Alberto Pastor

@Fad

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Something I don't understand why our GOV isn't planting tons of trees in cities while focusing on EVs?

They can easily reduce pollution faster

I find N. America the food packaging process is causing a lot of greenhouse emissions-consumers forced to buy then waste

#ClimateCrisis

🌳🌳🌳✌🏾

Alberto Pastor @albertopastor

"Globally, trees are the most scalable and cost-effective tool in the fight against climate change. Trees clean the air and vacuum up carbon. They foster biodiversity and support critical habitats."
And they're good for our souls, too 💚
🌲🌴🌳 #trees #climatechange #nature #wildlife #Food #Cooling
07:08 PM - Mar 23, 2023

04:50 AM - Mar 24, 2023

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Milo Velimirović

@MiloVelimirovic

Normal 4%

Plant more trees. Everywhere!

Alberto Pastor @albertopastor

"Globally, trees are the most scalable and cost-effective tool in the fight against climate change. Trees clean the air and vacuum up carbon. They foster biodiversity and support critical habitats."
And they're good for our souls, too 💚
🌲🌴🌳 #trees #climatechange #nature #wildlife #Food #Cooling
07:08 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Veronica ST

@VeronicaST

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Can we stop taking down trees and creating bare streets/houses that are 1000 degrees in summer please 🙏🏻

Alberto Pastor @albertopastor

"Globally, trees are the most scalable and cost-effective tool in the fight against climate change. Trees clean the air and vacuum up carbon. They foster biodiversity and support critical habitats."
And they're good for our souls, too 💚
🌲🌴🌳 #trees #climatechange #nature #wildlife #Food #Cooling
07:08 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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Closing the day as it started, with puppies #NationalPuppyDay
🛏️💤💤💤🐳 #CountingWhales #DreamSpouts

09:02 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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@albertopastor

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One from my home country : this salad can be used as a starter, and then fish or meat as a primary. Ingredients may vary with geography, but freshness is always present. And the colours are fantastic. 💯 recommend.
🥔🥬🍅🧅🐟🧂🥗 #salad #spain #Fresh #recipes #SpoutibleCooks #Food #Mediterranean

No-Mayo Potato Salad with Tuna | The Mediterranean Dish

Bright, flavor-packed Potato Salad recipe with tuna, green beans and tomatoes. Earthy, smoky spices, and a light dressing pull it together. Gluten Free.

08:37 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Performers [of kindness] are not fully taking into account that their warm acts provide value from the act itself. The fact that you’re being nice to others adds a lot of value beyond whatever the thing is."
Without kindness the world would be a lot darker
🫂🫶🏽💚 #kindness #Empathy #Neuroscience

Random acts of kindness are rare for a surprising reason - Big Think

Studies suggest that people consistently underestimate the value of acts of kindness and think that their actions might be misinterpreted.

08:09 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Roughly translated, the word Wendigo (also spelt Windigo and Windego) means 'the evil spirit that devours mankind.' Another translation, said to be made by a German explorer around 1860, equates the word Wendigo with 'cannibal'."
👹🌲🌄 #Wendigo #Myths #NativeAmericans #monsters #Spoutible

What is a Wendigo? The Beast with an insatiable Hunger for Human Flesh | Ancient Origins

The Algonquian Native American tribe believe that a ravenous horrifying humanoid monster roams the countryside waiting to feed on human flesh.

07:51 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Humanity has long been drawn to iridescent insects the way infants are drawn to shiny, colorful toys."
I bet the beetles were not asked if they would want to be jewelry
🪲📿💍 #Beetles #jewelry #Status #archaeology #history

Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones? - Atlas Obscura

Archaeologists believe jewelry made from the bugs was a coveted status symbol 2,000 years ago.

07:25 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Globally, trees are the most scalable and cost-effective tool in the fight against climate change. Trees clean the air and vacuum up carbon. They foster biodiversity and support critical habitats."
And they're good for our souls, too 💚
🌲🌴🌳 #trees #climatechange #nature #wildlife #Food #Cooling

What Trees Can Do for You

Trees are instrumental to the quality and health of our lives, our homes, and our planet.

07:08 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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CrescentMoonPie

@rsbarnes99

Normal 1%

"Whether it is the Weimer Republic in Germany, pre-Mussolini Italy, modern Hungary, or most Cold War Russia, the common thread behind every successful totalitarian movement is underreaction by the rest of society while there’s still time to stop them."
🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸
#ProtectTransKids #DefendDemocracy

Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: Episode 1

Listen now (32 min) | The Nazis: Masters of 'Victimhood Fiction.'

05:47 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Claudia Citro

@Social_Introvert

Normal 11%

The next two or three election cycles will determine our nations fate……..

Is the GOP "War on Woke" to Keep Racial & Queer Minorities “In Their Place?”

The next two or three election cycles will determine our nation’s fate: a more widespread democracy or the Russian-style fascism promoted by Trump and DeSantis. Stay tuned and stay woke!

04:24 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Dennis A

@DharmaDog

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#BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks

School book bans spur a growing counteroffensive : NPR

This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to make banned books available to young readers outside schools.

05:21 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Darth Continent

@DarthContinent

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Seems prime for #Spoutible !

For years at the calving lagoon of Ojo de Liebre in the Baja California Sur state of Mexico, a whale has built up trust of a human boat captain to remove lice (crustaceans) from its head.

🐳

04:57 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Liz N

@knitquiltsewst1

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"The dish can be traced back to Arabian cookbooks from the 10th century. A predecessor called harees (also spelled jareesh) also consists of mashed meat and wheat; it came to India with Arab mercenaries, likely from Yemen, during Muslim rule in Hyderabad under the Nizams."

Haleem in Hyderabad, India, Is a Famous Ramadan Tradition - Eater

The best Hyderabadi haleem restaurants like Pista House serve crowds of Muslims and non-Muslims during iftar every night of the holy month.

04:13 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Across the world’s various cultures and civilizations, there was always a firm belief that humans and the world had some sort of supernatural origins."
And some people want to teach creationism as history 🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏽
#Myths #Creationism #Supernatural #Spoutible

10 of the Wildest Creation Myths in History | Ancient Origins

The wildest creation myths around include primal eggs, remains of giants, a spider grandmother, and a spitting decapitated head!

04:10 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Biology, chemistry, physics, and their spinoffs constitute the hard sciences while social sciences are called the soft sciences. The distinction rests on the scientific rigor of a field’s research methods."
Gamblers, pollsters, investors ... not science
🧑🏽‍🔬⚗️🧫🧪🩻🧬 #science #Study #Spoutible

What makes science different from everything else? - Big Think

Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.

03:51 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Hidden beneath churning ocean waves is a world teeming with unknown creatures. The competition awards multiple winners each year in various categories, such as shipwreck images, portraits, black and white photography, and more."
Stunning photographs 🌊🪸🦀🦑🐟
#Photography #ocean #wildlife

How the Best Underwater Photography Reveals a World of Wonder - Atlas Obscura

Welcome to the home of pink coral-scapes and fluorescent lizardfish.

03:34 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Putin has one of the largest armies in the world, but he has other weapons too. Culture and history take a prominent place in his arsenal.”
Every authoritarian abuse culture and history in its advantage
🖼️🎻🩰♟️ #art #Met #culture #history #Ukraine #war #propaganda

The Met Is the Latest Museum to Reclassify Russian Art as Ukrainian | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Amid the Russian invasion, museums are grappling with how to identify artists connected to Ukraine

03:25 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

Normal 3%

"Planted in the 1960s by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a non-profit land development agency that manages more than a tenth of the country, Yatir is Israel’s largest planted forest."
Interesting article with some hard lessons to learn
🏜️🌲🪵 #Yatir #Forests #climatechange #nature

They planted a forest at the edge of the desert. From there it got complicated.

Trying to judge the success or failure of Yatir, Israel's largest human-made forest, depends on the way you define success. And the person you’re asking.

03:09 PM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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Thursday lunch : colored pasta shells with pig secret, heavy cream, red and green bell peppers. and onions, seasoned with olive oil, provencal herbs, basil, coriander, garlic, pink salt and Jamaican pepper.
A feast for eyes and soul (and stomach, too) 😇
🍜🍖🫑🧅🥛🍴 #SpoutibleCooks #recipes #Food

09:28 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"The zodiac reliefs found at the Temple of Esna were covered by layers of accumulated dust and soot that dulled their vibrant colors. Nevertheless, this also helped to preserve them for nearly 2,000 years."
Amazing restoration work, five years !!!
🏦👳🏾♋ #AncientEgypt #archaeology #zodiac #history

Archaeologists Discover Rare Zodiac Carvings at Egypt's Temple of Esna | Ancient Origins

Rare carvings of all 12 zodiac signs dating back 2,000 years have been discovered by archaeologists during restoration work at the Temple of Esna, Egypt.

09:15 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"According to the report, the rhino population in Africa declined about 1.6% each year, from an estimated 23,562 animals in 2018 to 22,137 animals at the end of 2021."
International efforts must be done to end poaching, from the source to the buyers.
🦏🦏🦏 #rhinos #poaching #wildlife #Spoutible

Rhino Poaching Declines, But Animals Still Threatened

Rhino poaching and illegal trade rates are dropping but still remains a threat to the animal population.

09:00 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"While Venus and Mars will be easy to see, you may need to use binoculars or a telescope to find Mercury and Jupiter, and certainly to see Uranus, which is always just beyond naked-eye visibility."
A planetary parade to honor spring's arrival.
🔭🌕🌑🌌🌠 #space #moon #Planets #Astronomy #Spoutible

5 planets and a crescent moon are about to line up in the night sky. Here's how to watch. | Live Science

Don't miss views of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars and the moon after sunset from March 23-30.

08:46 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

Normal 3%

So ... #NationalPuppyDay ? Well ...
#NationalPuppyDay #DogsOfSpoutible #HappyNationalPuppyDay #dogs #puppies #DogsOfSpout #rescuedogs #adoptdontshop
🐶🐕🐩🐶🦮💚💚💚

08:28 AM - Mar 23, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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Tomorrow, we'll try again 🦫
🛏️💤💤💤🐳 #CountingWhales #DreamSpouts

09:42 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"This dish is known throughout the Middle East, and particularly the Levant including, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, as a "poor man's" meal. But take one bite, and you'll be surprised by how comforting and flavorful mujadara is!"
Amazing dish, very easy to cook
🍲🍛🥘🧆 #Mujadara #SpoutibleCooks #Food

Authentic Mujadara (Lentils and Rice with Crispy Onions) | The Mediterranean Dish

Mujadara is a signature Middle Eastern dish of lentils and rice w/ crispy fried onions. Popular flavor-packed dish. Makes for a healthy feast! Vegan, GF

07:14 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Researchers have uncovered new details on how a common weed is able to thrive under hot, dry conditions, a potential roadmap to engineering crops that are resistant to the effects of climate change."
Nature is full of wonders to discover
🌱🌾☀️ #Purslane #Photosynthesis #nature #climatechange

How a weed called purslane could feed the world - Big Think

Purslane, a common weed that uses uncommon types of photosynthesis, offers a blueprint for making crops resistant to drought and heat.

06:56 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Fasting at Ramadan aims to purify the soul, and to remind followers of Islam of those less fortunate than themselves, who cannot always afford regular meals."
Learning about different cultures makes us more respectful and tolerant
🧕🏽🕌☪️ #Ramadan #islam #religion #culture #Spoutible

In Centuries Old Tradition, Drummers Awaken a Sleeping Istanbul to Ramadan | Ancient Origins

Ramadan was announced in Istanbul and other cities with the centuries old tradition of lone drummers dressed in Ottoman period costumes marching through 1000 neighborhoods.

06:34 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"Few animals have embraced the urban lifestyle like the wily raccoon. While squirrels seem content to skitter nervously from tree to tree—far above humans and their dogs—raccoons walk the boulevard as if they own it."
Adaptability in order to survive
🦝♻️🗑️🏡 #Raccoons #Adaptability #wildlife

How Raccoons Can Teach Us About Tolerance

Whether they're breaking into garbage bins or pooing in bizarre places, raccoons are living all over us.

06:20 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

@albertopastor

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"At least 1.5 million people in the United States identify as Pagans—up from 134,000 in 2001. They range from Wiccans and Kemetics to TikTok witches and heathens."
🧙🏼‍♀️☸️🔮 #Paganism #Wicca #Ostara #Spoutible

Paganism is on the rise—here’s where to discover its traditions

TikTok—specifically #witchtok—is fueling interest in this spiritual movement. Here’s how to immerse yourself in full moon rituals, spellcasting, and more.

06:01 PM - Mar 22, 2023

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Alberto Pastor

No-Mayo Potato Salad with Tuna | The Mediterranean Dish

Random acts of kindness are rare for a surprising reason - Big Think

What is a Wendigo? The Beast with an insatiable Hunger for Human Flesh | Ancient Origins

Were These Beetles Once as Valuable as Gemstones? - Atlas Obscura

What Trees Can Do for You

Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: Episode 1

Is the GOP "War on Woke" to Keep Racial & Queer Minorities “In Their Place?”

School book bans spur a growing counteroffensive : NPR

Haleem in Hyderabad, India, Is a Famous Ramadan Tradition - Eater

10 of the Wildest Creation Myths in History | Ancient Origins

What makes science different from everything else? - Big Think

How the Best Underwater Photography Reveals a World of Wonder - Atlas Obscura

The Met Is the Latest Museum to Reclassify Russian Art as Ukrainian | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

They planted a forest at the edge of the desert. From there it got complicated.

Archaeologists Discover Rare Zodiac Carvings at Egypt's Temple of Esna | Ancient Origins

Rhino Poaching Declines, But Animals Still Threatened

5 planets and a crescent moon are about to line up in the night sky. Here's how to watch. | Live Science

Authentic Mujadara (Lentils and Rice with Crispy Onions) | The Mediterranean Dish

How a weed called purslane could feed the world - Big Think

In Centuries Old Tradition, Drummers Awaken a Sleeping Istanbul to Ramadan | Ancient Origins

How Raccoons Can Teach Us About Tolerance

Paganism is on the rise—here’s where to discover its traditions