male understanding of the self:

Some landscape studies I did a couple of years ago. These were quite quick paintings (a few hours each) but turned out to be rather popular. The lighthouse one is available as a print here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/flin...#art#landscapes#studies