#Seattle Pacific University

[garyconkling]

The Real Value of a College Education

A debate is simmering in America over the worth of a college education. Advocates point to higher lifetime earning power. Critics complain about soaring lifetime debt. Some young people wonder whether it’s time well-spent.  The debate generated a slow-rolling inner reflection on how my college experience influenced my life journey. Like many Baby Boomers, I was the first member of my family to…

[projectchampionz]

list of best Universities in Washington State

Washington State is home to many universities and colleges, offering students a wide range of educational opportunities. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of some of the top universities in the state. Antioch University Seattle:   Founded in 1975, Antioch University  Seattle is a non-profit private higher education institution located in the urban setting of the large city of Seattle…

[eopederson2]

Cherry blossoms on the Quad, gloomy March day, University of Washington, Seattle, 1991.

[pauldavidgibson]

Autumn colors on the University of Washington campus Seattle, WA November 2023

[eopederson]

Rose hip wreath, University District Farmers Market, Seattle, 2004.

Happy Holidays

[rornelson]

Seattle snow.

[greyskyenthusiast]

Selective Color photo

[probablyasocialecologist]

Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023. A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered plant products for food. However, mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging this paradigm; for instance, women in many societies have been found buried alongside big-game hunting tools. Some researchers have suggested that women's role as hunters was confined to the past, with more recent foraging societies following the paradigm of men as hunters and women as gatherers. To investigate that possibility, Anderson and colleagues analyzed data from the past 100 years on 63 foraging societies around the world, including societies in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Oceanic region. They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game. The analysis also revealed that women are actively involved in teaching hunting practices and that they often employ a greater variety of weapon choice and hunting strategies than men.

These findings suggest that, in many foraging societies, women are skilled hunters and play an instrumental role in the practice, adding to the evidence opposing long-held perceptions about gender roles in foraging societies. The authors note that these stereotypes have influenced previous archaeological studies, with, for instance, some researchers reluctant to interpret objects buried with women as hunting tools. They call for reevaluation of such evidence and caution against misapplying the idea of men as hunters and women as gatherers in future research. The authors add, "Evidence from around the world shows that women participate in subsistence hunting in the majority of cultures."

[madameximon]

"In the Courtyard"

[hms-no-fun]

any music that you've listened to lately that you wanna share?

yeah sure! i don't really listen to a lot of popular/new music, i just sorta download stuff when it seems interesting to me. i tend to get really fixated on an artist or album for a long stretch of time, like if a track hits i'll have it on repeat constantly for hours if not days or weeks.

what, me autistic?

anyway i've been getting a lot of play out of John Carpenter's four Lost Themes albums. basically, they're soundtracks for movies that don't exist-- which means they're nonstop bangers start to finish, because unlike his actual movie OSTs he doesn't have to cater to the needs of dialogue and sound design. i especially recommend these albums if you, like me, spent a lot of time in the 2010s listening to the various Homestuck music albums. genuinely there are a bunch of tracks here that could show up in an [S] and you wouldn't even blink.

this is gonna be a pretty big bucket but i've been listening to a lot of J Jazz and City Pop. the three Pacific Breeze compilations, Tokyo Glow, and the four J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan compilations have been regulars on my rotation. i have to be in a particular mood for the city pop but i can listen to jazz whenever. i'm really glad there's been a resurgence in attention for j jazz since they broadly kept the tradition alive and evolving after it fell out of fashion in the states, and that scene broadly formed the musical foundation of a lot of the greatest composers of Japanese video game & anime music in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

sorry to be a white woman but i love Vulfpeck. they're an ensemble of exceptionally talented and affably good-natured musicians who've picked up where the 70s left off and carried on as if they never ended. their most recent album, Clarity of Cal, is so wild. it's a live album recorded at a massive sold out show... performing music that had never been released before. this gives it the quality of a greatest hits compilation from an alternate universe. idk man i love these guys. i saw Theo Katzman live in 2020, literally the last good thing that happened in my life before the pandemic hit, and yes Joe Dart really IS that good. also highly recommend Cory Wong's solo stuff and literally every Fearless Flyers album.

there's a lot of soundtracks that tend to go through my rotation so i won't overload you with too many of those, but in particular i've been listening to the Wanderstop OST and the Challengers OST. extremely different vibes! Wanderstop is a game about making tea while dealing with trauma whose music is by C418 (of Minecraft), and of course Challengers is a movie about disaster tennis bisexuals whose music is by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (of The Nine Inch Nails, as seen on Twin Peaks). the former just has such a depth of comforting textures and moods, while the latter is like "i'm having a panic attack but fuck it we thrive anyway."

the last thing i'll share is my favorite band: Murder By Death. i did a video about their most recent album like two years ago, and also wrote an entire novel based on another of their albums back in 2012. they're currently kickstarting what will probably be their last album, which i'm both incredibly excited for and sad about. they're a sort of apocalyptic country/blues/rock band (???? i'm terrible at describing music genres) who've done all sorts of concept albums with different sounds and driving ideas. they're the only band i've seen live more than once (three times, hopefully four when they come to seattle again later this year) and learning how to play & sing their songs on guitar has consistently been my strongest motivator in actually practicing on that damn instrument. i made a playlist on spotify touring through the phases of their career, but if i had to pick one song it's gonna be Last Night on Earth from The Other Shore. it's an album about people escaping from earth to find a new home for humanity (an evergreen topic for concept albums) and this track is the big finale. MBD is SOOOO good at finales dude. i love their music so much

[noirnoisemusicblog]

A story about the Grunge scene

Some of my favourite music comes from Seattle, I was drawn to the subculture as a whole, therefore I in university wrote various papers on the scene and my final BA project was an oral history of SubPop, the next few blog post will be snippets from my papers.

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In September 1991 music history was made and no one had seen it coming. A band called Nirvana topped the charts after their Music video for their song ¨Smells Like Teen Spirit¨ aired on MTV's 120 minutes.

As ¨Smells Like Teen Spirit¨ became a huge phenomena and everyone wanted to know who are Nirvana, where do they come from? The media discovered with Nirvana, came Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam. These four bands came from Seattle, they were part of the same music community, they were a subculture and had fans. Pop culture hadn't seen anything like it since The Beatles and they wanted a piece of the cake.

Same year Soundgarden tapped into mainstream media with their album Badmotorfinger. Pearl Jam’s debut album Ten was also released in 1991, but didn't top the charts before late 1992 and the following year Alice in Chains released their album Dirt, which went straight into the charts

Photo by Charles Peterson

The bands got known as Grunge, though was it more than just a music genre, it was an ideology, it was punk with a new label and it was a thriving local underground scene in the pacific north west.

The term Grunge been used in various music articles in the 70s and 80s to described a distorted guitar sound with feedback. SubPop label founder Bruce Pavitt used the term to describe the bands on their roster. It was initially used in a joking manner but would end up taking a life of its own. The media picked up the term and suddenly Grunge was fashion. Ultimately, it became a quasi-genre of music based simply on bands from Seattle. The original Grunge, the SubPop Grunge, had nothing to do with the Grunge that became pop culture. The bands and the community at the time didn't necessarily like the term, as no one likes to be reduced to a label but over time everyone has accepted it.

To be continued as a series of blog post about Grunge

[rheesvandar]

She-Ra characters’ favorite movies!!! This one will probably be pretty controversial.

Adora: Alien. But she gets scared and has to cuddle with Catra (that’s her favorite part).

Catra: Predator. She can’t tell who she’s rooting for half the time though.

Glimmer: Captain Harlock: Space Pirate. She loves the aesthetic.

Bow: Star Wars. He’s very opinionated on the watch order.

Perfuma: Up in Smoke (never gonna let that joke go)

Mermista: Knives Out (but she’s waiting for the MerMysteries movie franchise)

Sea Hawk: The Princess Bride. He fancies himself Westley.

Scorpia: She’s a MCU fan and can’t pick her favorite of them.

Double Trouble: They hate watch Master of Disguise regularly.

Entrapta: Pacific Rim. Giant mechs! Fighting! Tech!

Hordak: Sleepless in Seattle. He loves romcoms!

Madame Razz: Primer. To her the plot is very straightforward, predictable, and linear

Shadow Weaver: Matilda. She has no idea why such wonderful and caring parents were so maligned!

Frosta: Godzilla movies. She has plans for an ice kaiju once she gets better at controlling her powers.

Micah: Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. He and Bow get into arguments about the better franchise and Glimmer has to tear them apart.

Kyle: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - He fancies himself Scott. He isn’t.

Kadroh: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He loves how wrong it is about the universe!

Melog: The Aristocats. ‘Nuff said.

Netossa and Spinnerella: Lord of the Rings. They watch the Extended Editions together at least once a year.

Horde Prime: Horde Prime The Movie: A Horde Prime Production by Light Of Horde Prime Studios

[eopederson2]

Red pepper wreath, University District Farmers Market, Seattle, 2004.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

[techmomma]

Hey y'all did u know that one of the nazi scientists who perpetrated human experiments taught for almost 20 years at the university of washington in seattle after wwii, after going to the school of aviation medicine at randolph air force base in texas. This fact gets worse in a sec. <3

Some of his publications include "radiation effects on man in space," and "physical considerations regarding conservation of heat in man, especially loss of heat by conduction." Gosh! I wonder how a man associated with human experimentation created those publications!

He taught meteorology and, wait for it:

Physiology. Almost the exact same things he taught and studied in germany! And performed human experiments about! Well ain't that neat. His name was Konrad Johannes Karl Büttner.

Why yes, he got here via Operation Paperclip! And yes, he never saw a single consequence for being a nazi or experimenting on unwilling human subjects often resulting in horrific death. No, he didn't even change his name or use an alias! He was just out and about!

Just fun Pacific Northwest facts!! <3

[eopederson]

University of Washington Station, Sound Transit, Seattle, 2016.

[rornelson]

Mt. Rainier from campus.