Sanne Roemen - Issue #46
Jahaaa jullie denken 'het is eerste kerstdag, Sanne laat ons vast wel met rust' maar niets van dat al. Hier ben ik weer. Deze week met een samenraapsel (alweer) van vindsels. De rode draad is volgens mij: longreads en quality time. Dan ga ik nu even uitbuiken van een copieus samenzijn met familie en met Carpool Karaoke (google maar even).
Word je graag voorgelezen?
Neil Gaiman leest uit een van zijn meesterwerken voor. Stardust. Een Sprook van jewelste.
BBC Radio 4 - Stardust, Part 1
Tristran Thorn travels to the mysterious land of Faerie in pursuit of a fallen star.
Je moet er iets voor over hebben
Schitterende longread over een vrouw die wist wat ze wilde en daartoe zich als man moest profileren.
The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man | Atlas Obscura
The doctor’s story was finally unearthed in 1958 by scholar Isobel Rae, who discovered the “Barry Papers” in the British War Office and Public Records Archives. She wrote the first researched biography of Barry and Bulkley, which was followed by articles, books, and a film. On December 13, it was announced that actress Rachel Weisz will play Bulkley and Dr. Barry in a future biopic. Margaret Ann Bulkley found a means to pursue her ambitions despite the gender restrictions of 19th century society. The globe-trotting doctor worked to advance the field of medicine half a century before Elizabeth Garrett became the first known female to qualify as a doctor in Britain, in 1865—the same year Barry died. While Dr. James Barry was “pernickety, bad-tempered, frail, fastidious,” one acquaintance recalled, “this small, curious person raised the standards of medicine and touched the public conscience about the condition of the most degraded members of society…wherever she went.”
Niet lullen maar poetsen
Dan kopen we wel een huis voor ze
GEMEENSCHAPSZINVoor 150.000 euro kocht de gemeenschap van het Friese dorp Easterlittens een huis in hun eigen dorp voor een Syrisch asielgezin. Gewoon, omdat ze wilden helpen. De Yasins zijn er blij mee.
Een mooi portret van een van mijn grootste helden
Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world : Nature News & Comment
"Ola, his son, offered to help explain the world with graphics, and built his father software that animated data compiled by the UN and the World Bank. Visual aids in hand, the elder Rosling began to script the provocative presentations that have made him famous. In one, a graph shows the distribution of incomes in 1975 — a camel’s back, with rich countries and poor countries forming two humps. Then he presses ‘go’ and China, India, Latin America and the Middle East drift forward over time. Africa moves ahead too, but not nearly as much as the others. Rosling says, “The camel dies and we have a dromedary world with one hump only!” He adds, “The per cent in poverty has decreased — still it’s appalling that so many remain in extreme poverty.”"
Over discussie en dialoog en luisteren
Daar heb ik wel iets mee
Legendary Physicist David Bohm on the Paradox of Communication, the Crucial Difference Between Discussion and Dialogue, and What Is Keeping Us from Listening to One Another – Brain Pickings
"It is clear that if we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas."