Brazil’s Covid Crisis Is a Warning to the Whole World, Scientists Say

Brazil is seeing a record number of deaths, and the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant that may cause reinfection.

Brazil is seeing a record number of deaths, and the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant that may cause reinfection.

Stacey Abrams on American Idealism and American Betrayal

Abrams helped win major Democratic victories in Georgia, the right is retaliating and it’s getting personal. But Abrams says she doesn’t mind; it’s all about the long game.

Abrams helped win major Democratic victories in Georgia, the right is retaliating and it’s getting personal. But Abrams says she doesn’t mind; it’s all about the long game.

In Myanmar Protests, Women Are on the Front Lines – The New York Times

An undated photograph that Ms. Kyal Sin, whose English name was Angel, posted on Instagram in 2019. Ma Kyal Sin loved taekwondo, spicy food and a good red lipstick. She adopted the English name Angel, and her father hugged her goodbye when she went out on the streets of Mandalay, in central Myanmar, to join the crowds peacefully protesting the recent seizure of power by the military.

The black T-shirt that Ms. Kyal Sin wore to the protest on Wednesday carried a simple message: “Everything will be OK.”

In the afternoon, Ms. Kyal Sin, 18, was shot in the head by the security forces, who killed at least 30 people nationwide in the single bloodiest day since the Feb. 1 coup, according to the United Nations.

Doctors at a hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, protested days after the military coup last month.

The Power of a Smile —

When we smile, our body releases endorphins. Dopamine, serotonin are all the ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitters that get activated. The mere act of smiling can change our brain chemistry too, and spur a powerful chemical reaction in the brain that makes us happy. According to Ron Gutman, the author of ‘Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple […]

The Power of a Smile —

Glacier!!!

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Two person ship launch against glacier base.

Summer was the season for our visit to the edge of eternal, for now, Patagonian ice fields. Remnants from the last ice age, larger than some (small) countries. The site is surprisingly noisy with sharp, explosive, ice crackles.

More amazing even than the sounds, the dark shading on the ice is volcanic dust from recent eruptions of many cones.

Click this link for my series of posts about Chilean fjords and glaciers we visited February 2016.

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¿Corredores que venden tierras indígenas robadas en Facebook? … ¡Solo el escándalo más reciente en una continuación de siglos de saqueo y destrucción! — (Brokers selling stolen indigenous lands on Facebook? … Just the latest scandal in centuries of looting and destruction!) Barbara Crane Navarro

La selva amazónica es el hogar de una de cada 10 especies conocidas en la Tierra – Ignacio Palacios “Somos habitantes de los bosques y no queremos que nuestra gente muera. ¿Los blancos probablemente piensan que su Dios logrará eliminar del cielo la epidemia de humo de sus fábricas? Están equivocados. ¡El cielo … se […]

¿Corredores que venden tierras indígenas robadas en Facebook? … ¡Solo el escándalo más reciente en una continuación de siglos de saqueo y destrucción! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Stounhendž i Ejvberi, Velika Britanija – Stonehenge and Avebury, United Kingdom — Myrela

Ko je izgradio Stounhendž? Vijekovima su na to pitanje pokušavale da odgovore desetine legendi i svakojake ozbiljne i manje ozbiljne hipoteze. Da li su to bili Kelti, Saksonci, stari Egipćani, Rimljani ili narod Atlantide? A ko zna, možda i posjetioci iz svemira? Ili je – kako tvrde neki – kamene blokove “strateški” postavila grupa fanatičnih […]

Stounhendž i Ejvberi, Velika Britanija – Stonehenge and Avebury, United Kingdom — Myrela

Who built Stonehenge? For centuries, dozens of legends and all kinds of serious and less serious hypotheses have been trying to answer that question.