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Guest "Roaches check in -- but they don't check out!" by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring "the Greatest" Muhammad Ali? https://youtu.be/Pego09xexQI As Kip Hansen very eloquently pointed out here and here, the Anthropocene is every bit as dead as all of the cockroaches ever killed by Muhammad Ali.…
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch. The notion has always been preposterous because the only true difference between the Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene Epoch is the impact of humans on the planet. Otherwise, the Holocene has just been a run of the mill interglacial stage, geologically indistinct from the prior Pleistocene interglacial stages. After thirteen years, the AWG is finally prepared to present an official recommendation for an official Global Boundary...
A CALL has been made for a dedicated fund to support artists and art organisations after a survey revealed the toll taken by the pandemic on Scotland’s creative community. It shows 65% of those working in visual arts suffered a loss of income for 2020, with 22% losing half or more of their expected income for the year. Over a quarter (28%) reported they were ineligible for adequate financial support having “fallen through the cracks”, thereby missing out on creative funds and government support packages. The impact has not just been financial, with 66% seeing a decline in their me...