Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet | Archaeology | The Guardian

Source: Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet | Archaeology | The Guardian

Indonesia surpasses 100,000 deaths amid new virus wave – The Washington Post

Indonesia surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, a grim milestone in a country struggling with its worst pandemic wave fueled by the delta variant, amid concerns the actual figure could be much higher.

It took 14 months for Indonesia to exceed the 50,000 death mark at the end of May, and just over nine weeks to double it. The Health Ministry recorded 1,747 new deaths of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 100,636.

Source: Indonesia surpasses 100,000 deaths amid new virus wave – The Washington Post

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

  • Half of nearly 700 households surveyed in a recent study in Makira National Park in Madagascar reported eating lemur meat and a quarter had consumed fossa meat.
  • The research conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society relied on indirect questioning and revealed unusually high levels of consumption of meat from the fossa, Madagascar’s top predator.
  • Hunting pressure combined with shrinking habitats could lead to the local extinction of the indri, a critically endangered species and the largest living lemur, along with three other lemur species in the park.
  • WCS’s current research will feed into a “behavior change campaign” to promote alternatives to hunting like poultry and fish farming, and harvesting of edible insects. 

Source: For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia (Me: very sad if accurate about abuse of forest and indigenous people’s culture and land)

Environmental authorities and Indigenous groups accuse a Mennonite community, members of an Anabaptist Protestant sect, of destroying forests and polluting water sources in the Altillanura high plains of eastern Colombia. Authorities say the Mennonites have burned 135 hectares (333 acres) of riverbank forest since arriving in the region in 2016. Indigenous Sikuani communities say the Mennonites have taken over their ancestral lands and driven away the native wildlife and fish with their farming activities and intensive use of agrochemicals. The Mennonite colony is one of many that left Mexico in recent years and settled in other Latin American countries, including Peru and Bolivia, where they have also been accused of environmental violations.

Source: Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

What is palm oil? — EDUINDEX NEWS

Industrialized Palm Oil Plantations raised by tearing up natural tropical forests and ecologies.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Palm oil is an edible oil taken from the fruit of oil palms, from palm trees grown in the tropics. The crop provides a higher yield at a lower cost compared to other vegetable oils. This oil is used for cooking in developing countries, but also in beauty products, detergents, and biofuel. WWF says that[…]

What is palm oil? — EDUINDEX NEWS

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Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Red bald headed uakari (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) in tree carrying baby, Rio Yavari, Amazonia, Peru

Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus Vulnerable Brazil, Peru, Colombia With their long shaggy coats and striking bright red faces, Bald-headed Uacaris are true icons of the Amazon rainforest and are found in Brazil, Peru and Colombia. When an Uacari has a bright red face this indicates good health, a pale face indicates a sickly physical state.[…]

Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus — Palm Oil Detectives

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Wondering Wednesdays, Baby Acres, Chapter 2: Phase I, part 2

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post starts the rough draft of Chapter 2, section II. of my non-fiction WiP, Baby Acres.

This section of chapter 2 has another 1000 words, (hopefully currently practicable words).

And once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases. This chapter will transition to a chapter (2-5) for each phase, showing what Phases I-IV could look like as part of a possible roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us. This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind will eventually have each person’s basic needs met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind.

Chapter Two:

( Chapter 2’s section I was last week…)

Chapter 2, section II. :

Chapter 2: section II. What Phase I looks like, near and by the…

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