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Did you know? Crows are known to hold “funerals.” #NaturePBS — Tfarhad

Did you know? Crows are known to hold “funerals.” #NaturePBS — Tfarhad

More about Swara Acacia Lodge… — pe blog

While staying at Swara Acacia Lodge, you’re going to enjoy Kenyan art style and sculptures . Most of the furniture are made from dhow wood like this majestic coffee table inviting you for drinks at breakfast . Hanging on the walls, a few portrait paintings on canvas : representing the well known tribe Masai Warrior […]

More about Swara Acacia Lodge… — pe blog

Alphabet soup for the soul – “K” — Words from Walden

K is for Karma “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” -Wayne Dyer- Karma is a Sanskrit word that means action, work or deed. Most people have understood this idea from a very young age. It’s as simple as cause and effect. Good karma, bad karma, whatever you put out […]

Alphabet soup for the soul – “K” — Words from Walden

What really is maths ?

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

At school, the maths we learn and see can seem like a set of only rules and a whole bunch of numbers that we must learn. However, maths isn’t all about that, although it may seem as such. Maths is a subject that is really enjoyable to me, so here is what I think it really is. Maths is considered a boring topic for many people. ” When am I ever going to use math? “, ” How will it even help me in life? “, “This is so boring” – these are things that have echoed through the halls of maths classrooms every single day! Many students want to know where math takes place in every day life. The thing is, maths is not just a sequence of numbers and computations that need to be carried out until your patience or stamina runs out! You may not be aiming…

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Poetay

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

At four every morning the severely annoying sound of a gradually intensifying, prolonged and near-deafening yawn would obliterate the tranquillity of a sleepy northern neighbourhood slowly waking up to face another day in the cosmopolitan city of Kolkata in the eastern armpit of the Indian subcontinent.

A solid ten minute of thunderous“Hh uuu aaaa wwwww hhhhhh, maaa maa ma,”by seventy-seven-year-old Paandurongo Trilokchand Ghosh, alias‘Poe-tay’would scare off dawning birds and bats perched on electric poles and tree branches.

Some covered their ears with the palms of their hands. Others tried to muffle the sound with pillows cuddled over their heads. Poetay’s legendary yawn was one of the many noises played by the septuagenarian every morning not to annoy his neighbours but to prepare himself for the day. It was a routine, which he had come to practice, absorb, and develop as second nature over the years, and…

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ESCUTE A MENSAGEM DO XAMÃ YANOMAMI | Barbara Crane Navarro

“We are the few forest dwellers who survived the epidemic vapors from their parents and grandparents. That’s why I want to talk to you. Don’t be deaf to my words! Prevent your people from devastating our land and making us die too! ” – Yanomami spokesman and shaman Davi Kopenawa, “The Fall from Heaven” Source: ESCUTE A MENSAGEM DO XAMÃ YANOMAMI | Barbara Crane Navarro

India reports year’s biggest COVID-19 spike | Reuters

Maharashtra state, yet again the nation’s epicentre of fresh cases, has imposed fresh lockdowns in several districts.

About 3,000 police will be deployed to enforce a week-long curfew and lockdown in the central Indian city of Nagpur from Monday after a 60% jump in coronavirus cases there, officials said on Friday.

The government is running a nationwide immunisation campaign aiming to vaccinate a fifth of the country’s 1.3 billion people by August.

Source: India reports year’s biggest COVID-19 spike | Reuters

Ebola Survivor Infected Years Ago May Have Started New Outbreak – The New York Times

An Ebola outbreak now occurring in Guinea was almost certainly started by someone who survived West Africa’s historic 2014-16 epidemic, harbored the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner, researchers reported on Friday.

The finding, based on genetic sequencing of virus samples taken from patients in the current outbreak, shocked researchers. Until now, the longest the virus had been known to persist in a survivor was 500 days.

“It’s a stunner,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the research, said in an interview. “This is an extraordinary phenomenon.”

The current outbreak in Guinea was first recognized in January and has infected at least 18 people and killed nine.

Sniffing out Parkinson: A UK innovation offers early detection hope – The Jerusalem Post

The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) is looking into the possibility people suffering from Parkinson may omit a unique scent because of sebum, an oily material found in human skin.

Thanks to the generous support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Parkinson UK, scientists took to heart the observation by the wife of a Parkinson patient by the name of Les Milne who complained his scent changed – six years before he was officially diagnosed. She described the smell as woody and musky.

Source: Sniffing out Parkinson: A UK innovation offers early detection hope – The Jerusalem Post