My Virtual Reading Room

Насилье родит насилье,
и ложь умножает ложь;
когда нас берут за горло,
естественно взяться за нож.

Но нож объявлять святыней
и, вглядываясь в лезвие,
начать находить отныне
лишь в нем отраженье свое, —( Read more... )

(via Lev Shlosberg)

Violence engenders more violence,
And lying multiplies the lies;
When someone takes you by the throat,
It is natural to take up a knife.

But to declare that knife a sacred object,
And, gazing at the blade,
To begin, from now on, to find
One's own reflection only in that blade--( Read more... )

Pick what you like ;)
~~~

Positivity:

One-year-old's Oval Office birthday photoshoot is as presidential as it gets, from UpWorthy

(and the birthday boy's sister took part as well ;))

Nashville Zoo welcomes a rare spotted fanaloka baby, the first to be born in the United States, also from UpWorthy




Healthcare, health, and wellness:

Nursing Is Not Gardening, but You Still Must Tend to the Weeds, from Medscape Blogs

...When I became a head nurse, the outgoing head nurse sat me down and asked me what I would prefer to be in a garden, "an orchid or a weed." I quickly said an orchid. To which she responded, "Orchids are good for gardens but not on a unit."...

(Interesting article and valid points, but I'd say "wildflowers", not "weeds"... ;))

Pick Your Sunscreen Carefully: 75% Don't Pass Muster, from Medscape WebMD

Just in time for Memorial Day outings, a new report on sunscreens is out.
The news isn't all sunny. About 75% of more than 1,850 sunscreen products evaluated offer inferior sun protection or have worrisome ingredients, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research and advocacy group that just issued its 16^th annual Guide to Sunscreens....

Selma Blair on living with MS: ‘My doctors urged me not to go public. They worried I wouldn’t get work’, from The Guardian

In an extract from her new memoir, the actor remembers the moment she found out she had multiple sclerosis – and finally understanding why her body had been betraying her for years

War:

In Ukraine’s Bucha, one woman is painting flowers around bullet holes

In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV on May 16, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation.--4-minute video with good-quality English subtitles

Khodaryonok warned on Feb. 3rd, 2022 that attacking Ukraine was a terrible idea, and explained why, in this article Predictions of Bloodthirsty Political Scientists, About Excited Hawks and Hasty Cuckoos

(article is in Russian; if anyone wants to, let me know, I'll translate...)

...most unfortunate that no-one listened to him...