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Evonne Goolagong Cawley (b. #OTD in 1951) broke systemic barriers as one of the most prominent #Indigenous Australian athletes in history. #tennis + 14 Grand Slam titles (1971-1980) + World No. 1 ranking, 1976 + First mother to win Wimbledon in the Open Era, 1980 #WomenInSport
Maya Women’s Rug Hooking Cooperative of Guatemala / Cooperative de Alfombras de Mujeres Maya en Guatemala #womensart
"The new water treatment technology captures plastic particle down to 30 nanometres while also pulling out toxic heavy heavy metals, drug residues, and industrial dyes. The findings were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal..."
Scientists built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of microplastics and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise in removing some PFAS
Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against som...
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Nearly 50 years after Quebec’s French-language charter transformed education, the multilingual generation it produced is challenging what it means to be a Quebecer. My latest for The Main. www.themain.com/articles/bil...
What's It Mean to Be a Bill 101 Kid? | The Main
Nearly 50 years after Quebec’s French-language charter transformed education, the multilingual generation it produced is challenging what it means to be a Quebecer.
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"Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society..." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose voice is always clear despite our horrors.
Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women
The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…
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Today is July 25th, often celebrated as the fall of Italian fascism. Mussolini passed draconian controls over pasta production which he considered decadent and overly reliant on foreign grain. Today, we celebrate his fall with a simple, defiant partisan dish: 1) Pasta 2) Creamy butter 3) Parmesan
Fox News insists racism doesn't exist, unless a Black actor plays a white character
“It had been estimated that it would save about $2,500 a year. … But utility costs have gone up enough that we actually realized about four times that amount.” – Laura Laumatia, environmental programs manager with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe
Coeur d’Alene Tribe saves with solar-powered rec center » Yale Climate Connections
Rooftop solar panels cut costs by thousands of dollars a year.
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Astronomer Vera Rubin was born on this day in 1928. Her research studying galactic rotation was one of the crucial pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter.
🤩🤩🤩 This is so cool! A possible new single dose treatment for colon cancer that also acts as an immunization from getting it again. It uses bacteria from tree frogs. Short video if you don’t wanna read the article. youtube.com/shorts/VGvuE... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single treatment by both attacking cancer cells and activating the immune system. The f...
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Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
Chinese researchers are advancing iron-based and sodium-ion #battery technologies as lower-cost alternatives to #lithium-ion batteries. By using iron and sodium (derived from common salt), they can reduce costs while improving supply chain security for large-scale #energystorage #ActOnClimate
Claudette Johnson, UK artist whose depictions of black women are intentionally larger than life in order to create an impact and presence #womensart
China just got a heliostat plant – a concentrated solar power (CSP) station using a large field of computer-controlled mirrors, [heliostats], to reflect the sun on to a tall central tower – to power 170k homes a year and save 130k tons of CO2. The US is getting a ballroom.
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
Singapore born artist of Indian descent, Simryn Gill, Forking Tongues, 1992, silver-plate cutlery and dried chilli peppers installation #WomensArt
The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.
Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
I'm a boomer and have millennial and gen-z daughters who understand why we have vaccines and believe in them. It's not a generational thing. It's an intelligence, critical thinking, feelings over facts thing.
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Dr. Edward Bouchet (born in New Haven, CT in 1852) was among the first Americans in U.S. history to earn a Ph.D. in physics. The son of a formerly enslaved father, Dr. Bouchet earned his doctorate from Yale in 1876.
