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Librarian building a network of professionals to keep me informed and current. www.builderlibrarian.com I also help produce a podcast called, “Ask Dr. Mia: Navigating Dementia Caregiving”www.miayangmd.com 🖖

A picture of the cast of the original Star Trek with Gene Roddenberry in front of the space shuttle Enterprise
A picture of a zebra with the words “I confuse physicians”
A portrait of Tamra Stokes wearing a red dress with a white pearl necklace. Includes title of the new season of Ask Dr. Mia’s first episode, “Sibling Caregivers with Tamra Stokes.” Image features portrait of Dr. Mia as well wearing a blue sunflower dress. Image has bubbles with “New Season” and “ starts 8/26”.
Screenshot of the flood factor for the home listing mentioned in the original post. Indicates Extreme Flood risk.
A screenshot is f an email with the words: Why are there 96 million black balls in this reservoir? ^ That video got 106 MILLION views on YouTube. But they just as easily could have went with "How LA protects its water" and gotten ... well, a lot less views to put it nicely. What separates a successful video from a flop? Most of the time, it's packaging. So let's talk about how to package your content to get more views. For this edition of the Reply → Forward
An example of a reverse image search using a digitized vintage photo
A tiny home village from the Great Depression era called Hoovervilles.
A blue vase w Cherry Blossom branches
Picture of Dana Scully with a red bob haircut that curls under the chin
have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark