14 Actually Good Climate Books For Kids
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Climate change is not a pleasant thing to think about. It’s complicated and contentious. It can feel overwhelming and frightening. It can even seem hopeless at times. Which is why talking about it with children can be daunting. But children today are being introduced to climate change concepts much earlier than their older family members. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they are growing up in a world that is both experiencing the impacts of climate change and actively adapting to it.
[Read More]3 ways to ask your man for something and get it
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Given the fact that men are generally believed to be the stronger of the pair and hence, often the provider, it is not uncommon that women usually have things to ask, demands to make, and changes required of their significant other. Below are 3 sure ways that will help you get whatever you want anytime you make the request of your man. Go straight to the point ADVERTISEMENT
[Read More]8 Songs That Show the Genius of Jazz Singer Al Jarreau
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Few professional singers have used their instruments as playfully and as consummately as Alwin (“Al”) Lopez Jarreau did. The seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz artist, who died Sunday at the age of 76, took delight in exceeding the bounds of vocal decorum, launching into extended improvisational odysseys of cackles and caws and grunts and melodic runs where lesser singers would been content with a few trills and the odd “oh yeah.
[Read More]A drone captured these mesmerizing photos of New York City from above
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Martina Birk
His photos helped him land coverage in New York Magazine's "Outlaw Instagrammers" article and gather over 220,000 followers on the app. In 2015, Deas had an idea: He would send a drone where he couldn't legally go. The 20-year-old Instagram celeb has found a new niche in drone photography. His aerial images show New York City like you've rarely seen it before. Take a look. ADVERTISEMENT
Humza Deas dares to go where most of us never would.
[Read More]A Fresh Look at J.D. Salinger's Life
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
In 1949, still reeling from his heroic service in world War II, already deep in the throes of writing The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger took a vacation at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he met a girl named Jean. She was 14. Salinger was 30. “He was the first adult who seemed to be genuinely interested in what I had to say,” she would recall 60 years later.
[Read More]A LEADER TWICE REMOVED | TIME
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Benazir Bhutto had grown impatient with the rumors, and dismissed them angrily. “Rubbish,” she told TIME. In interviews she insisted that her ties with Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari were fine, that the talk of his sacking her government was just disinformation from the dark forces she claimed were out to strangle her country’s hobbling democracy. Never mind that Leghari himself had publicly suggested the move. If the President had problems with her, the Prime Minister said repeatedly, she didn’t see why he didn’t bring them up.
[Read More]A Mother on Her Son's Opioid Use and the Pain of Losing Him
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Four years ago, the stories of a young man named Billy with his mother Kristina and stepfather John Barboza appeared in The Opioid Diaries, a special issue of TIME calling attention to the dire rise in accidental overdoses caused by the opioid epidemic. Last year more than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according topreliminary data from the CDC, the highest yet, and the toll continues to rise.
[Read More]A Pulse review of 'EZIOKWU' by Nigerian rapper ODUMODUBLVCK
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
At a time when the existence of Hip Hop in the commercial scene was being subjected to thorough scrutiny and cynicism, Odumodublvck emerged with a style that blends hip-hop with Nigerian indigenous groovy music. His entrance added excitement to the scene and with hip-hop missing a personality capable who sparking varying emotions from consumers, Odumodublvck's strong persona filled this void. Since he scored his first mainstream song with the Zlatan-assisted 'Picanto', no rapper has charted more on the top 10 of TurnTable Charts than Odumodublvck.
[Read More]Alabama's Pride | TIME
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
In population, Mobile, Ala. ranks far down the list of U.S. cities (118th by the 1940 census). But in foreign trade (imports) it is the nation’s No. 6 seaport. Last week, at a seafood-gumbo celebration of the 20th anniversary of Mobile’s Alabama State Docks, Alabamians made claim to even greater distinction: they crowed that their port was the most modern in the U.S. Before it got around to building Mobile’s docks, the state of Alabama had worried long and listlessly about the decay of its only seaport.
[Read More]An influential Silicon Valley investor said that talking about paternity leave is a sign that societ
Posted on August 31, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz has argued that Silicon Valley employees spend too much time pushing for benefits like time off and paternity leave, while their Chinese counterparts are forging ahead by working 12-hour days and working weekends. Moritz made the comments in an opinion piece for The Financial Times. Welsh-born Moritz is a highly influential venture capitalist, with early investments in Google, LinkedIn, and PayPal. He was also on the board of travel company Skyscanner when it sold to Chinese firm Ctrip in 2016 for £1.
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