Month: May 2019

Source: Plantain (Plantago major): Why It’s an Herb and Not a Weed, Uses, Benefits, and More

Monday’s incident was the first time Heimlich, who has demonstrated the maneuver countless times since inventing it in 1974, used it to stop someone from choking, he said.

Source: At 96, Heimlich finally uses his life-saving maneuver

The family of a Milwaukee man who died of dehydration after jailers shut off water to his cell has been paid $6.75 million in a settlement with the county and others, an attorney for the man’s estate said.

Source: Terrill Thomas case: Family receives $6.75 million in dehydration death – CNN

He is a hero to many, but a notorious criminal to the Cameroonian government for vandalizing colonial era statues and monuments built by French colonialists in the economic capital Douala.

41-year-old Andre Blaise Essama describes himself as an activist who aims to replace all the colonial statues in the city with those of national heroes who fought for the bilingual country’s independence.

Source: This Cameroonian nationalist is chopping off heads of colonial statues in his country – Face2Face Africa

Accusations of racism at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have prompted a larger conversation about how elite cultural institutions can be uncomfortable spaces for people of color.

Source: Black students on a field trip said they were told ‘no food, no drink, no watermelon.’ Now the museum is apologizing.

Here’s one way to plant 175 million trees within a year: get young people to do it for school.

On May 15, the Philippine Congress officially passed a Bill stating that all students from elementary school, high school, and college (roughly equivalent to primary school, secondary school and university) must plant at least 10 trees in order to graduate, CNN reported.

The trees can be planted in either forests, mangroves, reserves, urban areas, abandoned mining sites, or in indigenous territory, according to the Bill.

Source: New law states students in the Philippines must plant trees before they can graduate – INSIDER

“When we’re sick, we go to the doctor. When our dental health is failing, we go to the dentist. When our car breaks down, we go to the mechanic. When we need to build/repair machines, we call on electrical engineers. When we need buildings erected and roads repaired, we call on architects and structural engineers. When our computer breaks down, we call our computer technicians. When we need a task automated, we call on programmers and software engineers. When we need to plan a space mission, we call on astrophysicists and aerospace engineers. When we need to find solutions to environmental and agricultural problems, as well as problems relating to animals/crops/plants/human biology, we call on biologists, geologists, geneticists, genetic engineers, zoologists, and botanists. Notice how all of these problem solvers fall under the field of science. In other words, they’re all scientists.

Yet, when it comes to running society and the world (which involves/entails all of the aforementioned affairs above), somehow, we think it’s okay to look to politicians.” ~ Jacque Fresco

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