Beth Koval

The World’s Deadliest Addiction Is Popping Up on Brain Scans. And It’s Not Even a Drug. There’s a reason our culture is so obsessed with revenge, and it starts in the brain.

This explains a lot about the current government in the US. And why the cycles of revenge aren't likely to stop any time soon.

Portrait on recycled cardboard

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

New weaving project, kitchen towels. #8shaft #Glimakra standard loom

He sounds too needy to me

Self portrait in the mirror right now. Oil on linen paper.

When you lack a model there’s always yourself, we even take the same coffee breaks.

#portraitart #portraits #portrait #selfportrait #painting

As an ED doc I feel like piercing removal is one of my hard won strengths

I rode it for years and remain a bit scarred (but had triplets eventually so there are good stories!)

It’s all so hard

pen drawing, the side portrait of a lion with horns, in a gold ornate circle.

pen drawing of a fox's face, holding a dagger in its mouth.

pen drawing of a winged cat in the middle of a jump

pen drawing of an octopus swiming

I don't think I've ever posted these here, so have some old pen drawings

I sat with my anger
until it grew bored
and wandered off.
Sometimes
the best defense
is tea and silence.

#poem #poetry #buddhism #mindfulness #right-effort #non-reactivity

Drawing in white and gray against a black background of the head of a striped tiger as seen in profile. It is roaring with mouth wide open to show off its teeth.

Semi-regular reminder to stay fierce 💜

#art #SciArt

Does health insurance pay for your care if you’re dead?

And not just because of the stairway cockroach

It’s just that it’s the guidance we were looking for, for right now, to get through this darkness

Portrait for Reddit

This is in casein paint

#art #portrait #portraitart #traditionalmedia

We're finding lots of Spear Thistle Lacebugs in the garden this year. The adults are easy to overlook, being only a few millimetres long.

painting of a platypus swimming in a lake full of lotus flowers

Platypus swimming

prints to usa: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

t-shirts, prints, tote bags and much more to usa, europe and oceania: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1598...

Of course!

Drawing of a vibrantly colored bird of paradise bloom among large green leaves in front of a background that transitions from purple at the bottom to a dark orange at the bottom. The flower has bright orange and purple extravagant petals.

For #vibrant, how about a bird of paradise?

#BlueSkyArtShow

RFK Jr. Is Opening the Alternative Medicine Floodgates Kennedy plans to make it easier for people to take unregulated, potentially unsafe treatments like stem cell and chelation therapy.

This might be a good time to recall Arnold Relman's wise words: "There really is no such thing as alternative medicine-- only medicine that has been proved to work and medicine that hasn't."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-is-op...

100% of people who need CPR are already dead

Oil sketch without underdrawing #portraitchallenge

Drawing of a sea otter resting on rocks with the blue sea behind. It has a pale face and brown body and cute expression and is holding an open oyster inside with a pearl reflecting the colors of the trans flag, blue, white and pink.

World Otter Day? Don't mind if I do! We had river otters where I grew up and they were truly delightful to see in the wild. Here's a sea otter with a gift for you

Gary,Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana (sing it with me!)

I love it

Mine routinely got 17 but I like acceleration, you can do better than I did

I had one of those once, it was a great car, and if it hadn’t told me its abysmal gas mileage I might still have it but it was too honest with me

It makes me happy that this exists in our world

Does It Matter if the U.S. Surgeon General Never Practiced Medicine?

Does it matter if the pilot has never landed an aircraft before?