Michaeleen Doucleff
author of HUNT, GATHER, PARENT spring 2021 @avidreaderpress | global health correspondent @nprgoatsandsoda | @caltechalumni | on the fence depressive
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Do Masks Really Cut Your Risk Of Catching COVID-19 On Long Plane Flights?
On an eight-hour Emirates flight, with mask-wearing enforced, a whopping 27 COVID-positive people boarded the plane in Dubai. Guess how many passengers got infected?
To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
In the past century, many Americans have lost the ability to sit in a way that doesn't strain their backs. Specialists say we could take a lesson from excellent sitters from other cultures.
Could The Live Flu Vaccine Help You Fight Off COVID-19?
There's evidence that certain vaccines boost the body's defense against many kinds of illness. Scientists are investigating whether this benefit extends to protection from COVID-19.
Seeing nature through Indigenous 'lens' might improve environmental decision-making | CBC Radio
As various levels of government become more serious about climate change, there has been heightened interest in incorporating Indigenous knowledge in that effort.
Dear Parents, Please Teach Your Kids How to Be Self-Sufficient
Help teach your kids how to be self-sufficient and learn to do things on their own. Here are common things teachers would like your kids to do on their own.
Michaeleen Doucleff
Such a great list from @LetGrowOrg ! I would add ... preschoolers and toddlers are great lunch helpers too.
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NativeLand.ca
Welcome to Native Land. This is a resource for North Americans (and others) to find out more about local indigenous territories and languages.
What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You
The West will need “good fire” — controlled, managed fire that balances the ecosystem — to stave off deadly, out-of-control fire. We need to know what that looks like.
Nunavut Revisited - True North Photo Journal
Janet Murie was just 3-weeks-old when her mom carried her onto a float plane destined for Norway House in Northern Manitoba in 1957. The family was moving north so that her father John Murie could work as an outpost doctor travelling the Eastern...
100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Termini from UCLA presents a list of 100 Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America that all researchers can look to for inspiration.
Interiority complex
“What I do, what I make with my hands from my heart and my experience, I think it’s enough. After all is said and done, I’ve ended up back here in my father’s territory feeling like I actually do belong and like I’m bringing something, bringing...
What a Portrait of an Iranian Surfer Reveals about Western Fantasies of the Middle East
The Italian photographer Giulia Frigieri wanted to profile a young Iranian's passion for surfing. But there was more to the story than her images revealed.
Aperture Foundation: Publisher and Center for the Photo Community
Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.
Fundraiser for COVID-19 Assistance for Northern Cheyenne Elders
Cheyenne people and allies, these times of hardship calls us all to come together, organize, and help one another.
I’ve starting this personal...
Tanya Talaga shortlisted for British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding | Quill and Quire
Tanya Talaga's All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward has been shortlisted for the 2020 British Academy's £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize. The prize, which is worth more than $40,000, cel
The Pandemic Is a ‘Mental Health Crisis’ for Parents
New studies show caregivers with young children are stressed, with no signs of relief on the horizon.
Michaeleen Doucleff
I cannot think of another culture where "loneliness" and "loss of identity" are so intertwined with becoming a new mom. Anyone else know of one?
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When My Dad Turned Off the Internet
I’m 16. When my parents were my age, they didn’t have the internet and they didn’t have a pandemic.
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Michaeleen Doucleff
I appreciate this essay so much. This past year I took four 2-week breaks from the internet and returned a much more relaxed person. I am thinking of having internet-free weekends in our house....
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When the World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies
A new book argues that disability is a social phenomenon, not a medical one.
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Michaeleen Doucleff
so much in here could be applied to parents & letting go of what a "normal" child is
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Community Outbreak Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Among Bus Riders in Eastern China
This cohort study examines the potential for airborne spread of COVID-19 through investigation of an outbreak among bus riders in Eastern China.
These Scientists Are Giving Themselves D.I.Y. Coronavirus Vaccines
Impatient for a coronavirus vaccine, dozens of scientists around the world are giving themselves — and sometimes, friends and family — their own unproven versions.