Sphynxes (hairless cats) fascinate me in many ways. I’m drawn by their alien look. There’s something disturbing yet eerie that keeps me astonished every time I look at one.
Without fluffy and fancy coats, this breed shows what a true cat is. Everything is raw, exposed, vulnerable.
This body of work is an exploration of the beauty of Sphynxes within their oddity.
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The explosion of charts and graphs in the internet era makes it easy to believe they're a new phenomenon. But chart fans have been around for hundreds of years — ever since early pioneers like Joseph Priestley and others (Thomas Jefferson had a copy of Priestley's historical charts in his library).
These four historical figures loved to use charts and graphs long before the days of spreadsheets and inkjet printers. They believed visuals were the best way to tell their stories, and the fact that their charts endure today might prove they were right.
Florence Nightingale's most famous chart.
Florence Nightingale's career as a caregiver was iconic. Called the "Lady With the Lamp" because of her late-night rounds among injured soldiers during the Crimean War, she professionalized nursing and became a folk hero in the Victorian era.
But that reputation ignores her equally significant work during peacetime — with charts.
In 1858, after the Crimean War ended, Nightingale wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army. Her postmortem on the Crimean War had a clear objective: to convince the military that improving the everyday health of soldiers was just as important as treating the injuries they suffered on the battlefield. The book was far ahead of its time: it had charts, graphs, and even side notes that make it look like a modern-day Medium post.
Her charts, known today as Nightingale's Coxcombs, showed that soldiers faced as many dangers in barracks, through unsanitary conditions in cramped quarters, as they did on the battlefield. In the chart above, for example, preventable deaths are represented in blue.
And Nightingale's many charts worked. After she sent her report to the War Office, conditions improved, and she worked on sanitation problems both in the UK and abroad.
W.E.B. Du Bois' unique map. (Library of Congress)
In addition to cofounding the NAACP and being an influential public intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois created charts that analyzed African-American life in the 1900s. As a professor at Atlanta University, he sought to modernize the field of sociology for a statistical era.
Du Bois and his students presented an innovative set of graphics, colored by hand, at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. The below chart, for example, depicted marriage rates among African Americans by age, showing their changing relationship status.
W.E.B. Du Bois' chart of changing relationship statuses. (Library of Congress)
All the charts played with innovative ways to represent data. This chart shows how large the African-American population in the United States was by contrasting it with the total population of other countries. It's a trope familiar to any infographic fan.
W.E.B. Du Bois' chart of populations worldwide. (Library of Congress)
Ben Franklin's highly productive chart. (Franklin's autobiography)
Ben Franklin's autobiography contains multiple charts, which he used to spice up his text. For example, in the above chart he kept track of how rigorously he adhered to different virtues each day of the week. Those virtues were:
Each time Franklin fell short, he put a dot in the box (apparently Ben was more chaste than most of us realized — or at least his charts were).
Franklin also made a chart that serves as a companion to his famous maxim "early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." In it, he graphs each hour with its appropriate behaviors.
Ben Franklin's daily chart. (Franklin's autobiography)
Franklin's charts weren't purely for personal productivity, however. With Timothy Folger, Franklin made one of the first extensive charts of the Gulf Stream, showing the route of the current as it affected Nantucket whalers.
Teddy Roosevelt was probably more interested in maps than charts. He and his son Kermit traveled extensively to help map the "River of Doubt" in Brazil (today known as the Roosevelt River). But he also used charts to advance his cause.
In 1901, Vice President Roosevelt had become president after William McKinley's assassination. In 1904, he was running for another term with the campaign slogan "Stand Pat!" He used this chart to make his case.
Teddy Roosevelt's "Stand Pat" chart was complicated. (Library of Congress)
The chart contrasts the dismal US economy under the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland (1893–1896) with the improved economy under the Republican McKinley and Roosevelt administrations (1897–1904).
Does the argument make sense? It depends how you look at it — during Cleveland's second administration, there was a huge Republican landslide in Congress, which muddies the waters over who really controlled the country. But regardless of its historical accuracy, it's a good early example of a chart making a political argument.
It probably won't be the last one, either.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become a massive health problem worldwide, killing thousands of people every year and prompting calls to phase out the unnecessary use of the drugs on farm animals and in people. After all, the more often these drugs are used, the more quickly bugs outsmart them — rendering them useless.
Now Tyson Foods — the biggest chicken seller in the US — is trying to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance, announcing today that it plans to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its flocks by 2017. The pledge comes nearly two months after McDonald's announced that it will stop buying chicken that has been reared on antibiotics meant for humans within two years.
Given that these are some of the largest food companies in America, the moves could have a major impact on how animals are reared and consumer expectations.
But they're still only small steps in addressing a big problem. Despite dire warnings about the health impact of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the issue is mostly abstract for many, industry has blocked efforts by governments to tackle it, related legislation has repeatedly flopped. We continue to abuse and squander one of the greatest and most life-saving gifts science has bestowed on us. The lack of action is baffling and only makes the problem of antibiotic resistance more terrifying.
Deaths attributable to antibiotic resistance — or AMR — compared to other major causes of death. (Review on Antimicrobial Resistance)
There are billions of bacteria that live in and around us, most of which help us survive and thrive. But sometimes, we are exposed to bacteria that can make us sick. Antibiotics are chemicals from organisms in the world around us that can kill off these harmful microbes. In addition to curing us when we're ill, these wonder drugs revolutionized medicine and changed the scale of modern food production.
But the use of antibiotics has a major downside: the more we consume them, the more quickly they stop working. Since Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic (penicillin, in 1928), he and many other scientists, public-health officials, and doctors have been sounding alarm bells over "antibiotic resistance."
Antibiotic resistance refers to a natural phenomenon that happens in response to the medicine. Bacteria multiply by the billions, and typically a few will randomly develop a mutation in their DNA to outsmart the pharmaceuticals designed to kill them. This situation is magnified by the fact that we overuse antibiotics and often take them in incorrect doses. When we don't finish a course or when we give them to animals in very low doses to fatten them up, we create environments in which the weakest bugs are killed off but the strongest "superbugs" survive.
In recent years, this misuse has sped up the natural process of resistance, rendering some antibiotics useless and causing experts to warn that we are at the "dawn of a post-antibiotic era" that amounts to a health "nightmare" and "catastrophic threat" on par with terrorism.
Deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance by 2050. (Review on Antimicrobial Resistance)
In the US alone, antibiotic-resistant infections are associated with 23,000 deaths and 2 million illnesses every year. We’ve already seen a number of bacterial infections — gonorrhea, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (or CREs), strains of tuberculosis — that no longer respond to any of the drugs we have.
Overusing antibiotics also kills off the good bacteria in people’s bodies, potentially wreaking havoc on our microbiomes and weakening our immune systems. This means more people get sick, stay sick for longer, and die from resistant infections that we have no cure for — while the costs of treatment of antibiotic resistance go up.
A recent report commissioned by the UK government contains an alarming prediction: by 2050, antimicrobial-resistant infections will kill 10 million people across the world — more than the current toll from cancer.
This nightmare scenario isn't that farfetched for one simple reason: we keep failing to muster the action needed to stave it off. There has been an incredible amount of inertia in medicine, and the agricultural sector has for years denied the science for economic and political reasons.
With the discovery of bacteria-fighting antibiotics, such as penicillin in 1928, the maternal mortality rate dropped, too, as the drugs made childbirth and cesarean sections much safer. (Slate)
It's not an overstatement to say that most of modern medicine and our health hinges on the effectiveness of antibiotics. Whenever you go to the hospital for an operation — a hip replacement, an ACL repair, heart surgery — almost without exception, doctors will give you a dose of antibiotics to prevent infection. Antibiotics also make the cesarean section, one of the single most life-saving procedures on the planet, possible.
Without antibiotics that work, common medical procedures like hip operations, C-sections, or chemotherapy will become more dangerous, and some medical interventions — organ transplants, chemotherapy — will be impossible to survive. In one piece, science writer Maryn McKenna describes a world before antibiotics and what we'll face again when the ones we have fail:
Before antibiotics, five women died out of every 1,000 who gave birth. One out of nine people who got a skin infection died, even from something as simple as a scrape or an insect bite. Three out of ten people who contracted pneumonia died from it. Ear infections caused deafness; sore throats were followed by heart failure.
"It’s almost unimaginable," said professor Kevin Outterson, of Boston University School of Law, "how going back to a pre-antibiotic era would affect US health care." Jirka Taylor, an analyst at Rand Corporation, said, "If you had a 5 percent chance of contracting an infection that had a 40 percent case fatality rate, would you still be interested in submitting to a relatively mundane procedure such as hip replacement, when your survival did not depend on it?"
Trends in retail sales of carbapenem antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria. You can see we're using more and more of them globally. (Lancet)
More often than not, we use antibiotics incorrectly and unnecessarily. In agriculture, farmers use small doses on animals to promote growth and to prevent infections (not treat them); in hospitals and clinics, doctors administer the drugs when they’re not sure of a diagnosis or to satisfy patient demand for a treatment — despite the fact that patients may be suffering from viral (and not bacterial) sickness.
As Sarah Kliff pointed out recently, while doctors have long known that antibiotics can't treat bronchitis, a staggering 71 percent of bronchitis cases continue to be treated with antibiotics. According to the journal Nature, the average American child has been given 10 to 20 courses of antibiotics by the time he or she reaches adulthood. That's one dose every one or two years. The best estimates suggest that fully half of antibiotic prescriptions may be unnecessary.
Most of our antibiotics, however, are used on farms. Of the approximately 100,000 to 200,000 tons of the antibiotics made each year, about 80 percent are used on animals.
This happens for two main reasons: farmers discovered that constantly giving low doses of the drugs to their animals causes them to grow more quickly, and using them for prevention allows animals to live in squalid conditions. While these practices have underpinned our cheap food supply, they also exacerbate the resistance problem.
The confined and dirty conditions in which antibiotic-stuffed animals live create a perfect scenario for resistance: the low doses kill off the weakest bugs, while the strongest survive.
Dates of discovery of distinct classes of antibacterial drugs. You can see we've hit a "discovery void" in recent years. (WHO)
One of the scariest features of the antibiotic-resistance crisis is that pharmaceutical companies aren't creating new drugs to address it.
Antibiotics just aren't a great investment for drugmakers; they don't offer great financial returns. Unlike treatments for chronic diseases, people only use antibiotics for short periods of time. And we now know we need to use them even more judiciously than we ever have, which is not exactly an appealing business proposition for large pharmaceutical companies.
For this reason, many lament the fact that the "drug pipeline is dry." Only a handful of new antibiotics have come on to the market in the last decade, and health organizations such as the Infectious Diseases Society of America worry that progress on new drugs is "alarmingly elusive."
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Food companies like Chipotle, Panera Bread, Applegate, McDonald's, and most recently Tyson Foods, have stepped in where governments have failed, taking stands on antibiotic overuse with various policies limiting the kinds of drugs their suppliers can use and when.
But these policies don’t always go far enough. McDonald's, for example, announced it will stop buying chicken that has been reared on human antibiotics within two years.
Still, the chain will allow chicken suppliers to use ionophores, an animal antibiotic. While it's not used in people, overuse could potentially have an impact on human health, since we know resistance can cut across species and classes of drugs.
Also the policy only applies to US restaurants, not the tens of thousands of global locations the company owns, and only to chicken — not beef, a staple of the McDonald's menu. So it’s a step in the right direction, but given that foodmakers are more concerned about their bottom line than about public health, it’s not entirely surprising that McDonald's may cut corners.
Even so, these foodmakers all say they were responding to consumer demand. Advocates like Congresswoman Rep. Louise Slaughter argue that consumers ought to continue pressuring Big Food by voting with their dollars: "We need to engage the American people to demand that they are not going to buy a steak soaked in antibiotics; that they don’t want their chicken dipped in Clorox; that they want wholesome food for themselves and their children; that they want to save antibiotics for animals and people that are ill."
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Chickens at a hatchery in Alabama. (Buyenlarge/Getty)
In addition to the dry drug pipeline, we're failing to enact policies to conserve the drugs we have. Lawmakers in the US have repeatedly put forward bills to reduce antibiotic overuse. But industry has repeatedly blocked these efforts, which, so far, have yet to make it through Congress.
For example, Rep. Louise Slaughter — the only microbiologist in Congress — has been leading the push to stop the overuse of antibiotics on farms through the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA). PAMTA has been reintroduced four times since Slaughter took it over in 2007, and it has died every time on the House floor.
According to Slaughter, "We have 450 outside groups — every consumer group, scientific group, and medical group you can think of — supporting our bill. But 88 percent of the money spent lobbying on this issue lobbies against us."
At the federal level, there have been other efforts to address the problem on farms, and the Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged since the 1970s that the way the drugs are used for food production is problematic. But these efforts have also been shaped and watered down by the agriculture industry, animal pharmaceutical companies, and Big Food businesses that want cheap product.
Last December, for example, the FDA released guidance encouraging the judicious use of the drugs for growth promotion on farms— but the guidance is voluntary. "Over the years I worked on this," said Rep. Slaughter, "I determined that the FDA will not protect us. Neither will the Agriculture Department, and neither will the White House."
Researchers and lawmakers who worry about the growing problem of drug resistance have been trying to get the US agricultural sector to go the way of Denmark and other European countries, where farmers now only use the drugs to treat sick animals.
To truly address antibiotic resistance, we need a global plan. Superbugs travel as easily as people can hop on planes. Acting globally will not only keep us all safe, but will also help minimize the cost of action by ensuring that restrictions on antibiotic use in animals affect all farmers equally around the world.
As an editorial in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization argues: "There is a clear role for a binding international legal framework to encompass the issues of access, conservation and innovation. When paired with strong implementation mechanisms, international law represents the strongest possible way in which countries can commit themselves to act."
To tackle the problem, we need to conserve the current stock of antibiotics and create new ones.
But while we have known this for more than a century, we have done terrifyingly little to curb the resistance crisis. We continue to abuse them in medicine, inject them into our food supply, and use them liberally in everything from yoga mats to sanitation products.
Still, it’s not all bad news. Last year seemed to mark a turning point, with a number of governments and global bodies promising to take action against superbugs. One researcher writing in the New England Journal of Medicine summed up some of those efforts:
In April, the WHO declared that the problem "threatens the achievements of modern medicine. A post-antibiotic era — in which common infections and minor injuries can kill — is a very real possibility for the 21st century." In May, the World Health Assembly commissioned the WHO to deliver a global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. In June, the British public voted to dedicate a government-sponsored £10 million Longitude Prize to the best solution to the resistance problem. And in September, the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released a report on antibiotic resistance linked to an executive order from President Barack Obama, who directed the National Security Council to work with a governmental task force and a nongovernmental advisory council to develop a national action plan by February 2015.
The Obama administration also launched a $20-million prize for the creation of a new, point-of-care diagnostic test and requested a doubling in federal funding for research on drug resistance.
There hasn't been similarly clear action here on the conservation side, even though other governments have already been conserving their antibiotics for decades. In 1971, for example, the UK banned the use in agriculture of several antibiotics for growth promotion. Following its lead, Denmark phased out growth promoters, and Norway and Sweden followed. By 2006, the European Union abandoned the use of antibiotics for growth promotion.
Amazingly, these efforts did not impact production. According to one study in Denmark, while the agricultural sector there reduced antibiotic consumption in pigs by 50 percent between 1992 and 2008, it managed to improve productivity and sustain zero or minor increases in production costs. These lessons haven't been applied in America, where politics and economics continue to trump science. Only time will tell whether we do too little, too late.
Want to see what cats look like without their fluffy coats of fur? Look no further than the Sphynx cat, which was developed specifically to look naked by breeders in Europe starting in the 1960s. Photographer Alicia Rius recently shot a series titled “Sphynxes” that explores the strange appearance of these cats.
Although the Sphynx looks hairless, it actually has a very fine layer of down. It’s skin features many of the same patterns as cats with full coats of fur (e.g. point, van tabby, tortie). Things breeders desire in the Sphynx include: a wedge shaped head, prominent cheekbones, large eyes, huge ears, a muscular body, and a whiplike tail.
“Sphynxes fascinates me in many ways,” Rius tells us. “I’m drawn by their alien look. There’s something disturbing yet admirable that keeps me astonished.”
“This breed shows what a true cat is. Without fluffy and fancy coats, everything is raw, exposed, vulnerable. This body of work is an exploration of the beauty of Sphynxes within their oddity.”
Each of the photographs in Rius’ project were shot on location with natural light. Here are some of the images she has captured so far:
You can find more photos from this series over on Rius’ website.
Image credits: Photographs by Alicia Rius and used with permission
literally in my 1st grade book that I read and learned about her for the first time, it described her as “a woman named rosa. rosa’s feet were tired.”
that’s it. rosa’s feet were tired.
that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface, and it’s so important that we know the rest.
Correction: Rosa Parks was not only a trained activist, she and her activist buddies were specifically trying to recreate an incident that had happened earlier.
You see, the actual, spontaneous, unplanned incident was done nine months earlier by a black girl named Claudette Colvin. She was in the section designated for black people, however, the front became crowded and she was told to move to make way for a white woman (who was actually fine with standing as it turns out, to show how adamantly racist the bus driver was). She refused and was arrested.
Rosa Parks was a secretary at one of many chapters of NAACP and they had seen the incident but they had multiple reasons for not wanting to publicize it when it happened. One was that Claudette was a minor. Another possibility is that Claudette had some marks on her past that could have been considered questionable or immoral and they wanted someone that white people couldn’t pick apart as a villain or a thug for when it happened.
So they staged the incident all over again with Rosa Parks as the victim and when it played out just like they thought, they slammed it with as much attention and media as they could to publicize it.
I remember the first time I read about her, she was described as tired.
The next time, it was “she wasn’t physically tired. She was tired of giving up her position as a person to a man who probably didn’t work as hard as she did that day.”
There was never anything about Claudette Colvin, which is horrible.✊
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It's that mad, mad, mad, mad time of year. With March comes Selection Sunday. With Selection Sunday comes the NCAA Tournament. And with the NCAA Tournament comes...vasectomies. Lots and lots of vasectomies. More vasectomies in a weeklong period than occur in any given month--maybe multiple months--at all other times of the year. Although live online streaming now makes it easier for men to sneak in viewings of 1st and 2nd round tournament action at the office, nothing compares to spending 2 solid days parked on the couch watching college basketball on a 65" flat screen with a few 6-packs. Even if it means getting snipped to get license to do it.
And now electively surrendering your ability to reproduce can come not only with a coupla days' recovery time at the height of March Madness, but also a sweet Got Snipped gift basket stashed with all the comforts you'll need to get over saying goodbye to your seeds of life. Most notably, that means some tightie whities to stabilize my family jewels, beer koozies to insulate my Bud Light Limes, and a hand bell so I don't go hoarse on top of hacked up in my nether regions yelling MAAAMAAA! I need some more ice and a large plate of nachos!
Got Snipped gift baskets come in sizes Ultimate and Deluxe. The Ultimate set uses a PEVA insulated backpack cooler large enough to store an 18-pack of 12 oz. cans to house:
The Deluxe Got Snipped Basket is a smaller version of the ultimate that arrives in a 6-pack-sized PEVA cooler. It includes the hand bell, koozies, golf balls, an RIP vas deferens shot glass, and the buyer's choice of 1 x DVD.
I have seen a lot of people referring to this breed of cat as “hippo” which is maybe the name of the breed? This is confusing because hippo is also a nick name for hippopotomuses. Maybe it’s because these cats like water so much?
Anyway here is one swimming and meowing at the same time
I am very good at Rock Band. I am not very good at Amplitude, I discovered at PAX East 2015.
There once was a time when I played most Rock Band songs on expert difficulty for vocals, guitar and bass, and hard difficulty on drums. So the first time I tried a song in the Kickstarter-funded Amplitude, I figured I'd be fine on medium.
I failed when I was 25 percent of the way through.
It turned out that my timing was off — it's been a long while since I tried to sight-read gems flying down a screen toward me — but I also wasn't used to moving around note highways with a D-pad and hitting gems with face or shoulder buttons. And with Harmonix set to launch its Amplitude reboot this summer, more than 12 years after the original game, I'm...
Thomas Meluch, a.k.a Benoit Pioulard, is somehow managing to pull off a career as an experimental songwriter without it feeling forced or being all pretentious about it. His new album, out March 30 on Kranky, is built from kernels of songs generated from looped field recordings and found sounds, which he then tried to replicate on guitar. These loops grew into fuller, fleshed-out compositions, and pretty soon Pioulard had an album on his hands. It's called Sonnet ,and the record is a dreamy exploration of little nuggets of sound. Some of Sonnet's songs bring to mind Deerhunter, and others land in John Cage or Charles Ives territory, which is a pretty solid balance.
Preorder Sonnet here.
At a press event last year, director Jaume Collet-Serra still seemed determined to make that mostly-white adaptation of Akira, despite telling reporters that he found many elements of the original uncompelling:
I hope that I can bring strong characters. In the original source material, I don’t think the main characters are the protagonists. What I’m hoping is to bring characters… Nobody’s interesting. Tetsuo’s interesting because weird sh*t happens to him, and Kaneda is so two-dimensional. That’s part of the Japanese culture, they never have strong characters. They’re used as a way to move the other philosophy forward.
But when asked by Collider earlier this week if he’d made any progress on the project in the last year, Collet-Serra admitted “No, no. There’s nothing [...] it’s a Warner Bros. question.”
And if Warner Bros. does decide to prioritize Akira, they might need to look for a new director. When asked if he had any projects on the horizon, Collet-Serra replied:
A vacation! I truly will not make a decision on a movie for a few months because I’ve done these two movies in three years without any time off so I cannot wait for this movie to come out and just fade away. So my next movie’s not gonna be for a while, let’s put it this way.
Can you blame him for wanting a break? Insulting beloved source material, alienating your fan base, and making cultural generalizations must be exhausting.
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You know what I love about this statement? The fire inside of it, the rage directed at a racist action from a school administrator. There is no professional glossing about this, no usage of “we do not condone this behavior”. This was not done to make those reading it feel comfortable, it is a direct shaming of behavior that these young men knew better than to demonstrate.
This is the LEADER of a institution of higher learning firing back and telling a group of students that they are a disgrace to the school name.
I love President Boren’s overall attitude of, “You knew the rules when you showed up, here are the consequences, because in 2015, you all knew far better.” He even acknowledges it was “freedom of speech”, but addresses they abused that, resulting in consequences.
I am so here for this.
BTVS + Biblical Imagery (click gifs for explanations)
As far as Apple announcements go, today's "Spring Forward" event was decidedly lacking in big reveals. The only real curveball was Apple's reveal of a brand new MacBook—one that comes in both gold and space gray, no less. Still, there were some fun little surprises thrown in the mix.
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Bridgetsee this is what i expect for a multimillion dollar home
Generally speaking, snoring is not a good thing. It destroys relationships and is associated with the damaging health effects of sleep apnea. It's not cute. Except when done by a hummingbird.
The BBC has provided us with this evidence:
In this picture the photographer has used an extremely narrow depth of focus in order to highlight this cat’s gummy pores and straw adornments
WHY tho
BridgetSooooooon
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