How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials | Open Culture

The fact of the matter is that, despite possessing technologies the Romans could hardly have imagined, their concrete lasts longer than ours. Why that should be the case comes down, in large part, to water: we put a great deal more of it into our concrete than the Romans did, in order to pour it more cheaply and easily. But this makes it more fragile and subject to deterioration over time (as seen in the early dilapidation of certain Brutalist buildings), even despite our use of chemical additives and steel reinforcement. Romans concrete was also mixed with seawater, which caused the formation of crystals within the material that actually strengthened it as it aged — thus cementing, as one wag in the comments puts it, the Romans’ place in history. Source: How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials | Open Culture

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

  • Dom Roque Paloschi, president of the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) and archbishop of Porto Velho in the state of Roraima, Brazil, has been under attack because he denounced Indigenous people’s rights violations.
  • It has always been risky to live in Amazonia and defend social-environmental issues, but Paloschi says the situation has worsened greatly in the last four years — the period that coincides with Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
  • In 2021, 355 attacks against Indigenous people were reported in Brazil — the most since 2013, according to a CIMI report. 

Source: Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

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Readings from today’s news tells us that Across the country, Republican state lawmakers have focused attention on transgender people and other L.G.B.T.Q. issues by introducing bills that aim to limit what doctors call gender-affirming care, restrict what students are taught in the classroom about gender and sexuality, bar some transgender students from participating in school sports and require students to use restrooms for the gender listed on their original birth certificates.

The Human Rights Campaign said that 344 such bills were introduced across 23 states in 2022. More than 25 of those bills, a majority of which targeted transgender people, became law in 13 states. According to a national survey of nearly 34,000 L.G.B.T.Q. youth conducted in late 2021 by the Trevor Project, a crisis intervention organization, nearly one in five transgender and nonbinary…

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Ouvir histórias de mulheres que passaram ou passam por situação de violência é muito triste. Essa realidade me toca, porque não tem como não se envolver com esses casos. Dói nessas mulheres o fato de ter que lembrar e contar, assim como, causa desconforto emocional em mim, em ler e ouvir. Eu não consigo ser […]

Marii Freire — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Marii Freire — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Eu sempre fui uma pessoa que escolhi fazer o bem ( independente da situação), que me façam. É um trabalho que exige muito, mas no final, você sente que o resultado das suas escolhas, te deixam em paz. Evidente que existe muita pessoas que escolhe o oposto disso! E tá tudo bem ” cada louco […]

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