2022年1月17日 星期一

beekeeper. honeybees, woke, Apiarist, matchy-matchy,




About 50 days after a volcano exploded in the Canary Islands, a beekeeper discovered that his honeybees had sealed themselves in their hives away from deadly gases and survived on honey.加那利群島火山爆發大約 50 天后,一名養蜂人發現他的蜜蜂將自己密封在蜂巢中,遠離致命氣體,靠蜂蜜生存。



Taking matchy-matchy to new extremes.
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Lothar Meggendorfer in 'Meggendorfer-Blätter' - München 1902 - see comments for more about this influential comic artist

The Tate galleries and the Guggenheim announced that they would no longer accept Sackler money

ECONOMIST.COM
Woke art-lovers prefer galleries untainted by donors they dislike
How Sackler cash made museums a target for protests



Apiarist is a fancy word for a beekeeper. An apiarist enjoys working with an unusual kind of pet, the honeybee. Because bees and other pollinators are so important to a healthy environment scientists encourage “bee-spotting” to improve fruits and vegetables.




matchy-matchy
adjective
INFORMAL
  1. very or excessively colour-coordinated.

    "the key to looking stylish is to avoid an outfit that's too matchy-matchy"




woke
/wəʊk/
verb
  1. 1.
    past of wake1.
adjective
INFORMALUS
  1. 1.
    alert to injustice in society, especially racism.

    "we need to stay angry, and stay woke"


Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” 

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