The panel discussed former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s refusal to appear in front of the Jan. 6 committee, expanding political culture wars, and the nation’s economic challenges. Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell of NBC News, Eugene Daniels of POLITICO, Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Stephanie Ruhle NBC News
This week, William Shatner, Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, blasted into space on a Blue Origin rocket. The panel discusses the rise of space tourism and the simultaneous growth of economic inequality. Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell of NBC News, Eugene Daniels of POLITICO, Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Stephanie Ruhle NBC News Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Police departments battle Covid vaccine mandates, Covid booster shot confusion after FDA panel recommendation, and former President Bill Clinton still hospitalized.
FDA panel recommends Johnson & Johnson booster shot, Covid vaccine mandates fueling showdowns nationwide, and former President Bill Clinton hospitalized with infection. 00:00 Intro 01:25 – FDA panel recommends J&J booster shot 04:33 – Covid vaccine mandate showdowns 06:53 – Fmr. President Bill Clinton hospitalized 10:19 – Capitol Police officer indicted 11:07 – U.K. lawmaker killed in knife attack 13:04 – Hollywood workers threaten to strike 15:00 – Toymakers struggle with supply chain shortages 16:56 – Heating costs on the rise this winter 19:01 – China’s historic mission to new space station » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80 Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC#NBCNews#NightlyNews#LesterHolt
FDA panel recommends Moderna booster for some Americans, thousands of John Deere workers go on strike, and Southlake teachers told to balance Holocaust books with “opposing” view. 00:00 Intro 02:11 Booster Shots 04:51 Nationwide Strikes 07:38 Alex Murdaugh Arrested 11:23 Michigan Water Emergency 13:22 Southlake Book Controversy 17:06 Early Black Friday 19:05 Inspiring America » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80 Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC#NBCNews#BoosterShots#JohnDeere
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) – October 17th, 2021
Chuck talks with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on the supply chain crisis and Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ar.) on vaccine mandates. Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Garrett Haake, John Podhoretz and Amy Walter join the Meet the Press roundtable. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, Meet the Press Daily, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, The ReidOut, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Subscribe to MSNBC Newsletter: http://http://MSNBC.com/NewslettersYo… Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Followmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: http://on.msnbc.com/Instamsnbc#MeetThePress#ChuckTodd#NBCNews
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) – October 10th, 2021
Chuck talks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham about the former president’s final weeks in office. He also sits down with Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs, on the reform needed on the platform. Yamiche Alcindor, Donna Edwards and David French join the Meet the Press roundtable. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
PBS NewsHour presents an in-depth look at how the lack of affordable, quality child care is affecting American families, which has plagued families in the U.S. for more than a century. Now the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming daily life for millions of working parents and pushing the nation’s childcare system to the brink of collapse. Out of that turmoil, a heated debate has emerged over what, if anything, can be done to better meet the needs of parents and preschool age children. In this hour-long documentary, the PBS NewsHour reveals how shifting societal values as well as decades of federal policy have shaped the U.S. child care system into what it is today. It explores the burden costly child care places on low and middle-income families, takes viewers to cities and states experimenting with new ways of providing childcare for working parents, and delves into the political battle brewing over the idea of federally funded, universal childcare. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
The first five years of a child’s life are crucial. If early childhood education is neglected, problems can arise that may never be overcome, leading to consequences for the individual and society as a whole. In the United States, there’s little public investment in early childhood education. Yet research shows that the support and education children receive in their first five years has a decisive influence on the course of their lives. A lack of early childhood education affects not only the child and the adult they become, but also the society in which they live. This documentary looks at the topic from several perspectives, including sociology, history, developmental psychology and neuroscience. But at its core are the personal stories of children and their love of learning, as well as families trying against all odds to give their kids a good start in life. It also spotlights preschool teachers – educators who are hardly recognized by society and whose salaries are barely above the poverty line, but whose work is essential. It’s a film that explores a dramatic problem using plenty of warmth and humor. #documentary#freedocumentary#education ______
Childcare needs a transformation — but rather than investing billions in new buildings and schools, what if we could unlock the potential of people already nearby? Entrepreneur Chris Bennett offers an innovative way to tackle the shortage of childcare worldwide and connect families to safe, affordable and high-quality options in their own communities.
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Could a small jolt of electricity to your gut help treat chronic diseases? Medical hacker and TED Fellow Khalil Ramadi is developing a new, noninvasive therapy that could treat diseases like diabetes, obesity, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s with an electronic pill. More targeted than a traditional pill and less invasive than surgery, these micro-devices contain electronics that deliver “bionudges” — bursts of electrical or chemical stimuli — to the gut, potentially helping control appetite, aid digestion, regulate hormones — and even stimulate happiness in the brain.
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This groundbreaking selection of talks from the TED Fellows are snapshots of influential, new ideas from leading voices in medicine, human rights, conservation, astrophysics, education and beyond. Dive in to discover what (and who) is shaping your future.
In four days, nearly 2 million Snapchat users checked out a new “Run for Office” module aimed at encouraging young candidates, Axios’ Alexi McCammond reports.
· Why it matters: The tech company — which claims to reach over 90% of the nation’s 18- to 34-year-olds — wants to expand the “Snapchat generation” in local and state offices.
The top five issues Snapchatters say they care about: civil rights, education, the environment, health care and jobs.
· A burst of interest came from six of the most populous states: Texas, Florida, Ohio, California, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
How it works: Snap is partnering with 10 candidate recruitment organizations, including ones that focus on helping young progressives, conservatives and immigrants to seek elected office.
· In the opening days, more than 24,000 Snapchat users expressed interest in working with one of those organizations to explore running for local positions, including school board or city council.
· Another 46,000 users nominated a friend to run.
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An erupting volcano on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands has forced authorities to evacuate hundreds of homes, as the lava gushes towards the sea. Local officials have warned the lava could trigger chemical reactions when it reaches the sea, causing explosions and the release of toxic gases. The BBC’s Dan Johnson reports on the latest stage of the evacuations from the ground in La Palma. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog#CanaryIslands#LaPalma#BBCNews
More destruction feared in La Palma as lava pours from new volcano vent | DW News
As the eruption approaches two weeks of strong activity, there is no sign of it ending or fading soon. Powerful lava fountains continue from the main vent, and several lava flows are descending the slopes of El Paraiso. With the support of Civil Protection, the video was taken from near the vent area showing the activity as observed during the evening of 2 Oct 2021. Video copyright: Tom Pfeiffer / www.volcanodiscovery.com La Palma updates: https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/la-p…
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On this edition for Sunday, September 12, President Joe Biden’s latest vaccine mandate fuels political division, the Taliban takes initial steps in forming their government, and a 9/11 survivor continues to fight for healthcare for other victims of the tragedy. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode September 11, 2021
This week PBS NewsHour has been marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by exploring how they have impacted the U.S. at home and abroad. Judy Woodruff leads our latest conversation on the ways the 9/11 attacks shaped American foreign policy over the last two decades. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
9/11 – 20 Years Later – A PBS NewsHour Special Report
Two decades after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, PBS NewsHour explores how the world has changed since that day. This documentary compiles a series of special reports to help viewers understand how the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and Flight 93 have left a lasting mark on victim’s families, first responders, survivors and the nation as a whole. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
How 9/11 Changed American Life | Washington Week | September 10, 2021
The panel continues the conversation, reflecting on the 20 year anniversary of 9/11. The panel also discussed how the attacks shifted American life, politics, and the impact the event had on Muslim Americans. Panel: Peter Baker of The New York Times, Asma Khalid of NPR, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Vivian Salama of The Wall Street Journal, Pierre Thomas of ABC News Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
FRONTLINE traces the U.S. response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across four presidencies. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk, this feature-length documentary draws on both new interviews and those from the dozens of documentaries Kirk and his award-winning team have made in the years since 9/11. “America After 9/11” offers an epic, two-hour re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America — from the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol — and the ongoing challenges that legacy poses for the U.S. president and the country. #AmericaAfter911#January6th For more reporting in connection with this investigation, visit FRONTLINE’s website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/fi… Find FRONTLINE on the PBS Video App, where there are more than 300 FRONTLINE documentaries available for you to watch any time: https://to.pbs.org/FLVideoApp Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast – September 11th, 2021
U.S. remembers the lives lost on 9/11, families of 9/11 victims honor their loved ones, and tribute paid to heroes of Flight 93. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#NBCNews#September11th
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast – September 10th, 2021
President Biden responds to Republican pushback over vaccine mandate, Los Angeles school district approves Covid vaccine mandate for eligible students, and how September 11 changed security in America. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 02:14 Biden On Vaccine Mandate Lawsuits 04:54 Back To School Battle 07:23 America Remembers: 9/11 15:38 Afghan Refugee Flights Halted » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#NBCNews#September11#Biden
NBC Nightly News Full Broadcast – September 9th, 2021
President Biden announces new vaccine mandates for millions of Americans, DOJ announces lawsuit over Texas abortion law, and 9/11 survivors and first responders ‘forgotten’ by health program, employees say. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 02:11 Biden’s Covid Strategy 8:44 DOJ Taking On Texas 10:25 American Evacuated From Afghanistan 12:57 9/11 Survivors: Broken Promises 17:19 Missing Airline Funds » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#NBCNews#VaccineMandates#Texas
Reflecting on 9/11 20 years after the attacks, GOP outraged over Biden vaccine mandates, Jan. 6 committee receives first set of documents. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#NBCNews#GOP#September11
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) – September 12th, 2021
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy breaks down Biden’s shift in Covid strategy. Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) discusses the GOP response to vaccine and mask mandates. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) talks all things infrastructure. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Hallie Jackson, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and George Will join the Meet the Press roundtable.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#FullEpisode#MTP#Politics Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) – September 12th, 2021
9/11 ceremonies, events and coverage on 20th anniversary | CBSN
President Biden visited all three sites where planes crashed on September 11, 2001 and cities held ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. We followed all of these events and more starting with a CBS News Special Report anchored by Norah O’Donnell. #livenews#livestream CBSN is CBS News’ 24/7 digital streaming news service featuring live, anchored coverage available for free across all platforms. Launched in November 2014, the service is a premier destination for breaking news and original storytelling from the deep bench of CBS News correspondents and reporters. CBSN features the top stories of the day as well as deep dives into key issues facing the nation and the world. CBSN has also expanded to launch local news streaming services in major markets across the country. CBSN is currently available on CBSNews.com and the CBS News app across more than 20 platforms, as well as the Paramount+ subscription service. Subscribe to the CBS News YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/cbsnews? Watch CBSN live: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7c? Download the CBS News app: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8? Follow CBS News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/? Like CBS News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/cbsnews? Follow CBS News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cbsnews? Subscribe to our newsletters: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T? Try Paramount+ free: https://bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 sent the world into a state of shock. Yet some had been loudly and publicly warning of the dangers posed by terrorism. Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan Mujahideen commander, was among them. It’s September 9, 2001, two days before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan commander fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, is assassinated. Who ordered his murder? The same man who masterminded the attacks on the US two days later: Osama Bin Laden. For months, Massoud had tried to make his voice heard, warning about the global dangers posed by an ascendant Taliban in Afghanistan. But Europe and the United States weren’t listening. Why not? Would heeding his warnings have affected lucrative arms deals with Pakistan? Did economic interests take precedence over security? This little-known story is told firsthand by diplomats, political leaders and military officials. It sheds new light on the events leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Above all, it’s the story of a man who could have changed the fate of the world if his warnings had been heeded sooner. #documentary#dwdocumentary#September11#USA#WorldTradeCenter ______ DW Documentary gives you knowledge beyond the headlines. Watch top documentaries from German broadcasters and international production companies. Meet intriguing people, travel to distant lands, get a look behind the complexities of daily life and build a deeper understanding of current affairs and global events. Subscribe and explore the world around you with DW Documentary. Subscribe to: ? DW Documentary (English): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumentary ? DW Documental (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocumental ? DW Documentary (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/dwdocarabia ? DW Doku (German): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH1k… ? DW Documentary (Hindi): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46c… For more visit: http://www.dw.com/en/tv/docfilm/s-3610 Follow DW Documentary on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwdocumentary/ Follow DW Documental on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dwdocumental We kindly ask viewers to read and stick to the DW netiquette policy on our channel: https://p.dw.com/p/MF1G
9/11: How the terror attack changed the world and counterterrorism strategies – BBC Newsnight
Twenty years on from 9/11 and we reflect on the evolving nature of terrorism and how the attack changed the world through the transformation of US foreign policy, global security and geopolitics. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, Al-Qaeda began four coordinated terrorist attacks on the US, lasting one hour and seventeen minutes. The world watched as nineteen terrorists crashed four planes – two into the World Trade Centre, one into the Pentagon, the very symbol of American might, and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. To this day, Al-Qaeda’s attack 9/11 remains the deadliest terror attack in history. It was the audacity of the attack that was so shocking. The idea that in a little over an hour the United States of America – the leader of the free world – could be shown to be utterly vulnerable, not invincible. That terrible day arguably has impacted every American psyche to this day, the way America sees its place in the world and the way we see America. Newsnight’s David Grossman reports on how September 11th changed the world
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By David Leonhardt, September 10, 2021
A second plane approaching the World Trade Center before hitting the South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001. Kelly Guenther for The New York Times
A missing legacy
The great crises in U.S. history have often inspired the country to great accomplishments.
The Civil War led to the emancipation of Black Americans and a sprawling program of domestic investment in railroads, colleges and more. World War II helped spark the creation of the modern middle class and cemented the so-called American Century. The Cold War caused its own investment boom, in the space program, computer technology and science education.
The attacks of Sept. 11 — which occurred on a sparkling late-summer morning 20 years ago tomorrow — had the potential to leave their own legacy of recovery. In sorrow and anger, Americans were more united in the weeks after the attacks than they had been in years. President George W. Bush’s approval rating exceeded 85 percent.
It isn’t hard to imagine how Bush might have responded to Sept. 11 with the kind of domestic mobilization of previous wars. He could have rallied the country to end its reliance on Middle Eastern oil, a reliance that both financed radical American enemies and kept the U.S. enmeshed in the region. While attacking Al Qaeda militarily, Bush also could have called for enormous investments in solar energy, wind energy, nuclear power and natural gas. It could have been transformative, for the economy, the climate and Bush’s historical standing.
Bush chose a different path, one that was ambitious in its own right: the “freedom agenda.” He hoped that his toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq would inspire people around the world to rise up for democracy and defeat autocracy. For a brief period — the Arab Spring, starting in 2010 — his vision almost seemed to be playing out.
Today, though, we know it did not. Bush and his team bungled Iraq’s postwar reconstruction. In Afghanistan, the U.S. rejected a Taliban surrender offer, and the Taliban recovered to win the war. In Egypt and Syria, autocrats remain in power.
Some wars have left clear legacies of progress toward freedom — like the anti-colonization movement and the flowering of European democracy that followed World War II. The post-9/11 wars have not. If anything, the world has arguably become less democratic in recent years.
Twenty years after Sept. 11, the attacks seem likely to be remembered as a double tragedy. There were the tangible horrors: The attacks on that day killed almost 3,000 people, and the ensuing wars killed hundreds of thousands more. And there is the haunting question that lingers: Out of the trauma, did the country manage to create a better future?
A police officer covered in ash after the first building collapsed at the World Trade Center.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
“Radical pessimism is a mistake,” David Ignatius argues in The Post. “These two decades witnessed many American blunders but also lessons learned.”
“Twenty Years Gone”: The Atlantic’s Jennifer Senior on one family’s heartbreaking loss and struggle to move on.
“The fact that the United States itself went on to attack, and wreak even greater violence against innocent civilians around the world, was largely omitted from official narratives,” the novelist Laila Lalami writes for Times Opinion.
“The twin towers still stand because we saw them, moved in and out of their long shadows, were lucky enough to know them for a time.” Colson Whiteheadwrote this essay shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Many people revisit it.
Michele Defazio on Sept. 11, holding up a poster of her missing husband, Jason Defazio, who worked in One World Trade Center.Krista Niles/The New York Times
Jennifer Steinhauer speaks to veterans of two wars that followed the attacks. “I am still fighting a little bit of that war, inside,” one said.
Elizabeth Dias reports that the deluge of anti-Muslim hate that followed the attacks has forged a new generation of Muslim Americans determined to define their place in the country.
The site of the World Trade Center “still feels like an alien zone,” Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, writes. But the rest of Lower Manhattan has bloomed.
The remains of more than 1,100 victims have never been identified. But New York City continues to search for DNA matches, Corey Kilgannon writes — a task the chief medical examiner called “a sacred obligation.”
An 18-page special section in today’s New York Times includes, in tiny black type, the names of all 2,977 victims at the three 9/11 attack sites.
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A wildfire — the Route fire, “0% contained” — broke out yesterday in mountainous terrain near Castaic in L.A. County, prompting the CHP to close a stretch of the 5 Freeway in both directions. (L.A. Times)
7. Salesforce offers to relocate workers with abortion concerns
After Texas’ anti-abortion law was upheld, Salesforce told employees via Slack that the company will help them relocate “if you have concerns about access to reproductive healthcare in your state,” CNBC reports.
· The company didn’t take a stand on the Texas law, but said: “We recognize and respect that we all have deeply held and different perspectives. … [W]e stand with all of our women at Salesforce and everywhere.”
With Florida legislatorsplanning to take up new abortion restrictions in January, Gov. Ron DeSantis is backing away from the Texas law’s bounty provision, BuzzFeed’s Kadia Goba reports.
· DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw told BuzzFeed: “Gov. DeSantis doesn’t want to turn private citizens against each other.”
The Boss: ” I remember you, my friend”
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Bruce Springsteen sang “I’ll See You in My Dreams” at the 9/11 Memorial, on the site of the Twin Towers:
I got your guitar here by the bed
All your favorite records and all the books that you read
And though my soul feels like it’s been split at the seams
Above, members of the U.Va. Cavaliers marching band — most not born on 9/11 — perform a memorial salute at halftime at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville.
College football teamsacross the country unveiled tributes, including special uniforms.
Photo: Joann Muller/Axios
Axios’ Joann Mullersent me this evening shot from the Big House at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
Attendance: 108,345. Michigan says that’s “the 295th consecutive game with more than 100,000 fans at Michigan Stadium.”
The “Tribute in Light” beams in Lower Manhattan consist of 88 xenon light bulbs, each 7,000 watts, positioned in two 48-foot squares on the roof of the Battery Parking Garage, south of the 9/11 Memorial.
Remembrances of lives lost are plentiful as New York commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan near Ground Zero. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Saturday were joined by former presidents, family members of victims and first responders at Ground Zero in New York City to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Driving the news: The ceremony at Ground Zero began with a moment of silence at 8:46am, when Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, followed by a reading of the victims’ names who died in New York from the attack.
“Joe, we love and miss you more than you can ever imagine,” said Lisa Reina, who was eight months pregnant when her husband, Joseph Reina Jr., died on the deadly day, per the Washington Post.
“[While] 20 years feels like an eternity … it still feels like yesterday,” Reina said.
Bruce Springsteen also performed his song, “I’ll See You Ii My Dreams,” following the second moment of silence.
In photos:
Family members and loved ones of victims attend the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on Sept. 11 in New York. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
NYPD and FDNY Memorial Ceremony at FDNY Engine 8, Ladder 2, Battalion 8 on Sept. 11 in New York City. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
A member of the FDNY visits the reflecting pool. Photo: Mike Segar-Pool/Getty Images
Katie Mascali is comforted by her fiance Andre Jabban as they stand near the name of her father, Joseph Mascali, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Photo: Craig Ruttle/PoolAFP via Getty Images
Bruce Springsteen performs during the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are joined by former presidents and others at the 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
People embrace during the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on Sept. 11 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
President Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon on Saturday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The latest: Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived at the Pentagon after visiting the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Ground Zero in New York City.
President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial on Sept. 11 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
President Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon on Saturday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The latest: Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived at the Pentagon after visiting the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Ground Zero in New York City.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Vice President Kamala Harris joined former President George W. Bush at a ceremony on Saturday to honor the lives lost 20 years ago on United Airlines Flight 93.
Driving the news: The vice president and the 43rd president devoted much of their remarks to remembering the unity that brought Americans together after the 9/11 attacks.
Twenty years ago, we were rocked when terrorists attacked the United States and killed nearly 3,000 people. In addition to so many innocent lives, we lost our vital belief that we were safe, just as Americans had with the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
In our local coverage of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, we examine how we have changed since 9/11 and how lessons we learned have surfaced again in a new crisis. Finally, we honor those who lost their lives, including the many heroes who ran toward danger to help when they were needed most.
PUBLISHED: September 7, 2021 at 3:37 p.m. | UPDATED: September 10, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.
Survivors of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks make their way through smoke, dust and debris on Fulton St., about a block from the collapsed towers, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
Sept, 11, 2001 began like any other Tuesday. School kids ate breakfast before heading to class, and parents prepared for their workday. Terrorism, especially on American soil, was the farthest thought from most people’s minds. But before many could walk out their front door, events were unfolding on the East Coast that would change America, and the world, forever.
At 8:46 a.m. EDT, a jetliner carrying thousands of gallons of fuel slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. What began with confusion as to what could have gone wrong quickly turned to the realization of a planned attack as a second plane hit the South Tower 17 minutes later.
Within two hours, two other planes had crashed into the Pentagon and in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. And the twin towers fell. The attacks 20 years ago killed nearly 3,000 people, in the hijacked planes and on the ground, and injured thousands. The attacks forever changed the world.
A plane approaches New York’s World Trade Center moments before it struck the tower at left, as seen from downtown Brooklyn, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. In an unprecedented show of terrorist horror, the 110 story towers collapsed in a shower of rubble and dust after 2 hijacked airliners carrying scores of passengers slammed into them. (AP Photo/ William Kratzke)
The south tower begins to collapse as smoke billows from both towers of the World Trade Center, in New York. (AP Photo/Jim Collins/FILE)
Two women embrace each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York. (AP Photo/Ernesto Mora)
Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of President George W. Bush to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center and flames and debris explode from the second tower, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)
People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo. (AP Photo/FILE/Suzanne Plunkett)
A person falls from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File
A fiery blast rocks the World Trade Center after being hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
People flee the falling South Tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
People flee the falling South Tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
A man with a fire extinguisher walks through rubble after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower on September 11, 2001, in New York. The man was shouting as he walked looking for victims who needed assistance. Both towers collapsed after being hit by hijacked passengers planes. (Photo by DOUG KANTER/AFP via Getty Images)
People flee lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, following a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
A jet airliner heads into one of the World Trade Center towers for the second attack in New York. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor/File)
The south side of the Pentagon burns after it took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Tom Horan)
Emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa., in this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Julie McDermott, center, walks with other victims as they make their way amid debris near the World Trade Center in New York Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001.(AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
Pedestrians on Beekman St. flee the area of the collapsed World Trade Center in lower Manhattan following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Survivors of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks make their way through smoke, dust and debris on Fulton St., about a block from the collapsed towers, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 in New York. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building in New York, Sept. 11, 2001. In a horrific sequence of destruction, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center causing the twin 110-story towers to collapse. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
A helicopter flies over the Pentagon in Washington as smoke billows over the building. The terrorist-hijacked airliner that slammed into the west side of the Pentagon killed 184 people. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim, File)
With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt St. after the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
As rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center, President George W. Bush puts his arms around firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center in New York. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
A woman looks at missing person posters of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 14, 2001. (AP Photo/Robert Spencer)
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September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history. The attacks against New York City and Washington, D.C., caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism. Some 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania (where one of the hijacked planes crashed after the passengers attempted to retake the plane); all 19 terrorists died (see Researcher’s Note: September 11 attacks). Police and fire departments in New York were especially hard-hit: hundreds had rushed to the scene of the attacks, and more than 400 police officers and firefighters were killed.
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On this edition for Sunday March 8, the coronavirus outbreak
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planning the 2020 census makes its debut this week. Also, a new approach in
Louisiana for prison reform focuses on rehabilitation. Hari Sreenivasan anchors
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7, concerns over coronavirus continue as the number of cases rise, the
presidential democratic candidates rally ahead of the upcoming primaries,
tensions escalate amid migrant push on Greece-Turkey border, and can women
landowners in Iowa help conservation efforts? Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New
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Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights
movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence sought to frame early American
history the way he saw it. His ensuing work, the sprawling series “Struggle,”
has been reassembled and is now on a national tour, with its first stop at the
Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. Special correspondent Jared Bowen of
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case about access
to abortion doctors in Louisiana. The law in question is similar to a Texas one
struck down by the Court in 2016 — but decided by a different group of
justices. Lisa Desjardins talks to the National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle and
Mary Ziegler, professor and author of “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v.
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On Wednesday, California officials confirmed the state’s first
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to rise. But beyond the serious medical implications of the virus, it is also
provoking fear, suspicion and ethnic stereotyping. Amna Nawaz reports from San
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in the Democratic presidential race. We also explain a dispute
over classified portions of the U.S. agreement with the Taliban.
By Chris Stanford
A plunge in stocks to start the week
Global markets fell sharply today, and Wall Street looked
set to follow suit, as the effects of the coronavirus outbreak deepened and
Saudi Arabia cut oil prices nearly 10 percent over the weekend. Here
are the latest market updates.
The
Saudi decision was in retaliation for Russia’s refusal to
join OPEC in a large production cut as the outbreak continues to slow the
global economy.
In the U.S., the number of coronavirus cases has grown to
more than 530. On Sunday, the country’s leading expert on infectious
diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said regional
lockdowns could become necessary and recommended that those
at greatest risk — older adults and people with underlying health
conditions — abstain from travel.
Related: A cruise ship that has been held off
California after 21 people aboard tested positive for the virus is set to
dock today in Oakland. More than 3,500 passengers and crew members will be
taken to military facilities around the country to be quarantined for 14
days. The State Department on Sunday advised
Americans against traveling on cruise ships.
Closer look: Dr. Fauci has
become the chief
explainer of
the epidemic, partly because other government scientists have
either avoided the spotlight or been reined in by the Trump administration.
News analysis: President
Trump, who seems at his strongest politically when he has a human target to
attack, has found it harder to confront the threat of an invisible
pathogen, our
chief White House correspondent writes.
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Two members of Congress, including Senator Ted Cruz, said they would
self-quarantine after interacting at the Conservative Political Action
Conference with a
person who tested positive for the virus. Mr. Trump and Vice
President Mike Pence spoke at the meeting last week.
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One of the world’s leading tennis tournaments has
been canceled. Qualifying matches for the BNP Paribas Open,
known as Indian Wells, were to have begun today.
As the site of the worst outbreak of the coronavirus outside
Asia, Italy has announced strict measures that limit the movements of about
a quarter of the population. To bolster the effort, the country’s
leaders have
appealed to Italians to reject “furbizia,” the sort of
cleverness typically channeled into getting around bureaucracy.
“We are the new Wuhan,” one woman in the closed-off northern
region of Lombardy said on Sunday.
Chocolate reduces stress. Fish stimulates the brain. Is there any
truth to such popular beliefs? The findings of researchers around the world say
yes: It appears we really are what we eat. A study in a British prison found
that inmates who took vitamin supplements were less prone to violent behavior.
And in Germany, a psychologist at the University of Lübeck has shown that
social behavior is influenced by the ingredients consumed at breakfast. But
what really happens in the brain when we opt for honey instead of jam, and fish
rather than sausage? Scientists around the world are trying to find out.
Neuro-nutrition is the name of an interdisciplinary research field that
investigates the impact of nutrition on brain health. Experiments on rats and
flies offer new insight into the effects of our eating habits. When laboratory
rats are fed a diet of junk food, the result is not just obesity. The menu also
has a direct influence on their memory performance. The role of the intestinal
flora has been known for some time, but scientists are currently discovering
other relationships. So-called “brain food” for example: The
Mediterranean diet that’s based on vegetables and fish is said to provide the
best nutrition for small grey cells. Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in
fish, for example, protect the nerve cells and are indispensable for the
development of the brain – because the brain is also what it eats!
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Legendary architect Renzo Piano
— the mind behind such indelible buildings as The Shard in London, the Centre
Pompidou in Paris and the new Whitney Museum of Art in New York City — takes us
on a stunning tour through his life’s work. With the aid of gorgeous imagery,
Piano makes an eloquent case for architecture as the answer to our dreams,
aspirations and desire for beauty. “Universal beauty is one of the few
things that can change the world,” he says. “This beauty will save
the world. One person at a time, but it will do it.” Check out more TED
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Ask any deep space navigator like Jill Seubert what makes
steering a spacecraft difficult, and they’ll tell you it’s all about the
timing; a split-second can decide a mission’s success or failure. So what do
you do when a spacecraft is bad at telling time? You get it a clock — an
atomic clock, to be precise. Let Seubert whisk you away with the revolutionary
potential of a future where you could receive stellar, GPS-like directions —
no matter where you are in the universe.
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For us, mere mortals, Mars is a no man’s land
where survival seems like a distant dream. After all, no man has ever walked on
its surface (as far as we know) and plans to send one to the red planet are
only in the early stages of its development. However, humans have touched Mars
through the durable wheels of Mars rovers. We’ve had 4 successful robotically
operated Mars rovers (all of which were managed by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, NASA) so far: Sojourner, Opportunity, Spirit, and Curiosity.
As Opportunity’s mission was declared complete
on February 13, 2019 when NASA lost all contact with the vehicle, Curiosity
became the lone survivor on the red planet, rolling over its surface to examine
and explore the unknown land all by itself. The spacecraft first landed on Mars
on August 6, 2012 and started carrying out its objectives throughout the years.
In fact, Curiosity did its job so well and held on for so long that its
original mission duration of 687 days was expanded indefinitely.
Curiosity is approaching its 8 year
anniversary on Mars and while it is currently the only functional rover on the
planet (after we all, unfortunately, had to say goodbye to Oppy), NASA has plans to send it some company in
the shape of Mars 2020 rover. The 2020 mission is scheduled to start on 17 July
to 5 August 2020 when the rocket carrying the rover will be launched. NASA also
announced a student naming contest for the rover that was held in the fall of
2019. The final name will be announced in early March 2020, so we definitely
have something to look forward to!
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Eucalyptus trees are most known for their fragrant leaves and for
being the main food source for koalas, but did you know that they can also be quite
colorful? In fact, Eucalyptus deglupta is so colorful that
it’s known as the rainbow eucalyptus. When this incredible tree
sheds its bark, it almost looks like a colored pencil being sharpened. This
makes for a spectacle that is unforgettable.
Also known as the Mindanao gum or rainbow gum, the
rainbow eucalyptus is a tall tree that is unique in that it’s the only
eucalyptus to live in the rainforest and only one of four species found outside
of Australia. It can be found in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New
Guinea, where it can soar up to 250 feet in the air. While its height is
impressive, it’s really the tree’s multicolor bark that makes it stand out.
As the rainbow eucalyptus sheds, it first reveals a bright green
inner bark. Over time, this ages into different colors—blue, purple, orange,
and maroon. The colorful striations are created due to the fact that the tree
doesn’t shed all at once. Slowly, over time, different layers fall off, while
other exposed areas have already begun aging.
This process makes for a spectacular visual, with the rainbow
eucalyptus looking like it could be pulled from Alice in Wonderland.
Its unique appearance has also made it quite popular amongst garden
enthusiasts. It can be found in botanical gardens around the world and is often
planted as an ornamental tree in Hawaii, Texas, Louisiana, and Southern
California, where the frost-free climate allows it to thrive.
Interestingly, the rainbow eucalyptus also has a high commercial
value that has nothing to do with its color. The tree is often found at tree
plantations, as it’s an excellent source for pulpwood—the main ingredient in
making white paper. So the next time you pull out a blank sheet, just remember
that it may have originally been something much more colorful.
The rainbow eucalyptus gets its name from its colorful appearance.
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Eucalyptus deglupta takes on different colors
as bark sheds and the inner bark slowly ages.
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artist. In 2013, she authored the book ‘Street
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Industrial agriculture is increasingly dominating the world
market. It’s forcing small farmers to quit and taking over vast swathes of
land. This documentary shows how destructive the lucrative agribusiness is.
Whether in the USA, Brazil, Mozambique or China, agricultural giants rule the
market. Food production has become a gigantic business as climate change and
population growth continue. This is having devastating consequences for small
farmers and for the environment. On the banks of North Carolina’s New River,
there’s a vile stench. Clean water activist Rick Dove takes a flight to show us
what’s causing the smell. Scores and scores of pigs are living upriver, in so
many pens the farms look more like small towns. “We have eight to ten
million pigs here. And the problem is that they are kept so close together and
their excrement pollutes and threatens the water and natural life on the North
Carolina coastline.” From above, you can see large cesspools everywhere,
shimmering red-brown in the sun. Dove is giving us a bird’s-eye view of
industrialized agriculture. In the late 1970s, companies in the US began to
industrialize farming. Large corporations like Smithfield built entire value
chains, from raising livestock to slaughter to packaging and sales. A Chinese
holding company bought Smithfield a few years ago. Industrial meat production
is supposed to support increased Chinese demand for meat as the country’s
prosperity grows. Dan Basse is the head of a company analyses global agriculture.
He says calorie demand will also increase in countries like India, Bangladesh
and Nigeria in the next few years.” And with it, the demand for even more
inexpensive meat of the kind agribusinesses produce and market.
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If you ever
needed evidence that bees were artists, take a look at this incredible
photograph posted by The National Trust. Left to their own
devices, the bees at Bodiam Castle in Robertsbridge, United Kingdom made quite
the spectacle. Within the structure of their hive, they created a delightful
heart-shaped honeycomb that looks as sweet as it tastes.
This may
seem like an odd sight, but that’s only because we’re used to beekeepers
placing rectangular frames within the hive. The bees then deposit their honey
and build a comb directly onto the frame, which can be easily taken out and
harvested by the beekeeper. But the reality is, bees will use as much space as
they have to store honey. In fact, natural hives can take on all shapes and
sizes.
For
instance, sugarbag bees,
which are native to Australia, make hives that form large spiraling structures.
In temperate climates, some bees will even form an “open colony” where the
entire hive is exposed. These can hang off of trees, fences, or overhangs and
take on impressive oblong shapes.
Still,
the photograph from Bodiam Castle is fascinating because it was formed within
the wood frame of a hive. Beekeeper gregthegregest2 mentioned
on Reddit that this is a common occurrence when the bees are left a
large gap between the top of the frames and the roof of the hive. Of course, it
makes good sense that these hard workers would take advantage of every inch
given to them. While the shape is beautiful, this can be a headache for
beekeepers when looking to harvest their honey. They need to cut away the extra
honeycomb in order to free the frames below.
Of
course, the skill of bees is well known. In fact, even artists have taken
advantage of their capabilities by working with bees to create everything
from sculptures to embroidery. So the
next time you see a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower, just imagine what
interesting artistry might happen when it makes its way back to the hive.
When left
to their own devices, bees are incredible architects.
They can
create incredible shapes from their honeycomb, whether in boxes or out in
nature.
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-fast-ar… “How fast are you moving?” seems like an easy question,
but it’s actually quite complicated — and perhaps best answered by another
question: “Relative to what?” Even when you think you’re standing
still, the Earth is moving relative to the Sun, which is moving relative to the
Milky Way, which is…you get the idea. Tucker Hiatt unravels the concepts of
absolute and relative speed. Lesson by Tucker Hiatt, animation by Zedem Media.
Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are
born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows
how much we learn in the womb — from the lilt of our native language to our
soon-to-be-favorite foods.
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How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In
a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our
young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well
before they can talk.
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Awe-Inspiring Nokia 5G Paper Cut Creative
Illustrations by Eiko Ojala
Hey there guys! So, we are back with yet
another interesting blog of ours and we are hopeful that you are going to love
it as much as we do – mainly because it is one of our favorite topics to cover
(and we are sure that you know this too!) and also because well, it feels so
great to come across artists who put in their brain, heart and hands to create
magic. Our today’s blog will cover Nokia 5G paper cut illustrations by Eiko
Ojala and we would like to get started right now.
Before we start explaining what paper cut illustrations really are and introduce you guys
with Eiko’s work, let’s have a look at Eiko Ojala as an illustrator first. So,
he is an Estonian artist who was born in 1982 in Tallinn. He has studied
interior design and it was prior to when he brought himself to the world of
creating illustrations (read: stunning). Eiko knows how to create amazing
digital paper cut illustrations by combining them with his traditional
techniques and making sure that his work speaks volumes.
We would also like to share this here
that Eiko has been working with The New York Times, the Harvard Business
Review, the Weird Magazine and has also been associated with the V&A
Museum. Oh, and just by the way the master of creating paper cut illustrations
has also won a Young Illustrators award in 2013 and an ADC Young Gun award by
the Art Directors Club.
Isn’t it just great that all the artists
around the world stun us with their creativity, imagination and work on a daily
basis and we share that here on our blog because we want to inspire you guys
and to encourage you too so that you can also get into the field and see if
that is working for you.
As far as the paper cut illustrations are
concerned, we believe that, this technique requires a lot of time, efforts and
patience especially when you are creating your illustrations on digital
mediums. There are a number of layers involved in order to recreate the
original idea by adding depth and meaning to the illustrations.
Now, we know that different artists have
different tricks to work on what they love to create but about Eiko’s
illustrations, one thing is for final that you will require a great deal of
time to tell if the illustrations were made using paper or did Eiko created
them using his digital editing skills. Yes, you read that right. That is how
clean and real his illustrations are that you
cannot differentiate between a paper one and a digital one.
You must be wondering that only a few
artists could create paper cut illustrations as this requires time, skills and
a lot more than that but believe us when we say this, that nothing is
impossible or too difficult if we really want to do it for ourselves and once
you find your peace and happiness in the things that you do and create then
there is no going back. It becomes interesting, it becomes fun and you want to
improve yourself in order to get to the bigger goal and that is how it should
be.
We can bet that even Eiko must have
created illustrations which he would not have considered anything, he must have
also discarded a few of his creations here and a few of them there because
well, we judge ourselves more than others do and while we are evaluating our
work and thought process, we tend to exclude most of the stuff because we want
perfection.
What we are trying to say here is that if
you think that you have it in you to try out a new skill in 2020 then make it
more about paper cut illustrations – both with actual paper as well as on
digital platforms like Illustrator. In this way, you will be able to know if
you can do it or not and although we know that you are going to ace it, we
would also want to say that go easy on yourself and also be patient if you fail
because that is going to help you in the longer run.
Coming back to Eiko’s illustrations, we
love each one of them and we are sharing them in our blog as well but let’s
take a cursory glance too before we leave you with the magical illustrations
for you to look at in detail. The first one is the Nokia 5G one in which you
can see the number and the alphabet and there is world in these two elements.
Vehicles, humans, trees and birds as well as the scenery is making this
illustration that has a story to tell.
Moving on, you can see multiple shapes
and backgrounds on which Eiko has used his imagination to create illustrations
that are significant and interesting to look at. And from building and
monuments to human beings and their cars, trees, birds and clouds – we think
that looking at these mind blowing illustrations is a treat for the eyes. So,
feel free to share the blog with your friends and family members too and we are
sure they are going to like it too.
Credit: be.net/eiko
Awe-Inspiring
Nokia 5G Paper Cut Creative Illustrations by Eiko Ojala
Ontario-based photographer Michael Davies timed this impressive shot of his friend
Markus hurling a thermos of hot tea through the air yesterday in -40°C weather.
At such frigid temperatures water freezes instantly to form a dramatic plume of
ice. For the last decade Davies has worked as a photographer in the fly-in
community of Pangnirtung in Canada’s High Arctic, only 20km south of the Arctic
Circle, a place that sees about two hours of sunlight each day during the
winter. He shares via email that almost nothing was left to chance in creating
the photo, as so many things had to be perfectly timed:
Around 1pm I jumped on my
skidoo along with my friend Markus and we drove 45 minutes to the top of a
nearby mountain where the light (which is almost always pink near the solstice)
would hit the hills. Prepared with multiple thermoses filled with tea, we began
tossing the water and shooting. Nothing of this shot was to chance, I followed
the temperature, watched for calm wind, and planned the shot and set it up.
Even the sun in the middle of the spray was something I was hoping for, even
though it’s impossible to control.
You
can see more of Davies’ most recent photography over on Flickr.
In a
short clip captured during
a blackwater night dive in the Lembeh Strait, a
blanket octopus unfolds
and displays a colorful web multiple times her original size. The aquatic
animal’s iridescent body and
tentacles glow against
the nighttime water before she releases her translucent blanket that connects
her dorsal and dorsolateral arms. Only adult females are equipped with the lengthy
membrane that reaches as long as six feet and dwarfs male octopi, which are
less than an inch in size and most often die immediately after mating.
Generally, the females only unfurl their color-changing blankets to appear
larger and more intimidating to potential predators. Shared by NAD Lembeh Resort, the underwater video was taken on a RED
Gemini with a 50 millimeter Zeiss Macro lens. You might also want to check out this footage of a blanket octopus in waters near the
Philippines. (via The Kids Should See This)
The Blanket Octopus,
shot in the Lembeh Straits on a Blackwater Night Dive with NAD Lembeh. Footage
shot on RED Gemini with 50mm Zeiss Macro lens. Copyright Simon Buxton 2019.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, voting is underway in New Hampshire, the
first state to hold a primary during the 2020 election cycle. Plus: Controversy
over Roger Stone’s sentence, how China is coping with its deadly novel
coronavirus outbreak, Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir is closer to facing prosecution,
new efforts to clean India’s Ganga River and a woman helping perfect technology
for a bionic limb. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
On this edition for Sunday, February 9, Democratic presidential
candidates canvass New Hampshire in the final push ahead of Tuesday’s primary,
the death toll from the novel coronavirus continues to climb, a 15-year battle
heats up over Oregon’s Jordan Cove pipeline project, and a look at
misconceptions about race and culture. Alison Stewart anchors from New York.
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NewsHour Weekend full episode February 8, 2020
On this edition for Saturday, February 8, the Democratic
presidential candidates look to New Hampshire for support, new cases of the
novel coronavirus emerge, Louisiana oyster farmers feel a changing tide along
the Mississippi Delta, and internet satellites are launched into space with the
hope of expanding broadband coverage. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
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The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name:
COVID-19.
Tedros
Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization,
announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has
been confirmed in more than 42,000 people and caused more than 1,000 deaths in
China. There have been fewer than 400 cases in 24 other countries, with one
death.
In
choosing the name, WHO advisers focused simply on the type of
virus that causes the disease. Co and Vi come from coronavirus, Tedros
explained, with D meaning disease and 19 standing for 2019, the year the first
cases were seen.
The
virus that causes the disease has been known provisionally as 2019-nCoV. Also
on Tuesday, a coronavirus group from the International Committee on Taxonomy of
Viruses, which is responsible for naming new viruses, proposed designating the
novel coronavirus as SARS-CoV-2, according to a preprint of a paper posted online.
(Preprints are versions of papers that have not yet been peer-reviewed or
published in a scientific journal.) The name reflects the genetic similarities
between the new coronavirus and the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak
of 2002-2003.
In
selecting COVID-19 as the name of the disease, the WHO name-givers steered
clear of linking the outbreak to China or the city of Wuhan, where the illness
was first identified. Although origin sites have been used in the past to
identify new viruses, such a namesake is now seen as denigrating. Some experts
have come to regret naming the infection caused by a different coronavirus the
Middle East respiratory syndrome.
“Having
a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or
stigmatizing,” Tedros said. “It also gives us a standard format to use for any
future coronavirus outbreaks.”
Viruses
and the disease they cause do not have to have related names—think HIV and
AIDS—but more recently those responsible for the formal naming process have
kept them associated. For example, SARS, the disease, is caused by SARS-CoV,
the virus.
The
provisional name of the new virus stemmed from the year it was first seen
(2019), the fact that it was new (n), and a member of the coronavirus family
(CoV).
A clear
name could also stop the ad hoc identifiers that have sprung up in the press
and online, many of which, like the Wuhan virus or Wu Flu, linked the virus to
the city.
TED Fellow Alicia Eggert takes us on a visual tour of her
work — from a giant sculpture on an uninhabited island in Maine to an
installation that inflates only when people hold hands to complete an electric
current. Her work explores the power of art to inspire wonder and foster hope
in dark times. As she puts it: “A brighter, more sustainable, more
equitable future depends first on our ability to imagine it.”
This talk was presented at an official TED
conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Alejandro Durán uses art to spotlight the ongoing
destruction of our oceans’ ecosystems. In this breathtaking talk, he shows how
he meticulously organizes and reuses plastic waste from around the world that
washes up on the Caribbean coast of Mexico — everything from water bottles to
prosthetic legs — to create vivid, environmental artworks that may leave you
mesmerized and shocked.
This talk was presented at “We the Future,”
a special event in partnership with the Skoll Foundation and the United Nations
Foundation.
TED Salons welcome an intimate audience for
an afternoon or evening of highly-curated TED Talks revolving around a globally
relevant theme. A condensed version of a TED flagship conference, they are
distinct in their brevity, opportunities for conversation, and heightened
interaction between the speaker and audience.
Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
Hunger is widespread and there is a severe shortage of medicines. The UN estimates
that more than four million people have now fled what was once South America’s
richest nation. Venezuela is in the grips of what is now the world’s second
largest refugee crisis after Syria. But unlike Syria, Venezuela is not mired in
civil war, and the country is sitting on the world’s largest proven oil
reserves. How could such a rich nation be driven into ruin? Where has the
country’s wealth gone, and why are its people starving? Corruption and
mismanagement are driving displacement worldwide. The majority of the world’s
refugees and migrants are fleeing from countries in the top 10 of Transparency
International’s Corruption Perception Index – places like Afghanistan, Syria,
South Sudan and Somalia. Venezuela was once one of the world’s wealthiest countries
and a showcase of democracy. The country enjoys an abundance of natural
resources, including oil, gold, diamonds and coltan. But rather than invest in
its people and economy, this wealth has been squandered. Today Venezuela is
mired in corruption, and deindustrialization, debt, political conflict,
authoritarianism and poverty are the order of the day. The billions in profits
generated by the oil business during the boom years between 2003 and 2014 have
largely ended up in private pockets. And once oil prices collapsed in 2014,
Venezuela was plunged into economic crisis. Nicolás Maduro, who rose to the
presidency after Hugo Chávez died in 2013, has installed loyal military
officers in key economic positions. Venezuela is now little more than a state-run
criminal enterprise. At the same time, the country has become a pawn in a
geopolitical contest over power and natural resources, with the US, Russia and
China all looking to assert their own interests. Every two seconds, a person is
forced to flee their home. Today, more than 70 million people have been
displaced worldwide. The DW documentary series ‘Displaced’ sheds light on the
causes of this crisis and traces how wealthy industrialized countries are
contributing to the exodus from the Global South. Tomatoes and greed – the
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The film ‘Mahatma — A Great Soul of 20th
Century’ is a documentary film which records the life of Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi and his social, political and spiritual influence on the country during
pre and post independence times. The film starts with Gandhi’s childhood, his
early influences, and his study at England and then goes on further to South
Africa to practice Law. When he attempted to claim his rights as a citizen, he
was abused and soon saw that all Indians suffered similar treatment. He developed
a method of action based upon the principles of courage, nonviolence and truth
called Satyagraha. Using the principles of Satyagraha, he led the campaign for
Indian independence from Britain. Gandhi had been an advocate for a united
India where Hindus and Muslims lived together in peace and helped free the
Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored
by Indians as the father of the Indian Nation or ‘Mahatma’, meaning Great Soul.
This is a time lapse video of a dwarf sunflower growing from seed
to full flower, then wilting. A version with a beautiful musical score can be
found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKo5I… You can license this video for commercial purposes at my Gumroad
store at: https://gum.co/HkNjP
Unfortunately the flower was too heavy and it collapsed the plant at some
point. This video also illustrates the centripetal anthesis present in
sunflowers, where the outer flowers mature first and the maturation process
extends inwards. I would have attempted to get it to go to seed, but these
sunflowers tend to be self-infertile. Video took about 130 days from start to
finish. That means it’s slightly more than 1 second of video per day of growth.
Double-crested Cormorant
working on its catch, Bolsa Chica (CA)
Elegant Tern, Double
Crested Cormorant and a fish
Photographer Salah Baazizi has
an amazing knack for photographing birds up close and personal as they pluck
fish from the waters around Bolsa Chica in southern California. The
split-second shots of terns, herons, and cormorants give the illusion Baazizi
is sitting just inches away, practically sticking a camera down their beaks,
but in reality he uses a 400mm super telephoto lens and positions himself at
great distances. This is only the smallest fraction of the hobbyist
photographer’s wildlife photos, you can explore hundreds of additional shots
over on Flickr.
Elegant Tern, Bolsa Chica
(CA)
Great Blue Heron working
on its catch, Bolsa Chica (CA)
Elegant Tern losing its
fish, Bolsa Chica (CA)
Forster’s Tern doing the
contortionist, Irvine (CA)
Great Blue Heron working
on its catch, Bolsa Chica (CA)
Elegant Tern, Bolsa Chica
(CA)
Elegant Tern, Bolsa Chica
(CA)
Elegant Tern displaying
its acrobatic aerial skills after a fish escaped from its beak
Saint Petersburg-based paper artists Asya Kozina and
Dmitriy Kozin situate miniature worlds atop their towering paper wigs. The
detailed headdresses combine contemporary themes with historical elements,
resembling the extravagant hair and head pieces of the Baroque period. A recent
series crafted for Dolce & Gabanna features a whale and lobster with fins
and claws woven through and sticking out from the tops of the elaborate pieces.
Both have ships, as well, to add a human element. “We did this work and had
(the) idea to do works with various marine monsters,” Kozina says. “In the old
times, sailors believed in gigantic sea monsters… All characters are taken from
folk myths.”
Since Kozina last spoke with Colossal, the scale and complexity
of their monochromatic creations have changed, in addition to their public
perception. “Our works fell into collections of museums, became symbols of some
events related to the history and history of art and fashion,” she writes. “Our
work is perceived not as photo props, but as artworks, sculptures, exhibition
objects.” Head to Instagram or Behance to check out more of the artists’ sky-high
creations.
PBS News: January 19 – 23, 2020, Shields and Brooks on Trump
impeachment evidence, Democratic debate, How Trump’s USDA wants to change rules
around school nutrition, Australian ecosystems left vulnerable in wake of
bushfire catastrophe, Kim Phuc’s Brief but Spectacular take on pain and
forgiveness, News Wrap: Virginia becomes
38th state to ratify Equal Rights Amendment, How war and misinformation are
complicating the DRC’s Ebola battle, and Disease threatens Italy’s once booming
olive oil industry
TED Talks: Shubhendu Sharma An
engineer’s vision for tiny forests everywhere?, and Mitchell Joachim Don’t
build your home grow it?
Thursday on the NewsHour, the Senate
impeachment trial of President Trump continues, with House managers turning
their prosecution to the charge of abuse of power. Plus: PBS NewsHour
co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant of American journalism, dies at age 85, and
remembering Lehrer with his news partner Robert MacNeil, Justice Stephen Breyer
and Sharon Percy Rockefeller. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG
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On this edition for Sunday, January
19, the Trump administration responds to House impeachment filings as the
Senate trial is set to begin, violent clashes continue in Hong Kong and
Lebanon, and a NewsHour Weekend special on Ukraine, a country caught in the
crosshairs of conflict at home and the impeachment inquiry in the United
States. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with
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Syndicated columnist Mark Shields
and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the
week’s political news, including the opening of President Trump’s Senate trial
and the announcement of his legal team, public opinion on impeachment, 2020
Democrats’ final debate before the Iowa caucuses and Michael Bloomberg’s
remarkable ad spend. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
How Trump’s USDA wants to change rules around school
nutrition
Improving school meals was among
Michelle Obama’s key initiatives during her tenure as first lady. Since then,
the Trump administration has rolled back Obama-era school nutrition policies
they argued went too far and were ineffective. Now, the Department of
Agriculture has made additional major changes. Crystal FitzSimons of the Food
Research and Action Center joins Amna Nawaz to discuss. Stream your PBS
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Firefighters in Australia are
finally getting some help from nature, in the form of lower temperatures and
rain. But many fires are still burning, and millions of acres have been lost.
The blazes have also caused tremendous damage to the surrounding ecosystems and
wildlife — some of which don’t exist anywhere else in the world. Science
correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss. Stream your PBS
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Kim Phuc’s Brief but Spectacular
take on pain and forgiveness
A
photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc as a nine-year-old girl enduring a napalm
attack became a defining image of the Vietnam War. Healing has been a
decades-long process. Now living in Canada, Kim Phuc shares her Brief But
Spectacular take on pain and forgiveness. Stream your PBS favorites with the
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In our news wrap Wednesday, Virginia
became the crucial 38th state to ratify the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment, which
bars discrimination on the basis of sex. Three-quarters of the states now approve
the amendment. Also, Russia’s government abruptly resigned after President
Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping constitutional changes that could keep him in
power after his current term ends in 2024. Stream your PBS favorites with the
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How war and misinformation are complicating the DRC’s
Ebola battle
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola
virus has plagued Democratic Republic of Congo for nearly a year and a half,
with more than 3,000 people getting sick and 2,000 dead. Major medical advances
in prevention and treatment have kept the disease’s toll from rising, but
ongoing war — and attacks on medical teams — have forced the response to a
standstill. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar reports. Stream your PBS
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Disease threatens Italy’s once booming olive oil
industry
More than a third of olive oil in
the U.S. comes from Italy, which has kept a longstanding reputation for
quality. But the quantity of olive oil made in the south of Italy has been in
sharp decline. A disease in the region of Puglia has been attacking olive
trees, decimating the industry and causing Italy to import olive oil for the
first time. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports. Stream your PBS
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A forest planted by humans, then
left to nature’s own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But
what if we could make the process happen ten times faster? In this short talk,
eco-entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Shubhendu Sharma explains how to create a
mini-forest ecosystem anywhere.
This talk was presented at an
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TED Fellow and urban designer
Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture:
eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — meat.
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From avocado toast to guacamole,
this superfood has stolen the hearts of foodies and the health conscious around
the world. But where do avocados come from? Avocados have become a huge food
trend in the Western world, where the creamy fruit has become readily available
in shops, cafes and restaurants. The avocado is considered a superfood and is
popular in Europe because of its nutritional value. Avocados are high in
calories, contain mostly monounsaturated fat and are good for cholesterol. The
fruit is full of essential nutrients, including potassium and vitamin C. But
there’s a darker side to the fashionable fruit popular on toast or in salads.
In Chile, one of the world’s largest suppliers, avocado cultivation has
dramatic consequences and has been linked to water shortages, human rights
violations and an environmentally damage. The province of Petorca has a long
tradition of avocado farming. Once grown by small farmers, production has been
soaring since the global avocado boom of the 1990s. Big landowners now dominate
the avocado market there. And their business requires large amounts of water.
It takes up to 1000 liters of water to grow one kilo of the fruit (about three
avocados) – a lot more than for a kilo of tomatoes or potatoes. The region is
suffering an acute water shortage, exacerbated by climate change. The riverbeds
dried up years ago. Trucks bring tanks of water to families in need, while
thousands of hectares of avocado groves just next door are watered with
artificial reservoirs. Rodrigo Mundaca founded the NGO Modatima. He fights for
the right to water – a right that’s guaranteed by the UN and that Chile has
committed to. An aerial survey in 2012 revealed that 64 pipelines were
diverting river water underground, apparently to irrigate the avocado fields.
When the Modatima activists publicly voiced their criticism, they received
death threats. Water became a commodity in Chile in 1981 under the Pinochet
dictatorship, meaning it’s privatized. Those who offer the most money get water
licenses, even for life, regardless of the potential consequences for the
ecosystem. The avocado also has a pretty dire environmental footprint. They’re
packaged to prevent damage and transported in air-conditioned cargo ships to
Europe. The fruit then ripens in a factory in Rotterdam, before it’s sent
“ready to eat” to German supermarkets. “Europe wants to eat healthily
– at our expense,” says Mundaca. _______ Exciting, powerful and informative –
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It’s not difficult to identify a mural that has been completed by Eduardo Kobra. The Sao Paulo-based street artist has a signature approach filled with vibrant colors and
geometric shapes that merge together to form the portraits of many very
prominent figures. He uses a combination of painting, airbrush, and spray paint
to produce the enormous works filled with a lively spirit.
His most recent large-scale work
will be featured as a solo show, entitled Peace,
beginning on May 9, 2014 through June 25, 2014 at Rome’s Dorothy Circus Gallery. The selected portraits will feature people like Nelson
Mandela, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, and the Dalai Lama.
Through his signature style of textured
layers, strong lines, and fragmented sections, Kobra gives new life to these
very important historical figures and topics which, according to the gallery,
include “the fight against pollution, global warming, deforestation, and war,
but also the ‘makeover’ of some icons of the time.”
A 2019 contest
organized by the Underwater Photography Guide has collected some of the best photographs of aquatic life
around the globe, from an image capturing a seal maneuvering through a chunk of
ice in Antarctic waters to another depicting an octopus resting on the ocean
floor. This year’s Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest drew thousands of entires from 78
countries that were judged by renowned underwater photographers Tony Wu, Martin
Edge, and Marty Snyderman, along with Underwater Photography Guide publisher
Scott Gietler. It also handed out more than $85,000 to entrants.
We’ve included some of our favorite
photographs from across the 17 categories, including marine life behavior,
portrait, conservation, and reefscapes, although a full list of winners can be
found on the contest’s site. Stay tuned for information on the 2020 contest in September.
“Biodiversity” by Greg Lecoeur,
Reefscapes
“Gigantic Aggregation of Munk Devil
Rays in Baja California Sur” by Jason Clue, Marine Life Behavior
“Larval tripod fish” by Fabien
Michenet, Blackwater
“Radiography” by Stefano Cerbai,
Macro
“Strange Encounters” by Hannes
Klostermann, Marine Life Behavior
“A friendly ride” by Paula Vianna,
Marine Life Behavior
“Leopard Shark” by Jake Wilton,
Novice Wide Angle
“Treats from Maloolaba River” by
Jenny Stock, Nudibranchs
“Coconut Octopus” by Enrico Somogyi,
Compact Wide Angle
“The Hypnotist” by Dave Johnson,
Macro
“Eye of the Tornado” by Adam Martin,
Wide Angle
“Under the Pier” by Jose Antonio
Castellano, Wide Angle
No, this
isn’t a clip from the latest Miyazaki anime, this is the first sighting of a
real fluorescent turtle. Marine biologist David
Gruber of City
University of New York, was recently in the Solomon Islands to film a variety
of biofluorescent fish and coral, when suddenly a completely unexpected sight
burst into the frame: a glowing yellow and red sea turtle. The creature is a
critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, and until this sighting last July,
the phenomenon had never been documented in turtles, let alone any other
reptile.
Biofluorescence is the ability for
an organism to reflect blue light and re-emit it as a different color, not to
be confused with bioluminescence, where organisms produce their own light.
Many undersea creatures like coral,
sharks, and some shrimp have shown the ability to show single green, red, or
orange colors under the right lighting conditions, but according to National Geographic, no organisms have shown the ability to emit two distinct
colors like the hawksbill. As seen in the video, the coloring appears not only
in mottled patterns on the turtle’s shell, but even extends within the cracks
of its head and feet. Gruber mentions this could be a mixture of both glowing
red glowing algae attached to the turtle, but the yellow fluorescence is
undoubtedly part of the animal.
Watch the video above to see the moment
of discovery and learn more on Nat Geo.
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While filming coral off the Solomon
Islands, David Gruber, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, encountered a
“bright red-and-green spaceship.” This underwater UFO turned out to
be a hawksbill sea turtle, which is significant because it’s the first time
that biofluorescence has ever been seen in reptiles, according to Gruber.
Gruber is now excited to learn more about this critically endangered species
and how it is using biofluorescence. ?
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Impeachment is a rare event in
American politics. Amid the past few weeks of public hearings, we have wondered
how this episode compares to previous instances of impeachment. Amna Nawaz
spoke with three historians, each focused on a former president who had to
grapple with that threat: Peter Baker on Bill Clinton, John Naftali on Richard
Nixon and Brenda Wineapple on Andrew Johnson. Stream your PBS favorites with
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By 2050 there will be more plastic
than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making
for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest
environmental threats facing humans and animals globally. In “The Plastic
Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues
look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s
become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential
alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from
Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the
problem to light. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Alejandro Durán uses art to
spotlight the ongoing destruction of our oceans’ ecosystems. In this
breathtaking talk, he shows how he meticulously organizes and reuses plastic
waste from around the world that washes up on shores — everything from water
bottles to prosthetic legs — to create vivid, environmental artworks that may
leave you mesmerized and shocked.
This talk was presented at “We the
Future,” a special event in partnership with the Skoll Foundation and the United
Nations Foundation.
About the speaker
Alejandro Durán · Multimedia artist
Alejandro Durán collects the
international trash washing up on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, transforming
it into aesthetic yet disquieting artworks that wake us up to the threat of
plastic pollution.
About TED Salon
TED Salons welcome an intimate
audience for an afternoon or evening of highly-curated TED Talks revolving
around a globally relevant theme. A condensed version of a TED flagship
conference, they are distinct in their brevity, opportunities for conversation,
and heightened interaction between the speaker and audience.
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We’ve all been told that we should
recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the
plastic if we just throw it away? Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three
different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables
present to our world. [Directed by Sharon Colman, narrated by Addison Anderson,
music by Peter Gosling].
Meet the educator
Emma Bryce · Educator
About TED-Ed
TED-Ed Original lessons feature the
words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators.
Exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal – Tara
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Homelessness, hunger and shame:
poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people
in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty
years ago. It can happen very quickly. Many people in the United States fall
through the social safety net. In the structurally weak mining region of the
Appalachians, it has become almost normal for people to go shopping with food
stamps. And those who lose their home often have no choice but to live in a car.
There are so many homeless people in Los Angeles that relief organizations have
started to build small wooden huts to provide them with a roof over their heads.
The number of homeless children has also risen dramatically, reaching 1.5
million, three times more than during the Great Depression the 1930s. A
documentary about the fate of the poor in the United States today. We closed
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As the year comes to a close, it’s
time to take a look at some of the most memorable events and images of 2019.
Events covered in this essay (the last of a three-part photo summary of the
year) include pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, anti-government
protests in Chile and Iraq, a toxic sky over New Delhi, an all-female team of
spacewalkers, a planned “storming” of Area 51, the aftermath of Hurricane
Dorian, and much more. See also “Top 25 News Photos of 2019” and “2019 in Photos: Part 1” and “2019 in Photos: Part 2.” The series comprises 120
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Police in riot gear move through a cloud of tear gas as they detain a protester at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in Hong Kong, on November 18, 2019. (Ng Han Guan / AP)
Police in
riot gear move through a cloud of tear gas as they detain a protester at Hong
Kong Polytechnic University, in Hong Kong, on November 18, 2019. #
Ng Han Guan
/ AP
This photo provided by NASA shows the eye of Hurricane Dorian, as seen from the International Space Station on September 2, 2019. (Nick Hague / NASA via AP)
This photo
provided by NASA shows the eye of Hurricane Dorian, as seen from the International
Space Station on September 2, 2019. #
Nick Hague /
NASA via AP
Damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on the Great Abaco island town of Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, September 2, 2019. Picture taken September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Dante Carrer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC1F32CE7750
Men survey
damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on the Great Abaco island town of
Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 2, 2019. #
Dante Carrer
/ Reuters
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 05: BMX rider Logan Martin rides at Elanora Skatepark on September 05, 2019 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)
BMX rider
Logan Martin rides at Elanora Skatepark on September 5, 2019, in Gold Coast,
Australia. #
Chris Hyde /
Getty
WOODSTOCK, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 12: (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission of 1174135592 with alternate crop) “Novecento”, a taxidermy horse suspended from the ceiling, created by artist Maurizio Cattelan, is seen at Blenheim Palace on September 12, 2019 in Woodstock, England. The Italian artist is known as the prankster of the art world. His most notable piece being “America” a solid gold usable toilet which had art lovers queuing to use when it was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
“Novecento,”
a taxidermied horse suspended from the ceiling, created by artist Maurizio
Cattelan, is seen at Blenheim Palace on September 12, 2019, in Woodstock,
England. #
Leon Neal /
Getty
CHICHESTER, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 15: 18 month-old Georgia Ricketts sits in a 1934 ERA R3A once driven by the famous racing driver Raymond Mays, which her father maintains and looks after on day three of the Goodwood Revival Festival at Goodwood on September 15, 2019 in Chichester, England. Thousands of classic car enthusiasts and fans of all things vintage have attended this year’s festival, celebrating the styles and cars of decades gone, with visitors wearing period dress from the 1940’s to 1960’s. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)
18-month-old
Georgia Ricketts sits in her father’s 1934 ERA R3A—once driven by the famous
racing driver Raymond Mays—on day three of the Goodwood Revival Festival in
Chichester, England, on September 15, 2019. #
Kiran Ridley
/ Getty
A man poses as if he is going to “Naruto run” at an entrance to Area 51 as an influx of tourists responding to a call to ‘storm’ Area 51, a secretive U.S. military base believed by UFO enthusiasts to hold government secrets about extra-terrestrials, is expected in Rachel, Nevada, U.S. September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart – RC14E0DF0BA0
A man poses
as if he is going to “Naruto run” at an entrance to Area 51 as an
influx of tourists responded to a call to “storm” Area 51, a
secretive U.S. military base believed by UFO enthusiasts to hold government
secrets about extra-terrestrials, in Rachel, Nevada, on September 20, 2019.
While millions showed interest in the event posted on social media, fewer than
200 people showed up, and, according to reports, none made their way on to the
base. #
Jim Urquhart
/ Reuters
People run as Haiti’s Senator Jean Marie Ralph Fethiere (PHTK) fires a gun in the air, injuring Chery Dieu-Nalio, a photographer for Associated Press, while facing opposition supporters in the parking lot of the Haitian Parliament and Senate, as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of nominated Prime Minister Fritz William Michel, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC1B2F462E20
People run
as Haiti’s Senator Jean Marie Ralph Féthière fires a gun in the air, injuring
Chery Dieu-Nalio, a photographer for the Associated Press, while facing
opposition supporters in the parking lot of the Haitian Parliament and Senate,
as the government attempted to confirm the appointment of nominated Prime
Minister Fritz William Michel, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on September 23, 2019.
#
Andres
Martinez Casares / Reuters
LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 25: Dame Helen Mirren attends the Premiere Screening of new Sky Atlantic drama “Catherine The Great” at The Curzon Mayfair on September 25, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Sky)
Dame Helen
Mirren is carried as she attends the premiere screening of the new drama Catherine
the Great at The Curzon Mayfair in London, England, on September 25, 2019. #
David M.
Benett / Getty for Sky
A frog is pictured on a lotus leaf in a pond after rain in Lalitpur, Nepal September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC1CD5467020
A frog is pictured
on a lotus leaf in a pond after rain in Lalitpur, Nepal, on September 26, 2019.
#
Navesh
Chitrakar / Reuters
As seen from the International Space Station (ISS), the second stage of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft deploys shortly after the rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 25, 2019. The Russian rocket was carrying the U.S. astronaut Jessica Meir, the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and the United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori to the ISS. (NASA)
As seen from
the International Space Station (ISS), the second stage of the Soyuz MS-15
spacecraft deploys shortly after the rocket launched from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 25, 2019. The Russian rocket was carrying
the U.S. astronaut Jessica Meir, the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, and the
United Arab Emirates astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori to the ISS. #
NASA
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a heavy machine gun during combat with Russian-backed separatists on the front line near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on September 28, 2019. (Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Getty)
A Ukrainian
serviceman fires a heavy machine gun during combat with Russian-backed
separatists on the front line near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on September 28,
2019. #
Anatolii
Stepanov / AFP / Getty
Militia members march in formation past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People’s Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter – RC131C36CE50
Militia
members march in formation past Tiananmen Square during the military parade
marking the 70th founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, on its
National Day in Beijing, China, on October 1, 2019. #
Thomas Peter
/ Reuters
Botham Jean’s younger brother Brandt Jean hugs former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her following her 10-year prison sentence for murder at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Texas, U.S. October 2, 2019. Tom Fox/Pool via REUTERS MANDATORY CREDIT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC12CC20A990
Botham
Jean’s younger brother, Brandt Jean, hugs former Dallas police officer Amber
Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her following her 10-year
prison sentence for the murder of Botham Jean, at the Frank Crowley Courts
Building in Dallas, Texas, on October 2, 2019. #
Tom Fox /
Pool via Reuters
Mounted police advance on demonstrators protesting the president near the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, on October 3, 2019. (Dolores Ochoa / AP)
Mounted
police advance on demonstrators protesting against President Lenín Moreno, near
the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, on October 3, 2019. #
Dolores
Ochoa / AP
Police motorcycles lead a procession ahead of the casket carrying New York City Police Department officer Brian Mulkeen from his funeral service at the Sacred Heart Church in Monroe, New York, on October 4, 2019. Mulkeen was killed while making an arrest, when another police officer inadvertently shot him. (Mike Segar / Reuters)
Police
motorcycles lead a procession ahead of the casket carrying New York City Police
Department officer Brian Mulkeen from his funeral service at the Sacred Heart
Church in Monroe, New York, on October 4, 2019. Mulkeen was killed while making
an arrest, when another police officer inadvertently shot him. #
Mike Segar /
Reuters
Jerry Rowe uses a garden hose to save his home amid swirling embers on Beaufait Avenue from the Saddleridge fire in Granada Hills, California, on October 11, 2019. (Michael Owen Baker / AP)
Jerry Rowe
uses a garden hose to save his home, amid swirling embers on Beaufait Avenue,
from the Saddleridge fire in Granada Hills, California, on October 11, 2019. #
Michael Owen
Baker / AP
A masked Kashmiri man with his head covered with barbed wire attends a protest after Friday prayers during restrictions following the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government, in Srinagar, October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Ismail – RC1B5A586660
A masked
Kashmiri man with his head covered with barbed wire attends a protest after
Friday prayers during restrictions following the scrapping of the special
constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government, in Srinagar, on
October 11, 2019. #
Danish
Ismail / Reuters
WESTERVILLE, OHIO – OCTOBER 15: Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), billionaire Tom Steyer, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former tech executive Andrew Yang, former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and former housing secretary Julian Castro at the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. A record 12 presidential hopefuls are participating in the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Democratic
presidential candidates, from left: Representative Tulsi Gabbard, billionaire
Tom Steyer, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders,
former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, South Bend, Indiana,
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former tech executive Andrew Yang, former Representative
Beto O’Rourke, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and former Housing Secretary Julian
Castro, at the start of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein
University in Westerville, Ohio, on October 15, 2019. #
Chip
Somodevilla / Getty
A hiker walks in the Zillertal Alps during an autumn day near the village of Ginzling, Austria, October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner – RC128ACBAEE0
A hiker
walks in the Zillertal Alps during an autumn day near the village of Ginzling,
Austria, on October 15, 2019. #
Lisi Niesner
/ Reuters
Trains in a Shinkansen bullet-train rail yard in Nagano, Japan, sit in floodwater due to heavy rains caused by Hagibis on October 13, 2019. (Kyodo / Reuters)
Trains sit
in floodwater in a Shinkansen bullet-train rail yard in Nagano, Japan, due to
heavy rains caused by Typhoon Hagibis on October 13, 2019. #
Kyodo /
Reuters
President Donald J. Trump meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressional leadership Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President
Donald J. Trump meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional
leadership on October 16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. #
Shealah
Craighead / The White House
In this photo released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, U.S. astronauts Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch pose for a photo in the International Space Station. On Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, the two are scheduled to perform a spacewalk to replace a broken battery charger. (NASA via AP)
U.S.
astronauts Jessica Meir, left, and Christina Koch pose for a photo in the
International Space Station on October 17, 2019. The two performed a spacewalk
the following day to replace a broken battery charger—the first all-female
spacewalk in history. #
NASA via AP
A woman covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of the town of Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, along the border with Turkey in the northeastern Hassakeh province, on October 16, 2019, with smoke from tire fires billowing in the background. The fires were set to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes that are part of operation “Peace Spring.” (Delil Souleiman / AFP via Getty)
A woman
covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of the
town of Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, along the border
with Turkey, on October 16, 2019, with smoke from tire fires billowing in the
background. The fires were set to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes
that were part of the cross-border operation “Peace Spring,” aimed at
removing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, after the United States withdrew
troops from the region. #
Delil
Souleiman / AFP / Getty
The surfers Leina Decker (left), Rory Chalupnik (center), and Reid Decker await waves while dressed as mariachi musicians during the 16th Annual Blackies Halloween Surf event in Newport Beach, California, on October 26, 2019. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty)
Surfers
Leina Decker (left), Rory Chalupnik (center), and Reid Decker await waves while
dressed as mariachi musicians during the 16th Annual Blackies Halloween Surf
event in Newport Beach, California, on October 26, 2019. #
Frederic J.
Brown / AFP / Getty
The flag-draped casket of late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings is carried through National Statuary Hall during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019. (Al Drago / Reuters)
The
flag-draped casket of late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings is carried
through National Statuary Hall during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol in
Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019. #
Al Drago /
Pool via Reuters
TOPSHOT – In this photo taken on October 29, 2019, a wild elephant stops a car on a road at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima province. – The driver escaped unhurt with his car slightly damaged. (Photo by Pratya CHUTIPASKUL / AFP) (Photo by PRATYA CHUTIPASKUL/AFP via Getty Images)
A wild
elephant stops a car on a road at Khao Yai National Park in Thailand’s Nakhon
Ratchasima province on October 29, 2019. The driver escaped unhurt with his car
slightly damaged. #
Pratya
Chutipaskul / AFP / Getty
TOPSHOT – Men, suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group, gather in a prison cell in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on October 26, 2019. – Kurdish sources say around 12,000 IS fighters including Syrians, Iraqis as well as foreigners from 54 countries are being held in Kurdish-run prisons in northern Syria. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)
Men,
suspected of being affiliated with the Islamic State group, gather in a prison
cell in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on October 26, 2019. Kurdish
sources said around 12,000 IS fighters including Syrians, Iraqis as well as
foreigners from 54 countries are being held in Kurdish-run prisons in northern
Syria. #
Fadel Senna
/ AFP / Getty
TOPSHOT – Iraqi students pose for selfies with a member of the security forces during ongoing anti-government protests in the central city of Diwaniyah on October 31, 2019. – Iraq’s leaders scrambled to produce a solution to mounting protests demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi that have so far left more than 250 dead. Demonstrations first erupted on October 1 over corruption and unemployment and have since ballooned, with protesters now insisting on a government overhaul. (Photo by Haidar HAMDANI / AFP) (Photo by HAIDAR HAMDANI/AFP via Getty Images)
Iraqi
students pose for selfies with a member of the security forces during ongoing
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populist president has vowed to lift the fortunes of the rural poor. But high
on the Andean plateau, one remote community still has no access to clean
water—and one man has the awesome responsibility of ensuring his people are not
parched.
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| Michele Bertelli, Felix Lill, and Javier Sauras
It’s almost seven o’clock in the
morning. The thermometer does not dare to
peek above thirty degrees Fahrenheit but the sun bites every time it manages to
find its way through the clouds of the high Andean plateau. Jacinto Sirpa, a
peasant and member of the Aymara indigenous community, pulls down his
camouflage hat over a woolen cap. Everything about him has the flavor of the
Earth: chestnut coat, gray trousers, brown sneakers; a pair of beige gloves
protects his copper hands while he ropes his old donkey, loaded with four large
empty drums. Sirpa focuses his umber eyes, surrounded by wrinkles, on a distant
barren slope and starts walking. He has to reach the slope, one hour walking
from his home, to get some water. Just as he has done throughout his entire
life. The same journey he has been repeating for sixty years now; 22,000 days
without clean drinking water.
“I have never had drinking water,”
says the farmer, shyly. “I have never drunk clean water.”
Jacinto Sirpa Condori is not one of
a kind. Two million people don’t have drinking water piped into their houses in
Bolivia and half of the population lacks basic sanitation. Sirpa lives in a
rural community that is within the city of Viacha, two hours from La Paz, the
capital. Despite living so close to the Presidential palace, Sirpa’s life is
harsh. At 13,000 feet above sea level, even oxygen is a scarce resource.
***
The sun shines high in the sky, and Sirpa is back in his house of mud and straw. Using a
colander, he filters the water he just brought from the pond and prepares coca
tea. Sirpa knows better than anyone that the liquid he collects daily in the
wetlands is not potable. His loneliness says so.
Jacinta Sirpa on his way to his only
source of water – through a barren landscape, an hour away from home.
“These days my wife is sick, my
children are sick; it seems that the land is also tired and no longer bears
good fruits,” he says in a sad voice. Quiet, with simple and smooth movements,
he pours the mate tea on the ground before taking a small mouthful. It is an
offering to the Pachamama goddess so that she may look kindly upon him.
“Hopefully, one day we will have water, and maybe we could irrigate and sow the
fields. Do something.”
Sirpa believes in indigenous reciprocity
towards Mother Earth, to whom he always gives something when there is something
that he takes. However, these days he prefers to ask government institutions to
address his problem of water scarcity rather than praying to the goddess. After
leading the cattle to graze, the farmer uses one of the drums to wash himself.
Then, he slithers into a red-and-black poncho, takes his ceremonial instruments
and changes the camouflage hat out for a dark fedora. This year he has been
appointed “Uma Mallku” of his community: overseer of the waters. In the Aymara
society, Mallkus are rotating positions, their holder charged with ensuring the
community has enough water. From a shack, he pulls out two large, rolled-up
sheets, with documents and drawings, and gets back on track, crossing the
infinite vastness of the “Altiplano.”
Sirpa speaking to the community. As
the Uma Mallku, or Overseer of Water, he listens to the community’s concerns,
writes down their suggestions and takes them to the local authority. Then, he
will come back with answers from theofficials.
“Governmental institutions don’t
reach these places,” he says while strolling. In Central Coniri, the small
rural community where he lives, they feel forgotten. Recently, several of the
neighboring towns have inaugurated water wells and pipelines. According to a
joint study carried out by UNICEF and the World Health Organization,
twenty-four percent of the Bolivian population has gained access to improved
water resources in the last fifteen years. Yet in rural areas, only fifty-seven
percent of the population have pipelines installed and working in their plots.
This ongoing shortage has drawn farmers towards the city like water emptying
into a drain.
“Many have gone to the cities,” says
Sirpa. “If there is no water, people cannot live.”
The Uma Mallku looks tired but he is
relentless at heart. He will later gather his people to explain how the water
works are progressing. Sirpa will listen to their concerns, write down their
suggestions and take them to the local authority. Then, he will come back with
the answers from officials. He is caught in a crossfire. His neighbors are
angry because nobody is teaching them how to manage the water system that will
soon be built. The city has promised him to send someone to give courses on
technical issues, water pricing, sustainability and basic hygiene. Some of the
elders will have to learn how to use a faucet and about the perks of washing
their hands. Nothing has happened yet. In the belly of the “Altiplano,” time
stands still.
As the Uma Mallku, Sirpa is entitled
to wear a red and black poncho, ceremonial instruments, and a dark fedora. In
the Aymara society, Mallkus are rotating positions that ensure the proper
functioning of thecommunity.
In 1990, less than half of the
Bolivian population had water at home. Evo Morales, the current president of
Bolivia, remembers well the days of thirst; he is, like Sirpa, a son of Aymara
peasants and spent his early childhood in the high Andean plateau. He was born
one kilometer away from a water well and his mother had to walk every day to
bring water home. That may explain why one of his first acts after he came to
power was the creation of a Ministry of Water. He also promoted a resolution at the UN, in 2010, that designated access to safe water
and sanitation as an “essential to the full enjoyment of life and all human rights.”
GDP growth
(6.8 percent in 2013), the Human Development Index, and the Gini Coefficient tell how Bolivia has progressed under Morales’ rule.
However, in his eagerness to exert control, the president changed the head of
the Ministry of Water—a precious political position—eight times in three terms.
A minister with a technical background, José Antonio Zamora, stayed in office
longer than anyone else (2012 – 2015). Although Bolivia has already reached the
Millennium Development Goals, Zamora says that “much remains to be done,”
especially in rural areas.
Since Evo Morales took office in
2005, water has been a main issue in Bolivia’s politics. Despite that, almost
two million people still live without access to a reliable source of water.
Here, Sirpa attends a meeting with leaders from other communities to speak
about waterscarcity.
“The president created the Agenda
2025, which sets specific targets for the elimination of extreme human poverty
and coverage of basic services, including obviously water and sanitation,”
Zamora explains. In 2025, Bolivia will turn 200 as an independent country and,
to commemorate the Bicentennial, Morales’ government created a comprehensive
development program. However, some of its points clash directly with Bolivia’s
economic model, which is based in the exploitation of its natural resources.
Sirpa, the quiet Andean peasant,
admires “el Evo,” as he calls him, but his life has not improved substantially
in the nine years Morales has been leading the country. Two of the neighboring
towns, Achica Arriba and Achica Baja, recently built new drinking water
distribution systems with money given by NGOs and international development
agencies. Now people from Central Coniri look at their nearby countrymen with
envy. That’s why Sirpa keeps on walking through the wasteland, carrying
blueprints and documents. He has to control, along with the members of his
community, the advances on the well they are digging.
***
Jacinto Sirpa Condori sits on the
ground, surrounded by his neighbors in the
shade of a huge blue drill. Women lay down and open their multicolored blankets
to prepare the feast. People from Central Coniri have gathered for an “apthapi,”
an Aymara tradition of meeting and sharing. Everybody has brought a little
something: there are boiled and freeze-dried potatoes, beans, yucca, fried
fish, cheese, chili peppers and llama meat.
In the shadow of a drill, people
from Central Coniri gather for an “apthapi,” an Aymara tradition of meeting and
sharing. Everybody has brought something to share; beans, yucca, fried fish and
even llama meat.
On the horizon glows the snow of the
glaciers, topping 20,000 feet-high peaks. Sirpa pays attention to the people
around him and patiently meets their demands. “We are drilling down to one
hundred feet and there is water,” he announces, smiling. “There is water!”
Michele, Felix and Javier worked on
“Bolivia’s Everyday Water War,” an interactive documentary that follows the
struggle in the Andean country to improve water access and sanitation.
Bolivia’s Everyday Water War is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation through the Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Program, a
media-funding project operated by theEuropean Journalism Center).https://www.facebook.com/bewwdoc; Twitter@beww_en.
Not so long ago, putting pen to paper
was a fundamental feature of daily life. Journaling and diary-keeping were
commonplace, and people exchanged handwritten letters with friends, loved ones,
and business associates.
While longhand communication is more
time-consuming and onerous, there’s evidence that people may in some cases lose
out when they abandon handwriting for keyboard-generated text.
Psychologists have long understood
that personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognize and come to
terms with their feelings. Since the 1980s, studies have found that “the writing cure,” which normally involves
writing about one’s feelings every day for 15 to 30 minutes, can lead to
measurable physical and mental health benefits. These benefits include everything from lower stress and fewer depression symptoms
to improved immune function. And there’s evidence that handwriting may better
facilitate this form of therapy than typing.
A commonly cited 1999
study in the Journal of Traumatic
Stress found that writing about a stressful life experience by hand, as
opposed to typing about it, led to higher levels of self-disclosure and
translated to greater therapeutic benefits. It’s possible that these findings
may not hold up among people today, many of whom grew up with computers and are
more accustomed to expressing themselves via typed text. But experts who study
handwriting say there’s reason to believe something is lost when people abandon
the pen for the keyboard.
Psychologists have long understood
that personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognize and come to
terms with their feelings.
“When we write a letter of the
alphabet, we form it component stroke by component stroke, and that process of
production involves pathways in the brain that go near or through parts that
manage emotion,” says Virginia Berninger, a professor emerita of education at
the University of Washington. Hitting a fully formed letter on a keyboard is a
very different sort of task — one that doesn’t involve these same brain
pathways. “It’s possible that there’s not the same connection to the emotional
part of the brain” when people type, as opposed to writing in longhand,
Berninger says.
Writing by hand may also improve a
person’s memory for new information. A 2017 study
in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that brain regions
associated with learning are more active when people completed a task by hand,
as opposed to on a keyboard. The authors of that study say writing by hand may
promote “deep encoding” of new information in ways that keyboard writing does
not. And other researchers have argued that writing by hand promotes learning and cognitive development
in ways keyboard writing can’t match.
The fact that handwriting is a
slower process than typing may be another perk, at least in some contexts. A 2014 study in the journal Psychological Science found that
students who took notes in longhand tested higher on measures of learning and
comprehension than students who took notes on laptops.
“The primary advantage of longhand
notes was that it slowed people down,” says Daniel Oppenheimer, co-author of
the study and a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. While
the students who typed could take down what they heard word for word, “people
who took longhand notes could not write fast enough to take verbatim notes —
instead they were forced to rephrase the content in their own words,”
Oppenheimer says. “To do that, people had to think deeply about the material
and actually understand the arguments. This helped them learn the material
better.”
Slowing down and writing by hand may
come with other advantages. Oppenheimer says that because typing is fast, it
tends to cause people to employ a less diverse group of words. Writing longhand
allows people more time to come up with the most appropriate word, which may
facilitate better self-expression. He says there’s also speculation that
longhand note-taking can help people in certain situations form closer
connections. One example: “A doctor who takes notes on a patient’s symptoms by
longhand may build more rapport with patients than doctors who are typing into
a computer,” he says. Also, a lot Berninger’s NIH-funded work found that
learning to write first in print and then in cursive helps young people develop
critical reading and thinking skills.
Finally, there’s a mountain of
research that suggests online forms of communication are more toxic than
offline dialogue. Most of the researchers who study online communication
speculate that a lack of face-to-face interaction and a sense of invisibility
are to blame for the nasty and brutish quality of many online interactions. But
the impersonal nature of keyboard-generated text may also, in some small way,
be contributing to the observed toxicity. When a person writes by hand, they
have to invest more time and energy than they would with a keyboard. And
handwriting, unlike typed text, is unique to each individual. This is why
people usually value a handwritten note more highly than an email or text,
Berninger says. If words weren’t quite so easy to produce, it’s possible that
people would treat them — and maybe each other — with a little more care.
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Mind time and clock time
are two totally different things. They flow at varying rates.
The chronological passage of the
hours, days, and years on clocks and calendars is a steady, measurable
phenomenon. Yet our perception of time shifts constantly, depending on the activities we’re
engaged in, our age, and even how much rest we get. An upcoming paper in the
journal European Review by
Duke University mechanical engineering professor Adrian Bejan, explains the
physics behind changing senses of time and reveals why the years seem to fly by
the older we get. (The paper, sent to Quartz by its author, has been
peer-reviewed, edited, and has been approved for publication but a date has not
yet been set.)
Bejan is obsessed with flow and, basically, believes physics principles can explain everything. He has written extensively about how the principles of flow in physics dictate and explain the movement of abstract
concepts, like economics. Last year, he won the Franklin Institute’s Benjamin Franklin Medal
for “his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions…and for constructal theory,
which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and
social systems.”
In his latest paper, he examines the
mechanics of the human mind and how these relate to our understanding of time,
providing a physical explanation for our changing mental perception as we age.
The
Mind’s Eye
According to Bejan—who reviewed
previous studies in a range of fields on time, vision, cognition, and mental
processing to reach his conclusion—time as we experience it represents
perceived changes in mental stimuli. It’s related to what we see. As physical
mental-image processing time and the rapidity of images we take
in changes, so does our perception of time. And in some sense, each of us
has our own “mind time” unrelated to the passing of hours, days, and years on
clocks and calendars, which is affected by the amount of rest we get and other
factors. Bejan is the first person to look at time’s passage through this
particular lens, he tells Quartz, but his conclusions rest on findings by other
scientists who have studied physical and mental process related to the passage of
time.
These changes in stimuli give us a
sense of time’s passage. He writes:
The present is different from the
past because the mental viewing has changed, not because somebody’s clock
rings. The “clock time” that unites all the live flow systems, animate and
inanimate, is measurable. The day-night period lasts 24 hours on all
watches, wall clocks and bell towers. Yet, physical time is not mind time. The
time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another.
Time is happening in the mind’s eye.
It is related to the number of mental images the brain encounters and organizes
and the state of our brains as we age. When we get older, the rate at
which changes in mental images are perceived decreases because of several
transforming physical features, including vision, brain complexity, and later
in life, degradation of the pathways that transmit information. And this shift
in image processing leads to the sense of time speeding up.
Clock time and mind time over a
lifetime. From Adrian Bejan.
This effect is related to saccadic
eye movement. Saccades are unconscious, jerk-like eye movements that occur
a few times a second. In between saccades, your eyes fixate and the brain
processes the visual information it has received. All of this happens
unconsciously, without any effort on your part. In human infants, those
fixation periods are shorter than in adults.
There’s an inversely proportional
relationship between stimuli processing and the sense of time speeding by,
Bejan says. So, when you are young and experiencing lots of new
stimuli—everything is new—time actually seems to be passing more slowly. As you
get older, the production of mental images slows, giving the sense that time
passes more rapidly.
Fatigue also influences saccades,
creating overlaps and pauses in these eye movements that lead to crossed
signals. The tired brain can’t transfer the information effectively when it’s
simultaneously trying to see and make sense of the visual
information. It’s designed to do these things separately.
This is what leads to athletes’ poor
performance when exhausted. Their processing powers get muddled and their sense
of timing is off. They can’t see or respond rapidly to new situations.
Another factor in time’s perceived
passage is how the brain develops. As the brain and body grow more complex and
there are more neural connections, the pathways that information travels are
increasingly complicated. They branch like a tree and this change in processing
influences our experience of time, according to Bejan.
The brain’s complexity changes our sense of time. From Adrian Bejan.
Finally, brain degradation as we age
influences perception. Studies of saccadic eye movements in elderly people show
longer latency periods, for example. The time in which the brain processes the
visual information gets longer, which makes it more difficult for the elderly
to solve complex problems. They “see” more slowly but feel time passing faster,
Bejan argues.
A
Lifetime to Measure By
Bejan became interested in this topic
more than a half century ago. As a young athlete on a prestigious Romanian basketball team, he noticed that time slowed down when he was rested and
that this enabled him to perform better. Not only that, he could predict team
performance in a game based on the time of day it was scheduled. He tells
Quartz:
Early games, at 11 a.m., were poor,
a killer; afternoon and evening games were much better. At 11 AM we were
sleepwalking, never mind what each of us did during the night. It became so
clear to me that I knew at the start of the season, when the schedule was
announced, which games will be bad. Games away, after long trips and bad sleep
were poor, home games were better, for the same reason. In addition, I had a
great coach who preached constantly that the first duty of the player is to
sleep regularly and well, and to live clean.
Now he’s experienced how “mind time”
changes over the much longer span of his whole life. “During the past 20 years
I noticed how my time is slipping away, faster and faster, and how I am
complaining that I have less and less time,” he says. It’s a sentiment he hears
echoed by many around him.
Still, he notes, we’re not entirely
prisoners of time. The clocks will continue to tick strictly, days will go by
on the calendar, and the years will seem to fly by ever faster. By following
his basketball coach’s advice—sleeping well and living clean—Bejan says we can
alter our perceptions. This, in some sense, slows down mind time.
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What’s it like to grow up within a
group of people who exult in demonizing … everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper
shares details of life inside America’s most controversial church and describes
how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this
extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization,
along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across
ideological lines.
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Be deliberate about cultivating
empathy for “enemies.”
Before getting into a conversation full of intense disagreement, you can lay
the groundwork for success by making deliberate efforts to understand the perspective
of groups with ideas you oppose. Whether Republicans or Democrats, city-dwellers
or rural farmers, consider the groups you tend to write off. Who are they?
Given their experiences, can you understand why they hold the positions they
do? What ideas do you share? When you’re intentional about searching for
understanding and common ground, you’ll be better at engaging people with
opposing ideas on the merits — instead of the mental caricatures humans often
form of one another.
Practice engaging when the stakes
are low. Remember that the strategies
mentioned in this talk aren’t natural; they’re skills we have to learn and
develop in ourselves. Disagreements are common, but the more intense the
disagreement, the harder it is to remain calm enough to engage effectively. To
practice, be on the lookout for low-stakes disagreements that appear in your life.
Answering an angry tweet from a stranger requires less time and emotional energy
than staying cool in a long conversation with a close friend about a divisive
subject. Reaching out when the stakes are low strengthens our ability to engage
when stress levels and potential costs are higher.
How can the US recover after the
negative, partisan presidential election of 2016? Social psychologist Jonathan
Haidt studies the morals that form the basis of our political choices. In
conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, he describes the patterns of
thinking and historical causes that have led to such sharp divisions in America
— and provides a vision for how the country might move forward.
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CivilPolitics.org educates groups and individuals who are trying to bridge
moral divisions by connecting them with scientific research into the political
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scientists, humanists, and other scholars who share a concern about a growing
problem: the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.”
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Philadelphia-based
photographer and videographer Bruce W. Berry Jr. brings together images from the International
Space Station (ISS) in his new time-lapse video, The World Below. Berry used public content from NASA
to form the meditative short film that reads like a supersized version of
today’s popular drone landscape videos. The World Below offers a glimpse at the
vast scale of our planet, with portions of the ISS in-frame to provide
additional perspective. The film compares richly textured, abstracted
topography with dense networks of bright lights to showcase the powerful impact
of humans on the planet.
All video and time-lapse sequences
were taken by astronauts onboard the ISS. Berry then edited, color graded,
denoised, and stabilized the footage to create the seamless quality of the
final film. If you’re interested to learn the specifics of the clips’ locations,
the filmmaker lists them out to the best of his knowledge in the video notes.
Berry created a similar video in 2013, but
decided to create the newer version due to the wealth of content that has
become available since his original take. The ISS makes 14.54 orbits around the
Earth every day, providing ample opportunity for new views. You can see more of
Berry’s photography portfolio on his website,
and watch more videos on his Vimeo channel. (via Vimeo Staff Picks)
Photographer Natalie
Lennard, who works as Miss Aniela, creates lavish scenes centered around elegantly dressed
models. While each image might seem, at first glance, like a straightforward
luxury fashion shoot, further inspection reveals surreal details. A canary
yellow tulle gown morphs into birds, and ocean water splashes out of a painting
frame.
Miss Aniela’s fantastical scenes are
created using a combination of on-site shoots with practical effects, along
with extensive post-production and even bespoke C.G.I. (as for the 20,000 fish
forming the dress worn by a deep sea diver model in “She Shoal”). The
photographer explains that all images are shot on location with the model posed
and lit in-frame. “Sometimes I do not know whether the image will be largely
‘raw’ and not require overt surrealism added,” Aniela shares, “until I go
through the process to feel what is right for each piece.”
The U.K.-based artist has been
working as a fine art photographer for 13 years, getting her start with
self-portraits as a university student. In some works, she incorporates direct
references to paintings from the art historical canon. Aniela has been working
in her current style since 2011, and shares with Colossal that she has noticed
a rising interest in her work from art collectors, as the lines between fine
art and fashion are increasingly blurred.
You can explore more of Miss
Aniela’s immersive worlds on Instagram,
and go behind the scenes of production in her explanatory blog posts.
Fine art prints are available via Saatchi Art.
“What He Bequeathed” (2016)
“She Shoal” (2019)
“Poster & Plumage” (2016)
“Enter the Golden Dragon” (2018)
“Thawed Fortress” (2015)
“Gilt” (2016)
“Scarlet Song” (2013)
“Away with the Canaries” (2013)
“Pokerface” (2015)
Ing’s Peace Project
Finished “Peace” artwork
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Russell. Finished artwork, after the written comments
by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
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Democratic Party? Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
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the one who committed it. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
Although more Americans than ever
are worried about climate change, less than 40 percent expect to make “major
sacrifices” to tackle the problem. But according to Greta Thunberg, a Swedish
teenager and climate activist, drastic action is exactly what’s needed to
address the problem. William Brangham sits down with Thunberg to discuss
galvanizing young people across the globe to the climate cause.
Thursday on the NewsHour, the
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A year after Germany’s Bayer Group
took over Monsanto, and it’s struggling to deal with the US seed giant’s
controversial reputation. Now Bayer is also liable for Monsanto’s legal bills –
which are starting to mount alarmingly. Roundup, a herbicide containing
glyphosate sold worldwide by Monsanto has long been suspected of causing
cancer. A California court has just awarded more than $2 billion in damages to
a couple who had claimed that their use of the pesticide caused them to develop
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . Bayer’s share price halved last year, and the
consequences are already making themselves felt in the company itself: Around
12,000 jobs worldwide are to be cut in the next few years, a considerable
proportion of them in Germany. CEO Werner Baumann, who pushed for the merger,
is coming under increasing pressure. Voicing criticism, a majority of
shareholders voted against absolving Baumann and other managers of their
responsibility in the merger. Bayer is in the midst of its greatest crisis. The
film traces the effects of the merger and investigates potential new health
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actually play down or ignore the dangers? And does Bayer really distance itself
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Souls” by Ernest Zacharevic. All images provided by Splash and Burn.
Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of palm oil, the harvesting of which has been shown
to have extremely adverse effects on wildlife and natural resources, including
deforestation, fires, and the displacement of people and animals. Lithuanian
artist Ernest Zacharevic (previously) witnessed this devastation during his
time spent photographing and traveling throughout the country, and decided to
found the initiative Splash and Burn to spread public awareness about
the resource’s inhumane production.
“A state of global environmental
crisis is defining our generation,” Zacharevic tells Colossal. “As consumers,
we are so disconnected from the source of our commodities that we do not
recognize the impact of our daily choices. This project is an effort
to bridge that gap.”
“Save Our Souls” (2018) by Ernest
Zacharevic
The organization’s name comes from slash-and-burn,
the cheap practice of burning land to clear the way for new plantations, a
method that releases toxic smoke, and has been linked to more than 500,000
respiratory infections. For two years Zacharevic researched these issues
effecting Indonesia’s population, meeting with NGOs, locals, and wildlife sites
to educate himself on the organizations fighting against the practices and
attempting to heal from their destruction.
After researching the area and its
local organizations, like the Orangutan Information
Centre, the Lithuanian artist invited
several fellow creatives to respond to the native landscape and the palm oil crisis
through art installations. Since February, international artists have created
murals, sculptures, and other works throughout Sumatra. Pieces include an
orangutan mural painted by VHILS, Isaac Cordal’s miniature hazmat suit
installation, and Zacharevic’s plantation intervention in which he inserted the
message SOS into the landscape’s trees.
Mural by Alexandre Farto aka VHILS,
image credit: Ernest Zacharevic
“I wanted to communicate the
magnitude of the problem to a wider audience, as well as provide creative
outlook, hope, and inspiration to local communities and conservationists,” says
Zacharevic in a press release about the work. “From the ground, you would not
suspect anything more than just another palm oil plantation, the aerial view
however reveals an SOS distress signal. ‘Save our Souls’ is a message communicated
to those at a distance, a reminder of the connectedness we share with nature.
As more of the forests are lost, we lose a little bit of ourselves in the
process.”
To draw attention to the ecological
devastation wrought by palm oil farming in Southeast Asia, the Splash
and Burn project (previously) creates and documents large and
small-scale art activations. The initiative’s most recent endeavor, titled
REWILD and executed with Spanish artist ESCIF, involved carving a rewind symbol into a palm oil
plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, and creating a short film documenting the
effort. ESCIF explains, “the idea of going back, of rewinding, is an invitation
to reconnect with ourselves; to recover awareness and respect for the earth,
which is the ecosystem of which we are a part.”
The land art intervention took place
on an acquired plantation within a new forest restoration site made possible by
the Sumatran Orangutan Society. After clearing the palms, diverse vegetation has been
re-planted. In a release about the project, Splash and Burn explains that the
restoration site is located on the borders of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most biodiverse places on earth. Sumatra’s
forests—and the wildlife populations within—have shrunk by 40% in the past two
decades, replaced by palm oil, paper pulp, and rubber plantations. Though not
commonly known in the U.S. as a cooking oil, palm oil is the most widely
consumed oil on the planet, found in everything from chocolate and instant
noodles to lipstick and laundry detergent.
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In spring 2019, more than 17,000 Europeans from 33 countries
signed up to have a political argument with a complete stranger. They were part
of “Europe Talks,” a project that organizes one-on-one conversations
between people who disagree — sort of like a Tinder for politics. Editor
Jochen Wegner shares the unexpected things that happened when people met up to
talk — and shows how face-to-face discussions could get a divided world to
rethink itself.
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If
you found yourself on a deserted island, with no hope of being found, what
might be your biggest priorities. If you chose to live, it would no doubt be water
and food, followed by some sort of shelter.
Once
you’ve established these, ensuring your safety and health would soon follow. And should those needs be
met, you could then get to work on improving the quality of your life, for
starters, making all the prior efforts as minimal as possible.
The
less time you have to waste gathering food, repairing your shelter, or running
from danger, the more time you have to spend doing whatever you would like to
do.
Reality
But
this is considerably different than ordinary life. For one, we have different
objectives. We don’t merely eat food to live, we live to eat good foods.
We don’t just care about shelter, we care about curb appeal.
Our
everyday needs are so easily met that almost all our focus and concerns are
directed toward things that are not essential to life, they are just creature
comforts. We are very fortunate to live in a time period when we can concern
ourselves mostly with how we want to improve our lives, not with merely
maintaining that life.
We
have no reason to apologize for this. We don’t live on a deserted island, and
improving our quality of life has value. That we’ve reached a point where most
of our daily efforts are put towards creature comforts rather than necessities
is a fine tribute to human ingenuity. Yet the implications of this are easily
overlooked.
Jobs
Most
jobs are about the icing on the cake. Once you move beyond things that involve
food, water, housing, safety, and health, the necessity of any job begins to
quickly fall into the that grey area where usefulness is purely subjective.
The
point isn’t that these jobs aren’t worthwhile, its that we’re addicted
to the icing, and we should be. Why not improve our lives. But this addiction
keeps us blind to the possibilities.
Technology
We’ve
reached a point when we can realistically discus the possibility that
technology may be able to replace most jobs. This is a scary notion. Yet maybe
it shouldn’t be.
If
the use of technology permits us to produce all of life’s essentials with negligible
manual effort, then all jobs would be related to icing. Any job
losses related to technology would merely determine the amount of icing any of
us would share.
There would no doubt be disparity, but in exchange, the notion of working to
“get by” would be gone. Life would suddenly be merely a matter of how
you decide to use your time – and that has more to do with imagination than
circumstance.
This
is a hard concept to fathom because we’re so accustomed to assessing the value
of our lives by comparing what we possess relative to those around us.
But
isn’t more appealing to judge the value of life by the amount of quality time
we have as our disposal? That is the great equalizer. No matter how much power,
wealth, or influence you have, you’re still getting the same 24 hours a day
that we all get.
The
Island We
don’t live on an isolated island, but we do live on an isolated planet. Maybe
its not so different after all, we just need to get over our addiction.
Consider for a moment what it would mean if you no longer felt compelled to
always have more . If food, water, shelter, health, and safety we’re all
guaranteed to you, might you look at your job differently? Would you feel a bit
more selective on how you use your time??
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child. Not only during pregnancy, you must start eating these foods at the time
when you decide to conceive. Have a look at some foods that you can eat during
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rocket launches. In the United States, NASA Television’s Public and Media
channels are MPEG-2 digital C-band signals carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on
satellite AMC-3, transponder 15C, at 87 degrees west longitude. Downlink
frequency is 4000 MHz, horizontal polarization, with a data rate of 38.86 Mhz,
symbol rate of 28.1115 Ms/s, and ¾ FEC. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)
compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception.
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In downtown Newark, New Jersey,
surrounded by walls of brick and concrete buildings there is a small plot of
land. This peaceful garden is cultivated to create a little heaven on earth for
a simple person who loves nature. In this garden red, pink, orange, yellow,
purple, and other colors of beautiful flowers contrast with varying shades of
green creating a palette of color reminiscent of a Monet artwork. There is a
little table and a few chairs for one or more company to relax in the evening
with a gentle breeze bringing the fragrance of Jasmine and other flowers
mesmerizing us with peace and tranquility in a moment of utopia on earth. Oh
look, Monarch, swallowtail, and other butterflies are dancing around the
flowers tasting the sweetness of nectar! A bee is hovering nearby cleverly
drinking the nectar from a butterfly bush flower, for the first time teaching
me how this is done. At the same time butterflies are using their long
proboscis to pierce deep into the center of the flowers drinking up the nectar
as though through a straw. For many moons and many summers, I have enjoyed my
little plot of heaven on earth. Now it is a time for me to share this with
others to help them calm down and enjoy nature before we leave this earth for
good.
Discover the life of the monarch.
Adult female monarchs lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves. Each
female can lay 400 eggs. These eggs hatch, depending on temperature, in three
to five days. Monarchs spend the caterpillar stage of their lives eating and
growing. The young caterpillar measures about 2 mm and reaches a length of 50
mm. After about two weeks, the caterpillar will be fully-grown and find a place
to attach itself so that it can start the process of metamorphosis. Witness the
monarch’s transformation. It is the only one North American butterfly who
migrate, each year, in large number. Probably no other insect on the Earth make
such a migration. The Monarch can fly more than 100 km in a single day.
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