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A good reminder

9/11 is coming up, which means i'm legally obligated to point out 9/11 here in chile is a different tragedy & also important

the 11th of september is when the chilean right wing (funded by the US gov.) bombed our gov. building, killed our democratically elected socialist president, gutted the welfare state & enacted martial law

followed by 17 years of a violent fascist dictatorship in which at least 3k people died, 40k were victimized and half of the country was traumatized

Maize can’t reproduce itself, because its kernels are securely wrapped in the husk, so Indians must have developed it from some other species. But there are no wild species that resemble maize. Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. No one eats teosinte, because it produces too little grain to be worth harvesting. In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists have argued for decades over how it was achieved.

What happens when you put a large cucumber in with guinea pigs? Exactly what you'd expect.*

*they all try dragging it to their own corner.

I still miss Kathy Sierra

obsessing over bad news is self-harm

Here's my guest blog post about the difference between going to Hamilton live with no audio description and watching it on Disney+ now with it.

https://accessforus.com/guest-blog-the-importance-of-audio-description-by-holly-cosmo-matthies/

Having just been writing academically about audio description these last few weeks, I enjoyed getting to write about the emotional and personal side of the subject.