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The Observations Jan 21

Person: *meets ghost*

Ghost: I will give you a random superpower

Statistician: I’m confused

#originstories #statistics

Russell McOrmond 🧠🌈♾Nov 27

United States Thanksgiving, and other stories we tell about “ourselves”

https://r.flora.ca/p/united-states-thanksgiving

#Thanksgiving #OriginStories #WorldViews

United States Thanksgiving, and other stories we tell about “ourselves”

Earlier I discussed my own evolution of my understanding of the concept of “thanksgiving”, comparing to the Christian traditions I grew up in and those of the Haudenosaunee.

Russell's Lifelong Learning

Andrew Donkin Nov 1

At the Origins Conference in deepest Wiltshire. Opening talk was Debbie Cartwright on Cosmogony of Chaos: Death and Creation in Tas Tepeler. Excellent start to the day here. #originsconference #ancienthistory #neolithic #originstories

ThePodcasting Aug 19, 2025

“Manchester made me” — Aitch returns home with Apple Music’s Origin Stories S2: from Wellington Mill to worldwide hits. 🎧✨

https://thepodcasting.org/apple-music-launches-origin-stories-season-2-with-aitch-manchester-roots-revealed/

#OriginStories #Aitch #Manchester #AppleMusic #PodcastLaunch #MusicRoots #NowStreaming

EngagingSTSjournal Mar 25, 2025

Telling different #OriginStories of #mining & extractivism allows to highlight #environmental injustice racism & settler colonialism in the US

👀T. DePree on the history of uranium mining in New Mexico & its entanglement w/ Indigenous #dispossession: https://doi.org/pcgd

‘Origin Stories of the ‘Grants Uranium District’ in Northwestern New Mexico: Archives, Memoirs, and Exploratory Boreholes in the Production of Geological Regions | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

Jonathan Emmesedi Mar 19, 2025

I've just eaten one of my favourites, a bowl of plain unsweetened whole milk yoghurt.

I wish there were some central Asian or Turkic legend about the creation of yoghurt.

#Food #Yoghurt #Yogurt #Yoğurt #OriginStories

Open Education Global Nov 14, 2024

BREAKING NEWS:
The future of #OEGlobal is exciting!#OEGlobal26 will be held where "open is in our DNA". MIT OpenCourseWare will host the 2026 Open Education Global Conference with the Massachusetts OER Advisory Council and @OpenEdGlobal.

MIT OpenCourseWare is a leading innovator and champion of #openeducation, #openaccess, #opencourseware and #openscience.

We'll see you at MIT in the fall of 2026!

#originstories #returntosource #educationconference #openinvention #oeglobalmember

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Ms. Que Banh Sep 10, 2024

This low elevation river without a regulation structure (dam) supports over 1,100 water users, including irrigators, dairies, vineyards, and domestic households. The #KoksilahRiver is especially valued for its:

#Cultural & #Spiritual significance: The Koksilah aka #Xwulqwselu #Watershed is central to the identity of the #QuwutsunMustimuhw. A prominent, multi-summit ridge named #Hwsaluutsum (formerly known as #Koksilah Ridge), is central to Quw'utsun Origin stories. Hwsalu-utsum is where the first man, #Syalutsa, fell from the sky. Hwsalu-utsum is the origin or headwaters of several tributaries that flow into the Xwulqw'selu Sta'lo' (Koksilah River); including Wild Deer Creek, Kelvin Creek and Glenora Creek. There are many #SacredPlaces and #CulturalStories associated with this ridge as well as across the entire watershed. On the southern slopes of Hwsalu-utsum the pockets of rare grasslands have important plants with both spiritual and practical uses. The #XwulqwseluWatershed is critically important not only spiritually and for its #OriginStories, but also as an important area for fishing, harvesting plants, and hunting.