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Tristes tropiques : les Nambikwara du Mato Grosso — DR livres et publications

Barbara Crane Navarro

“Le monde a commencé sans l’homme et il s’achèvera sans lui.” Cette phrase est tirée de “Tristes Tropiques” (1955) de Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologue et ethnologue. Mais l’acculturation des autochtones et la déforestation n’étaient pas encore aussi fortes à son époque qu’aujourd’hui . Il a visité des tribus encore sauvages du Mato Grosso central, une région[…]

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Portland bars, restaurants band together to form vaccine coalition | Local News | kptv.com

A growing number of Portland bars and restaurants have joined forces to form a Vaccine Coalition requiring customers to show proof of vaccination status. TJ Fuller, the owner of Tomorrow’s Verse Taproom, said he found out about the coalition on Facebook after it was initially spearheaded by another business owner. Fuller said the goal is to get more bars and restaurants to start asking for proof of vaccination. “The goal for me is to keep my staff, my guests, my family, any musicians who perform in my neighborhood and my community safe,” Fuller said.

Source: Portland bars, restaurants band together to form vaccine coalition | Local News | kptv.com

Day 64/67 of GED in Five Months, lines and laws, and transporting us to the stars!

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

 Ad Astra!    But, how do we get there?

Today’s reading discusses Newton’s proofs of Kepler’s earlier laws, based on both observation and mathematics.  After all, if we can see it, but don’t know how much food and fuel we need to get there, it might be a longer trip than we thought!

Newton’s Principia (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687), the foundational work of modern science. Newton used classical geometry and the emerging techniques of differential and integral calculus to give mathematical derivations from general fundamental principles of essentially all the quantitative physical laws known at the time.One of the main achievements was the derivation of Kepler’s laws from an inverse square law for gravity …”

 End of Week 17/18
Day 64 lesson
Grammar: Compound sentences
Math: comparing slope of two or more lines
Science: reading science history, with the help of a little math…
Please see the…

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Former Acting Attorney General Testifies About Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Election – The New York Times

Jeffrey A. Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election, according to a person familiar with the interviews.

Mr. Rosen had a two-hour meeting on Friday with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general and provided closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday.

The investigations were opened after a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that continuing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results. That prompted Mr. Trump to consider ousting Mr. Rosen and installing Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan.

Jamaica Economy Panel discusses vaccine hesitancy and the need for strong information campaigns

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It has been disconcerting, frustrating and at times quite depressing to discuss vaccine hesitancy in Jamaica and elsewhere on social media. My heart sinks further when I read reports today about protests in St. Vincent (where the 75-year-old Prime Minister was injured during a demonstration, and is apparently not quite recovered) and in Barbados and Antigua, over their governments’ plans to insist on vaccinations, especially in government positions. “This is about freedom – freedom of choice,”said one Barbadian leader of the protest. He suggested that all Caribbean islands are united in their anti-vaccination stance. What road will this lead us all down?

St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves reacts moments after he was struck in the head by an object during COVID-19 related protests, in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines August 5, 2021 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Asberth…

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