"The Iowa Farmers Union and 18 other groups, including the National Farmers Union and the Union of Concerned Scientists, wrote the Department of Justice and FTC, along with state officials, calling on them to halt Koch's purchase."
07:55 AM - Apr 24, 2024
ESPAÑOL / SPANISH
"Los chimpancés, junto con los bonobos, representan los parientes vivos más cercanos al ser humano; compartimos aproximadamente el 98% del ADN."
📸🦧🐒 #FotoDelDía #ParientesCercanos #DíaDeLaTierra #EarthDay #Español #Spanish #SpoutibleEnEspañol #SpoutibleInSpanish
"Los chimpancés, junto con los bonobos, representan los parientes vivos más cercanos al ser humano; compartimos aproximadamente el 98% del ADN."
📸🦧🐒 #FotoDelDía #ParientesCercanos #DíaDeLaTierra #EarthDay #Español #Spanish #SpoutibleEnEspañol #SpoutibleInSpanish
03:24 PM - Apr 22, 2024
Apple Books informs me that “my authors” include Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Bernd Heinrich, Carl Sagan, Ronald Clark, Dee Brown, and Wendell Berry.
Interesting to grok. Nice mix of classical and new, history and biography.
Interesting to grok. Nice mix of classical and new, history and biography.
10:49 AM - Apr 21, 2024
“Economics is often lambasted for being a pseudoscience, with dense mathematical formulae that belie its subjectivity and a poor track record of making accurate predictions. Complexity economics treats economies as systems akin to natural ecosystems or Earth’s climate.”
10:17 AM - Apr 21, 2024
“Ibn Sina’s core criterion for personhood—reasoning from universals—closely resembles systematic compositional generalizability. This criterion could provide a potentially testable standard for personhood. In fact, so far, AI has failed this test in numerous studies.”
09:40 AM - Apr 21, 2024
😂
“Officials in San Francisco voiced their dismay with the plan immediately, arguing that it would confuse travelers, particularly those coming from out of the country and those who don’t speak English…”
“Officials in San Francisco voiced their dismay with the plan immediately, arguing that it would confuse travelers, particularly those coming from out of the country and those who don’t speak English…”
07:11 AM - Apr 20, 2024
👍🏽
”It’s a way for people to meet and hang out that doesn’t involve alcohol. The concept has boomed since the pandemic – expect positive vibes, group photos, and a shared love of cafe culture. Anything that gets people running is good.”
”It’s a way for people to meet and hang out that doesn’t involve alcohol. The concept has boomed since the pandemic – expect positive vibes, group photos, and a shared love of cafe culture. Anything that gets people running is good.”
07:24 AM - Apr 19, 2024
Uhm, that’s all of us.
And that argues for us all to collaborate on rectifying the racist foundation of contemporary societies.
“The group of about 20 non-governmental organisations currently in Geneva for a UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent…”
And that argues for us all to collaborate on rectifying the racist foundation of contemporary societies.
“The group of about 20 non-governmental organisations currently in Geneva for a UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent…”
07:12 AM - Apr 19, 2024
The man is gone. His music remains.
He made the 1970s so much better for me and many of my generation. 🙌🏽
He made the 1970s so much better for me and many of my generation. 🙌🏽
12:58 PM - Apr 18, 2024
Hey, I heard that!
“Distance running, once a niche sport, has exploded in popularity over the past few decades. Many of those who run marathons today are middle-aged or older.”
“Distance running, once a niche sport, has exploded in popularity over the past few decades. Many of those who run marathons today are middle-aged or older.”
06:55 AM - Apr 16, 2024
“The genetic instructions to make myelin were slipped into our vertebrate ancestor’s DNA by infection with a virus. Myelin is arguably the most significant advance in nervous systems that ever occurred in the animal kingdom.”
scientificamerican.com
07:16 AM - Apr 14, 2024
(Edited)
Sublime. The definitive rendition of the piece (and on *guitar*, not violin.) 🙌🏽
Petra Poláčková performs "Chaconne" from Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004, by J.S. Bach - YouTube
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06:03 PM - Apr 13, 2024
The pop culture and sports questions always get me. This week, surprisingly, I knew the sports question (re women’s basketball), but I have no idea what J Cole or Kendrick Lamar are. 🙀
03:52 PM - Apr 12, 2024
This is great. He says it so plainly and clear. If it passes, I hope it contains language just the same. Therefore, a future conservative supreme court won't be able to twist an interpretation of its meaning.
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Lil @LilLove this.
Senate Bill 3916
This is in addition to reintroducing the John R. Lewis Voting Advancement Act.10:10 PM - Apr 10, 2024![Video]()
Sen. Ossoff Introduces Legislation Establishing First-Ever Statutory Federal Right to Vote - YouTube
09:25 PM - Apr 11, 2024
Example of structural inequality.
“Where Black neighborhoods began, paved streets, sidewalks and water and sewer lines often ended. Black taxpayers helped to pay for the better-resourced schools white children attended. Throughout the Jim Crow era, Black taxpayers subsidized white education.”
“Where Black neighborhoods began, paved streets, sidewalks and water and sewer lines often ended. Black taxpayers helped to pay for the better-resourced schools white children attended. Throughout the Jim Crow era, Black taxpayers subsidized white education.”
10:46 AM - Apr 12, 2024
“You’ve gotta respect the distance and you’ve gotta respect the course.”
The champ knows marathons, and he particularly knows the Boston course!
The champ knows marathons, and he particularly knows the Boston course!
07:41 PM - Apr 10, 2024
😳
“People, when they begin to have memory difficulties, tend to switch to reading nonfiction.”
I gave up reading fiction in my teens, though I can’t remember exactly when. 😉
“People, when they begin to have memory difficulties, tend to switch to reading nonfiction.”
I gave up reading fiction in my teens, though I can’t remember exactly when. 😉
07:13 AM - Apr 09, 2024
“They do backbreaking, grueling farming work in the elements so you and I can have food. And in exchange for that, these landowners treat them like they’re animals, making them live in the shipping containers.”
07:28 AM - Apr 08, 2024
Really?
“It was like: ‘OK, everyone’s run a marathon. It’s not that impressive any more.’”
“It was like: ‘OK, everyone’s run a marathon. It’s not that impressive any more.’”
07:20 AM - Apr 08, 2024
Clear and brazen violation of the Robinson-Patman Act.
“The largest retailers threatened their suppliers with fees and fines to pressure them to fill their orders at the expense of smaller retailers.”
“The largest retailers threatened their suppliers with fees and fines to pressure them to fill their orders at the expense of smaller retailers.”
09:47 AM - Apr 05, 2024
(Edited)
“Banks’ financing of animal protein companies such as JBS, estimated to be the world’s highest-emitting livestock company, was enabling their continued expansion and posing “a critical threat” to the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) above preindustrial levels.“
09:26 AM - Apr 05, 2024
“Deaths caused by obesity, diabetes, liver disease & hypertension climbed over the past 20 years. Conditions that once only afflicted adults are increasingly present in children. Experts say the most worrisome trend is misinformation, including claims that excess weight isn’t a health risk.”
05:25 PM - Apr 03, 2024
“The work [of the food aid workers killed in Gaza] was based on the simple belief that food is a universal human right. It is not conditional on being good or bad, rich or poor, left or right. We do not ask what religion you belong to. We just ask how many meals you need.”
09:31 AM - Apr 03, 2024
“Researchers at Yale University found that in India and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural workers jumped into consumer service jobs and raised their productivity and incomes. But there was a catch: The gains were “strikingly unequal” and disproportionately benefited the rich.”
09:16 AM - Apr 02, 2024
The range of breadfruit trees is escaping the tropical band. On the one hand, yum. On the other hand, this is not entirely good news.
apple.news
Too Few Americans Are Eating a Remarkable Fruit
Breadfruit is a staple in tropical places—and climate change is pushing its range north. March 28, 2024 Someplace in the lush backroads of San Sebastián, in western Puerto Rico, my friend Carina pulled the car over. At a crest in the road stood a breadfruit tree, full of basketball-size, lime-green ..
02:38 PM - Mar 30, 2024
08:34 AM - Mar 30, 2024
“Water contamination from agricultural nitrates has been a longstanding issue in Iowa. But the policy changes that environmental advocates desire have been a tough political sell in a state where Republicans run the legislature and farming powers the economy.”
08:23 AM - Mar 30, 2024
“When it opened 25 years ago, it recognized the more than 2.5 million Afro-Mexicans in a country that had long overlooked them. There are paintings of Vincente Guerrero, Mexico’s second president. Guerrero, who was of African descent, abolished slavery in 1829 – 36 years before the US.”
theguardian.com
‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum | Global development | The Guardian
After 25 years, Angélica Sorrosa Alvarado is the last staff member left at Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas. She fears that soon it will be forced to close its doors
08:16 AM - Mar 30, 2024
