"show you all your daemons and desires and dark sides/ all of your colonies and continental divides"

More fun with the Cascadia subduction zone: "The Really Big One." "A grown man is knocked over by ankle-deep water moving at 6.7 miles an hour. The tsunami will be moving more than twice that fast when it arrives." (via)

For more pre-disaster worries, here's a long piece on confronting the New Madrid seismic zone: Part 1, Part 2. (via?)

Photo of Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria while students at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1885, before going on to become the first licensed female doctors in Western medicine in their respective countries. Make sure to click See More. (via)

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Subject quote from "Never Look Away," Vienna Teng.