#Harry Bornstein

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

April 15th is National American Sign Language (ASL) Day, observed annually to celebrate the ASL community and its contributions to inclusivity, and to encourage folks to learn the language. Regarded as a natural language, sign language has likely existed for as long as there has been a need to communicate, however, the emergence of ASL is largely credited to Thomas Gallaudet (1787-1851) founder of the American School for the Deaf. Uniting deaf children from the western hemisphere the American School for the Deaf was fertile soil for language contact, developing ASL from French Sign Language, village sign languages, and home sign systems. Today, more than a half-million people throughout the United States use ASL to communicate as their native language. 

In recognition of the day, we’re sharing another book from our Historical Curriculum Collection the Basic Pre-School Signed English Dictionary published by Gallaudet College Press in 1973. Signed English features drawn signs with written instructions to represent 975 words most frequently used by and with pre-school children. The editors also include sign markers and the American Manual Alphabet to be used in conjunction with the vocabulary, encouraging a language that is adaptable and offers a more complete English model of communication. 

Signed English was edited in part by Harry Bornstein and Karen Saulnier who worked on several signing books for young readers throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and illustrated by Jack Fennell and Ann Silver. 

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[counttwinkula]

hi i have been obsessed with your “the monster’s body is a cultural body etc” post since i saw it like a month ago. do you have any book recs where i can read more about this, like, forever. (I’m aware of your podcast I’m checking it out too) <3

i'm glad you liked it, it's an honor to introduce the people of tumblr to cohen's seven theses

first and foremost i would recommend The Monster Theory Reader, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, which includes several seminal essays including:

"The Uncanny" by Sigmund Freud

"The Uncanny Valley" by Masahiro Mori

"Approaching Abjection" by Julia Kristeva

"Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection" by Barbara Creed

"The Monster and the Homosexual" by Harry M. Benshoff

i would also recommend the book in which Cohen first published his seven theses, Monster Theory: Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

(i must admit that i haven't gotten around to reading either of these books in full yet)

aside from the essays mentioned above, here are some foundational texts for monster theory but not specifically about monster theory:

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim

Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals by William Doty

Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber

monster theory/horror criticism texts i've read:

Monsters in the Closet by Harry M. Benshoff

Skin Shows by Jack Halberstam

Murder Most Queer by Jordan Schildcrout

It Came from the Closet, ed. Joe Vallese

Horror by Brigid Cherry

Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol Clover

Dark Places by Barry Curtis

The Dread of Difference, ed. Barry Keith Grant

The Monster Show by David J. Skal (SEE NOTE BELOW)

Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor

The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens

and some others i own but haven't read yet:

Dark Carnivals by W. Scott Poole

Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History by Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush

Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli

Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture by Annalee Newitz (just started this, already love it)

Theatre and the Macabre, ed. Meredith Conti and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

and i can't neglect to mention The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness by Michael Chemers

before i say anything further i want to give one warning. my particular interest is on monstrosity and queerness (probably evident based on some of my recommendations). monster theory and horror criticism have generally been rooted in psychoanalytic theory, particularly as it has been interpreted through a feminist lens. unfortunately, this leads to a lot of arguments and interpretations that are sex essentialist and fail to address gender with the necessary nuance. this is particularly true in Men, Women, and Chain Saws and The Dread of Difference.

(Vested Interests is… complicated. it's not monster theory exactly but cohen cites it. garber is generally better than the others mentioned here in her consideration of trans people but her work can still be uncomfortable.)

i have a lot of reservations about recommending The Monster Show. i loved reading it and i think skal has great analysis. somehow, however, in the middle of his discussion of how marginalized people have been historically monsterized in american culture, he has the audacity to cite The Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond, the ur-text of TERF ideology, and skal uses this text to monsterize trans women. it's disgusting and reprehensible, and if the rest of the book wasn't so strong i wouldn't recommend it

the best medicine i have are texts by trans people. It Came from the Closet is an anthology with several essays by trans people, i adore it. i am forever obsessed with Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, which isn't exactly monster theory, but i would say it's monster theory adjacent and i wish everyone would read it

and if you haven't, you must read "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage" by Susan Stryker. (see i even put a link to that one. drop everything and read it now)

alright if you're still with me i have a couple other things to put out there:

the docuseries Queer for Fear, available on Shudder, is incredible and i'm obsessed with it

she seems to be inactive these days but @draculasdaughter has a lot of posts quoting texts and articles on monster theory/horror criticism that i highly recommend

i've only seen the jacob geller videos on this list but i mean to watch this youtube playlist of video essays about horror, fear, and dread

and i also keep a #monster theory tag on my blog that has various posts on the subject, some funny and some earnest

[fuckitfireeverything]

The diagnosis of gender dysphoria requires that a life takes on a more or less definite shape over time; a gender can only be diagnosed if it meets the test of time. You have to show that you have wanted for a long time to live life as the other gender; it also requires that you prove that you have a practical and livable plan to live life for a long time as the other gender. The diagnosis, in this way, wants to establish that gender is a relatively permanent phenomenon. It won’t do, for instance, to walk into a clinic and say that it was only after you read a book by Kate Bornstein that you realized what you wanted to do, but that it wasn’t really conscious for you until that time. It can’t be that cultural life changed, that words were written and exchanged, that you went to events and to clubs, and saw that certain ways of living were really possible and desirable, and that something about your own possibilities became clear to you in ways that they had not been before. You would be ill-advised to say that you believe that the norms that govern what is a recognizable and livable life are changeable, and that within your lifetime, new cultural efforts were made to broaden those norms, so that people like yourself might well live within supportive communities as a transsexual, and that it was precisely this shift in the public norms, and the presence of a supportive community, that allowed you to feel that transitioning had become possible and desirable. In this sense, you cannot explicitly subscribe to a view that changes in gendered experience follow upon changes in social norms, since that would not suffice to satisfy the Harry Benjamin standard rules for the care of gender identity disorder. Indeed, those rules presume, as does the GID diagnosis, that we all more or less “know” already what the norms for gender —'masculine' and 'feminine'—are and that all we really need to do is figure out whether they are being embodied in this instance or some other. But what if those terms no longer do the descriptive work that we need them to do? What if they only operate in unwieldy ways to describe the experience of gender that someone has? And if the norms for care and the measures for the diagnosis assume that we are permanently constituted in one way or another, what happens to gender as a mode of becoming? Are we stopped in time, made more regular and coherent than we necessarily want to be, when we submit to the norms in order to achieve the entitlements one needs, and the status one desires?

Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 51, 2020

A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability. Agmon, H., & Burak, Y. (2020). eLife, 9, e56894.

Statistical Learning and Inference Is Impaired in the Nonclinical Continuum of Psychosis. Dzafic, I., Randeniya, R., Harris, C. D., Bammel, M., & Garrido, M. I. (2020). Journal of Neuroscience, 40(35), 6759–6769.

Neuronal spike-rate adaptation supports working memory in language processing. Fitz, H., Uhlmann, M., Broek, D. van den, Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(34), 20881–20889.

Gravity prior in human behaviour: a perceptual or semantic phenomenon? Gallagher, M., Torok, A., Klaas, J., & Ferrè, E. R. (2020). Experimental Brain Research, 238(9), 1957–1962.

Can sleep protect memories from catastrophic forgetting? González, O. C., Sokolov, Y., Krishnan, G. P., Delanois, J. E., & Bazhenov, M. (2020). eLife, 9, e51005.

Timescales of Evidence Evaluation for Decision Making and Associated Confidence Judgments Are Adapted to Task Demands. Harun, R., Jun, E., Park, H. H., Ganupuru, P., Goldring, A. B., & Hanks, T. D. (2020). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 826.

Small lesions of the dorsal or ventral hippocampus subregions are associated with distinct impairments in working memory and reference memory retrieval, and combining them attenuates the acquisition rate of spatial reference memory. Hauser, J., Llano López, L. H., Feldon, J., Gargiulo, P. A., & Yee, B. K. (2020). Hippocampus, 30(9), 938–957.

Learning prediction error neurons in a canonical interneuron circuit. Hertäg, L., & Sprekeler, H. (2020). eLife, 9, e57541.

The role of perception and action on the use of allocentric information in a large-scale virtual environment. Karimpur, H., Kurz, J., & Fiehler, K. (2020). Experimental Brain Research, 238(9), 1813–1826.

Dynamical Learning of Dynamics. Klos, C., Kalle Kossio, Y. F., Goedeke, S., Gilra, A., & Memmesheimer, R.-M. (2020). Physical Review Letters, 125(8), 088103.

Rapid stimulus-driven modulation of slow ocular position drifts. Malevich, T., Buonocore, A., & Hafed, Z. M. (2020). eLife, 9, e57595.

Dynamics of gaze control during prey capture in freely moving mice. Michaiel, A. M., Abe, E. T., & Niell, C. M. (2020). eLife, 9, e57458.

Inter- and intra-animal variation in the integrative properties of stellate cells in the medial entorhinal cortex. Pastoll, H., Garden, D. L., Papastathopoulos, I., Sürmeli, G., & Nolan, M. F. (2020). eLife, 9, e52258.

Hierarchical dynamics as a macroscopic organizing principle of the human brain. Raut, R. V., Snyder, A. Z., & Raichle, M. E. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(34), 20890–20897.

Reward prediction errors create event boundaries in memory. Rouhani, N., Norman, K. A., Niv, Y., & Bornstein, A. M. (2020). Cognition, 203, 104269.

Synaptic and intrinsic mechanisms underlying development of cortical direction selectivity. Roy, A., Osik, J. J., Meschede-Krasa, B., Alford, W. T., Leman, D. P., & Van Hooser, S. D. (2020). eLife, 9, e58509.

Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits. Schneegans, S., Taylor, R., & Bays, P. M. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(34), 20959–20968.

Non-stationary Salience Processing During Perceptual Training in Humans. Treviño, M. (2020). Neuroscience, 443, 59–70.

Cognitive and neural underpinnings of goal maintenance in young children. Yanaoka, K., Moriguchi, Y., & Saito, S. (2020). Cognition, 203, 104378.

A brain network supporting social influences in human decision-making. Zhang, L., & Gläscher, J. (2020). Science Advances, 6(34), eabb4159.

[verycleverboy]

Welcome to October 7th.

(cough cough)

Where we are today:

After spending the weekend at Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment of his COVID-19 infection, President Donald Trump returned to the White House yesterday afternoon, where he is expected to continue treatment under quarantine.

The slim hopes there were that Trump would calm down and take his current situation seriously--and yeah, I know, but some people are just born suckers--were exploded yesterday when Trump's first full day out of the hospital was highlighted by an almost incoherent tweet storm, followed by a declaration out of nowhere that long-stalled talks over a second stimulus package were dead until after the election, and everyone had been instructed to dedicate their undivided attention to the Supreme Court nomination. The response was instantaneous: one spur-of-the-moment tweet shaved 600 points off the stock market before closing.

He walked back the stance slightly later on, saying he'd be willing to sign off on just the personal stimulus checks, part of a piecemeal approach that Democrats have repeatedly said was a nonstarter. For those who were depending on extended unemployment relief or waiting for a federal lifeline for their small businesses (or even larger ones, in the case of the airlines), the message from Trump and his party, with 27 days until the election, is what it's been all summer: Help isn't on the way. You're on your own. Please suffer quietly while we play confirmation games in the Senate.

The above would appear to demonstrate that the President’s emotional state is even more unhinged than usual, and the speculation (not to mention a certain style of headline) has been zeroing in on the manic episodes that are a known side-effect of the steroid treatment Trump has been taking. The impression is that there’s still a lot that’s being kept from us, and the main thing the West Wing has been open about since the President’s diagnosis is that they have no intention of being open about anything related to the current state of affairs.

Physician to the President Dr. Sean Conley maintains that Trump’s recovery is continuing in a positive direction, but the memorandum begins with the one line that has been casting a long shadow over any hope of honesty:

“I release the following information with the permission of President Donald J. Trump.” 

In 2015, Trump’s personal physician Dr. Harold Bornstein released a hyperbole-laden assessment of the then-candidate’s health status: “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." Like Conley’s status report, there we no real negatives. The main difference was that Borstein’s letter sounded a lot like a Trump-penned press release. 

Borstein later revealed there was a reason that letter sounded so Trumpian. "He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter." 

Folks, this could be some hard-earned paranoia talking, since there’s no major reason to assume that a Borstein level of hijacking is happening with Conley, apart from his Walter Reed declaration that he was intentionally skewing towards optimism over the weekend while dodging (and sometimes backtracking on) a lot of key questions. But if some of us feel like we smell a rat in a sunshine-and-rainbows status report, it’s because that rat was caught in this particular corn crib once before.

HIPAA rules entitle every American citizen to a certain expectation of privacy when it comes to medical records. If you want to allow even another member of your family to be able to talk about your condition with your doctors, you have to sign off specific names. That means the onus of allowing transparency in the case of Donald J. Trump, a man whose health (for better or for worse) has international implications, falls on the full consent of Donald J. Trump himself. But since Borstein’s revelation came days after members of the Trump Organization seized his Trump-related medical records in what he characterized as a “raid” on his office, it’s safe to assume that’s not going to happen....not until it’s too late, anyway.

Meanwhile...

The Trump/Pence team continues to openly mock the medically-recommended safety measures that, had they been applied consistently, would've kept the President out of the hospital. Trump is still making the claim that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, which by any metric is demonstrably false and highly dangerous, while Pence and his team made a last-minute attempt yesterday to flex on the previously agreed-to plexiglas guards in front of the podiums. His debate with Kamala Harris is scheduled for tonight.

Since Trump loves Citizen Kane, while not necessarily understanding that Kane isn't the hero of the movie, let's end this wall of words with a quote that he probably hasn't figured out yet either.

“You're the greatest fool I've ever known, Kane. If it was anybody else, I'd say what's going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're going to need more than one lesson. And you're going to get more than one lesson.”

Will Trump's next lesson come from the disease or the electorate? Either way, we're in for a long, dark October. Stay warm, everybody.

First Lady Melania Trump, who did not join her husband at Walter Reed, continues to rest at the White House during her recovery.

Other confirmed positives for COVID-19:

(This is not intended to be a complete list, and is based on news reports concerning those who are known to have been in contact with other infected individuals in connection with recent events. Status changes and additions since yesterday’s megapost will be listed in bold. Updated throughout the day as new information becomes available from the CNN, NBC News, and CBS News live update pages, supplemented by other sources.)

White House

Hope Hicks: Began showing symptoms on Wednesday, tested positive on Thursday morning. Was not in attendance at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination event on September 26th.

Nicholas Luna, personal assistant to the President: Luna is a “body man”, whose duties require him to be in close proximity to the President at all times.

Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary:  She was not aware of the Hicks diagnosis when she addressed the press on Thursday.

Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the President: Was already working remotely and self-isolating, announced positive test on Monday. His wife, Katie Miller, is Vice President Pence’s director of communications, had coronavirus several months ago.

Chad Gilmartin and Karoline Leavitt, members of Kayleigh McEnany’s staff.

Assistant White House press secretary Jalen Drummond: Another McEnany staffer who tested positive Monday morning

Unidentified staffer: Military personnel directly assigned to support the President in the Oval Office and residence, diagnosed over the weekend per CNN.

Three initially unidentified members of the White House press corps and an unidentified staffer who works with the media. Per the White House Correspondents’ Association president Zeke Miller: Individual #1 attended a Sunday briefing and tested positive on Friday after exhibiting symptoms on Thursday. Individual #2 (later confirmed to be Michael Shear of the New York Times) was part of the press pool which traveled to last Saturday’s Pennsylvania rally; also exhibited symptoms on Thursday and tested positive on Friday. Individual #3 was in the press pool for the Barrett Rose Garden event and also travelled with the press pool on Sunday. #3 exhibited symptoms on Wednesday and tested positive Friday afternoon. The press at the Barret event were confined in a crowded “penlike enclosure” behind the invited guests (per Washington Post).

Campaign personnel

Chris Christie: Attended the Barrett nomination event and was part of Trump debate prep. Christie, whose asthma puts him in a higher risk group, checked himself into Morristown Medical Center as a precautionary measure.

Kellyanne Conway: Attended the Barrett nomination event and was part of Trump debate prep. The initial news came in the form of a string of snarky Tiktok posts on Friday from her daughter Claudia, followed much later by a confirmation from Kellyanne herself.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: Isolating at home since September 26th, tested last Wednesday.

Bill Stepien, current Trump 2020 campaign manager: In the White House on Monday, in Cleveland for Tuesday’s presidential debate, traveled with Trump and Hicks aboard Air Force One afterwards.

US Congress

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Per CNN: “Johnson was not at the Amy Coney Barrett ceremony because he was quarantining from a prior exposure, during which he twice tested negative for the virus, according to the spokesperson.” He was exposed “shortly after” returning to Washington.

Sen. Mike Lee, (R-UT): Attended the Barrett nomination event.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC): Attended the Barrett nomination event.

Military

Admiral Charles Ray, Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard: Recently attended several meetings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Nearly all the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including chairman General Mark Milley, are in precautionary quarantine.

Gen. Gary L. Thomas, assistant commandant of the US Marine Corps

Others

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, CSC: Attended the Barrett nomination event. Jenkins was told that he didn’t need to wear a mask to the event after he and other guests tested negative at the White House.

Thirteen employees at Murray’s restaurant in Minneapolis: Catered a party attended by President Trump on September 30th, although none of them were in close proximity to the President.

Confirmed negatives:

(Because of the nature of COVID-19, this list is subject to change.)

Mike and Karen Pence: The Pences have been testing daily since the announcement of the Trumps’ diagnosis.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: Recently traveled with Hope Hicks

Barron Trump

Eric Trump: At debate.

Lara Trump: At debate.

Donald Trump Jr.: Flew on Air Force One to Cleveland debate, did not fly back.

Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff

Pat Cipollone, White House counsel

Dan Scavino, Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media

HHS Secretary Alex Azar

Attorney General Bill Barr

Defense Secretary Mark Esper

WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

Justin Clark, deputy campaign manager

Rudy Giuliani: Was in Trump debate prep.

Jason Miller: Was in Trump debate prep.

Alice Marie Johnson: Flew on Air Force One to Cleveland debate.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett: Barrett and her husband had coronavirus earlier this year and recovered, per AP News.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA): Tested out of "an abundance of caution” because of Steve Mnuchin meeting earlier this week.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): Few on Air Force One to Cleveland debate, did not fly back.

DNC Chairman Tom Perez: In front row for Tuesday’s debate.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO):  Attended the Barrett nomination event, was seen there without a face covering.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): Precautionary quarantine because of close contact with COVID-19-positive individuals.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE): Precautionary quarantine because of close contact with COVID-19-positive individuals.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK):  Precautionary quarantine because of close contact with COVID-19-positive individuals.

All of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Status unknown as of Tuesday midday:

Kimberly Guilfoyle (at debate)

Alyssa Farah, White House Director of Strategic Communications

Robert O’Brien, national security adviser (tested positive for coronavirus in July)

Tiffany Trump (at debate)

Derek Lyons,  Counselor to the President

Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R-IA), Senate pro tem: Declined to be tested, claiming physician’s advice as his reason; attended a meeting Thursday with Sen. Mike Lee.

30-50 donors who were in close contact with President Trump during an in-person event held at Trump’s Bedminster golf club on Thursday night. According to the official story, the event was held hours before President Trump’s positive test came back, but Hicks’s positive came back immediately before he left (although for a variety of reasons, the validity of that timeline is up in the air).

And because they’re stuck in this story, too:

Joe and Jill Biden: negative, committed to regular testing on all campaign event days.

Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff: negative

Previous megaposts, in case you’re a masochist: October 2 3 4 5 6

[stainedglassgardens]

Watched in August

Point Break In Full Bloom Blue Steel The Eagles are a Country Music Band The Fifth Element Hobbs & Shaw Coco Bubba Ho-Tep John Wick Eve's Bayou I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow My Cousin Rachel Lifeline FOMI (Fear of Missing In) Body at Brighton Rock Koreatown A Report of Connected Events Sundays A King's Betrayal Perception Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) Men in Black International Captive State Little Forest (리틀 포레스트, Liteul Poleseuteu)

Did not finish

Johnny Ghost (Donna McRae, 2011) Almost Adults (Sarah Rotella, 2017)

Did not like

The Eagles are a Country Music Band (Cody Wagner, 2018) 

I have forgotten what these were about already

I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow (Jessica Ashman, 2017) Lifeline (Harry Jackson, 2018) FOMI (Fear of Missing In) (Norbert Fodor, 2019) A Report of Connected Events (Mischa Rozema, 2018) Sundays (Mischa Rozema, 2015) Captive State (Rupert Wyatt, 2019)

Blockbusters that didn’t disappoint

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997): I’ve already seen this one half a dozen times but I just love it. The 1990s at their finest

Hobbs & Shaw (David Leitch, 2019): Went to see this with my friends when it came out. Had an amazing time

Coco (Lee Unkrich, 2017): It delivered

John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014): Also fuckin delivered lol

Men in Black International (F. Gary Gray, 2019): What can I say, I grew up with the franchise

Good feature films

Point Break and Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991 and 1990): I don’t particularly like Bigelow, it’s more of a wanting-to-support-the-ladies situation really, so I thought these were good good films, but like... that’s it. Give me Near Dark over both of these any day

Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli, 2002): Just read the pitch of that one and tell me you don’t want to watch it

Perception (Ilana Rein, 2018)

Flawless short films

Koreatown (Grant Hyun, 2018) A King's Betrayal (David Bornstein, 2014)

Favourites of the month

In Full Bloom (Maegan Houang, 2019): This is one of the best short films I have seen in forever, seriously recommended to magical realism fans but also liteally anyone else in the world

Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997): Probably one of the best films I’ve seen this year. I’d been meaning to see it forever and I found it to be even better than anticipated

My Cousin Rachel (Henry Koster, 1952): Love me anything and everything Daphne du Maurier

Body at Brighton Rock (Roxanne Benjamin, 2019): I’m assuming lots of people will have said nothing happens in this film blah blah blah, but I just loved it. Sometimes horror just means having to guard a dead body overnight in a national park, my dudes. Also great music, great acting, fantastic photography. And seriously creepy. So

Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter, Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1980): Is it heavy-handed? Yes. Did my dramatic ass love it? Also yes

Little Forest (리틀 포레스트, Liteul Poleseuteu, Yim Soon-rye, 2018): I could hear faint echoes of The Tale of Iya but definitely preferred this. I love and identify deeply with stories of children of the countryside who go to the big city then come back, and I could watch them forever. Also amazing photography -- and the food! Damn

[b0bbynash]

What are your predictions for the Emmys? What categories do you think Veep is going to win?

comedy series: should win: fleabag will win: veep or maiselcomedy actress: should win: JLD will win: JLDcomedy actor: should win: eugene levy will win: bill hader/eugene levycomedy supporting actress: should win: anna chlumsky will win: alex bornsteincomedy supporting actor: should win: alan arkin/henry winkler will win: henry winkler (i love tony but he was severely underused this season)

drama series: should win: succession will win: game of thronesdrama actor: should win: sterling k brown/jason bateman will win: sterling k brown

limited series: should win: chernobyl will win: chernobyl/fosse verdonlimited series actor: should win: jared harris, will win: sam rockwelllimited series actress: should win: amy adams will win: patricia arquette/michelle williamslimited series supporting actress: should win: patricia arquette will win: patricia arquette

guest actress in a comedy series: should win: emma thompson, will win: honestly who knowsguest actor in a comedy series: should win: peter macnicol will win: as always this category is stacked with snl so who knows

i’ve seen every comedy actress performance except maisel and if jld loses to anyone it’s going to be either PWB or catherine o’hara but i dont think she’s going to lose because her performance is the strongest in the category and every other person nominated other than maisel is for a 20-28 minute episode where as the series finale is a 45 minute episode and it is jld’s submission ep and this win will be a historic one (she’ll break 3 records if she wins, 2 of which she currently holds lmaooo) and people love to be a part of history

also veep deserves to win set decoration for this season

[skylightbooks]

Late last night we gathered all of the new books that we carry that contain lists of

radical/difficult/legendary/badass/bold/brave/bad

girls/women/ladies/leaders/rebels/princesses/goddesses/feminists/heroines 

and created a word cloud of all the names that occur in these books. Here it is in long form:

A'isha bint abi Bakr Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Abigail Adams Ada Blackjack Ada Lovelace (appears 4 times) Adina De Zavala Aditi Aelfthryth Aethelflaed Agatha Christie Agnodice (appears 3 times) Agontime and the Dahomey Amazons Aine Aisholpan Nurgaiv Ala Alek Wek Alexandra Kollontai Alexis Smith Alfhild (appears 2 times) Alfonsina Strada Alia Muhammad Baker Alice Ball (appears 3 times) Alice Clement Alice Guy-Blache Alice Paul Alicia Alonso Alma Woodsey Thomas Althea Gibson Amal Clooney Amalia Eriksson Amanda Stenberg Amaterasu Amba/Sikhandi Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Amelia Earhart (appears 4 times) Amna Al Haddad Amy Poehler (appears 2 times) Amy Winehouse Ana Lezama de Urinza Ana Nzinga Anais Nin Andamana Andree Peel Angela Davis (appears 3 times) Angela Merkel (appears 2 times) Angela Morley Angela Zhang Angelina Jolie Anita Garibaldi (appears 3 times) Anita Roddick Ann Hamilton Ann Makosinski Anna Atkins Anna May Wong Anna Nicole Smith Anna of Saxony Anna Olga Albertina Brown Anna Politkovskaya Anna Wintour Anna-Marie McLemore Anne Bonny Anne Hutchinson Anne Lister Annette Kellerman (appears 3 times) Annie "Londonderry" Cohen Kopchovsky Annie Edson Taylor Annie Edson Taylor Annie Jump Cannon (appears 3 times) Annie Oakley (appears 2 times) Annie Smith Peck Aphra Behn Aphrodite Arawelo Aretha Franklin Artemis Artemisia Gentileschi (appears 4 times) Artemisis I of Caria Ashley Fiolek Astrid Lindgren Athena Aud the Deep-Minded Audre Lorde Audrey Hepburn Augusta Savage Aung San Suu Kyi (appears 2 times) Azucena Villaflor Babe Zaharias Barbara Bloom Barbara Hillary Barbara Walters Bast Bastardilla Beatrice Ayettey Beatrice Potter Webb Beatrice Vio Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter Belle Boyd Belva Lockwood Benten Bessie Coleman (appears 2 times) Bessie Stringfield Bettie Page Betty Davis Betty Friedan Beyonce (appears 3 times) Billie Holiday Billie Jean King (appears 3 times) Birute Mary Galdikis Black Mambas Blakissa Chaibou Bonnie Parker Boudicca (appears 3 times) Brenda Chapman Brenda Milner Bridget Riley Brie Larson Brigid of Kildare Brigit Britney Spears Bronte Sisters Buffalo Calf Road Woman (appears 2 times) Buffy Sainte-Marie Calafia Caraboo Carly Rae Jepsen Carmen Amaya Carmen Miranda Carol Burnett Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Carrie Bradshaw Carrie Fisher (appears 2 times) Caterina Sforza Catherine Radziwill Catherine the Great (appears 3 times) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Celia Cruz Chalchiuhtlicue Chang-o Charlotte E Ray Charlotte of Belgium Charlotte of Prussia Cher Cheryl Bridges Chien-Shiung Wu Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (appears 3 times) Chiyome Mochizuki Cholita Climbers Chrissy Teigen Christina   Christina of Sweden Christine de Pizan Christine Jorgensen (appears 2 times) Clara Rockmore Clara Schumann Clara Ward Claudia Ruggerini Clelia Duel Mosher Clemantine Wamariya Clementine Delait Cleopatra (appears 3 times) Coccinelle Coco Chanel (appears 2 times) Constance Markievicz Cora Coralina Coretta Scott King Corrie Ten Boom Courtney Love Coy Mathis Creiddylad Daenerys Targaryen Dahlia Adler Daisy Kadibill Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira Delia Akeley Demeter Dhat al-Himma Dhonielle Clayton Diana Nyad Diana Ross Diana Vreeland (appears 2 times) Dixie Chicks Dolly Parton (appears 2 times) Dolores Huerta Dominique Dawes Dona Ana Lezama de Urinza and Dona Eustaquia de Sonza Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Thompson Dorothy Vaughan Dr. Eugenie Clark Dr. Jane Goodall (appears 3 times) Durga Edie Sedgwick Edith Garrud Edith Head Edith Wharton Edmonia Lewis Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor Roosevelt (appears 3 times) Elena Cornaro Piscopia Elena Piscopia Elinor Smith Elisabeth Bathory Elisabeth of Austria Elizabeth Bisland Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Hart Elizabeth I (appears 3 times) Elizabeth Murray Elizabeth Peyton Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Zimmermann Elizsabeth Vigee-Lebrun Ella Baker Ella Fitzgerald Ella Hattan Elle Fanning Ellen Degeneres Elsa Schiaparelli Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir Emily Warren Roebling Emma "Grandma" Gatewood Emma Goldman (appears 2 times) Emma Watson (appears 2 times) Emmeline Pankhurst (appears 3 times) Emmy Noether (appears 3 times) Empress Myeongseong Empress Theodora (appears 2 times) Empress Wu Zetian (appears 2 times) Empress Xi Ling Shi Enheduanna Eniac Programmers Eos Erin Bowman Estanatlehi Ethel Payne Eufrosina Cruz Eustaquia de Souza Eva Peron (appears 3 times) Fadumo Dayib Faith Bandler Fannie Farmer (appears 2 times) Fanny Blankers-Koen Fanny Bullock Workman Fanny Cochrane Smith Fanny Mendelssohn Fatima al-Fihri (appears 3 times) Fe Del Mundo Ferminia Sarras Fiona Banner Fiona Rae Florence Chadwick (appears 2 times) Florence Griffith-Joyner (appears 2 times) Florence Nightingale (appears 4 times) Frances E. W. Harper Frances Glessner Lee Frances Moore Lappe Franziska Freya Frida Kahlo (appears 7 times) Friederike Mandelbaum Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (appears 2 times) Gabriela Brimmer Gabriela Mistral Gae Aulenti Gaia George Sand Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick Georgia O'Keefe (appears 3 times) Gertrude Bell Gerty Cori Gilda Radner Girogina Reid Giusi Nicolini Gladys Bentley Gloria Steinem (appears 3 times) Gloria von Thurn Grace "Granuaile" O'Malley Grace Hopper Grace Jones Grace O'Malley (appears 3 times) Gracia Mendes Nasi Gracie Fields Grimke Sisters Guerrilla Girls Gurinder Chadha Gwen Ifill Gwendolyn Brooks (appears 2 times) Gypsy Rose Lee Hannah Arendt Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Tubman (appears 6 times) Hathor Hatshepsut (appears 7 times) Hazel Scott Hecate Hedy Lamarr (appears 5 times) Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Hel Helen Gibson Helen Gurley Brown (appears 2 times) Helen Keller (appears 2 times) Hildegard von Bingen Hillary Rodham Clinton (appears 2 times) Hina Hortense Mancini Hortensia Hsi Wang Mu Huma Abedin Hung Liu Hypatia (appears 4 times) Iara Ida B. Wells (appears 3 times) Ida Lewis Imogen Cunningham Irena Sendler (appears 3 times) Irena Sendlerowa Irene Joliot-Curie Isabel Allende Isabella of France Isabella Stewart Gardner Isadora Duncan (appears 2 times) Isis Iva Toguri D'Aquino Ixchel J.K. Rowling (appears 3 times) Jackie Mitchell Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne Jacquotte Delahaye Jane Austen (appears 2 times) Jane Dieulafoy Jane Mecom Jang-geum Janis Joplin Jayaben Desai Jean Batten Jean Macnamara Jeanne Baret (appears 3 times) Jeanne De Belleville Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Steinkamp Jenny Lewis Jesselyn Radack Jessica Spotswood Jessica Watson Jezebel Jill Tarter Jind Kaur Jingu Joan Bamford Fletcher Joan Beauchamp Procter Joan Jett (appears 2 times) Joan Mitchell Joan of Arc (appears 3 times) Jodie Foster Johanna July Johanna Nordblad Josefina "Joey" Guerrero Josephina van Gorkum Josephine Baker (appears 7 times) Jovita Idar (appears 2 times) Juana Azurduy Judit Polgar Judy Blume Julia Child (appears 2 times) Julia de Burgos Julie "La Maupin" d'Abigny (appears 3 times) Julie Dash Juliette Gordon Low Junko Tabei (appears 4 times) Justa Grata Honoria Ka'ahumanu Kali Kalpana Chawla Karen Carson Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera Kat Von D Kate Bornstein Kate Sheppard Kate Warne Katherine Hepburn Katherine Johnson (appears 2 times) Kathrine Switzer Katia Krafft (appears 2 times) Katie Sandwina Kay Thompson Keiko Fukuda Keumalahayati Kharboucha Khawlah bint al-Azwar Khayzuran Khoudia Diop Khutulun (appears 5 times) Kim Kardashian King Christina of Sweden Kosem Sultan Kristen Stewart Kristin Wig Kuan Yin Kumander Liwayway Kurmanjan Dtaka Lady Godiva Lady Margaret Cavendish Laka Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi (appears 5 times) Lana Del Rey Las Mariposas Laskarina Bouboulina (appears 2 times) Laura Redden Searing Lauren Potter Laverne Cox (appears 2 times) Lee Miller Lella Lombardi Lena Dunham Leo Salonga Leymah Gbowee (appears 2 times) Libby Riddles Lieu Hanh Lil Kim Lili'uokalani Lilian Bland (appears 3 times) Lilith Lillian Boyer Lillian Leitzel Lillian Ngoyi Lillian Riggs Lindsay Lohan Liv Arensen and Ann Bancroft Lorde Lorena Ochoa Lorna Simpson Lorraine Hansberry Lotfia El Nadi Louisa Atkinson Louise Mack Lowri Morgan Lozen (appears 3 times) Lucille Ball Lucrezia Lucy Hicks Anderson Lucy Parsons Luisa Moreno Luo Dengping Lyda Conley Lynda Benglis Ma'at Mackenzi Lee Madam C.J. Walker (appears 3 times) Madame Saqui Madia Comaneci Madonna (appears 3 times) Madres de Plaza de Mayo Mae C. Jemison Mae Emmeline Wirth Mae Jemison (appears 3 times) Mae West Mahalia Jackson Mai Bhago Malala Yousafzai (appears 7 times) Malinche (appears 2 times) Mamie Phipps Clark Manal al-Sharif Marcelite Harris Margaret Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Cho Margaret Hamilton (appears 2 times) Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse Margaret Sanger Margaret Thatcher (appears 2 times) Margery Kempe Margherita Hack Marguerite de la Rocque Maria Callas Maria Mitchell Maria Montessori (appears 2 times) Maria Reiche Maria Sibylla Merian Maria Tallchief Maria Vieira da Silva Mariah Carey Marian Anderson Marie Antoinette Marie Chauvet Marie Curie (appears 5 times) Marie Duval Marie Mancini Marie Marvingt Marie Tharp Marieke Nijkamp Marina Abramovic Mariya Oktyabrskaya (appears 2 times) Marjana Marlene Sanders Marta Marta Vieira da Silva Martha Gelhorn Martha Graham Mary Anning (appears 5 times) Mary Blair Mary Bowser (appears 3 times) Mary Edwards Walker (appears 2 times) Mary Eliza Mahoney Mary Fields (appears 2 times) Mary Heilmann Mary Jackson (appears 2 times) Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Mary Kingsley Mary Kom Mary Lacy Mary Lillian Ellison Mary Pickford Mary Quant Mary Seacole (appears 3 times) Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft (appears 2 times) Maryam Mirzakhani Mata Hari (appears 3 times) Matilda of Canossa Matilda of Tuscany Matilde Montoya Maud Stevens Wagner Maya Angelou (appears 4 times) Maya Gabeira Maya Lin (appears 2 times) Mazu Meg Medina Megan Shepherd Melba Liston Mercedes de Acosta Merritt Moore Meryl Streep Micaela Bastidas Michaela Deprince Michelle Fierro Michelle Obama (appears 3 times) Mildred Burke Miley Cyrus Millo Castro Zaldarriaga Mina Hubbard Minnie Spotted Wolf Mirabal Sisters (appear 2 times) Miriam Makeba (appears 3 times) Missy Elliot Misty Copeland Mochizuki Chiyome Moll Cutpurse Molly Kelly Molly Williams Moremi Ajasoro Murasaki Shikibu (appears 3 times) Nadia Murad Nadine Gordimer Nakano Takeko Nana Asma'u (appears 2 times) Nancy Rubins Nancy Wake (appears 2 times) Naomi Campbell Naziq al-Abid Neerja Bhanot Nefertiti Nell Gwyn Nellie Bly (appears 8 times) Nettie Stevens (appears 2 times) Nichelle Nichols Nicki Minaj Nicole Richie Nina Simone (appears 2 times) Njinga of Angola Njinga of Ndongo Noor Inayat Khan (appears 3 times) Nora Ephron (appears 3 times) Norma Shearer North West Nuwa Nwanyeruwa (appears 2 times) Nyai Loro Kidul Nzinga Nzinga Mbande Octavia E Butler Odetta Olga of Kiev (appears 2 times) Olivia Benson Olympe de Gouges Oprah Winfrey (appears 5 times) Osh-Tisch Oshun Oya Pancho Barnes Paris Hilton Parvati Patti Smith (appears 2 times) Pauline Bonaparte Pauline Leon Peggy Guggenheim (appears 2 times) Pele Petra "Pedro" Herrera Phillis Wheatley Phoolan Devi Phyllis Diller Phyllis Wheatley Pia Fries Pingyang Policarpa "La Pola" Salavarrieta Policarpa Salavarrieta (appears 2 times) Poly Styrene Poorna Malavath Pope Joan Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres Princess Caraboo Princess Diana Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Psyche Pura Belpre Qiu Jin (appears 3 times) Queen Arawelo Queen Bessie Coleman Queen Lili'uokalani (appears 2 times) Queen Nanny of the Maroons (appears 4 times) Quintreman Sisters Rachel Carson (appears 4 times) Rachel Maddow Raden Ajeng Kartini Ran Rani Chennamma Rani Lakshmibai Rani of Jhansi Raven Wilkinson Rebecca Lee Crumpler Rhiannon Rigoberta Menchu Tum Rihanna Rita Levi Montalcini (appears 2 times) Robina Muqimyar Roni Horn Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Parks (appears 4 times) Rosalind Franklin Rosaly Lopes Rose Fortune Rowan Blanchard Roxolana Ruby Nell Bridges (appears 3 times) Rukmini Devi Arundale Rupaul Ruth Bader Ginsburg (appears 3 times) Ruth Harkness Ruth Westheimer Rywka Lipszyc Sadako Sasaki Sally Ride Samantha Christoforetti Sappho (appears 3 times) Sara Farizan Sara Seager Sarah Breedlove Sarah Charlesworth Sarah Winnemucca Saraswati Sarinya Srisakul Sarojini Naidu Sarvenaz Tash Sayyida al-Hurra (appears 2 times) Sekhmet Selda Bagcan Selena Seondeok of Silla (appears 2 times) Serafina Battaglia Serena Williams (appears 4 times) Shajar al-Durr Shamsia Hassani Sharon Ellis Sheryl Crow Sheryl Sandberg Shirely Chisolm (appears 2 times) Shirley Muldowney Shonda Rhimes (appears 2 times) Simone Biles (appears 2 times) Simone de Beauvoir Simone Veil Sister Corita Kent Sita Sky Brown Sofia Ionescu Sofia Perovskaya Sofka Dolgorouky Sojourner Truth (appears 5 times) Solange Sonia Sotomayor (appears 2 times) Sonita Alizadeh (appears 2 times) Sophia Dorothea Sophia Loren Sophie Blanchard Sophie Scholl (appears 3 times) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (appears 2 times) Sorghaghtani Beki Spider Woman Stacey Lee Stagecoach Mary Fields (appears 2 times) Steffi Graf Stephanie Kwolek Stephanie von Hohenlohe Stevie Nicks Subh Susa La Flesche Picotte Susan B. Anthony Susan La Flesche Picotte Sybil Ludington (appears 3 times) Sybilla Masters Sylvia Earle (appears 3 times) Tallulah Bankhead Tamara de Lempicka Tara Tarabai Shinde Tatterhood Taylor Swift Te Puea Herangi (appears 2 times) Temple Grandin (appears 3 times) Teresita Fernandez Mirabal Sisters Muses Night Witches Shaggs Stateless Thea Foss Therese Clerc Tin Hinan Tina Fey (appears 2 times) TLC Tomoe Gozen (appears 2 times) Tomyris (appears 2 times) Tonya Harding Tove Jansson (appears 2 times) Troop 6000 Trung Sisters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi (appear 2 times together) Tyche Tyler Moore Tyra Banks Ulayya bint al-Mahdi Umm Kulthum Ursula K. LeGuin Ursula Nordstrom Valentina Tereshkova (appears 5 times) Valerie Thomas Vanessa Beecroft Venus Williams (appears 2 times) Victoria Beckham Vija Celmins Viola Davis Viola Desmond Violeta Parra Virginia Apgar Virginia Hall Virginia Woolf (appears 3 times) Vita Sackville-West Vivian Maier Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (appears 2 times) Wang Zhenyi (appears 2 times) Wangari Maathai (appears 3 times) Washington State Suffragists Whina Cooper Willow Smith Wilma Mankiller Wilma Rudolph (appears 3 times) Winona Ryder Wislawa Szymborska Wu Mei Wu Zetian (appears 3 times) Xian Zhang Xochiquetzal Xtabay Yaa Asantewaa (appears 3 times) Yael Yani Tseng Yayoi Kusama Yemoja Yennenga Yeonmi Park Ynes Mexia Yoko Ono Yoshiko Kawashima Yuri Kochiyama Yusra Mardini Zabel Yesayan Zaha Hadid (appears 2 times) Zenobia Zoe Kravitz Zora Neale Hurston (appears 2 times)

[teespix]

Official Harry Potter 20th Anniversary 2001 2021 7 Parts 1179 Minutes Thank You For The Memories Signatures T-Shirt Bornstein has around 25 sessions lined up for next week so far. (If you do the…

[architectnews]

Kemerovo Museum and Theatre Complex, Russia

Kemerovo Museum and Theatre Complex, Russian Public Building, Design Images, Architecture

Museum and Theatre Complex in Kemerovo

15 Nov 2020

Kemerovo Museum and Theatre Complex

Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Location: Kemerovo, Russia

The Museum and Theatre Complex will create a new Cultural Hot-Spot and will become the future architectural landmark in the cityscape of Kemerovo.

The Project Site is located east of the city center between Sovetskiy Prospekt and Pritomskiy Prospekt and is embedded in Iskitimka river course landscape. The exposed location of the site provides an all-round visibility and presence of the building in the urban setting. Together with the future embankment development, the Opera will be connected with a spacious network of public promenades and squares.

The Museum and Theatre Complex is an open and transparent structure: A publicly accessible sculpture for visitors and residents of Kemerovo.

The building integrates itself confidently into the surroundings and forms with its four main functions a recognizable ensemble. A graceful, flying Theatre Cloud, two Crystals for the Museum and the Art Centre, embrace the Public 24h Foyer on top of the Plinth.

The elevated Public space distributes not only the visitors into the different functions, it also acts as a new communal meeting point for the city. Exhibitions in the Foyer, Events of different purposes and a Restaurant will add to the cultural life of Kemerovo.

In the center of the building, the heart of the project is located: an auditorium for 950 visitors including a stage tower and back of house areas. The additional functions, such as offices, VIP rooms and rehearsal rooms are arranged in the Cloud.

Towards the outer side the public space is partially glazed and offers spectacular views of the surroundings. The plinth of the building extends throughout the site, due to the difference in altitude of the ground, the plinth is forming terraces, which (as well as the restaurant inside the building) can be used at any time of the day, also during holidays and leisure time.

Museum and Theatre Complex in Kemerovo, Russia – Building Information

Client: LLC GORKA Site Area: 40.568 sqm Height: 60 m Buidling Length: 250 m Seats: 950 + 200

Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix Managing Partner: Markus Prossnigg Design Partner: Alexander Ott Project Partner: Benjamin Schmidt Project Architect: Mohammed Eid Project Team: Barbara Schickermüller,Tudor Sabau, Katarina Porazik, Tyler Bornstein, Vasja Popovic, Thanasis Farangas, Katharina Kraschitz, Irem Coskun, Poltak Pandjaitan, Monica Soler, Harry Varnavas, Kacper Kania, Felix Knoll

Consultants: Structural Engineering: B+G Ingenieure Bollinger und Grohmann Gmbh, Vienna Prof. Klaus Bollinger ,Moritz Heimrath ,Apard Novak

Acoustics Consultant: Müller BBM, Munich Eckard Mommertz Jörg Kümmel

Theatre Consultant: Kunkel Consulting International GmbH Horst Kunkel Tatjana Suchina

3D Visualization: Constantin Papachristopoulos, Christos Grapas, Iraklis Alexandros Kallioras, Jan Rancke Model: Nam La Chi, Hamid Abolahrar

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[ravenbara]

17 for 17

Tagged by @torque-witch haven’t done one in a bit, thank you!

1. Nickname: Raven or Matt

2. Zodiac: Cancer (but 11 minutes away from Leo if anyone is interested to know that)

3. Height: 5’ 3″

4. Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw i guess?

5.  Last thing I googled: good question...... probably a plant thing.... nope, local pet store chain that sells the brand of collar i like for Harry... he needs a new one

6. Song stuck in my head: Do I move you? Nina SImone (it is playing in my ear don’t have much really stuck right now)

7. Number of followers: 542

8. Amount of sleep: uhhhh, usually 10-12 to actually feel rested

9. Lucky number: 9 or 3

10. Dream job: something animal training and obedience related oooooor just caring for animals and cooking good food in a small community living situation

11. Wearing: brown tshirt with a rainbow tree print and feather bring boxers but too hot for anything else

12. Fav song: I will never die Delta Rae

13. Fav aesthetic: cozy sweaters and mugs of hot tea on a crisp cold day relaxing wtih a loved one

14: Fav author: hmmmm..... i adore the dresden files by Jim Butcher an awful lot but other than that i like Kate Bornstein’s works like gender outlaw and my gender workbook 1 and 2

15. Fav instrument: don’t play anything myself and a lot of instruments sound weird to my ear.... and to be honest, i do like a good  vocal only song

16. Fav animal noise: parrot happy beak grinding or a cats “you woke me up, what do you want?” chirp

17. Random: i currently have zodi bird in my face with her blankie barely over her and my shoulder and dear goodness am i hating that she has me trained with blanket time for her

I tag: NO PRESSURE AT ALL! but if you want to do it, go for it! ANYONE!

[bi-gray]

2, 9, 15, 18, 22, 30

2. have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?

You know, I can't think of one, but I can't help but think that if I did, their work would be kind of boring to read, ya know? The surprises are some of the best parts!

9. are you an artist?

Not really--I enjoy doing some creative things, like singing or dancing or sketching or whatever, but it's not super central in my life.

15. five most influential books over your lifetime

Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey--my first Gay Book (that I suspect also gave me some baby gender feels? idk, I was like, 10). The other two books in the trilogy kind of, but especially the first one

Selected Poems / Rogha Dánta by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill--basically inspired me to work hard enough to actually learn Irish? which led to me meeting a lot of cool people, going to Ireland multiple times, spending a year in Dublin, and was influential in picking my PhD program

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling--I know picking the whole series is cheating but whatever, I grew up with it!

My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein--I used this SO MUCH for a pretty long period of time while I was working through my gender

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde--possible root of my love for historical, decadent queerness

18. what's your patronus?

Ahhh I'm so bad at picking things! We're gonna go with horse? Yes, horse. I think i got that one on a quiz once, and tbh I was enormously obsessed with horses as a child.

22. list the top five things you spend the most time doing, in order

sleeping

reading (for fun and for work)

listening to podcasts (usually while doing chores)

worrying (hello anxiety!)

paying attention to my adorable and demanding cat

30. pick one of your favorite quotes

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

-T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," Four Quartets

These lines feel like a really good metaphor for, well, life. And self-discover, and all that good stuff. 

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Thousand Dollar Fine On Reckless Motorist,” Toronto Globe. October 13, 1911. Page 11. --- SENTENCES IMPOSED ON THE PRISONERS CONVICTED AT THE SESSIONS ---- Alexander Tracy of Port Huron, Michigan, who ran into a crowd at the corner of Queen street and Roncesvalles avenue on Labor Day, was fined $1,000, or six months in the Sessions yesterday by Judge Winchester. His Honor said that it was necessary to impose a severe penalty to stop further automobile driving. No less than nine cases of female shoplifting came before the Court, and terms of imprisonment not exceeding thirty days were imposed in these cases.

The following is the list of sentences:

Wiilliam Farrant, assault, one year and ten lashes; John M. French, false pretences, one year; James Stewart, assault, one year’ Edward Moylan, assault, one year; Fred. Nelles, uttering forged documents, false pretences, one year; W. J. Strange, uttering forged documents, false pretences, six months; Norman Tansley, assault, remand for appeal; Edward B. Annis, perjury, one yuear; Mary Clerc, theft, suspended sentence; Annie Macdonald, theft, ten days; Elizabeth Williams, theft, suspended sentence; Charles Angel, theft, suspended sentence; Mary Park, theft, thirty days; Edward Mitchell, assault, remand to December; Harry Bornstein, assault, $100 or three months; Joseph Rosenblatt, assault, $100 or three months; Sarah Cohen, theft from the person, thirty days’ Arthur Miner, assault, remand to December; Mary A. Hartley, theft, suspended sentence; Harry Burr, assault, $20; Hattie Gates, bigamy, one year in the Mercer; Alexander S. Tracey, criminal negligence, $1,000 or six months; Elizabeth Parsons, theft, thirty days; John Roberts, false pretences, suspended sentence; Cecil Both, doing injury by furious driving, $20; A. E. Thomas, false pretences suspended sentence; George Franklin Dove, uttering forged document, three years in penitentiary; Gordon Russell, forgery, uttering and theft, remanded for result in another case; Elizabeth Thomas, theft, suspended sentence; John Hollinger, false pretences, remanded till December; Mary E. Garner, theft, thirty days.

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just for personal reference, no need to read (despite the cut’s language)

Behold my hubris: this book list represents my reading ambitions for coming years.

Women and Gender in Islam- Leila Ahmed Moods- Louisa May Alcott Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions- Paula Gunn Allen The Maze Maker- Michael Ayrton (based on Daedalus) Harriet Said…- Beryl Bainbridge Promises, Promises- L-J Baker (parody of LotR/D&D starring three lesbians on a quest for magical stuff) An Indoor Kind of Girl: Stories- Frankie Barnet The Letters of Mina Harker- Dodie Bellamy- also her essay collection Academonia Finding Ms Write- Jae & Jove Belle (Collection of short stories about women who love women and also love books.) The Mothers by Brit Bennett Gender Outlaw- Kate Bornstein The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement- Winifred Breines Last Sext- 4th poetry collection by Melissa Broder So Sad Today- Melissa Broder (essays based on her popular Twitter account) Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism- Nancie Caraway What We Talk About When We Talk About Love- Raymond Carver (anthology) A Study in Charlotte and sequel, The Last of August- Brittany Cavallaro (The descendants of Holmes and Watson end up mystery-solving, if only to clear their own names.) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk- Melinda Chateauvert Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night – Alexander Chee The Napoleon of Notting Hill- G.K. Chesterton Gay Pride and Prejudice- Kate Christie (What it says on the tin. Elizabeth Bennett is a lesbian and the haughty Caroline Bingley is the last woman she could ever be prevailed upon to love.) Incendiary, Little Bee (aka The Other Hand), Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven- Chris Cleave Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure- John Cleland Widow Basquiat- Jennifer Clement The Shutter of Snow- Emily Holmes Coleman Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, & the Politics of Empowerment- Patricia Hill Collins Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism- Patricia Hill Collins Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina- Misty Copeland On Intersectionality- Kimberlé Crenshaw Geisha- Liza Dalby Women, Race, and Class- Angela Y. Davis Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend- Matthew Dicks Look At Me- Jennifer Egan Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America- Lillian Faderman If You Could Be Mine: A Novel- Sara Farizan Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel: A Novel- Sara Farizan Stone Butch Blues- Leslie Feinberg Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape- Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti Bad Feminist- Roxane Gay What Belongs to You: A Novel- Garth Greenwell Good Enough to Eat- Alison Grey & Jae (cute vampire lesbian comedy!) The Ghostly Lover; Sleepless Nights- Elizabeth Hardwick Make Room! Make Room!- Harry Harrison (basis for the film Soylent Green) An Innocent Fashion- R.J. Hernández Lady Sings the Blues- Billie Holiday, with William Dufty The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet- Merylin A. Hermes (Shakespeare novelization involving super bisexual Hamlet who fucks everybody over, especially Horatio, in every possible way) Kept: A Comedy of Sex and Manners- Y. Euny Hong Ain’t I A Woman?: Black Women and Feminism- bell hooks Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics- bell hooks The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love- bell hooks Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life- bell hooks The Berlin Stories/The Berlin of Sally Bowles- Christopher Isherwood The Sundial- Shirley Jackson Heart Trouble- Jae (A doctor gets shocked by a defibrillator while saving a woman’s life in the ER. Now they have a soul bond!) The Making of Donald Trump- David Cay Johnston (Just because trainwrecks are compelling.) The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden- Jonas Jonasson The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait- Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, and Sarah M. Lowe The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks- Edited by Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, and Patricia Smith Asylum Piece; Sleep Has Its House; Who Are You?- Anna Kavan Bestiary: Poems- Donika Kelly Chaka! Through the Fire- Chaka Khan with Tonya Bolden Ascension- first in a series called Tangled Axon- Jacqueline Koyanagi (Queer disabled ladies fighting Big Pharma in space) We Are Still Tornadoes- Michael Kun Nobody is Ever Missing- Catherine Lacey (Being about “a woman whose mental state is deteriorating, stuck on a constant loop of memories of the past and a desire to escape her own mind.”) Everything Leads to You- Nina LaCour (Hollywood f/f YA about a young set designer who falls for a girl she meets under mysterious circumstances.) A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School- Carlotta Walls LaNier The Ballad of Black Tom- Victor LaValle Lady Chatterley’s Lover- D.H. Lawrence (be sure it’s unexpurgated!) Random Family- Adrian LeBlanc Ancillary Justice; Ancillary Sword; Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (A trilogy, if it wasn’t obvious) Not Your Sidekick- C.B. Lee (In the future, what happens when your parents are superheroes but you never developed powers? You intern for the baddie, of course! MC is bi and ends up in a f/f relationship, and the sequel will star her trans bff.) Fierce Family- edited by Bart R. Leib (More space & speculative fiction lgbtqia rep! A whole anthology of it!) The Evolution Man- Roy Lewis (sci-fi) Get In Trouble- Kelly Link (short story collection) The Hour of the Star- Clarice Lispector Tragic Ways of Killing A Woman- Nicole Loraux All I Want for Christmas- Clare Lydon (Fluffy wlw romantic comedy; seasonal but who cares, it’s a book. It won’t scold you for reading it in July.) Cinder Ella- S.T. Lynn/Tami Veldura (the first is a pseudonym. Features a trans Cinderella.) The Company She Keeps- Mary McCarthy At the Dark End of the Street- Danielle McGuire Escape from B-Movie Hell- M.T. McGuire (Silly British sci-fi with a lesbian protagonist) Girls in the Moon- Janet McNally The Countess Conspiracy- Courtney Milan (Deals w the problem of uncredited wives’ labor on their husbands’ projects.) The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller Woman, Native, Other- Trinh T. Minh-ha Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More- Janet Mock This Bridge Called My Back- Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood- Trevor Noah Roller Girl- Vanessa North (Wlw *and* a roller derby. Sweeet.) Big Mouth and Ugly Girl- Joyce Carol Oates Boy, Snow, Bird- Helen Oyeyemi Seven Ways We Lie- Riley Redgate Six Girls Without Pants- Paisley Rekdalís Voyage in the Dark and basically anything else by Jean Rhys The God of Small Things- Arundhati Roy The Wildings- Nilanjana Roy On the Move- Oliver Sacks The Specialist- Charles Sale Ties That Bind- Sarah Schulman Sword of the Guardian and Prayer of the Handmaiden-Merry Shannon (Bi princess and lesbian bodyguard fall in love.) Black Feminist Voices in Politics- Evelyn M. Simien Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany- Marie Jalowicz Simon Black Movie and [insert] boy- Danez Smith (poetry) A Brother’s Price- Wen Spencer Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980- Kimberly Springer Surveys- Natasha Stagg Chameleon Moon- RoAnna Sylver (Trans woman superhero with two female partners living in a dystopian city that’s on lockdown from the government after everyone develops mutant powers in response to a wonder-drug.) The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan A Gentleman in Moscow and/or Rules of Civility- Amor Towles Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant- Anne Tyler (Three siblings remember growing up with their perfectionist mother as she lies on her deathbed.) First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers- Luong Ung Night Sky with Exit Wounds; No; Burnings- Ocean Vuong (these are poetry volumes) Just Another Number- Maggie Young Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare’s Roles for Women- Harriet Walter The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened; A Penny Saved; Black Pearl; Hurrah’s Nest; Post Pardon; Dear Gerald; Disposition for Shininess- Arisa White (Poetry all.) The Wind City- Summer Wigmore (Urban fantasy drawing on Maori mythology. Protagonist describes herself as “at least 60% gay” and falls in love with a monster girl.) Belzhar- Meg Wolitzer Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando- Virginia Woolf Uncle Tom’s Children- Richard Wright This is Where the World Ends- Amy Zhang Dark Spring- Unica Zürn

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Why People in Cities Walk Fast

Researchers have proposed a number of theories over the years — from sensory overload to the economic value of time.

Late last week our own Richard Florida wondered on Twitter whether pedestrian walking speeds might indicate a city's economic activity — reflecting some sort of "urban metabolism," as he put it. Turns out there's a rather long history of research into the speed of walking in cities, and that the evidence reveals, among other things, a strong connection between fleetness of foot and fatness of wallet. Call it a sign of the Cantering Class.

Most work on urban walking speed dates back to 1976, when psychologists Marc and Helen Bornstein published a provocative paper on the topic in the top-tier journal Nature. The Bornsteins wanted to understand the relationship between a growing human population and an individual person's behavior. So they planted themselves in major activity centers of 15 different cities and towns in six different countries on warm sunny days, and timed how fast a couple dozen solitary, unsuspecting pedestrians covered about 50 feet of space.

The resulting correlation between walking speed and population was strikingly linear. With only a couple exceptions, people in places like Brooklyn, New York (pop: 2.6 million), walked faster than those in places like Psychro, Greece (pop: 365). The analysis indicated not only that life moves faster in the city than in the countryside, but that "pace of life varies in a regular fashion with the size of the local population, regardless of the cultural setting," the Bornsteins reported:

The Bornsteins suggested that the intense interpersonal crowding of cities might trigger behaviors that reduced "social interference," such as walking quickly. Other psychologists at the time bought into this idea: Stanley Milgram, for instance, believed that the sensory overload of the city prompted a social withdrawal response — in this case, a rapid motor action — to limit a person's environmental stimulation.

In 1989 the geographers D. Jim Walmsley and Gareth Lewis pointed out some flaws in the "cognitive overload" theory. For starters, some people obviously thrive on an active, stimulating environment. Besides that, a very slow pace of life no doubt creates cognitive and behavioral changes of its own. So Walmsley and Lewis set out first to validate the Bornsteins's results, and, if they held true, to propose some reasons for urban walk speed of their own.

The first goal was easy enough. Walmsley and Lewis timed 1,300 pedestrians in 10 places in England and Australia, from London (pop: 6.7 million) to Glen Innes (pop: 6,000). In line with the previous work, the researchers found that the bigger the city, the faster the walkers — though the effect was not quite as profound as it had been in the Bornstein study. Still Londoners in the morning had a study-high walking speed of 1.68 meters per second, Walmsley and Lewis reported in the journal Environment and Behavior.

As one possible explanation for the relationship between city size and foot speed, the researchers suggested that economic factors might play a key role. When a city grows larger, they wrote, wage rate and cost of living increase, and with that the value of a resident's time. As a result, "economizing on time becomes more urgent and life becomes more hurried and harried," Walmsley and Lewis suggest.

The link between time, money, and walking earned even more validity in a seminal 1999 study led by psychologist Robert Levine of California State University at Fresno. Levine studied what he broadly called "pace of life" in various cities — typically the largest ones — from 31 countries around the world. Writing in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Levine explained that he simply wanted to know what other cultural factors, beyond simple population size, influenced the speed of urban pedestrians.

Levine measured three "pace of life" variables — walking speed, work speed, and clock accuracy — though for the purposes of this post, in keeping with the previous literature, we'll focus on the first. The top ten cities for walking speed, according to Levine, were as follows: Dublin, Amsterdam, Bern/Zurich, London, Frankfurt, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Nairobi, and Rome.

With the exception of Nairobi — insert joke here about Kenyans crushing everyone at the New York City Marathon — the fastest walking cities were from wealthy nations. The statistical analysis confirmed this general perception: two of the three strongest social predictors of walking speed were a country's G.D.P. and its purchasing power parity (the other was its individualism). Indeed, when Levine considered all his "pace of life" metrics, he found that pace of life was swifter in "economically productive countries" like Western Europe and Japan than in undeveloped countries:

This model assigns a key role to economic vitality, which emerged as the strongest predictor in our study. Faster paced places will tend to be more economically productive — which then raises the value of time and, subsequently, the pace of life.

A thorough encore to Levine has yet to appear, though a rudimentary survey of pedestrian speeds in 32 countries was done by British psychologist Richard Wiseman in 2006. Wiseman's write-up leaves much of his method unexplained, and some of his results differ considerably from Levine's; Tokyo, for instance, ranks 19th on the Wiseman list. Still it should be said that other cities, like Dublin and New York, remained in his top ten. Interestingly, Wiseman clocked some of the quickest feet in Singapore, China, and Brazil — perhaps a reflection of these rising economies.

Eric Jaffe.