Interesting Links for 08-10-2021

[andrewducker]

World's largest floating wind farm planned off Dounreay in Scotland

(tags:windpower scotland sea )

When art is drawn from life, who owns it, and who can write about it?

(tags:art organdonor viaSwampers writing intellectual_property )

Worst. Miracle. Ever.

(tags:religion funny )

7 spectacular moths taking off in slow motion

(tags:flight video slowmotion insects )

Broken transport networks outside of London cut off people from possible jobs

(tags:jobs transport uk epicfail )

Sky launches streaming TV service - but only if you buy an actual TV from them (The stupidest idea I've hear so far today)

(tags:tv sky streaming wtf )

Pfizer vaccine: New study shows effectiveness waning six months after second shot - but continues to protect against hospitalisation and death

(tags:vaccination pandemic )

Comments

[calimac]

2) That's really remarkable because this story about art copying life is a case of life imitating art and going considerably beyond it, because something just like this happens in The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (2004). Delightful novel, btw, and made a pretty good movie, too. (Does the incident get into the movie? Can't remember for sure, but I think so.)

[nancylebov]

https://www.metafilter.com/192846/Do-writers-not-care-about-my-kidney-donation

Extended discussion of the donated kidney story.

[anna_wing]

One of the interesting things about Theravada Buddhism in its popular practice is that the virtue of a good deed, its karmic benefit, such as a living organ donation, for instance, can be shared, and is not reduced by being shared. When you've done a good deed, you can in fact tell people about it, and thereby share the positive karma of the deed with them. If you go to a Theravadin temple, you may hear the gong being sounded. This tells all beings (human, animal, spirit etc) in ear-shot that a good deed has been done (usually a donation to the temple or other good cause), and shares its benefit with all who witness.

Perhaps the colander was a valued piece of household equipment for a poor family that might not have been able to replace it? And it was nice of a young saint not to be above doing a favour for his old nurse. Sort of like Jesus doing the favour at the wedding in Cana.