Saturday, September 21, 2019

In the news, Saturday, September 7, 2019


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from The Guardian (UK)

How William Blake’s wife brought colour to his works of genius
The wife of William Blake, Catherine, was his partner in both life and work, making, mixing and applying his paint colours, according to curators at Tate Britain, who will open their biggest exhibition of the work of the radical British artist and poet this week. Rather than celebrating Catherine by displaying the handful of surviving works known to have been made by her alone, the gallery has chosen instead to point out her unacknowledged daily involvement in her husband’s idiosyncratic work.

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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company

Opinion: Earth Has Survived Extinctions Before, It's Humans Who Are Fragile
It takes only a few paragraphs in Genesis for the Earth to take shape, sprout with life, and then human beings. Of course, that development actually took millions of years. But this week, as the world watched a huge hurricane gather in the Earth's warming waters, and wreak terrible destruction on life in the islands of the Bahamas and other places, there was another humbling reminder that human beings really only play a supporting role in the history of the Earth.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Initiative didn’t strengthen gun safety, it added stigma, layers of bureaucracy
Undermining good intentions, and unintended consequences are just beginning for I1639/

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