According to research, 65 percent of the elements of dreams are associated with your experiences while awake.  If you’ve got job stress, your dreams might take place at work or involve your co-workers.  If you just went on a date, your dream might be full of romance, or on the flip side, heartbreak, if you’re having anxiety about dating someone new.  A “standard” dream will vary depending on the individual.  Some features of dreams:  Most dreams are predominantly visual, meaning that images are at the forefront of dreams, rather than other senses like smell or touch.  While most people dream in color, some dreams are entirely in black and white.  https://www.healthline.com/health/types-of-dreams#nightmares 

Dreams are a universal human experience that can be described as a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep.  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378#what-are-dreams 

George L. Kline translated more of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky’s poems than any other single person, with the exception of Brodsky himself.  He described himself to me as “Brodsky’s first serious translator.”  Bryn Mawr’s Milton C. Nahm Professor of Philosophy was a modest and retiring man, but on occasion he could be as forthright and adamant as Brodsky himself.  In a 1994 letter, the Slavic scholar wrote:  “Akhmatova discovered Brodsky for Russia, but I discovered him for the West.”  And in 1987, “I was the first in the West to recognize him as a major poet, and the first to translate his work in extenso.”  It was all true.  He was, moreover, one of the few translators who was a fluent Russian speaker.  Read extensive article by Cynthia L. Haven at https://lithub.com/translating-brodsky-on-the-undeniable-legacy-of-george-l-kline/ 

“There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.”  Joseph Brodsky 1940–96, Russian-born American poet at Library of Congress press conference, Washington, 17 May 1991 on his becoming poet laureate of the United States  https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00017260 

Picadillo is one of the great dishes of the Cuban diaspora:  a soft, fragrant stew of ground beef and tomatoes, with raisins added for sweetness and olives for salt.  Versions of it exist across the Caribbean and into Latin America.  This one combines ground beef with intensely seasoned dried Spanish chorizo in a sofrito of onions, garlic and tomatoes, and scents it with red-wine vinegar, cinnamon and cumin, along with bay leaves and pinches of ground cloves and nutmeg.  For the olives you may experiment with fancy and plain, but rigorous testing here suggests the use of pimento-stuffed green olives is the best practice.  A scattering of capers would be welcome as well.  Featured in The Ultimate Cuban Comfort Food: Picadillo.  Sam Sifton  Find six-serving recipe at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016814-picadillo 

Through the years, Carmen Sandiego has been more elusive than even the master of disguise, Waldo of Where's Waldo.  The fictional character was the star of the PBS television show, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, which premiered in September of 1991.  The series even inspired a computer game of the same name.  Players on both the show and the game used their geography and problem-solving skills to help track down the international thief, Carmen.  The woman behind Carmen Sandiego is Janine LaManna.  Appearing as the evasive and stealthy Carmen on PBS was LaManna's break-out role.  She wasn't upset that she was never credited for playing the character, and remembers her time on the television set fondly.  https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/08/120360/carmen-sandiego-character-mystery-solved 

Isaac Asimov was enthralled with her and wrote her a limerick.  Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan wrote in their introduction to “Comet” (1985) that “one of the most pleasant experiences in writing this book” was meeting her.  Numerous other science writers acknowledged their debts to her in forewords to their books.  Ruth Freitag, a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public.  But she was, in more ways than one, a librarian to the stars.  Known for her encyclopedic knowledge of resources in science and technology, Ms. Freitag (pronounced FRY-tog) was sought out by the leading interpreters of the galaxy.  She developed a particular expertise in astronomy early in her career.  Ruth Steinmuller Freitag was born in Lancaster on June 8, 1924.  Her father, Albert, an immigrant from Germany, was a purchasing agent for a Lancaster lock company.  Her mother, Lina (Steinmuller) Freitag, his third wife, was a homemaker and an expert seamstress.  Ruth’s love of libraries—and history—manifested itself early.  In 1941, when she was in high school and won a trip to Washington, according to a front-page article in The Lancaster New Era, she “almost persuaded the chaperones to let her spend the evening in the Library of Congress rather than the theater.”  Ms. Freitag earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Southern California in 1959.  The Library of Congress recruited her that year as part of its elite program for outstanding graduates of library schools.  After six months of training, she joined the library as a full-time employee and stayed until she retired in 2006 at 82.  Katharine Q. Seelye  Read Isaac Asimov’s limerick to Ruth Freitag at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/books/ruth-freitag-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur 

Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died May 22, 2021 at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported.  He was 90.  Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname “Father of Hybrid Rice.”  Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan’s breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he won in 2004.  Large crowds honored the scientist by marching past the hospital in Hunan province where he died, local media reported, calling out phrases such as: “Grandpa Yuan, have a good journey!”  It was in the 1970s when Yuan achieved the breakthroughs that would make him a household name.  He developed a hybrid strain of rice that recorded an annual yield 20% higher than existing varieties—meaning it could feed an extra 70 million people a year, according to Xinhua.  Huizhong Wu  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chinas-yuan-longping-father-of-hybrid-rice-dies-at-91/2021/05/22/ed13a29c-baf9-11eb-bc4a-62849cf6cca9_story.html 

May 24, 2021  Bob Dylan:  80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday by Paul Glynn  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56716269 

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