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Awareness

We live in a world that fosters appearing, having material possessions, and follow the mainstream.We should rather be, learn, grow, love, and help …

Awareness

California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs | California | The Guardian

The state water resources control board agreed that BlueTriton does not have permission to use the water and ordered the company to stop. The order does not ban the company from taking any water from the mountain, but it significantly reduces how much it can take… Source: California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs | California | The Guardian

Archeologists: 500,000-Year-Old Wood Pieces Have ‘No Known Parallels’

The scientists’ finds consist of wooden structures and tools — such as digging sticks — found at the Kalambo Falls in Zambia. They date back to more than 476,000 years ago.

These structures — which might have been built by early humans as raised platforms to stay above the wet ground — have “no known parallels,” the scientists wrote in the article. The discovery reshapes our understanding of what early humans were capable of, they added…

Modified wood tools from the excavation site in Zambia.

Source: Archeologists: 500,000-Year-Old Wood Pieces Have ‘No Known Parallels’

Florida’s “War on Woke” Is Spurring a Brain Drain | The Nation

DeSantis has enacted multiple “educational gag orders” that criminalize classroom discussions of race, gender identity, and ugly historical realities that might make white students “feel guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.” Florida teachers, whose salaries rank 48th in the country, have seen their jobs become only more thankless. The end result is an exodus of teachers, and what Florida Education Association (FEA) head Andrew Spar has called “one of the worst teacher and staff shortages” in the state’s history. “The policies, vilification, and low pay are certainly all factors,” Spar told me. “I was shocked, going around the state and talking to teachers as we were starting the school year, hearing over and over again, ‘I’m getting out of education in general because, as much as I love working with and teaching kids, I’m really not able to do that. I just want to be able to teach.’”.. Source: Florida’s “War on Woke” Is Spurring a Brain Drain | The Nation