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Our cover image is titled "Vanishing Woman." Botany, biology, technology all encroach on what it means to be female. Femina Sapiens may offer a solution.
Fire and Ice is the theme of our issue this month. Robert Frost asked whether the world would end in fire or ice, responding that perhaps ice would be nice. Ice was nice, when it meant "In case of Emergency" on a card in your wallet. Ice is not so nice any more.
Our Electronic Quill article is titled "Out of the Shadows", as a long-lost family photo suddenly appears.
Our section called "Other Voices" includes eMusings (with AI news), yNot, Site of the Month, !Brazen Hussy, and Just Desserts.
eMusings: AI news and views. Have you worn your castor oil yet? Some relevant links: testing how malicious AI can get without human oversight; robots weave garments right on to the body; soft clothes that don't degrade into plastics; Japan's department stores create dream worlds; AI can now complete any undergraduate assignment; bioweapons threat and theft have already occurred; "misalignment" means hallucinate, hide, and upload without permission; AI societies pose a more complex danger than single agents; repairing real-world AI objects before they fail.
eMusings in art:
Sara Anstis's atmospheric tableaux; Liu Wei builds invisible cities; Mu Pan's colorful fantasies; Jonathan Baldock's huge wild bear; an overview of Jean Dubuffet; Thomas Houseago's "wounded bullies"; 5 women sculptors from Bangladesh and India; De Kooning's breakthrough years; Tony Oursler's immersive projections; MIT offers a free online film course.
Remember that earlier eMusings and electronic quill articles are archived online for you.
yNot: Our Woman of the Month award for October goes to Michele Kraft, Doctor of Podiatry, with her outstandin holistic approach to healing.
More in Ynot: sharp rise in infant and female mortalities under the Taliban; the negative side-effects of IUD devices; global deficiencies in treating and diagnosing women vs men; female tragedies in Iran as men restrict the lives of women; how abusers control finances in cases of intimate partner violence; MIT offers a course in Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy; a few surreal music and dance videos to bring smiles to seniors; women targeted in Mexico's cartel wars; Denmark's forced implantation of IUD's in women and girls receives an apology; new washable hygiene products like pads and incontinence protectors, free of petroleum-based polymers, are on the horizon.
Giraffe's Site of the Month - Camilla Falsini will leave you feeling upbeat and joyful.
!Brazen Hussy - "The Pornography of Transgression" by Florentina Holzinger
New Digital Paintings - Did you know that the American paddlefish has barely changed for the past 300 million years? Until we came along. From "Roots of Dismay", and "Sound of a Myth Cracking" to "Variations on a Theme of Genetics" and "Where Has All the Joy Gone"
New blobs: Digital sketches that later formed the basis for larger paintings.
in 3D Print news: bio-derived adaptive materials inspired by nature; filet mignon and a marbled steak burrito bowl in plant-based foods; high-protein waffles produced without animals; turn any sketch into a 3D print in seconds; multiple materials extruded into one strand that resembles octopus arms; find mistakes before printing in just milliseconds; NASA makes cookies from soda bottles and corn stalks; toxic air quality as an entire room issue; various flours and rice are printed, frozen, and tested with multiple cooking methods; living batteries from fungi species printed alive.
Wit and Wisdom from our archives: "Pyramids and Pixels"
Diversions for Difficult Times:
"Sleepless in Seattle" is worth watching again. 2 Academy Award nominations, the magic of a young Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, with Nora Ephron's deft direction.
You can read our newest book, "Plunge" free of charge, from our front page. Note: there are now 3 books of digital imaging and social comment free to read online - all shown on our front page. We thank all of you for the generous outpouring of responses to these new bookss.
For trivia buffs: In August of 2026, 143 nations logged in to our site. This is a new monthly high from visitors outside the U.S. A substantial increase in hits came from European Union, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey, Cambodia, France, Belgium, Spain, Uruguay, Ukraine, Switzerland, Thailand, Italy, and Paraguay.
Thanks to NASA, I have adopted a baby! But don't send booties just yet. This is a pixel baby.
Gemini calls us The Cartographer of the Pixel. You can read the entire critique here.
Warm regards from your Friend, the Giraffe
c. Corinne Whitaker 2026
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