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Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration
- Mycoremediation is the process of harnessing fungi’s natural abilities to break down materials for a beneficial effect.
- Recent projects look to restore habitat marred by wildfires, or manipulate fungi in a lab to break down toxic waste and other human-created pollutants.
- Research continues looking at the broad ways fungi can possibly regenerate soils and keep moisture in the ground, which are necessities for creating wildfire-adapted lands.
We see disposable masks everywhere these days. Littered on the street and sidewalks, hanging out of garbage cans, floating through the neighborhood on a windy day. Unfortunately, the ubiquitous face coverings aren’t the easiest to dispose of or recycle, but what if they could sprout a mushroom? For Joanne Rodriguez, this is a far better use of a mask after it’s provided its humanly function.
“The masks? The mycelium loved it. They were fully grown out in two weeks,” she said. Rodriguez is the CEO of Illinois-based Mycocycle, a new company rethinking how fungi can clean up waste streams.
The oft-used adage of “mushrooms can save the world” takes on a new meaning when applied to the flourishing realm of mycoremediation, the idea of harnessing fungi to break down toxins or waste.
Recent studies, and new projects in the past few years, have cast new light on an old (a very old) natural process, with innovations and research continuing to bring more people into the work of drafting the humble fungi in the fight to clean up the world.
Source: Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration
Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows
- Satellite imagery shows that logging activity is spreading from peripheral areas of the Amazon toward the rainforest’s core, according to groundbreaking research.
- The satellite-based mapping of seven of Brazil’s nine Amazonian states showed a “terrifying” pattern of logging advance that cleared an area three times the size of the city of São Paulo between August 2019 and July 2020 alone.
- At the state level, lack of transparency in logging data makes it impossible to calculate how much of the timber production is illegal, experts say.
- Evidence of cutting in Indigenous reserves and conservation units — where logging is prohibited — make clear that illegal logging accounts for much of the activity, according to the report.
One of the main fears about the Brazilian Amazon is beginning to materialize: logging is starting to move from the periphery of the rainforest toward the core of the biome, groundbreaking new research shows.
Source: Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows
Maine Man Sentenced for Committing and Conspiring to Commit Federal Hate Crime | OPA | Department of Justice
According to Leo’s guilty plea and evidence presented at Diggins’s trial, on April 15, 2018, Diggins attacked a Sudanese man without provocation outside of a bar in Portland, Maine. The assault, which broke the victim’s jaw, was immediately followed by an attack on another Black man who was standing on the street nearby.
In a second incident, which occurred approximately an hour later and approximately 20 miles away in Biddeford, co-conspirators Diggins and Leo drove in Leo’s truck into a parking lot of a convenience store, where Diggins got out of the truck and approached a Black man who was walking toward the store’s entrance. Diggins directed a racial slur at the man and distracted him while Leo got out of the truck and sucker-punched the victim in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. The unprovoked attack broke the victim’s jaw in several places.
Leo was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen. The Biddeford Police Department and the FBI investigated the case. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheila Sawyer and Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney Tim Visser.
Livrarias
As livrarias são atraentes

Algumas tem fachadas antigas, tornando o prédio mais valorizado.

Outras com um ar sofisticado, com design que chama atenção.

E aquelas com o interior que representam uma verdadeira relíquia

Em todos os tamanhos e formatos, as bibliotecas são atrativos a mais para que gosta de livros, assim como, conhecer a beleza desses lugares.
Marii Freire Pereira
https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
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Livraria Lello/ itinari
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Geo/ Bibliothek Maria Laach
Santarém, Pá 15 de setembro de 2021
Jean-Paul Sartre
” A violência, seja qual for a maneira como se manifesta, é sempre uma derrota.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
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Santarém, Pá 15 de setembro de 2021

Red Black On Blues – Ethnocloud
Pastor offers to sign vaccine exemptions in exchange for becoming online member of his church | TheHill
The pastor told the Post that, according to his church’s bylaws, a person can only be considered an online member once they stream services and donate at least $1 to the church. He further explained that by offering people the opportunity to become members, his signature on a religious exemption form holds more weight.
“I’m willing to sign it no matter what,” he said. “But I want it to have weight. In order for it to carry any weight, you have to be an online member of our church.”
The church currently has a little over 300 in-person members, according to the Post.
In order to obtain Lahmeyer’s form, a person reportedly has to provide their phone number and email address. The form also asks the person to describe their religious belief that requires the exemption and to provide a pastor’s name and signature.
Lahmeyer told the Post that he would not assess anyone’s reasoning behind why they want an exemption.
“What if someone says, ‘God told me not to get a vaccine.’ I don’t know if God told them that. I’m not going to argue with that,” he said.
Some have pushed back on Lahmeyer’s offer to sign vaccine forms, arguing that his signature is unnecessary. Charles Haynes, senior fellow for religious freedom at the Freedom Forum in Washington, said that a person explaining their religious beliefs should be enough, the Post reported.
“He’s not really selling a religious exemption,” Haynes said, adding that Lahmeyer’s exemption offer was comparable to televangelists selling prayer cloths. “He’s selling a bogus idea that you need one.”
Violência Doméstica
Vivaldi translation: A fragile woman, she is able to forgive. She doesn’t understand much of what is going on. The manipulator works hard on the issue of guilt. This man often justifies the violence for which “the victim gave reasons”. The woman, in turn, for living within a cycle of manipulation, believes she is responsible for her husband’s behavior.
VIOLENCE VICTIMS ARE FRAGILIZED WOMEN. THEY NEED HELP .
Uma mulher fragilizada, ela é capaz de perdoar. Ela não compreende muitas o que está passando. O manipulador trabalha muito a questão da culpa. Muitas vezes, esse homem justifica a violência por que “a vítima deu motivos”. A mulher por sua vez, por viver dentro de um ciclo de manipulação, acreditar ser responsável pelo comportamento do marido.
VÍTIMAS DE VIOLÊNCIA SÃO MULHERES FRAGILIZADAS. ELAS PRECISAM DE AJUDA.
Marii Freire Pereira
https://Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!
Santarém, Pá 15 de setembro de 2021
Imagem & criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ | Abortion | The Guardian
Facebook has served “abortion reversal” adverts 18.4m times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an “unproven, unethical” and “dangerous” procedure.
Google shows the adverts on more than four-fifths of searches related to abortion across a number of US cities, according to the CCDH research, targeted at search terms such as “unwanted pregnancy” and “abortion pill”.
The adverts promote an unproven theoretical use of high doses of the hormone progesterone to “reverse” the effects of taking mifepristone, the first of a pair of drugs used in a medical abortion.
But there is a “lack of medical evidence demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the treatment”, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, and it can lead to dangerous haemorrhaging.
Source: Facebook and Google condemned over ads for ‘abortion pill reversal’ | Abortion | The Guardian
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