Lauren Crothers
@laurencro.bsky.social
🇭🇰🇮🇪🇦🇺Freelance photo/journo based in NYC. Work seen in the Irish Times, Guardian, Cambodia Daily, Washington Post, BBC and more. Member of Women Photograph.
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Amateur astronomer Paolo Palma created this composite of stars' actual colors with images of individual suns taken over the course of 2 years
He also set his "kaleidocosmo" to music, which you can download: www.unsaltonelcielo.it/kaleidocosmo...
He also set his "kaleidocosmo" to music, which you can download: www.unsaltonelcielo.it/kaleidocosmo...
February 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Amateur astronomer Paolo Palma created this composite of stars' actual colors with images of individual suns taken over the course of 2 years
He also set his "kaleidocosmo" to music, which you can download: www.unsaltonelcielo.it/kaleidocosmo...
He also set his "kaleidocosmo" to music, which you can download: www.unsaltonelcielo.it/kaleidocosmo...
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Cambodia reports a new human death from H5N1 bird flu.
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Cambodia reports a new human death from H5N1 bird flu.
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Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.
Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk.
More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.
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More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.
bit.ly/48SAtkf
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
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Journalist @geraldrflynn.bsky.social has been barred from Cambodia on questionable grounds after reporting on environmental issues there for years for @mongabay.bsky.social, an environmental news outlet
It appears to be part of a broader pattern of repression of journalists & activists there:
It appears to be part of a broader pattern of repression of journalists & activists there:
Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging
BANGKOK, Thailand — On Jan. 5, Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn was denied entry to Cambodia. Flynn has lived and reported in the country since 2019, but upon his return from a brief visit to neighbor...
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February 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Journalist @geraldrflynn.bsky.social has been barred from Cambodia on questionable grounds after reporting on environmental issues there for years for @mongabay.bsky.social, an environmental news outlet
It appears to be part of a broader pattern of repression of journalists & activists there:
It appears to be part of a broader pattern of repression of journalists & activists there:
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Dorothea Lange, Kern County, California, 1939
January 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Dorothea Lange, Kern County, California, 1939
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Okay, I wrote down my conspiracy theory about book bans. “The point is that fascists don’t just want to remove copies of The Bluest Eye from our public libraries; they want to remove public libraries from our democracy.”
I Have a Conspiracy Theory
Okay, here goes.
saeedjones.substack.com
August 16, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Okay, I wrote down my conspiracy theory about book bans. “The point is that fascists don’t just want to remove copies of The Bluest Eye from our public libraries; they want to remove public libraries from our democracy.”