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L’uso non autorizzato di immagini di una tribù amazzonica sul sito web di Cartier ha suscitato forti critiche! Gli Yanomami dicono: “Come può un’azienda di gioielli d’oro, contro la quale noi Yanomami ci opponiamo, usare l’immagine degli Yanomami?” & “Chiunque compri un anello d’oro è parte del crimine!” | Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: L’uso non autorizzato di immagini di una tribù amazzonica sul sito web di Cartier ha suscitato forti critiche! Gli Yanomami dicono: “Come può un’azienda di gioielli d’oro, contro la quale noi Yanomami ci opponiamo, usare l’immagine degli Yanomami?” & “Chiunque compri un anello d’oro è parte del crimine!” | Barbara Crane Navarro

Cartier accused of Greenwashing after using images of Indigenous Yanomami tribe devastated by illegal gold mining without their permission!- Short 1:39 film on TikTok! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: Cartier accused of Greenwashing after using images of Indigenous Yanomami tribe devastated by illegal gold mining without their permission!- Short 1:39 film on TikTok! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Tragic, Quaint and….Funny? | NANMYKEL.COM

One of my favorite pasttimes as a child was reading a sad story to my sister and bawling together at the top of our lungs.  The most effective vehicle for this cathartic endeavor was entitled The Dog of Pompeii, in which a boy is forced to leave his dog behind on the shores under erupting Vesuvius.

Our imaginations constructed with horrified relish the scenario in which the dog arrives on the scene, finds his master has left him, and is engulfed in flames with great sorrow.

One can only speculate as to the needs for grief expression  that were met by us in this  tragic-quaint and somewhat comic manner… (More)

 

Source: Tragic, Quaint and….Funny? | NANMYKEL.COM

Richard Scolyer: Melanoma doctor’s high-stakes gamble to cure his brain cancer

Neurosurgeons soon confirmed it wasn’t just any brain tumour, but “the worst of the worst” – a subtype of glioblastoma so aggressive most patients survive less than a year.

Devastated but determined, he and Dr Long set out to do the impossible: to save his life by finding a cure.

And it may sound crazy, but the Australian researchers have done it before, with melanoma.

“It didn’t sit right with me… to just accept certain death without trying something,” Prof Scolyer says.

“It’s an incurable cancer? Well bugger that!”

Melanoma Institute Australia Richard Scolyer in a hospital bed with Georgina Long sitting beside him

Source: Richard Scolyer: Melanoma doctor’s high-stakes gamble to cure his brain cancer