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I would love to brain-storm with you all about this project and layout a creative structure for "finding" species/planets with art-producing life and making "field recordings" of their music.
The goal of this subreddit is to roleplay as "Xenomusicologists" that explore the galaxy finding these "art producing species" or "APS" and recording their music for educational and research purposes of the "Galactic Musicological Society" or "GMS".
How does the society find these alien ccivs/species and how do they approach them to record their art?
What do members of the GMS look like?
what is the overarching philosophy of the GMS? The "prime derective" if you will.
i want any and all feedback the main idea of this is to be a collaborative and creative process with light roleplay through exploration of culture, music, and scientific exploration.
Thanks in advance!
This thread contains job postings for researchers to check out distant star systems and report their findings. (Post your concept art, field recordings, short storys, and ideas for alien species for others to collaborate on. If a species/concept gets enough upvotes/discussion, a new thread will be created for that species/concept.)
I just figured that a lot of people here and around are throwing blame on individual parents for their children's behavior this year, which is not healthy especially when it's not one or two children that are acting like this. While the pandemic did cause trauma for some families, what it really did was magnify the societal failings already present. A lot of people are looking for something to blame for it being a shit year in education and many of y'all are pulling a Karen instead of recognizing the blame lies in the system. The pandemic has shown that the boot strap mentality and the myth of American Exceptionalism are actively harmful and damaging. We saw that society is not adequately giving parents the tools or time they need to parent. You can more easily than ever make predictions on which students in your class are the "Haves" and which are the "Have nots." We want to make the field of education better and more sustainable but the key to doing that is ultimately getting people to recognize that our country's societal culture is toxic and to make meaningful steps to get people the tools to be successful.
TLDR: We need to burn it all down and rebuild, not blame the fish that were given bicycles.
Nothing sells a product or platform like the idea of apocalypse. Evangelical churches always act like the rapture and second coming is a few years away at most; a Pew study showed that 40% of Americans think the literal second coming will take place by 2050^(1). So many popular movies, TV shows, video games, books, etc. are centered around the idea of apocalypses, civil collapse, and dystopian takeovers. Right wing news outlets like Fox have been fearmongering about civil war for decades, but now even the "left" wing ones are joining in.
A lot of this is obviously because society is at a deeply precarious position and people have anxiety about it, but that doesn't explain how weirdly... gleeful? folks are about it. Basically any right wing social media you could find online will be full of people fantasizing about executing liberals, but you see it even outside of a political sense. People fantasize about what they'd do in a Mad Max situation or zombie apocalypse all the time, even on forums like this.
Why is the US, a country which hasn't seen genuinely bad times (famine, civil war, plague, etc.) in living memory so obsessed with the idea? It doesn't seem like an idea that the media would actively want to promote, considering collapse tends to be bad for most sectors of the economy. Even if the system is so broken as to not be able to prevent an inevitable collapse, surely it would try to encourage paranoia & fear of it so as to prolong its own control as long as possible?
(1): https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/07/14/jesus-christs-return-to-earth/
Interested in how science and art overlap? So are we! We are scientists and artists who use a variety of artistic media to create works of art that showcase microbiology in our world. Some of us use combinations of microbes "painted" on nutritional agar; others use more traditional artistic platforms like drawings and photography to express our ideas. What we have in common (other than our love of microbiology and art) is that we are all winners of the American Society for Microbiology's 2021 Agar Art Contest!
The American Society for Microbiology has organized this annual contest since 2015, inviting scientists, artists, and anyone with an interest in the intersection of science and art, to create and submit their microbial artwork. This is a rugged competition: each year there are hundreds of entries from around the world that are narrowed down through two rounds of expert judging to identify the winners.
Join us today for a discussion about our individual artistic inspirations and creative processes. We'll answer your questions about how to turn microbes (and microbial ideas and concepts) into works of art. We'll be jumping on from 2 - 4 PM ET (7 PM - 9 PM UTC). Ask us anything!
With us today are:
- Dr. Sarah Adkins-Jablonsky, Ph.D. (u/EvolvedtoHibernate)- Medical student, Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Sonja Borndörfer (u/Sonja-1008)- Student, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
- Mireya Duran (u/tigerlily0423)- Medical Laboratory Scientist, Texas Health (Dallas)
- Dr. Judy Nguyen, Ph.D. (u/judynwin)- Administrator, Monarch Butterfly Friends Hawaii
- Natascha Varona (u/NataschaVarona)- Ph.D. Student, University of Miami
Links:
- https://asm.org/Events/ASM-Agar-Art-Contest/Home
- https://fems-microbiology.org/and-the-winners-of-microbeart2021-are/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/painting-with-penicillin-alexander-flemings-germ-art-1761496/
I think it’s kind of funny that, starting in 2018, American society has just been crumbling and crumbling at an ever increasing rate. The targeted media, the covid hype, the actual democratic attacks of the 2020 election, and the failure of joe Biden and the left. It’s honestly so funny to watch as this country is falling and falling. But no actually I’m really afraid..
Update : I really didn’t think this would take off the way it did, but I openly encourage more discussion about this. I think it’s important regardless of your viewpoints to have discussions concerning America’s current state.
I've always heard that life in China is a lot more difficult for foreigners than it is for natives, especially if you want to live in China long term, with things like owning property and saving for retirement, getting a driver's license, etc. All the foreigners I've heard this from though, are not of Chinese descent. I am an American Born Chinese, and I have often pondered moving to China and living there permanently. What Challenges would I expect to face, and would my being of Chinese descent make any difference, if at all? I think it is somewhat important to mention that I speak very little Mandarin and am fundamentally illiterate.
Hi I’m Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MA, a lung doctor (pulmonologist), critical care doctor, and long COVID clinic founder at the University of California, San Francisco, and member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS). With influenza season starting, and the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, I’m here to answer your questions about COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations, and hopefully encourage you to get both.
It's 2 pm, so we will call it here. Thanks for all the questions!
[Proof](https://twitter.com/atscommunity/status/1467644981141819392)
I should say that I’m referring to the spectrum of socialism and not the ideology of communism
Here in Germany Olaf Scholz was inaugurated as the new chancellor. He took his oath without the Bible. He withdrew from church in young years and it isn‘t known if he has any religious affiliation, but it was never part of the public discussion and probably just a few voters even knew that. Would this be okay within American society? Does religion play a major role in campaigning?
American society doesn’t value children.
I work with kids who have disabilities both in schools and in the community. I do not have a degree. I get paid $12/hr. For a bachelors (doing the exact same thing I do) I would get $16/hr, and for a masters I would get $18/hr. Getting a degree in this field for that little of pay doesn’t make sense.
I love my job, I love working with kids, and I’m darn good at it. But I am getting a degree in the tech field so that (hopefully) I will actually be able to support myself.
To be honest I am devastated. I cry anytime I think about having to leave the kids I work with. I will end up spending my days slumped over a computer instead of making a difference in childrens lives. But what can I do?
Social workers, teachers, behavioral interventionists, any sort of career working with kids does not pay. They just don’t.
My husband is in college to become a teacher. And I am so jealous. I would love to become a teacher. But we also eventually want children ourselves. And there’s no way we can realistically do that on teacher salaries.
I am so angry my options are either:
Work in a field you can tolerate and maybe you’ll be able to make enough to support a family.
OR
Work in a field you love, but you definitely won’t make enough to support yourself, much less a family.
I am just so heartbroken over the whole thing. My only light at the end of the tunnel is that maybe once I get close to retirement age I can try to get a teaching certification and teach a high school technology class or something.
But it’s wages like this that drives people who are good with children away from that field. In the end it’s depriving children of people who care.
The line between the two being refusing modern society and therefore refusing participation in global wars or not
The Air Force is a neat cross-section of our nation's population. For example, I met one airman from rural Montana who had never met a black person before basic training.
What are some things you learned about America by interacting with fellow servicemembers from around the country?
