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Relaxing into Reading: Sunday recs [1]
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Date: 2022-07-31
I remember Sunday morning newpaper reading. It was brunch with “50 cents worth of love” (thatʼs an obscure memorized metaphor) and classical music playing on the stereo.
If you have a good cuppa and a place to rest your feet, here are some stories I recommend for this Sunday.
1) Non-Boring History
an article that starts with 1918 Influenza, examines history and its fashions, and goes on to Emily St. John Mandel
Recently, while farting around on the web, um, studying popular culture in its native habitat in a very learned way as befits someone with a doctorate in a real subject (history),
Annette Laing writing in-flew-enza
2) Howlround Theatre Commons
article about performance of Othello, with Tara Moses adapting and directing a Indigenous Futurism vision in the year 2176 in “fully restored Indian Territory”, and including 2 of my favorite actors (Kenny Ramos and Xáalnook Erin Tripp)
Moses infused Shakespeare’s text with Native American references and perspectives; emboldened and strengthened the women characters; and refused to allow the scripted violence within Shakespeare’s blood-soaked revenge tragedy to further infect her dreamed-for future.
South Dakota Shakespeare REVIEW
https://howlround.com/ills-we-do-their-ills-instruct-us-so-indigenous-futurism-south-dakota-shakespeare-festival
3) NASA
coaxial rotors on Mars
The experience with the Ingenuity helicopter has changed the equation.
Sample return plan REVISION
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/nasa-revises-mars-sample-return-plan-to-use-helicopters/
4) Nualleq
wonders of archaeology
blog from western Alaska July 5 shows a drawerful of figurines from 600 years ago
In their November issue National Geographic Magazine select Nunalleq to be one among 100 archaeological discoveries that ‘have expanded our understanding of human history’. What an amazing recognition!
BLOG
Enjoy reading at leisure!
other links invited in the comments - weʼve 17 days till the primary election here in Alaska.
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