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• Post #969513

  I learned a new word today, cryptogyny. I’m going to have to sit with it for a bit. It’s not that I was unfamiliar with the context. Practically anywhere you care to look there are women whose work has been ignored, hidden or stolen. Women who’ve not been given the credit they deserved, or very quickly been dropped. I mean, I really would like to know why I never learned about Emmy Noether in school, right next to Albert Einstein, even though he recognised her genius. Cryptogyny. Use it when...

• Post #831020

  You know that idea of a White Christmas, yeah? That really comes from the Little Ice Age (1600 - 1800) ? Hmmm? (And Dickens remembering once upon a time.) Well it turns out that *that* was due to the way we genocided (fancy word for murdered a whole lot of people) on both sides of the Atlantic. So many that we decarbonised the atmosphere and triggered the cold. We have not been good stewards of the planet https://globalnews.ca/news/4924534/little-ice-age-death-55-million-indigenous-people-c...