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Take Care of Mother Earth and She Will Take Care of You — FunWritings

Mother Earth provides the herbs, vegetables, grains, fruits and so much more for us all She helps us to be healthy and strong so we can stand tall It is time for us to pay more attention to environmental care So we can have less pollution and more clean water and air We might see […]

Take Care of Mother Earth and She Will Take Care of You — FunWritings

Mãe e criança Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela

As spokesman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa says in the “Metal Smoke” chapter of his book “The Fall from Heaven”: “Now the prospectors are making the forest stink with the smoke from their engines and the vapors of gold and mercury that burn together … it ends up making us sick. Your poison is formidable. We don’t know how to fight it. That is why we are so concerned. … If the whites’ thinking does not change course, we fear that it will kill us all, then it poisons them too ”.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Como diz o porta-voz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa no capítulo “Fumaça de Metal” de seu livro “A Queda do Céu”: “Agora os garimpeiros estão fazendo a floresta feder com a fumaça de seus motores e os vapores de ouro e mercúrio que queimam juntos … acaba nos deixando doentes. Seu veneno é formidável. Não sabemos como lutar contra isso. É por isso que estamos tão preocupados. … Se o pensamento dos brancos não mudar de rumo, tememos que nos mate a todos, então os envenena também”.

A febre de ouro, COVID-19 e o genocídio Yanomami – atualizado

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Lab-on-paper strip: Small, inexpensive platform for diagnosing tropical fevers | Editage Insights

the zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses have also become major threats to human health in many parts of the world, particularly in tropical countries. All three viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes and cause diseases that have similar symptoms, making early diagnosis particularly difficult without complex molecular diagnostic equipment.

 

In a recent effort to make the diagnosis of these mosquito-borne diseases faster and easier, a team of scientists, led by Professor Min-Gon Kim from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, have developed a compact, fully automatic, and inexpensive tool that can identify the presence of these viruses from a blood serum sample. The device, named LAMDA (stands for lab-on-paper for all-in-one molecular diagnostics) by the scientists, is essentially a mini laboratory on a paper strip—vaguely reminiscent of over-the-counter pregnancy tests.

Source: Lab-on-paper strip: Small, inexpensive platform for diagnosing tropical fevers | Editage Insights

America’s Wakeup Call-It’s we the People, not we the Donors — ShiraDest: The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

Originally posted on On The Fence Voters: There’s so much at stake in this election. To say it’s the most important in our lifetime is not an understatement. There’s simply no adjective worthy enough to categorize what we’re facing on November 3, 2020. Life and death? Sure, that works. Look no further than Michelle Obama’s…

America’s Wakeup Call-It’s we the People, not we the Donors — ShiraDest: The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

Coronavirus digest: France reports over 32,000 new infections | News | DW | 18.10.2020

France confirmed a record 32,427 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours on Saturday. The new daily record comes after a strict night-time curfew went into effect in Paris and eight other cities between 9pm (1900 GMT) and 6am. Residents are only allowed to leave their homes if they have a valid reason. Source: Coronavirus digest: France reports over 32,000 new infections | News | DW | 18.10.2020

Trump to hold Wisconsin rally despite warning over public gatherings | Donald Trump | The Guardian

  • Wisconsin placed in ‘red zone’ for high infection rates
  • Experts urge people to avoid crowds to stop ‘preventable deaths’

Donald Trump will hold a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday evening, despite state health officials declaring a crisis over the coronavirus pandemic and his own experts warning that public gatherings there risk causing “preventable deaths”.

Source: Trump to hold Wisconsin rally despite warning over public gatherings | Donald Trump | The Guardian

As Lebanon’s revolt fury fades, protesters struggle to promote change – National | Globalnews.ca

A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets protesting taxes and a rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. A spontaneous and hopeful nationwide movement was born, denouncing an entire political establishment that had for decades pushed Lebanon toward collapse.

Today, as crises multiply and the country dives deeper into uncertainty and poverty, protests seem to have petered out. Even widespread anger over a devastating explosion at Beirut’s port on Aug. 4, blamed on government negligence, failed to re-ignite the movement.

On Saturday, thousands of people marked the first anniversary of the protest movement in different parts of Lebanon including its three largest cities, Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon. But the protesters were far fewer than those last year.

Source: As Lebanon’s revolt fury fades, protesters struggle to promote change – National | Globalnews.ca