Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures and may have given rise to the modern world, John Lanchester writes.
Source: How the Little Ice Age Changed History | The New Yorker
Starting in the fourteenth century, cooling temperatures disrupted our economic and social structures and may have given rise to the modern world, John Lanchester writes.
Source: How the Little Ice Age Changed History | The New Yorker
Last Sunday, I took my son Alexander, 9, to hear a performance of the Hebrew Choir Festival, which “aims to promote Hebrew as the common global Jewish
Source: We’re Jews, We’re Not White, We Define Ourselves | Jewish Journal
A new survey suggests that America is finally open to giving some form of reparations to African-Americans.
Source: Reparations: America Owes Black Descendants Of Slaves, Study Finds | News One
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Those of you who have been involved in the past in the battle to protect our children from poorly made vaccines or toxic chemicals in our food or in our water know the power of these industries and how they’ve undermined every institution in our democracy that is supposed to protect little children from powerful, […]
Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr Explains How Big Pharma Completely Owns Congress – Collective Evolution
Slavery is thriving in Libya, where thousands of black Africans hoping to get to Europe instead find themselves bought and sold, forced to work for nothing, and facing torture at the hands of their owners.
Source: Slavery In Libya, Where You Can Buy A Black Man For $400. What is the African Union doing About it?
Recently it was announced that the self-proclaimed bad gyal acquired the masters to all of her previous recordings. People are calling her smart for doing this because as you know many of today’s artists hand over the rights to their recordings as part of the contract they make with the record company.
Source: Girl Boss: Rihanna Acquired The Rights To The Masters Of All Her Albums | Emily CottonTop
A stunningly successful experiment in crime reduction has the potential to upend the mainstream US approach to deviance.
Source: Ecuador legalized gangs like the Latin Kings. Murder rates plummeted. – Vox
Herb gardens are great for a number of reasons. They provide an ongoing supply of delicious pesticide-free herbs for cooking, they can reduce waste by helping you to avoid plastic wrapped herbs from the supermarket, and they are economical and fun to grow! Here is our guide for creating a self watering herb garden.
Source: How to build a self watering herb garden | 1 Million Women
“pal lereo pabla, pa la cuña yaya.”
I don’t know where this song came from, but I just HAD to post it.