Day 4/67: GED in 5 months, and context — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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

As healthy adults, do we always make sure to look at the full context of a given situation, comment, or quotation, when we make judgements about things we hear, or even see?  Learning to take the context of a situation into account, much like figuring out the meaning of a word based on the context […]

Day 4/67: GED in 5 months, and context — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

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PLAN B IS ALSO FAILING! PUTIN MAKES A CATASTROPHIC ERROR AS THE INVASION WORSENS

Joevic Africa

Moscow’s hopes of storming Kiyv in a matter of days were dashed when its armed forces encountered fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces. The Kremlin quickly changed strategy in an attempt to gradually encircle key cities and strangle resistance forces within them. However, as the conflict enters its fourth week, Western officials say the Kremlin’s backup […]

PLAN B IS ALSO FAILING! PUTIN MAKES A CATASTROPHIC ERROR AS THE INVASION WORSENS

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Blood Plastic

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

Humans eat and breath plastic. Plastic now has been found in the blood stream of humans. What in fact does this mean?

The short answer is that there are no studies on the subject. Certainly, the plastics industry doesn’t want to pay for research into the damage they are causing, and no one else has.

How does plastic get into our bodies?

  • Ocean plastic gets into seafood that we then consumer.
  • Ocean plastic gets into drinking water.
  • Micro plastic waste (defined as plastic less than 5 mm in size) can pass through water treatment systems and get into drinking water.
  • Plastic that is burned becomes air pollution that we breathe.
  • Plastic is in products that we use, including toothpaste.

What damage can small plastic particles do?

Small plastic particles are abrasive.

  • If in haled, plastic will irritate the lungs and compound breathing issues for people with asthma or COPD. This…

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Words … — Filosofa’s Word

President Biden gave a speech yesterday in Warsaw, Poland, before heading home.  The speech has been hailed by many, comparing it to two of what are considered the greatest speeches of the Cold War by U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.  While I have not listened to the speech, I have read the […]

Words … — Filosofa’s Word

William’s ‘Sorrow’ a Sorry Excuse For an Apology

Reparations is the least that the nations who supported slavery can do… to “pay” for the evil that they profited from.

Jamaica Woman Tongue

In 2002, Boris Johnson wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph in which he reported the following: “It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.” Johnson’s use of the passive voice deliberately conceals the identity of whoever is supposed to have made that scandalous statement.

Of course, “It is said” does not mean that it is true. Rumour is notoriously unreliable. But Johnson’s declaration has the ring of proverbial authority. He does not need to provide any evidence to support his damning allegation. It’s common knowledge. Intentionally or not, the man who is now prime minister of the UK and Northern Ireland claimed that it’s widely known that the Queen is racist. Or, at the very least, is addicted to the adoration of the Commonwealth!

The Jamaican historian Howard Johnson brought Boris Johnson’s newspaper…

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Los sabores, cuando encantan…

A cool drink of juice of black currents brings me back to a wondrous spring day in Singapore in an instant.

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Los sabores regalan esencias, aromas, purezas o mezclas; pero también, cuando encantan, ofrecen armonía, equilibrio, amor, laboriosidad y tiempo. Los sabores que prepara la naturaleza o los que elaboran los seres humanos, son irrenunciables al paladar, a los sentidos, y deleitan, como si, al arrancar pedazos de instantes, minutos y horas, los impregnaran con sus fórmulas para invitar a la naturaleza, al mundo, al universo a hacer bellas pausas dentro de su incansable palpitar. Los sabores tienen perfumes y también, no lo niego, colores y formas, matices y rasgos que enamoran y se añaden al encanto de comer. He notado, igualmente, que los sabores, al probarlos, traen recuerdos, sentimientos e ideas, imágenes familiares o de otros días, personas y momentos. Son un poema, un concierto sinfónico, el trazo y la conclusión de un proyecto y una encomienda de la…

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