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Category: prose non-fiction

Word power: “soundscape enrichment” entices oysters…

 

 

From a research article published this week in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology:

Our results suggest that the enrichment of natural soundscapes using underwater speakers may provide an efficient solution for boosting early recruitment and habitat building by oysters.

However, caution the researchers, restoration practitioners must consider the potential for negative impacts from speaker enrichment.

A question for you, dear reader:

before you read the quoted words, had you ever contemplated oysters’ “hearing”, much less their response to sounds played through underwater speakers?

 

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Intertidal: #9 in series (“Windows 10 Beach”)

Only a modest number of human feet have walked its actual sands, but every day of our so-called “21st” century many millions of human eyes see this singular beach, virtually.

An image of it is the “screensaver” viewed countless times by subscribers to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.

Doubtless, most of those subscribers have no idea of what and where is this “iconic” beach.

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Word power: not about Trump, but…

…reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash (subtitled The 400-year untold history of class in America) will likely give you a whole new perspective on Trump & Trumpism.

(this post’s featured image depicts an absolutely “legitimate” bit of campaigning by an absolutely real Wanker. She was re-elected; all is revealed at this post’s end)

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Word power from Helen Garner/ Merry Christmas from Pelican Yoga

 

A Qualup Bell – simply being itself – is lovelier than any jingle bells, jiving. Religious leaders’ “seasonally appropriate” platitudes ring as hollow as electioneering politicians’ “motherhood statements”. But you are one click away from a beautifully poignant, perceptive perspective on motherhood…

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Rottnest Island in winter (1 of 2)

To most West Australians it is “Rotto” – their very own, magical, holiday island, “overseas”, at home…within eyesight of Perth.

To indigenous West Australians it is Wadjemup – a place of exile, imprisonment, premature death. The island’s 19th & early 20th century history is more monumentally unjust & tragic than Alcatraz’s.

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