HiveDiscoMod Curation Highlights May 15, 2025

Graph from U. S. Census shows decline in births from 2001 2021. The Trump Administration is floating the idea of giving a $5,000 baby bonus to . This bonus is suggested as a response to a stark reality: despite a slight bump in the U.S. birth rate last year, the country still fails to produce enough babies to meet the 'replacement rate'. The replacement rate is 2.1 births per woman and the At these numbers, without significant immigration, the U.S. will find itself with an aging population and increasingly smaller numbers of young people ...

Mister Pi The first time I saw him, my mother had punished me and I had to clean the junk room. The pile of useless, old and broken things made the cleaning job more difficult, not to mention that I was very upset about that punishment, which in my opinion, was unfair and unjust: my mother had not wanted to hear that Peña, a schoolmate, was the one who had started the fight and not me. I had grabbed the box containing the tempera and watercolors I used at school when I saw something jump out of one of the boxes and get lost among the old objects. My first reaction was to scream and run to my mother, but she didn't care about my fear and sent me back to the junk room: "Juancho, you are grounded ...

Running is a luxury. It’s not something everyone can do—only the boldest among us dare. Most people hide inside their homes. I’m no accountant or statistician, but I’d say that on this planet, maybe 10%—or less, maybe 5%—of people actually run ...

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In my younger years, I'm very thrilled with wonderful acts. Such fascinating actions seems dumb and crazy to some people, but to me, it's a simple act of hero. Actions like jumping from high elevated platform, climbing tree and reckless running were some of the hallmarks of young people. I was their leader and bonafide member of the think tank of my peer that formulates and make the laws that guides various weird games, we enjoyed ...

Teenage years and time can be funny. I think there's a spirit behind that period that will always push one to do some crazy things, the unimaginable. I won't forget this crazy thing I did back in my final year in secondary school. You know some students are teachers' favorites, and some are known for their truancy ...

The smell of the sea brings back memories and makes me travel to other moments, even those I have not lived, but I know from family anecdotes. The smell of the sea is something that awakens pleasant sensations in me. A walk, a walk being able to admire that blue, turquoise and so many other bright colors that make and break as the sun changes the inclination of its rays, that is wonderful. To be able to walk on a path where on one side there is that immense sea and that smell of sea, of salt that brings back so many memories and on the other side to look at part of the mountain, rocks, vegetation ...

Yesterday made 200 years since the Revolutionary War general Marquis de Lafayette received a hero's welcome here in Louisville, Kentucky. Part of a more than year long of the 24 US states, his visit to Louisville had been briefly held up by the unscheduled underwater adventures of the steamboat he was traveling aboard. For the bicentennial of that visit Lafayette drifted into town again, or at least some historical reenactors playing him and a few local bigwigs from those days. This time around though, he was accompanied by the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, a band from the oldest active regiment in the Army, the 3rd US Infantry ...

Come along and see for yourself that France has more than 1 Arc de Triomphe. Today I show you the stunning L’Arc de Triomphe ~ from Montpellier, in southern France 🇫🇷 along the Mediterranean Sea. We will walk towards it and you will see views from every side. Different angles and also some artistic captures where I let the surrounding flowers be also a star together with this beautiful Arch ...

A few days ago, while I was walking in the park looking for people to do the photography dynamic where I approach strangers and take their picture, I came across this young man who was with his girlfriend and their beautiful husky dog. I asked him if I could take a couple of photos of them and they said yes. For the first photos, I told the guy to crouch down and hug the dog so that way we could keep him still while at the same time taking a very nice photo: Hace unos dias mientras estaba caminando en el parque buscando personas para hacer la dinamica de fotografia en donde me acerco a desconocidos y les tomo foto me topé con este muchacho que estaba con su novia y su hermoso perro husky, le pregunte si les podia hacer un par de fotos y me dijeron que si. Para las primeras fotos le dije al chico que se agachara y abrazara al perro asi de esa manera lo podiamos mantener quieto mientras al mismo tiempo haciamos una foto muy bonita: The dog was quite restless and they gave him water to try to calm him down ...

It happened on a bright afternoon, and the weather was still quite hot. I noticed these guys—distant relatives—perching lazily on a flowering bush. One was a grasshopper, and the other was a mantis. Look at those gloomy faces ...

May has certainly been a month whose days seem to pass slowly and become strangely long... It's funny, but we're not even halfway through the month and already my recent archives have surpassed 1500 photos. Obviously, I usually shoot the same scene several times with slight variations of intention in each shot, but it still seems like a lot of pictures... So, this makes me think that, in spite of the constant downpours and some days without being able to go out to take pictures, I have known how to make the most of my street walks and also my rural walks ...