The Scottish Land Clearances #long ago split my famlly cleanly in two, with the older generations emigrating to Canada and USA, and the younger, fitter generations emigrating to Australia.
#Highlanders #Blackwatch #Ancestry #DailyPictureTheme #Scotland #history
#Highlanders #Blackwatch #Ancestry #DailyPictureTheme #Scotland #history
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Random Scottish History @FlikeNoirBelieve in Scotland March yesterday 😁
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Braw weather, braw atmosphere, & braw people everywhere ye looked. See if ye can spot yersel ☺️
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Believe in Scotland March 20.04.24 - YouTube
Got to the march not long after it had left Kelvin way, Glasgow. Ended up heading to the march on ma todd but knew there'd be loads of friendly faces tae kee...
08:08 AM - Apr 21, 2024
Culloden
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#OTD #OnThisDay #ScottishHistory #BattleOfCulloden #Culloden #45Rebellion
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#OTD #OnThisDay #ScottishHistory #BattleOfCulloden #Culloden #45Rebellion
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Culloden - Random Scottish History
[Extra Articles Contents] The Battle of Culloden, or ‘45 Rebellion, was really part 2 of a civil war and was borne of sentiments that hadn’t been dampened any after the Rebellion of 1715. Pretty quickly after the Union with England was concluded the same lords who got cushy seats and not-so-anonymou..
03:59 AM - Apr 16, 2024
“Ignorance shields people from knowing how their actions harm others and makes them feel less like a bad person.”
11:19 AM - Apr 11, 2024
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Eclipse glasses can also be brought to any Warby Parker retail location until April 30.
Eclipse glasses can also be brought to any Warby Parker retail location until April 30.
02:56 PM - Apr 09, 2024
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.” 📚 #read
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12:27 PM - Apr 01, 2024
If it bleeds, it leads.
“Attentional biases towards negative stimuli begin in infancy and persist into adulthood as a fast and automatic response. Negativity in news increases physiological activations, and negative news is more likely to be remembered by users.”
“Attentional biases towards negative stimuli begin in infancy and persist into adulthood as a fast and automatic response. Negativity in news increases physiological activations, and negative news is more likely to be remembered by users.”
nature.com
Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human Behaviour
Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we condu..
04:52 PM - Mar 30, 2024
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“Travellers, we're fabric of the road we go;
We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.“
We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.“
08:39 AM - Mar 17, 2024
“Every day patients, partners, parents and children are grieving marriages, friendships and familial bonds that have fractured under the strain of this illness, often because it is so poorly understood, including by medical professionals.” #LongCovidAwarenessDay #CovidIsNotOver
abc.net.au
02:46 PM - Mar 15, 2024
12 Threaded Spouts
ate right, and took care of themselves, YES, it can happen to you. #LongCovid can happen to literally anyone. When those of us living with the disease shout that "you don't want this!", we mean it with our whole body and soul. Because everything can be taken from you in an instant.
11:52 AM - Mar 12, 2024
CW #Covid
Currently 34,000 #covid infectious people are roaming New Zealand streets, workplaces, shops and schools right now, based on 7.4 times more cases than reported, and assuming 44% of reported cases isolate for 5 days
#dailyCovidNZ
Currently 34,000 #covid infectious people are roaming New Zealand streets, workplaces, shops and schools right now, based on 7.4 times more cases than reported, and assuming 44% of reported cases isolate for 5 days
#dailyCovidNZ
04:48 PM - Mar 11, 2024
The wonderful Paul burns has once again produced an auld Scottish musical number for our listening pleasure 🤗 Today we have 'O Speed, Lord Nithsdale, Speed Ye Fast' ☺️
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Scotish Minstrel Miscellany - Random Scottish History
[Old Scottish Music Contents] The music here is from a series of books I lent Paul Burns out the RSH archive, 'Scotish Minstrel' (undated 19thC publications). He has very wonderfully provided these for us from them. - Jenny has kindly loaned to me some rare books in her ‘Scotish Minstrel’ ..
08:58 AM - Mar 10, 2024
Another “quality escape” from Boeing.
United Airlines plane, a Boeing 777, loses a tire during take-off from San Francisco crashing cars on the ground. The plane was headed to Japan with 249 onboard, and had to land at LAX.
United Airlines plane, a Boeing 777, loses a tire during take-off from San Francisco crashing cars on the ground. The plane was headed to Japan with 249 onboard, and had to land at LAX.
04:35 PM - Mar 08, 2024
Conservative group that claims voter rolls are full of undocumented immigrants sues #Boston Election Department over access to its list of registered voters
#elections #lawsuits https://www.universalhub.c...
#elections #lawsuits https://www.universalhub.c...
11:12 AM - Mar 01, 2024
Folks, there is no herd immunity, there is no hybrid immunity. #CovidIsNotOver
Immune evasion by JN.1 variant : study findings show that the protection of natural infection against reinfection with JN.1 wanes rapidly and is entirely lost one year after the previous infection.
Immune evasion by JN.1 variant : study findings show that the protection of natural infection against reinfection with JN.1 wanes rapidly and is entirely lost one year after the previous infection.
08:47 AM - Mar 01, 2024
Mending was my meditation for this Sunday morning - stitching, darning, attaching loose buttons, fixing torn fabrics. We lost our ability to mend in so many ways in our daily life. #Wabi -Sabi
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📸 Sanford Roth/AMPAS/mptvimages.com
11:04 AM - Dec 17, 2023
New study led by Penn and Boston University provides the most compelling data yet to suggest excess mortality rates from chronic illnesses and other natural causes were driven by COVID-19 infections.
01:39 PM - Feb 16, 2024
Framingham man latest to be charged as Vanilla ISIS member; ranted about Antifa on drive down to DC, feds say #Jan6 #Massachusetts
universalhub.com
03:38 PM - Feb 15, 2024
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It is! All Greater Boston college campuses going through this wave of constant illness. If I see a student wearing a surgical mask, I’m assuming they’re sick. Faculty isn’t faring well, either.
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Paul Chenoweth @bruingeekLast line in the article: "...more susceptible to these viruses and bacteria just from a general lack of sleep and lack of taking care of myself that comes with the onset of the semester.” We're seeing the same scenario played out on our campus. I suspect it is a widespread higher-ed pattern.08:18 AM - Feb 09, 2024
08:39 AM - Feb 09, 2024
“High levels of respiratory illness including flu, COVID-19, and RSV. Despite being sick, many students said they felt pressure to continue with their regular academic and extracurricular obligations.”
07:01 AM - Feb 09, 2024
We’re in extremely high sustained transmission amid a post-peak hill. In the U.S. and U.K., about 2.0-2.8% of the population is actively infectious. In Canada (and the Northeastern U.S.), it's more like 4.0-5.3% infectious. #CovidIsNotOver
https://pmc19.com/data/
https://pmc19.com/data/
08:35 PM - Feb 05, 2024
“46% of Americans think people in the United States are being harmed by global warming “right now,” and 43% say they have personally experienced the effects of global warming.”
climatecommunication.yale.edu
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Fall 2023 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Interview dates: […]
11:59 AM - Jan 24, 2024
MaskTogetherAmerica invites you to join four Q&A sessions, Wed, Jan 24, 4-8pm EST. Register at https://bit.ly/3ShqxtY Event will be recorded.
Mitigation is about love + survival + community.
Mitigation is about love + survival + community.
08:55 AM - Jan 23, 2024
"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim..."
10:54 AM - Jan 13, 2024
• 1 in 3 people in the U.S. will get infected during the highest two months of the current Covid surge.
• 1 in 23 are infectious.
• 2 million new infections a day.
https://pmc19.com/data/
Wear a respirator. Vaccinate. Ventilate. Test. #CovidIsNotOver
• 1 in 23 are infectious.
• 2 million new infections a day.
https://pmc19.com/data/
Wear a respirator. Vaccinate. Ventilate. Test. #CovidIsNotOver
06:00 PM - Jan 09, 2024
randomscottishhistory.com
6th of January – Twelfth Day – Random Scottish History
St Melanius, bishop, 490. St Nilammon, hermit. St Peter, abbot of St Austin’s, Canterbury, 608. - Born. - Joan d’Arc, 1402; Peter Metastasio, poet, 1698; Benjamin Franklin, philosopher, Boston, U.S., 1706; David Dale, philanthropist, 1739. Died. - Madame d’Arblay (Frances Burney), novelist, 18..
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