Study finds #whale sounds stir tourists' desire to do more for the environment.

A study has found #humpbackwhale #encounters may influence people #watching from the surface.

The study examined the role of sound, including whale #vocalisations & #finslaps, in shaping visitor experiences. #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/whale-research-inspires-tourism-drives-ocean-conservation/105123660

THIS IS ONE #STAT I SEE ALL THE TIME THAT DRIVES ME CRAZY.

I *constantly* see this figure that appears to justify T****'s high #poll approval on his handling of the border:

"There were just over 22,000 #encounters with #immigrants attempting to cross the border in February/March... down from over 378,000 the year before."

This makes it sound like nothing happened between those two dates.

By the time #Biden left office 11 months later, that number had plunged to just over 100K. #Immigration

Yesterday's links:

Freebies
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/511435/purple-reaping-the-roots-of-madness

Ambush, retreat, and distance
https://murkdice.substack.com/p/ambushes-and-retreat

Kelestia: releases
https://www.kelestia.com/releases

Player companion for Shadowdark
http://gothridgemanor.blogspot.com/2025/02/players-companion-for-shadowdark.html

Dilemma hooks
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SiCJkdM2wcM

Cepheus: IRATA
https://deathtrap-games.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-atari-inspired-campaign-for.html
Light hearted, high stakes

Bloodhoney review
https://playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/02/08/zungeon-zunday-bloodhoney/

#TTRPG #harn #encounters #ShadowDark #Traveller

sat. 30 november: michael hampe, nils röller, “time, image, book” – a dialogue

https://benwayseries.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/time-image-book-a-dialogue-online-conversation-by-michael-hampe-nils-roller/

Michael Hampe, Nils Röller, Time, image, book – a dialogue

Saturday: 10.20-11.00h
Panel 6 starts at 9.30h

Please register online beforehand: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=9-vx7-VzPU6-_VLWnnWSFGQ5MEEGGa1Ck1qMnmEcnDBUNlpERlBDSVk1MFAwWjhTS0VGVkdQTFFSQS4u

Time, Image, Book—a Dialogue, online conversation by Michael Hampe, Nils Röller
In a dialogue, we will examine the relationship of time with image and book. We understand image and book as forms that structure perceptions and judgements about time. The term image connotes a unity. It suggests a compact view of diversity at a glance. The understanding of a book traditionally means turning pages and thus a seriality that is co-determined by interruptions when turning pages.

the dialogue takes part in 

IN TIME? ENCOUNTERS
IN TEMPORALITY

Symposium

29–30 November 2024
Zurich University of the Arts / Hong Kong Baptist University
full program here

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Michael Hampe is Professor of Philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Currently, he is on leave for research in the context of the project Seeing Double: Totality and Liberation. West-eastern Transformations on Spinoza and Hwa Yen Buddhism in in Taipei, Taiwan. Recently, he published Tunguska or The End of Nature in 2015, What philosophy is for in 2018 (both with Chicago University Press) and The Wilderness. The Soul. Nothingness. About the Real Life with PalmArtPress New York in 2023.

Nils Röller is Professor of Media and Cultural Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts. A recent research project explores the Iconography of Consolation—for documentation see online journal KOKO-Text/Image Parergon (https://dev.koko-journal.net/spaces/text-image-parergon). Recent publications include the literary experiment Alpentram (Vienna: Klever, 2021) and the translation and essay: Massimo Cacciari, Ikonen des Gesetzes (Paderborn: Fink, 2018)

#262626 #book #dialogue #encounters #ff0000 #ff6600 #HongKongBaptistUniversity #image #MichaelHempe #NilsRöller #symposium #temporality #time #timeImageBook #urichUniversityOfTheArts

We are delighted to bring you Aigne, Volume 10 (2024)!🥳 🎉

🔗 Available to read and download now: https://aigne.ucc.ie/index.php/aigne/issue/view/360

#OpenAccess #encounters #

Today's poem:

In a Library
- by Emily Dickinson

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767106885440700416/in-a-library?source=share

#poetry #EmilyDickinson #library #books #authors #encounters #meeting

From Trauma to Transcendence
Kelly Chase sits down with author, podcaster, and community manager of The Experiencer Group, Robin Lassiter. Robin is a life-long experiencer of phenomena ranging from entity encounters to precognitive dreams to out-of-body experiencers.

#experiencer #encounters #entities #nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTa8mwG_XAk