Isn't it weird that there are whole systems to deal with veterans and PTSD and stuff. But what about systems to deal with victims of trauma - folks who've lost their entire families, survived endless waves of bombing, repeated assaults etc. We never hear about what's been done for them.

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The climate lobby has been trying to defeat the petrochemical industry for decades. are you saying that it had to come down to a destructive war that nobody wants, to accelerate the transition?

Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water. Now, even the rain is contaminated.

Presidential systems are not a bad idea actually. Because too much diversity of power can freeze decision-making in times of crisis. The lesson to be learned here is that elected presidents are only as good as the electorate. We need to focus on cleaning up and "re" educating the broader electorate.

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I will never understand the diaspora of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. It takes a special kind of psychopathy to have the country you escaped to bomb your home country, see your own people get killed, rejoice in a celebration of "liberation" while nothing changes on the ground for your own people....🤯

The Sahel inverts every narrative we've ever been taught about how democracy is always good.

The survey found no single consensus on what system should replace the current order. A secular republic was backed by 26%, while 21% supported a monarchy, 22% lacked enough information to decide, and 11% said that the form of an alternative system was not important so long as change occurred.

How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels

This is the best question I have heard asked. I wonder why not many are working on this?

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

Conspiracy lovers and opportunistic politicians, with some wealthy folks working behind the scenes, have been trying REALLY hard to make us scared of the simple idea of having more things nearby, and more choices in how to get them. Weird, right? #UrbanTruth

Really digging this channel btw....

V-Dem is a very flawed survey with subjective reporting. I think Salvatore Babones does an excellent job of unpacking the flawed assumptions of Western intellectuals on India. Its tiring when folks force-fit Anglo-colonial racial hierarchy system onto India and only see what they want to see.

The only way folks could survive in the country is by forming sizable landed cooperatives for grain crops like wheat, rice, corn etc. while also having a family garden for fruits/veggies/spices, while other cooperatives engage in medieval style processing in the absence of fuel. Then trade locally.

Excellent video and quite a dynamic channel! Loved this analysis on the road to African monetary and infrastructural independence!

Cities, sustainability and old-time practice: something all urban practitioners should keep in mind!

Apropos of nothing....

Another zinger of a video!

Revolutions can also be quiet and enacted behind closed doors.....

Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

📣Next week, we restart our online series with Theo Gibbs (NYU) @theogibbs.bsky.social, who will present: ⭐Do higher-order interactions promote coexistence in diverse ecological communities?⭐ Free and open! Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ Global time checker: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...

I see so so many bad scholarly takes on India and Modi, equating it to fascism and authoritarianism. They prefer to think that the Indian population is authoritarian than seek to understand the complexities and contradictions of a very different country. Salvatore Babones is the exception.

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

I'm not even sure what is happening in Europe anymore. Half the online news videos say that Europe is taking a stand, realigning toward China and remilitarizing. The other half say that Europe is cucked, Rubio got a standing ovation, NATO has support and they support a return to colonial politik. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Talarico has got generational talent! He has the power to revolutionize Christianity in America and bring it closer to the kind that fostered the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution!

"Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review" via @mikeflannigan.bsky.social, et al. #wildfires link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

Really watched this twice over and every person in the US should too. It is a super insightful video of the Latinidad experience that shoots down contemporary leftist narratives of Latin conservatism filtered through the lens of Anglo colonial racist experience. Latinidad is different.

Amazing!!

In this Perspective, Kirstin Alberi and team discuss the role of historical and future learning for multi-terawatt solar photovoltaics, highlighting the increasing importance of sustainability considerations.

Man....Vine Deloria could deliver a burn like no other!!

While I like to believe that Indigenous frameworks proposed by Indigenous people are being implemented in all seriousness, I wouldn't be surprised if they just become the latest shiny new academic fad that everyone wants to cash in on. Actually ceding power in governance is a different matter.

I don't even know if cricket legends can be born out of T-20s the way they used to in ODIs. Facing a new crop of names and faces. Not sure what the relative status of old top teams such as England, Australia, NZ, South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies and Sri Lanka are now.

The life I wish I was living right now....

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

🐦 Noise pollution is affecting bird behaviour across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2yJ

Canadian archeologist Dougald O’Reilly spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about his discoveries at Laos' Plain of Jars, which have besotted and mystified archeologists, explorers, and tourists for centuries, and the issues confronted by his team in preserving the site.

Super interesting thread on American and Indigenous labor histories and economies! 👇🏽🧵☕

I’m thinking a lot about how to create social cohesion in societies that feel ever more divided. I concluded that a shared love for cheesecake might be our best bet…

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...