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  Embrace.  Educate.  Empower. Disability owned and operated, this organization encourages pride and passion, radical acceptance, and an opportunity to change perception. This day honors its founder, Annie Hopkins. IDOA A while ago I came across Devva Kasnitz, an anthropologist of disability. She passed away last year at the age of 75, having dedicated her life to disability studies.  A colleague wrote, "Without her, far fewer anthropologists would be working on questions around ability and social exclusion." As a field, it examines beyond medical views to analyze disability through a lens of power, identity, activism, and "otherness," revealing how different societies define personhood, normality, and care.

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 The Antarctic ice sheet is approximately 1.2 miles thick, covering 98% of the continent. NASA satellite imagery confirmed it actually gained mass from 2021-2023, but this was simply due to increased precipitation, and definitely did not make up for 20 years of loss. Scientists have recently been able to better map the bedrock beneath.  Geological features shape how ice flows, sculpting the glacial surface, and having a clearer picture of this process will help scientists predict ice changes in response to warming. They found river channels stretching hundreds of miles, sharp transitions between highland and lowland terrain, suggesting tectonic boundaries.  Deep valleys exist 18.6 miles beneath the ice that were previously unknown, or unclear. About a year ago, a team drilled a spot 2 miles down to reach 1.2 million year old ice, the oldest ice core yet.  (Older ice has been found, about 6 million years old, but it is not a continuous core). Analysis will show how Ea...

 Here's a throwback Thursday shot from 2017. Yesterday was 10 years since we got Mighty. It was a couple months after my dad died, and Chewy was noticeably depressed, so we knew we had to find him a friend. Chewy was very picky, didn't often care about other dogs, he was more concerned with sniffs.  But he immediately liked Mighty.  This was 10 years ago today. Snuggles. Mighty's always been good for a picture.  He's patient, and he'll hold still for me. Now the grays. My handsome old man.

 Before the Summer of Love, the Human Be-In brought between 20-30,000 people to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, on this day in 1967. Organized by artist Micheal Bowen, he wanted to bring the "tribes" of psychedelic hippies and anti-war activists together, in part to protest California's recent ban of LSD. It was the beginning of "Peace, Love, and Rock & Roll" with a side of civil rights sit-ins and teach-ins. Psychologist Timothy Leary spoke of his advocacy for psychedelic drugs.  This was the first time he used the phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out," which was to encourage being aware and detaching from mainstream society to find spiritual rebirth through drug use. The stage was just a flatbed truck and an amp, but bands such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company performed. The following June would host the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival and then the Monterey Pop Festival in July.

 The Calennig apple is a traditional Welsh New Year's gift, carried door to door by children who sing rhymes for good luck.  They may receive treats or coins in return. The apple, with a tripod of sticks, represents the sun's rays.  The studded cloves are for fragrance and health, while the sprig is for perennial life and good fortune. Today is known as "Hen Galan" or Old New Year. The Gwaun Valley is one of a handful of places that still celebrates according to the Julian calendar. Celebrations continue at the pub, the historic Dyffryn Arms, whose interior is listed as having "outstanding national historic importance." Beer is poured from a jug, which is filled directly from the barrel.  Just like the old days.