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Daily Archives: November 29, 2022
Animals are key to restoring the world’s forests | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
As UN climate talks close in Egypt and biodiversity talks begin in Montreal, attention is on forest restoration as a solution to the twin evils roiling our planet. Forests soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide and simultaneously create habitat for organisms. So far, efforts to help forests bounce back from deforestation have typically focused on increasing one thing—trees—over anything else. But a new report uncovers a powerful, yet largely overlooked, driver of forest recovery: animals. The study by an international team from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Yale School of the Environment, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute examined a series of regenerating forests in central Panama spanning 20 to 100 years post-abandonment. The unique long-term data set revealed that animals, by carrying a wide variety of seeds into deforested areas, are key to the recovery of tree species richness and abundance to old-growth levels after only 40 to 70 years of regrowth. Source: Animals are key to restoring the world’s forests | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Freedom
Friedmann Equations
A poem in Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm Protest in ChinaFreemann Equations: the opening up of the universe
it’s pain on a white piece of paper
not a poem
.
battering, crippling, numbing
deaden emotions, there’s nothing left to feel
you are left with nothing child, the pain
.
the hopelessness, I too
need to
leave
you
.
we do not have a name
we are the nameless
fallen people
—
November 2022
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không phải bài thơ nó là tờ giấy trắng
nỗi đau trống rỗng
.
tan nát, gục ngã, chẳng còn gì trong lòng
cảm xúc của chúng ta đã chết
bỏ lại em trắng tay, đau đớn
.
cảm giác vô vọng, anh cũng cần
thoát
khỏi
em
.
chúng ta không có tên
chúng ta là những người vô danh
ngã xuống
Lê Vĩnh…
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Tsinghua University Student Protest
A poem in Vietnamese by Thái Hạo Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Tsinghua University Student Protest
they hold up white sheets of paper
the transparency
they took to the streets with the light in their hands
not pickaxe
not bricks
.
Tiananmen, the fallen students under the tank
30 years later, again the students took their stance
it’s China’s luck when those who have taken to the streets
were young people from a university
not old men with sticks from the slum
the blood of students in white
will wash away the humiliation
.
Student
our students are screaming too
in the pubs in front of giant TV screens
angry and shouting from losing a bet
none of them remember to bring a white sheet of paper
to write their suicide note with a mathematical equation
before flying down to the dorm yard in the…
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Violência Contra a Mulher
Enxergar a violência pela qual está passando é crucial para que a mulher consiga se lembrar que antes, ela tinha uma vida, uma história, uma identidade. Muitas esquecem, inclusive “perdoam seus parceiros na expectativa de que estes, possam mudar de comportamento e não praticar mais abusos.
Apesar das várias demonstrações de que esses parceiros agressores não vão mudar; e quando falo “parceiros agressores”, refiro-me tanto ao homem quanto a mulher, porque os dois praticam violência. Há casos onde muitas mulheres vivem relacionamentos conturbados ( doentios), e passam situações extremas, muitas permeadas de machismo, menosprezo e intolerância, de ter que “ouvir coisas que provocam sofrimento” e que destrói o psicológico delas. Existem situações onde as ofensas causam feridas emocionais, porque o barulho que elas fazem geralmente é interno, uma vez que; calam-se em meio a violência que sofrem.
De maneira bem direta, é possível dizer que a mulher ” passa a…
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Wagner Group Accused of Recruiting Prisoners From the Central African Republic for Russia’s War in Ukraine
Another military officer told The Daily Beast that rebels held for attacking and killing CAR soldiers during an assault on a military camp in the southeastern town of Bakouma town in April have also been freed by Russian mercenaries. The officer said Wagner paramilitaries told military officials that the released rebels would be working for the group overseas.
“They [Wagner] said they needed urgent manpower in Mali and Ukraine,” the officer, who works with CAR’s army, told The Daily Beast. “I think more than 20 people we’ve been holding [for very serious crimes] have been released.”
Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Sedition in Landmark Jan. 6 Case – The New York Times
Tolerance, Love, Kindness Instead of Hate … PLEASE! — Filosofa’s Word
Mass shootings, racist teachers, pushing, shoving and name-calling … so may signs of increasing incivility in the U.S. today. Where does it all come from and more importantly, how do we stop it? Where do people get the idea that one race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, or religion is somehow superior? Humanity sometimes seems to […]
Tolerance, Love, Kindness Instead of Hate … PLEASE! — Filosofa’s Word
Violência Contra a Mulher
Enxergar a violência pela qual está passando é crucial para que a mulher consiga se lembrar que antes, ela tinha uma vida, uma história, uma …
Violência Contra a Mulher
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