A sweeping spate of murders rivals COVID-19’s ‘third wave’ in Jamaica · Global Voices

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Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

  • A study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that a large proportion of existing medicinal plant knowledge is linked to threatened Indigenous languages. In a regional study on the Amazon, New Guinea and North America, researchers concluded that 75% of medicinal plant uses are known in only one language.
  • The study evaluated 645 plant species in the northwestern Amazon and their medicinal uses, according to the oral tradition of 37 languages. It found that 91% of this knowledge exists in a single language, and that the extinction of that language implies the loss of the medicinal knowledge as well.
  • In Brazil, Indigenous schools hold an important role in preserving languages alongside cataloguing and revitalization projects like those held by the Karitiana people in Rondônia and the Pataxó in Bahia and Minas Gerais.

“Every time a language disappears, a speaking voice also disappears, a way to make sense of reality disappears, a way to interact with nature disappears, a way to describe and name animals and plants disappears,” says Jordi Bascompte, researcher in the Department of Evolutional Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich.

Source: Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

I Poet

yaskhan

I feel 
The touch of your smile
Like Cello Suite No.1 in G major

Rhymes hang heavy
In translucent tears
Eyelashes tickled
By star visions
Orion and Artemis
In sky’s eternity

From trauma
I make poetry
Dreams are like
Scattered leaves
On an autumn wind

There’s hesitation
In my thoughts
Like a broken melody

I listen like birds listen to the sky
My fingers wrap their
Aquamarine wisdom
Blossoms quiz the sun
Wild flowers burn the horizon
Meteors burst in the hills

My page waits
For the rawness of my words.

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Victor Hugo

Vivaldi translation: ”Compassion is not always a virtue. Whoever spares the life of the wolf condemns death to the sheep. ”

Victor Hugo. Embrace, Death, Life, Soul.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A compaixão nem sempre é uma virtude. Quem poupa a vida do lobo condena a morte as ovelhas. “

Victor Hugo. De abraço, De morte, De vida, De alma.

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 20 de setembro de 2021

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Thousands more appeal sick pay rejections by Social Insurance Agency – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

  • The number of appeals against sick pay decisions by the Social Insurance Agency have almost doubled over the last five years.
  • Last year, almost 7,000 decisions concerning sickness benefits were appealed.
  • Therese Östlin, national coordinator in health insurance at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, does not believe that there is a single explanation for the increase in the number of rejections and appeals.

Source: Thousands more appeal sick pay rejections by Social Insurance Agency – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

Coronavirus: BioNTech says vaccine safe for kids 5 to 11 | News | DW | 20.09.2021

Pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer said Monday that their jointly produced coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective for chilldren from the ages of 5 to 11.

What did the companies say?

“In participants 5 to 11 years of age, the vaccine was safe, well-tolerated and showed robust neutralizing antibody responses,” Germany-based BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer said in a joint statement.

Source: Coronavirus: BioNTech says vaccine safe for kids 5 to 11 | News | DW | 20.09.2021