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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works
The Search for the Origins of SARS-CoV-2: “The Results on My Screen Were: Raccoon Dog, Raccoon Dog, Raccoon Dog!” – DER SPIEGEL
Opinion | The Dangerous Race to Put More Children to Work – The New York Times
States are rolling back basic labor protections, in defiance of federal standards
My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends | Laura Trevelyan | The Guardian
Guest Post: Medical Advice From Gavin
Gavin has good advice about the prevention of choking on food, using his many years of experience in the Ambulance Service in London, and New Zealand…
Guest Post: Medical Advice From Gavin
Vending Machines You Didn’t Know You Needed

Milk vending machine in London, England, circa 1931. A man has his boots cleaned by an automatic penny-in-the-slot boot-polishing machine, circa 1907…
Vending Machines You Didn’t Know You Needed
Why it Matters

Originally posted on Scottie’s Playtime: This is a guest post from Randy. As most people here already know Randy is someone I admire greatly. …
Why it Matters
Spring

November weather Yet, birds sing abundantly New Moon in the sky 🌒 @douryeh
Spring
Ancient Word of the Day: Siamang
Endangered siamangs are the largest type of the gibbon family. They have distinctive black coats and communicate using a complex system of booming calls. They have gorgeous throat sacks that swell up as they sing together. Like other gibbons they form gregarious and close-knit family groups. They face a major existential threat from palm oil deforestation and illegal animal trafficking that occurs as a result of this deforestation.
Did you know name of one of the most vocal gibbons of the Bornean jungle ‘Siamang’ originates from several indigenous languages in the Central Aslian group in SE Asia?
Siamang: n.ultimate originof the wordʔamang(where theʔrepresents a glottal stop), is from several indigenous languages of the Central Aslian group.
When speakers of Malay borrowed the wordʔamang, they added the personal articlesi. Similar to an honorific like “mister”,sigenerally applies only to humans, or to animals…
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updated Review of a Library Book Worth Buying: Separate and Unequal, by S. Gillon
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
Project Do Better strongly urges the supporting of our library systems, which is where I discovered this book, but some books are also worth buying as references. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon, is one of them.
How sad that the contents and conclusions of this report are still relevant, and still ignored, today, 50 years after it was released in response to the riots in Newark and Detroit of the “long hot” summer of 1967. I found this book after seeing Dr. King’s response to the question, during the Memphis garbage workers’ strike, of what it would take to prevent or call off his Poor People’s March on Washington: the answer was to implement the recommendations in this report.
The report was commissioned to find out what caused…
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