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How agriculture hastens species extinction — Stigmatis

BY BRIT MCCANDLESS FARMER JANUARY 1, 2023 This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth …

How agriculture hastens species extinction — Stigmatis

WHO: China is underrepresenting severity of COVID-19 outbreak – UPI.com

Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s COVID-19 technical lead, explained that it is not simply a matter of knowing what variants are circulating in China, but that the global community needs to be able to assess its information and to look at mutations to determine if there are new variants in the Asian nation, but also around the world.

Source: WHO: China is underrepresenting severity of COVID-19 outbreak – UPI.com

Achieve Happiness with warm-heartedness – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“We should show one another love and help each another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being generous and warm-hearted.”

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Source: Achieve Happiness with warm-heartedness – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Gender, Warnings and Sudden Heart Stoppage — CRAIN’S COMMENTS

The Buffalo-Cincinnati (American) football game this past weekend re-introduced viewers to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). This is an event that kills approximately 6 million people across the planet every year. SCA is not the same as a heart attack. The latter is caused by a stoppage in the flow of blood to the heart, typically […]

Gender, Warnings and Sudden Heart Stoppage — CRAIN’S COMMENTS

My earliest memory: a sister on summer holiday

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The Bloganuary prompt is “What is your earliest memory?”

Memory is a strange thing. It can play tricks on you. Trying to catch a distant memory is almost as hard as grabbing onto the threads of a dream – wispy images and impressions that almost slip through your fingers, or rather, disappear somewhere in your mind. I write down my dreams if I remember them clearly enough – and then wonder if I was making them up.

So, one has to be careful with memories. Nevertheless, I have two very clear ones (both corroborated by my mother, who remembered them vividly). Both involve my younger sister, and summer holidays. They are not things that happened to me; nothing much happened to me at that tender age. My sister, however, was what they call a “drama queen.” When I reached my teens, I too had my dramatic moments.

The first, definitely…

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