Amazon Rainforest Where is the Amazon rainforest, how long has it been around and what exotic animals call it home?thesun.co.uk - Samantha Lock THE Amazon rainforest, otherwise known as the "lungs of the planet", is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity and …
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Forestry We will never save the rainforest until a living tree is worth more to Brazil than an incinerated oneThe Telegraph - By Johan EliaschThe G7 should not make room for the crisis in the Amazon, it should be clearing the agenda for nothing else. Without rainforest we wouldn’t even have economies to launch trade wars. The attention that
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The Arts The One Nonfiction Audiobook You Should Listen To, Based On The Subject You're Interested InBustle - K.W. Colyard Syllabus week is coming for college students, but for everyone else, life ticks on with too few real-world opportunities to engross oneself in a new …
Science Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matterdiscovermagazine.com - Jennifer Walter If you don’t have time to sit and read a physical book, is listening to the audio version considered cheating? To some hardcore book nerds, it could …
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Google Search Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in TechWIRED - Nitasha Tiku On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring …
Salaries & Wages Low Wages, Sexual Harassment and Unreliable Tips. This Is Life in America’s Booming Service IndustryTIME - Alana SemuelsPublished in partnership with The Fuller Project, a non-profit newsroom that reports on issues impacting women. After an eight-hour shift on her feet, shuffling between a stuffy kitchen and the red vinyl
Opinion Mazel Tov, Trump. You’ve Revived the Jewish Left.The New York Times - By MICHELLE GOLDBERGOn Aug. 11, more than 1,000 people marked Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, by occupying an Amazon Books store in Manhattan, protesting the technology behemoth’s technical support for
Cherokee NationThe Cherokee Nation wants a representative in Congress, taking the US government up on a promise it made nearly 200 yearsCNN - By Harmeet Kaur, CNN(CNN) — The Cherokee Nation announced Thursday that it intends to appoint a delegate to the US House of Representatives, asserting for the first time a right promised to the tribe in a nearly 200-year-old
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Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Will “Do Everything I Can” to End Donald Trump’s AutocracyVanity Fair - Kevin FitzpatrickThe “Lover” songwriter regrets sitting out the 2016 election, and is tired of Donald Trump “gaslighting the American public.” No longer content with being excluded from the narrative, Taylor Swift is on
Education Flipped Classrooms May Exacerbate Student Achievement Gaps. Here's How.edweek.org - Sarah D. Sparks Flipped classrooms have become a popular way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but …
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Podcasting The True Crime Podcast Where Killer Women ReignOZY - Ximena N. Larkin Google “true crime podcasts” and the search engine spits out more than 10 million results. Fans of the genre — predominantly women — have their …
Telomere Study provides evidence that loving-kindness meditation slows cellular agingpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan In new research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular …
U.S. Presidency Rob Reiner: Trump Is Single Most Unqualified U.S. PresidentVariety - Variety Staff President Donald Trump is “mentally unfit” to be president, Rob Reiner told Variety at the Dubai International Film Festival. But the director fears …
Biological Species Physicists Finally Narrowed Down the Mass of the Tiniest 'Ghost Particle' in the Universespace.com - Rafi Letzter We're full of neutrinos all the time. They're everywhere, nearly undetectable, flitting through normal matter. We barely know anything about them — …
Sarah Sanders Fox News is a dangerous state propaganda outlet. Sarah Sanders' job confirms thatThe Guardian - Nathan RobinsonThe only surprising thing about Sarah Sanders joining Fox News was that it took this long. The former Trump press secretary is a perfect fit for the network, a faithful and shameless propagandist for right.
David Koch The Koch Money Was a Primary Vector for the Prion Disease That's Infected the Republican PartyEsquire - By Charles P. PierceFair warning. I am about to speak very ill of the dead. David Koch went to his eternal barbecue spit on Friday. Except for his surviving brother, Charles, no man had a worse effect on American politics
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Emmanuel Macron Disruption takes over the G7Axios - Dave Lawler President Trump has generally been outnumbered at summits like the G7 — the disrupter-in-chief in a room of more sober-minded leaders. This time …
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Culture Buying Greenland? That's Nothing To Gabriel García MárquezNPR - Nina MartyrisWhen President Donald Trump declared that he wanted to buy Greenland, reactions turned swiftly from hilarity — he can't be serious — to appalled embarrassment when it became clear that he was. In the of
Liberal View Trump had a plan to ‘blow up’ the G7 and give the ‘middle finger’ to our allies: reportrawstory.com - David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement President Donald Trump’s plan was to bully our G7 allies on a range of issues by touting the strong U.S. economy. As The Washington Post’s Greg …
