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How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life [Click] “Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.”
Does this mean that those of us who bucked the Zero Population Growth wave in the 70s are now forgiven for having 5 children and 8 grands? (Not a Republican among them, I might add.)
Three grands for two days including an overnight. And this time the little one didn't wake up for three hours during the night. Score! She only woke for about 20min at around 4:00am. I slept terribly all the same, because the monitor was beside my bed and I heard every sound and woke to look and see if she were waking up. This takes some getting used to! Ha!
But we had fun, and just at the end of the time together the last Black Swallowtail Butterfly emerged from its chrysalis! Amazing to think it spun that chrysalis on September 1st!
You never really sleep with the monitor. In the end you put about 40 percent of your brain to watch, and sleep with the rest. I did it for almost a year with my mother.
Off topic, but I remember a theory that human adolescents stay awake later than adults, and old folks wake sooner, so that there will always be someone awake to give the alarm if dangerous critters approach or enter the camp.
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ReplyDeleteHow Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life [Click] “Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.”
Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications [Click] “Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.”
Does this mean that those of us who bucked the Zero Population Growth wave in the 70s are now forgiven for having 5 children and 8 grands? (Not a Republican among them, I might add.)
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DeleteI dare say. And evidently good genetics to boot. [grin].
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Three grands for two days including an overnight. And this time the little one didn't wake up for three hours during the night. Score! She only woke for about 20min at around 4:00am. I slept terribly all the same, because the monitor was beside my bed and I heard every sound and woke to look and see if she were waking up. This takes some getting used to! Ha!
ReplyDeleteBut we had fun, and just at the end of the time together the last Black Swallowtail Butterfly emerged from its chrysalis! Amazing to think it spun that chrysalis on September 1st!
You never really sleep with the monitor. In the end you put about 40 percent of your brain to watch, and sleep with the rest. I did it for almost a year with my mother.
ReplyDeleteI am envious of whales and such, who sleep on one side of the brain, and after it wakes, on the other.
DeleteOff topic, but I remember a theory that human adolescents stay awake later than adults, and old folks wake sooner, so that there will always be someone awake to give the alarm if dangerous critters approach or enter the camp.
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