Notices by David :SetouchiExplorer: (david@setouchi.social), page 2

A great piece about bamboo-based arts and crafts in Taiwan, featuring Setouchi Triennale's fan favorite Wang Wen-chich.

https://www.taiwan-panorama.com/en/Articles/Details?Guid=44297368-d484-4a35-b25e-cac951c6113f&CatId=8&postname=Crafting%20%20with%20Bamboo%3A-Tradition%20and%20Modern%20Design

Also a small thread: ⤵️ 🧵 (1/?)

#art #crafts #bamboo #Taiwan #SetouchiTriennale

Life in Japan (especially Kagawa) pro-tip: a bowl of udon and some tempura at 11 a.m. is not the best idea when you had a decent and late breakfast.
If you're looking for me, I'll be lying down for a minute or two.

#Japan #udon

@BeAware Earth can actually sustain more than 8 billion of us, but not with a Western lifestyle.

(the overpopulation one is always a dangerous angle as high nativity rates are mostly in poor countries, but it's the rich ones - with very low natality - who are destroying the planet)

@BeAware "survival of the fittest" is often misunderstood in English because of the two meanings of "fit."

"Survival of the fittest" has never meant "survival of the strongest" and always meant "survival of the individuals that fit the best in their environment." Those who are in the right place at the right time, basically.

@BeAware Not all cubs become adults, it's part of natural selection.
True for all younglings of any species.
Thanks to modern medicine we expect our kids to all survive and outlive us (I sure do) but even with humans, it's a recent thing.

The so-often-misunderstood "survival of the fittest" mostly happens during an animal's childhood. Once it can reproduce, it has survived long enough to pass its genes.

@BeAware If you see a baby cub without mom, you should stay far from it. Mom is nearby. And if she's not, it's sad to say, but whatever should happen to it should be let to happen.

@BeAware That's the spirit.
I know (hope) you're joking, but watching nature also means learning about nature. It's not all fun and games (even crows, there are things you don't want to do with them, especially when they're nesting)
But I know what you mean. When I lived in Florida, I'd go as close as possible to alligators as possible without risking to lose a limb (and even once, I had to risk it if I didn't want to sleep in the wild, but that's a story for another time)

@BeAware
You took your first steps into a larger world that day. 😉
Crows are the smartest animals on earth beside humans (very likely smarter than chimps.) They live with us, and it's a shame most humans ignore them at best and hate them on unfounded grounds at worst.

The good news: it's good to hear the crows again in the morning (despite it not being the most pleasant sound.)

The bad news: it's probably because a typhoon is coming and it's one of the crows calling for their spouse who's not coming. 🤔

(Last year, they went to fetch Junior 2023 who was here during its first typhoon, is it the same thing?)

#Crows #crow #corvids

Si vous regardez bien quand vous vous promenez dans les rues de Takamatsu, vous pouvez trouver des oeuvres de Takeshi Kawashima un peu partout.

https://www.ogijima.fr/takeshi-kawashima-a-takamatsu-miraie/

#art #japon #takamatsu

Vendredi, à Miyazaki, s'est produit un séisme assez intense qui a ravivé les inquiétudes à propos du mega-séisme (très possiblement à venir) de la fosse de Nankai.

Le gouvernement japonais a publié un "avertissement" à son sujet (et pas un alerte comme ça a été souvent mal traduit en français).

J'essaie d'expliquer la situation de la manière la plus simple et claire possible.

https://youtu.be/YBDbLuoCYFo

#Japon #séisme #TremblementDeTerre

I read somewhere that the Paris Olympics were the first "Post-Covid Olympics."
No, they're not. They're the first "Post-caring-about-Covid Olympics."

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/08/i-do-have-covid-noah-lyles-reveals-positive-test-after-200m-bronze-paris-olympics-2024

#Covid #CovidOlympics #Paris2024 #ParisOlympics

Your regular reminder that it's not because you're ignoring it that it's going away.

On the other hand, it's because you're ignoring it that it's affecting more and more people (remember the problem is not flu-like symptoms for a few days, the problem is brain damage and screwed-up immune system) and that it's mutating constantly.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-indomitable-covid-virus

#Health #Covid #CovidIsNotOver

There's a documentary about Shodoshima coming on August 6th and 7th on NHK World.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2007532/

#Japan #Setouchi #Shodoshima #小豆島 #NHKWorld

I'm afraid I can't deal with Japanese Summer heat anymore.
Five minutes outside and I already don't feel too well.

#Japan #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

TIL that Shakespeare and Ieyasu Tokugawa both died in 1616.

That's all (I was looking for a Japanese contemporary of Shakespeare for my students)
I wonder if they ever heard about each other? Unlikely, but who knows?

#Shakespeare #Japan #History

Si vous avez encore des gens dans votre entourage qui ne comprennent pas le réchauffement climatique :

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/visuel/2023/06/07/comprendre-le-rechauffement-comment-nous-avons-bouleverse-le-climat_6176490_4355770.html

(merci @elduvelle )

#Climat #RéchauffementClimatique #CriseClimatique

Today is the day for my annual resharing of this post.

(I haven't updated it, so I hope everything is still accurate)

https://www.liminalweb.site/happy-bastille-day/

#France #BastilleDay

And Japan is slowly but surely starting a new Covid wave in complete indifference.

#Japan #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

More and more people: "David, why do you still care about Covid?"

Me: "Many reasons, but mostly this one (it messes up your immune system too.)"

https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

#Covid #Health