el_jefe @el_jefe@qoto.org

As someone with Stage 4 cancer, I was really struck by this quote at the beginning of Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies:"

"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." -- Susan Sontag

Beautiful blog post reviewing the cognitive capacity of multiple animal species. Their work focuses on #animalwelfare and #cognition. #cognitivescience #behavior #physiology
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tnSg6o7crcHFLc395/the-welfare-range-table

Now there are some more people here I'll do an intro thing. I'm a #writer (#TheBookshopofSecondChances was my debut novel) and #editor and I like/am interested in: #thebronzeage #neolithic #archaeology #amwriting #amediting #miniatures #history #nature #naturephotography #gardens #art #food #cake #foodwriting #restaurants #cats and loads of other things that I can't think of at this moment.