spa-fish feast on your flesh

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graduate

yep, that's what a graduate landscape architect looks like...
bloody hell, i'm a bit bloody proud of myself now!
celebrated my first morning of freedom by reading in bed until noon.

presented "stustainina" to the panel for my portfolio yesterday was my last act as a student at rmit. very looking forward to life outside this particular institution.
and this is a shot of the last presentation for structures and materials, monday night.

slickest looking broken heart blog yet!
http://ninemilebridge.blogspot.com/

I consider journalism everything that will interest less tomorrow than it does today...
Andre Gide.

Mothering the human ape baby

...there's been some fabulous hormonal studies, that map the hormonal response of men, which actually parallels the hormonal response of women, and you get those sort of love hormones of oxytosin and prolactin and testosterone supressed when a father is involved in parenting closely or even surrounded by the parenting process, so there is that chemical heritage...his prolactin levels go up, his testosterone levels go down...it's a remarkable potential, and it depends on the structuring of society...if you look cross-culturally, the societies that are the most war-like, that have the most fighting, are uniformly - anthropologists have known this for a long time - are the ones where you have extreme sex-segregation.

promiscuous: has sex with more partners than someone else thinks she should...assiduously maternal...it just wouldn't be prudent to rely on only one male...
babies as sensory traps...
the presence of a maternal grandmother can halve childhood mortality...
these are quotes from a conversationon between Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Natasha Mitchell today on "All In The Mind"

It takes a village to raise a child we knew, but why? Sarah B Hardy has some amazingly insightful answers.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2699425.htm

And the consequences to really engaging with this at a policy level is so exciting.

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Professor Emerita
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
http://www.citrona.com/hrdy/index.html