Tag Archives: Environment

Fragilité d’un monde / Fragile world

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The Evolution and Meanings of Human Skin Color | Nina Jablonski

Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin color has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into “races.” In this lecture, Leakey … Continue reading

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Plants Talk. Can We Understand?

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How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

[…] Today, chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world – grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia. But how and why did chilis evolve this weird, fiery trick in … Continue reading

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A Balancing Act for Brazil’s Amazonian States: An Economic Memorandum

Brazil’s nine Amazonian states, here collectively referred to as Amazônia, include some of the world’s richest ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest and parts of the Cerrado savanna and Pantanal wetlands. The region is also among Brazil’s poorest socioeconomically. As a … Continue reading

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Crosswind landing of an Airbus A380 💨

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Why they released 1014 Tiny Mice to a London Park

[…] Check out the wholesome goodness that is the Ealing Wildlife Groups project seeing over 1000 of the UKs smallest rodents returned to London.

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A Plague of Rats in Paris | ARTE.tv Documentary

There are an estimated 6 million rats in Paris, more than twice the human population. Since the covid lockdowns, they are becoming ever bolder and have started to invade the streets of the city. How can the city manage the … Continue reading

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‘That just died’: Paleoanthropologist debunks myth about humans

Paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger and his team of “underground astronauts” have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans. … Continue reading

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The Answer is Not a Hut in the Woods

Main channel: / @exurb1a Music used: Simon Anderson’s arrangement of Ave Verum from Choral Voices. And something I threw together on the piano: https://soundcloud.com/exurbia-1/wher…

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