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Executive Producer, Strategy & Operations for CBC’s OTT service, Gem. I also help make #AI-powered digital therapeutics for neurodivergent kids. #Musician. #Storyteller. #Geek. #Designer of #games & #immersiveentertainment. Food and #cocktail nerd.
Nova Scotia's iconic Blue Nose is refusing to travel to Trumpland. This is a huge decision given the role they play in the international schooner festivals. But they will not cross the border. The Blue Nose is your dime. If they can hold the line against fascism. So can you. Keep the boycott strong.
This is fantastic news.
I mentioned to a couple of people that I had a surprise waiting to be shared when Moderna got approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine. It’s approved, and the big news??? Completely produced domestically!!!!! 🥳🤩
Approved as usual for all aged 6mo+!
First harvest, all from seed! Hot Portugal, Cayenne, 7-Pot Brain, and something I’m told was called “Bruno Mars” but I’m not sure if that’s a legit name. There are tons more of those, but I’m waiting to see what they do colour-wise. The seem to go from green to purple to yellow to orange. #chilies
So well deserved! I loved the hell out of this book. Lots of fun little tricks.
I adore them too, have read them all multiple times, and still pull one out from time to time as a comfort read. But they wouldn’t be my first choice to give to an eleven year old today. They’re 75 years old now! Better for when the kid is already hooked on SF and has run out of things to read.
This whole forced nostalgia phenomenon makes me crazy. There are so many great books less than, say, 20 years old, to put in front of a kid. Stop trying to make them read the Heinlein juveniles, or gods forbid, Foundation.
Fair enough. For me it was “Have Spacesuit…” but when I read that as an eight-year-old in the 80s, it felt archaic even then. My own kid at the same age 30 years later, in the late 00s, got around to the juveniles eventually, but I primed him with contemporary writers like Westerfeld first.
I think often it’s a case of someone (someone old) trying to force their own nostalgia onto someone else. It’s just not going to work. By all means, recommend these old works once the new reader is already hooked, but you really need to start them off with something with which they can identify.
They’re winning on Measles too.
I think a lot of folks have forgotten the VAST differences in hospitalization & death from COVID-19 that we saw between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, once the mRNA vaccines started being rolled out in large quantities in 2021:
Recent rates of hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and death among unvaccinated Albertans have been at least eight times higher — and as much as 60 times higher — compared to the ful...
Enjoying a Hurricane on a remarkably perfect day. #cocktail
