I watched this TED Talk and thought you would find it interesting.
Monica Araya: A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
Learn more about watching TED Talks on all of your favorite platforms: https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-talks/ways-to-get-ted-talks
This came out a little while ago – apologies for the delay in posting. The Pope is speaking out against economic injustice and the latest trend towards equating whole faith groups with any particular negative brush. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/pope-francis-islam-violence-1.3702795. Glad to see statements such as this coming from various people – but I have to wonder how we have ended up in an environment in which something like these needs to be pointed out. Is it not clearly evident to everybody that a such broad, negative stereotypes are inaccurate at best and highly destructive at worst?
On a slightly lighter note, someone made sure that Donald Trump got the wall he has been trying to get – but not exactly in the way he intended: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/trending/donald-trump-star-wall-1.3687158.
I watched this TED Talk and thought you would find it interesting.
eL Seed: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings
Learn more about watching TED Talks on all of your favorite platforms: https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-talks/ways-to-get-ted-talks
Teachers are thanking Melania Trump – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36836599
For everybody out there who has ever done the hard work of doing good academic research, I think this article is worth passing on – and it’s amusing to see some academic good come out of something that is otherwise so dismal. Seems that there is a bit of a social media campaign going on explaining exactly what plagiarism is, and why it shouldn’t happen. Looks like there are a lot of students who will be getting a refresher course on why it’s important to use references – thanks to the Trump campaign. Likely not the outcome the campaign intended for the speech, I imagine.
For further proof, this scientist estimates that there is a 1 in 87 billion chance that the speech was original: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/math-melania-trump-plagiarism_us_578e66bbe4b04ca54ebef2b6.
Pediatrics experts make recommendations to curb ‘virtual violence’ in children’s lives
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/violence-children-teens-1.3681849
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I have a long-standing opposition to violence in any media that kids and youth are consuming. I was also never convinced by the “I watched violent movies and I turned out OK” argument that some people tried to convince me with. 🙂 I’m glad to see that more concrete evidence is coming out that confirms that violence in media for kids and youth is a clear problem and steps need to be taken to adjust what is being viewed. Although this study is looking at kids and youth, I would suggest that the same applies to violence being used for entertainment for adults, as well. Do we really need to be more desensitized to violence? Shouldn’t we be working towards peace and justice instead?
Definitely an important discussion to highlight! Great blog post examining some really interesting research.Worth reading!
http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/whats-the-evidence-on-fundraising-with-images-of-pity-v-images-of-dignity-testing-the-narrative-project/
Definitely an important discussion to highlight! Great blog post examining some really interesting research.Worth reading!
Ever wondered about the differences between different electoral systems? Here are a couple of great summaries, highlighted on the votebetter.ca website (connected with LeadNow). Happy watching!
http://www.votebetter.ca/voting-videos/
In light of the push from many organizations to reduce consumption of animal-based products and switch to a plant-based diet, I find it discouraging (although not entirely surprising, unfortunately), to see how so many national food guides are still slanted towards meat, dairy and eggs. So, when I happened to come across this article: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/21/11978318/china-less-meat-schwarzenegger-cameron, I was thrilled! China is nudging their population towards a substantial change – which is great news, and worth noting and copying around the world. I would love to see people join the challenge and spread the word in their own circles. The official goal is to have people reduce their meat consumption by 50%, but this challenge could easily be adapted at a different percentage or also include other animal products etc. – as ambitous as people are willing to be.
As an interesting note, James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both involved – there is a short 2 minute video highlighting their efforts in the article. If Arnold S. says that meat is not needed to build muscles and be strong, I’m not sure that even the most skeptical person could disagree with his results! 🙂 (Given that I am not build like that, I’m not sure that I can convince people the same way. :))
http://350.org/a-tablet-in-the-ground/
Great article – worth reading and spreading!
