18 June 2025

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-12/google-apple-rename-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america-on-maps

https://leonardo.info/review/2024/10/pathology-and-visual-culture-the-scientific-artworks-of-dr-jean-martin-charcot

Small Things, Big Climate; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySDPsi2jv4U

https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-creative-city-ideas/

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-will-undermine-and-ultimately-destroy-us vaccination programs 

https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/22/visual-clutter-alters-information-flow-brain

https://www.cureusjournals.com/articles/364-a-strategic-roadmap-for-mitigating-generative-artificial-intelligence-hallucinations#!/

AIR https://xinresidence.com/ (sponsored by Simon Cooper Cole)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/20/1109087/childhood-vaccines-public-health-success

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/decision-time-in-the-west-bank-bracing-for-smotrichs-plan

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

“"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam"  (I shall either find a way or I shall make one” - Hannibal

“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.” - Aldus Huxley

“Pray and move your feet.” - The Universe

“A farmer and his son had a beloved horse who helped the family earn a living. One day, the horse ran away and their neighbors exclaimed:

Neighbor: “Your horse ran away, what terrible luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” A few days later, the horse returned home, leading a few wild horses back to the farm as well.

The neighbors shouted out: “Your horse has returned, and brought several horses home with him. What great luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” Later that week, the farmer’s son was trying to break one of the horses and she threw him to the ground, breaking his leg.

The neighbors replied: “Your son broke his leg, what terrible luck!”

The farmer replied: “Maybe so, maybe not.” A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, recruiting all boys for the army. They did not take the farmer’s son, because he had a broken leg.

The neighbors shouted: “Your boy is spared, what tremendous luck!

To which the farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.” Whenever something happens to you can you tell if it is good or bad?” 

The Story of a Chinese Farmer is a classic Chinese proverb that showcases we never know whether an event is good or bad and what fortunes or misfortunes an event can bring us. It also is a great way to showcase that there is no easy way to answer this question.

14 June 2025

Brain Mapping; https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01088-x

https://www.simplypsychology.org/normal-distribution.html

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-ai-generators-deviantart-midjourney-stable-diffusion-2246770

https://themindcircle.com/news-from-the-future/

https://engineerscanada.ca/nem2025/feature-stories/100-years-of-the-iron-ring

Cobalt Connects leadership change

Birdo Artist; https://www.jerryrugg.com/murals

History of Digital Sculpture: Bruce Beasley: Part One

Cardboard doll house

https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/new-study-shows-shingles-vaccine-tied-to-reduced-dementia-risk

“Navigating the geography of a creative life requires a compass , not a map." - Medium Blog

“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” - Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“The power of people is greater than the people in power." - Cory Booker

“Raise your sights and broaden your steps. Because doing one without the other is the same as doing neither.” - TU

“Listen carefully to just criticisms made of your work. Note what it is about your work that critics don’t like….then cultivate it.” - Jean Cocteau


28 May 2025

PubMed Map; https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00076-X

https://labs.google/tools/image-FX AI image generator

https://www.academia.edu/947467/Communicating_Science_A_Novel_Frame_of_Reverence

Wall builder; https://www.facebook.com/realJeffRainforth?

https://leonardo.info/review/2024/10/pathology-and-visual-culture-the-scientific-artworks-of-dr-jean-martin-charcot

https://medium.com/the-spike/2024-a-review-of-the-year-in-neuroscience

(RW referenced) https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-sustainable-art/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trash-recycling-global-waste-trade

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/best-of-2024-the-covid-lies-they-told-us-continue-to-warp-our-lives

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/20/1109087/childhood-vaccines-public-health-success

“When bad things happen, ask: Did the negative event force you to grow or do something you otherwise wouldn’t have had the courage, urgency, or motivation to do? If so, it wasn’t all bad.” - May Pang

“Slow is fake. If no urgency exists, impose some.” - Nabeel Qureshi

"When I composed that poem only God and I knew what it meant. Now, only God knows." - Robert Browning

"In a time of destructions, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston

“Simple fact that you gave your dream this time and attention means you did it correctly, you did it long enough, and that by the time you open your eyes huge wheels have begun turning." - The Universe


16 April 2025

GPS pointsmap;  https://www.queeringthemap

DARC video artists; https://digitalartsresourcecentre.ca/led-exhibition-october-2024/?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1096276/spotify-algorithms-music-discovery

https://www.pressreader.com  news aggregator 



(In 2020 Dr. Clark co-founded the) Adversarial Collaboration Project at Pennsylvania University;

(Video) Wild Horses Ridge; https://fb.watch/vecY2rGuLc/?

Kumano Kodo; an ancient pilgrimage route in the southern Ki peninsula (it’s the sister trail to the Camino de Santiago); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumano_Kodō

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/katerina-akassoglou-blood-clots-brain

“Our economic models are built on the assumption of endless growth. There is something fundamentally flawed about this equation.” - Harris Sockel

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us, if we create the capacity to receive it.” -  Rabindranath Tagore

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” - Leonardo DaVinci 

“To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live.” - Maria Popova, essayist 

“Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam” - Hannibal (I will either find a way, or I will make one)


21 March 2025

(COVID) https://blog.medium.com/the-great-barrington-declaration-and-how-polarized-we-are

How Societies Collapse 

https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/glossary/judgmental-forecasting/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jun/18/instagram-posts/dont-blame-ronald-reagan-for-fox-news-the-fairness/?

https://stepspublicart.org/fieldnotes-sustainable-art

https://www.flexagon.net/

https://www.slac.stanford.edu/gen/com/ retrieve the hidden texts of the Archimedes Palimpsest project

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/walkable-neighborhoods-suburban-sprawl-pollution/

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability

AlterEgo Chris Gaines (Garth Brooks); https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876407601368230&set=a.555665943442399&type=3&mibextid=WC7FNe

“Everything simple is false. Everything which is complex is unusable.” Paul Valéry

“The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.” - Arshile Gorky

“Never leave for tomorrow, that which you are willing to die having left undone.” - Picasso

“Do things fast. Things don’t actually take much time (as measured by a stopwatch); resistance/procrastination does.” - Nabeel Qureshi

“Do not expect the beneficiary of your kindness to be the bringer of your new blessings - very rare; not their job.” - TU


27 February 2025

https://thinkingispower.com/guide-to-the-most-common-cognitive-biases-and-heuristics

What seeing a face in this picture says about your brain;
https://apple.news/A6w6FmzGdR3-geoGNreijLw

https://www.theworldismycountry.com/ (Rotary moderator)

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/01/steamboat-willie-is-now-in-the-public-domain-what-does-that-mean-for-mickey-mouse

Pixel art basics; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu7xtenFnNQ  (Making fewer pixels look good)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-14/a-dallas-sculpture-exhibit-explores-the-dark-side-of-childhood

Science artist; https://www.danielabrillestrada.com/ 

https://www.apega.ca/news/2024/07/30/apega-initiating-practice-review-on-city-of-calgary-following-water-main-failure

https://assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/GTI%20-%20Phase%201%20report%20Executive%20Summary.pdf Chapter 23; https://assets.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/GTI%20-%20Phase%201%20full%20report%20-%20volume%204.pdf  (ACM factor)

https://www.textstudio.com/logo/drips-text-effect-1020

“Progress is not triumph.” Caitlin Rivers  

“A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with the other waves.” - Leonardo da Vinci

"One of the oldest adages in Washington is that if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu." - US business leaders

“The trick is learning to maintain an unwavering focus upon your desired end result (your completed dream, the "finish line"), without insisting upon or contemplating its means of attainment (or who else will be involved, no matter how logical, obvious, or tempting it may seem).” - The Universe

Be where your feet are.” - Mark Aoyagi

17 January 2025

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/the-rise-of-3d-gaussian-splatting

https://braincanada.ca/about/what-we-do/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/creative-explorations/201506/the-janusian-process-in-creativity

https://www.williamoslerhs.ca/en/research-and-outreach/research-events.aspx#Selected-works-and-artists

https://archive.aec.at/startsprize/  (art, science, and technology)

https://stopproject2025comic.org

Journal of the History of Ideas; https://www.jhiblog.org/

Nonlinear dynamics of aging; https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00692-2

(people have lost trust in public health science) https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5188676/trump-election-2024-vaccines-rfk

Parkinson’s Disease; https://fb.watch/vDsXdgTkl3/? Drug repurposing 

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Build your enemy a golden bridge to retreat across.” - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not." - Epicurus

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - TU

"Do something, do it today, something you wouldn't normally do.” - The Universe