"It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. As information itself becomes the largest business in the world, data banks know more about individual people.
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We re getting a glimpse into how far reaching gender pronoun debates have permeated society now that a new ant species has been given the scientific name of
Strumigenys ayersthey, as Jane Dalton with the Independent reported. Species named after women end in ae and those named after men end in i. Moving forward the they can and should be used as a suffix to new species for those that want to be identified outside of the gender binary, says study author Dr. Douglas Booher of Yale University Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 5, 2021
Such was very much a conscious and serious move, one which looks to be setting the stage for future species to be named according to these standards. REM s Michael Stope and Yale s Dr. Booher had Jeremy Ayers in mind, who was also part of REM.
Leaving Home, and Returning to It
New ways to fill the days.
Tulips in bloom at Sheridan Square in Manhattan.Credit.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
April 28, 2021
Welcome. When the world opens up more, will we have less time? I was chatting with some of my colleagues about this last week, how the absence of a commute has led, some days, to a more spacious schedule, one with time to fold laundry between meetings, to walk the dog at lunch. Brian Hogan, a barber in suburban Des Moines, built a video store in his basement.
We have the same amount of time, but, gradually, more experiences with which to fill it. Mask mandates eased slightly, an afternoon stroll becomes an adventure. I lingered, a few days ago, snapping photos from every angle of a preposterous red tulip with petals larger than my palm. Why had I never noticed the distinct, nearly psychedelic shades of pink advertised by the cherry, dogwood and magnolia trees on my block? Ezra Marcus investigated the seeming prolife
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Most people are familiar with the concept of pronouns, but The New York Times left many people scratching their heads Thursday with a lengthy report on neopronouns, a new phrase for a pronoun without expressing gender. He, she, and they do not suffice for some, the Times Ezra Marcus wrote, in a piece that quoted people as young as 13. These noun-self pronouns emerged from an online hotbed for avant-garde ideas around gender expression. A neopronoun can also be a so-called noun-self pronoun, in which a pre-existing word is drafted into use as a pronoun. Noun-self pronouns can refer to animals so your pronouns can be bun/bunself and kitten/kittenself. Others refer to fantasy characters vamp/vampself, prin/cess/princesself, fae/faer/faeself or even just common slang, like Innit/Innits/Innitself.
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