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shadowkat1. Patent Racism via NPR.
" During the 30-year period after slavery was abolished, when Black Americans owned property and held public office, they filed for patents in numbers equal with white and native inventors -- inventing everything from engines to telephone systems to elevators. But after the segregationist ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1900, Black patenting fell sharply, with many Black inventors being denied access to schools, libraries, fired from jobs in commercial districts, and excluded from communication with other inventors. And after the 1921 massacre of the Black Wall Street -- the Green-Wood community in Tulsa -- patent filings all across the country dropped precipitously again. This event proved that all systems of justice would not provide even the most basic protections to Black Americans -- not for their lives, not for their property.
The economic impact of the more than 1,000 lost patents would have been equivalent to a medium-sized European nation."
2. NYC Mayor once again tries to determine when NYC Schools will re-open, when the Governor states, eh, sorry, I still decided that not you, you idiot. (Sigh. I dislike the Mayor. It's rare that I like the NYC Mayor.)
3. Inside the Coronavirus
"In the graphics that follow, Scientific American presents detailed explanations, current as of mid-June, into how SARS-CoV-2 sneaks inside human cells, makes copies of itself and bursts out to infiltrate many more cells, widening infection. We show how the immune system would normally attempt to neutralize virus particles and how CoV-2 can block that effort. We explain some of the virus's surprising abilities, such as its capacity to proofread new virus copies as they are being made to prevent mutations that could destroy them. And we show how drugs and vaccines might still be able to overcome the intruders. As virologists learn more, we will update these graphics on our Web site (www.scientificamerican.com)."
4. Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History But They are Using New Techniques to Get it Right
5. How Wrinkle in Time Changed Sci-Fi Forever
6. 19 Things You're Kitchen Doesn't Really Need ?
" During the 30-year period after slavery was abolished, when Black Americans owned property and held public office, they filed for patents in numbers equal with white and native inventors -- inventing everything from engines to telephone systems to elevators. But after the segregationist ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1900, Black patenting fell sharply, with many Black inventors being denied access to schools, libraries, fired from jobs in commercial districts, and excluded from communication with other inventors. And after the 1921 massacre of the Black Wall Street -- the Green-Wood community in Tulsa -- patent filings all across the country dropped precipitously again. This event proved that all systems of justice would not provide even the most basic protections to Black Americans -- not for their lives, not for their property.
The economic impact of the more than 1,000 lost patents would have been equivalent to a medium-sized European nation."
2. NYC Mayor once again tries to determine when NYC Schools will re-open, when the Governor states, eh, sorry, I still decided that not you, you idiot. (Sigh. I dislike the Mayor. It's rare that I like the NYC Mayor.)
3. Inside the Coronavirus
"In the graphics that follow, Scientific American presents detailed explanations, current as of mid-June, into how SARS-CoV-2 sneaks inside human cells, makes copies of itself and bursts out to infiltrate many more cells, widening infection. We show how the immune system would normally attempt to neutralize virus particles and how CoV-2 can block that effort. We explain some of the virus's surprising abilities, such as its capacity to proofread new virus copies as they are being made to prevent mutations that could destroy them. And we show how drugs and vaccines might still be able to overcome the intruders. As virologists learn more, we will update these graphics on our Web site (www.scientificamerican.com)."
4. Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History But They are Using New Techniques to Get it Right
5. How Wrinkle in Time Changed Sci-Fi Forever
6. 19 Things You're Kitchen Doesn't Really Need ?
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Date: 2020-07-05 05:41 am (UTC)And not just with writing-- a few weeks ago, there was a promo clip for a new streaming service that in maybe 60 seconds of simply stunning edits made me desperately want to subscribe to it. (Not in the financial cards, sadly, but-- whomever did that work was insanely gifted. And many great films / TV shows over the years owed their critical and popular success to not just the writer, director, or even the cinematographer, but the editor.
Some directors can do all three, and do them all well. That's the exception. Same with music-- The Beatles were more brilliant as a group than individually, although all were talented in different ways. A while ago I posted about greatly enjoying a DVD documentary about Linda Ronstadt. Here's someone who almost never performed a work of her own, but could take someone else's often perfectly respectable effort... and blow you away with her rendering of it. And do that over and over again, even with widely varying musical genres.
So, yay, editors! You are way too often underappreciated in many fields of artistic endeavor.
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Date: 2020-07-06 02:29 am (UTC)Another example? Dolly Parton is a good song-writer - but other's remasterings of her songs made them brilliant. Whitney Houston made "I'll Always Love You" a hit with the re-editing and remastering of it. Same with Linda Ronstadt with various Warren Zevon songs, and Joan Baez took a couple of Bob Dylan songs to the next level. Also Judy Collins made Joni Mitchell's song "Clouds" her own - but that's really remastering the song not re-editing it.
Music and sound editing though is an art. I noticed it watching Hamiliton - which does it very very well. That required it.
Photography requires editing too. The photos that I post online? All edited, few aren't. I edit my written posts as I write. My eyes skip back and I fix things. And the book, I self-published had two professional editors review it, and four non-professional editors (the only one who was any good was my mother out of the non-professional editors - my friends sucked at it. It's because my mother has been trained to think analytically and critically - she can look at a story and objectively pull it apart. A lot of people don't have that ability. I do and she does. I think I get it from her - because my father doesn't do it that well either.). My father, a self-published/non-traditionally published writer - talked me into sending it to a professional editor, and had me send it to his. Because he felt amateurs can't help you. He's right, the amateur editor lets their emotions and views of who you are get in the way. They project their perspective of who they think you are as a writer, what they think you should write, and their desires onto your writing. While a professional editor, who doesn't know you, will be more objective and look at the work as it's own thing and not as an extension of how they have defined you.