Category Archives: General

Sept 22nd 2017: Brazil’s Prison Industrial Complex

Originally posted on Latino Media Collective:
What is it like to live in Brazil’s prison system? Brazilian freelance journalist Fernanda Canofre explains to the LMC the dangers of riots, torture, disease, corruption, and racial profiling. All without ever being charged…

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Tiger, Tiger

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More Than Pedestrian: The Magic of Walking

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Morag Rose, University of Sheffield Abandoned Buildings Project 2: Image (c) Jane Samuels, used with permission Public Health England has launched a new campaign “Active 10” to encourage adults to go for a brisk…

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Junk Food is 21st Century Imperialism

Originally posted on Longreads:
From door-to-door deliveries to influencing politics, companies like Nestlé, PepsiCo, and McDonald’s spend big bucks to enmesh themselves in third world markets, and their processed, packaged foods bring obesity and health problems with them. In the first in a…

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Review of Duet by Glen Keane

Originally posted on Focuni:
It is no doubt that this animation is one of the best animations I have ever seen, this almost 4 minute animation captures the true capabilities of traditional animation and that’s not getting started on the…

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TEENS: Make a strawberry cocktail with a difference

Originally posted on Esther Lafferty's Inkwell:
Mammals, and most animals and plants, have two sets of chromosomes in every cell, one from their mum and one from their dad. A few types of birds and some insects, reptiles, amphibians,…

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Most Beautiful Villages Around The World – Dominic Bowkett

Originally posted on Dominic Bowkett:
Popeye Village, is a group of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings located at Anchor Bay in the north-west corner of the Mediterranean island of Malta. Village on the bank of the Niger river, Mali. Hidden…

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Hope

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Climate Change and Cthulhu

Originally posted on northierthanthou:
What could be more evil than working to end all life as we know it? It’s a tough question for me, because I’m not in the habit of using the term ‘evil’ in direct reference to…

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NASA CO2 Visualization

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