• Virtual Reality/Immersion
for the Student Section and
Campus are currently in Beta
testing and allow students
to access their program via
a 3D/VR interface and hold
video call communications.
• AIU is on the Blockchain to
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• Gamification and Ludification
play a role in ongoing
learning. AIU’s achievements
badges, competitions, tournaments
and earned NFT’s
distinguish students who
can proudly share them and
show them on their profiles.
• AIU was established 24 years ago, in 1998, and in accordance
with all state and
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the United Kingdom6.
• Universities in the US are not
required to obtain accreditation,
as this is voluntary.
Visit AIU’s Accreditation
page for more information7.
However, compliance with
laws that govern universities
and granting institutions is
mandatory. AIU conforms and adheres to all state and
federal laws that regulate the
faculty to operate as a university
and to grant degrees
to students who meet the
graduation requirements of
the corresponding programs.
• AIU Monthly Magazine,
Campus Mundi keeps our
student body informed of
AIU happenings.8
We are aware that on the
Internet, there are many
entities that show themselves
as “higher education institutions”
when, in reality, they
are not. It is easy to identify
them based on what follows:
they only exist online, they
are not registered anywhere
physically, which implies there
is no state or federal jurisdiction
that they must obey, they
often operate from a PO box,
they do not require academic
work, they issue degrees on
the basis past experience,
and in a few days or weeks,
they do not have a faculty or
academic advisors, they do not
hold live events, they do not
have any library or academic
resources, they lack research
or academic collaboration,
they do not require testing,
projects, or theses/dissertations
from their students, they
only demand a payment in
exchange for a degree, etc.
Colleges and Universities
often ought to work through
litigations and complaints
that accumulate throughout
the years. AIU is proud of
the fact that over the past 20
years, the institution has not
had a single such occurrence.
We see this as a testament to
the transparency of our deeds
in addition to our consistent
communications with both the
public and our students. Additionally,
this is corroborated
by the results, benefits, and
achievements that our graduates
gain and enjoy during and
beyond their study programs9.
Most importantly, our students
have a purpose beyond
hanging a degree on a wall;
their programs help them
advance to become better
persons and generate growth
opportunities for themselves
and other people.
Our founding principles
are based on the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; per article 26,10
AIU believes that Higher Education
remains a quite critical
human right.
Our students can be
located in over 180
countries.
AIU members actively participate
and volunteer in their
communities as part of their
academic programs, and they
have allocated over 100,000
hours of service to diverse
causes and initiatives throughout
the world.
There is no distinction
between the programs offered
through AIU and those of
traditional campus-based programs
regarding the following:
program structures, degrees
issued, transcripts, and other
graduation documents, which
follow the same standards used
by US colleges and universities.
AIU graduation documents
can include an apostille and
authentication from the US Department
of State to facilitate
their use, internationally.
To see some of our graduates’
opinions about their
studies, kindly visit the Media
Center and Testimonials
section.11 AIU Graduates around the
world are breaking paradigms
in Higher Education. We recommend
every student visit
the AIU Press Room12 so they
can be informed about their
outstanding accomplishments.
Your knowledge, skills, and
expertise collected during your
studies at AIU are inalienable.
No institution or person can
take them away or prevent
you, the student, from applying
them to the betterment
of your life, your community,
or the specific endeavors you
decide to pursue. We fully
respect all Higher Education
regulations from school
authorities everywhere in the
world. By the same token, we
respect people’s freedom to
choose the best options for
their personal development
and growth. We are very proud
of what all our students have
achieved academically, in
addition to their professional
triumphs as global citizens.
JUNE, 2022. These graduate students completed their program with a high cumulative grade
point average, which reflects the quality of performance within their respective major.
Congratulations!
| Irma Guarayo Colque Bachelor of Arts Cosmetology Business Bolivia |
Ramão Miranda Padilha Bachelor of Arts Architecture Brazil |
Karen Steffen Beltrão de Oliveira Bachelor of Marketing Marketing Brazil |
Ebot Spencer Arrey Master of Science Chemical Engineering Cameroo n |
Andrea Marisela Álvarez Rivera Bachelor of Education Special Education Canada |
Jose Medel Master of International Business International Business Canada |
| Abdoulaye Abderahman Abdoulaye Master of Science Information Technology Chad |
Nelson Ramos Albino Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering Colombia |
Yanette Cristina Reinoso Beltrán Doctor of Science Education Science Colombia |
Kabange Mwamba Nkongolo Trudon Doctor of Philosop hy Theology Congo (DRC ) |
Wawa Boyinza Leonard Master of Business Administration Business Administration Congo (DRC ) |
Tonca Siljeg Bachelor of Education English as a Second Language Croa tia |
| Jasmin Ovalles Acevedo Bachelor of Business Administration Business Administration Dominican Republic |
Cesar Dionicio Henriquez Doctor of Science Psychology Dominican Republic |
Reynaldo Paulino Chevalier Doctor of Literature Latin American Literature Dominican Republic |
Patricio Javier Martinez Puente Bachelor of Management Management and Direction Ecuador |
Ernesto Benito Vargas Mariscal Bachelor of Science Agronomy Engineering Ecuador |
Jaime Oswaldo Bravo Torres Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering Ecuador |
| Paul Antonio Anchundia Bastidas Doctor of Philosop hy Organic Agricultural Science Ecuador |
José Fernando Gómez Medrano Doctor of Management Intl. Business and Strategic Management El Salvador |
Ermias Birhanu Alaro Doctor of Science Peace and Security Studies Ethiop ia |
Joseph-David K. A. P. Ampofo-Dollar Doctor of Science Taxation Ghana |
Joseph-David K. A. P. Ampofo-Dollar Master of Business Administration Accounting and Finance Ghana |
Kwasi Boateng Doctor of Arts Corporate Governance Ghana |
| Anita del Pilar Morán López Bachelor of Human Resources Human Resources Guatemala |
Felicia Nicolle Monroy Fión Bachelor of Science Nutrition Guatemala |
Amilcar Rolando Recinos Roca Bachelor of Science Systems Engineering Guatemala |
Fredy Leonel Archila Morales Doctor of Science Environmental Science Guatemala |
Edgar Neptaly Carrera Díaz Doctor of Education Education Guatemala |
Jony Alexander Valeriano Valladares Bachelor of Business Administration Accounting and Finance Honduras |
| Natalee Kadia Allen-Service Bachelor of Science Business Administration Jamaica |
Mikiesha Murphy Bachelor of Finance Accounting and Finance Jamaica |
Joseph Montgomery Bachelor of Science Occupational Health and Safety Liberia |
Maideyi Priscilla Somanje Bachelor of Business Administration Business Administration Malawi |
Yacouba Traore Doctor of Philosop hy Computer Engineering Mali |
Rocío Hernández Peláez Doctor of Human Resources Human Resources Mexico |
| Paloma Escamilla Alonso Rebaque Bachelor of Science Clinical Psychology Mexico |
Oscar Maxwell Rodriguez Cuadra Master of Science Geotechnical Engineering Nicaragua |
Hammed J. Sule Doctor of Philosop hy Telecommunications Nigeria |
Phyllis Ogo Ogah Doctor of Science Nutrition Nigeria |
Sylvia Chibuike Iwuchukwu Doctor of Social and Human Studies Gender and Development Studies Nigeria |
Onah Hyacinth Onyebuchi Doctor of Philosop hy Business Administration Nigeria |
| Abiola Rachel Olanrewaju Master of Science Business Administration Nigeria |
Ogunlade Kehinde Samuel Bachelor of Science Electromechanical Engineering Nigeria |
Abubakar Bello Alhaji Master of Science Architecture Nigeria |
Gloria Nnedinso Raphael Doctor of Philosop hy Human Resources Management Nigeria |
Aneyka Esilka Hurtado Mena Doctor of Science Cyber Security Panama |
Nelvin Ahmed Chettani Giusti Post-Doctorate of Psychology Conflict Resolution Panama |
| Bárbara Carolina Rodríguez Simonó Doctor of Project Management Project Management Puerto Rico |
Mohammed Abdillahi Gaas Bachelor of Communications Media Management Somalia |
Sharon Shadrina Mashau Doctor of Management Management South Africa |
Robert Harry Horsley Doctor of Psychology Psychology South Africa |
Mpumelelo Ebenezer Kheswa Doctor of Public Administration Public Administration South Africa |
Mahmoud Khalefah Mahmoud Alakour Bachelor of Management Supply Chain and Logistics Management Switzerland |
| Chandani W. R. Rajapakshe Withanage Bachelor of Science Architecture Thailand |
Emrah Öner Bachelor of Business Administration Business Administration Türkiye |
Tamari Rekhviashvili Bachelor of Arts Human Behavior Türkiye |
Emre Yilmaz Bachelor of Arts Business Administration Türkiye |
Emre Yilmaz Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering Türkiye |
Salih Aydin Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering Türkiye |
| Ayham Subhe Saleh Doctor of Science Intelligence and Security Türkiye |
Servet Günay Bachelor of Arts Business Administration Türkiye |
Stephen Okello Bachelor of Engineering Environmental Engineering and Management Uganda |
Claudio Brocato Associate of Science Legal Studies US A |
Blain K. Jones Bachelor of Management Leadership and Strategic Org. Mgmt. US A |
Boris Marcial Leiva Casasola Bachelor of Communications Journalism US A |
| Sidelis Rosario Master of Theology Theology US A |
Kenia Justo Panuceno Master of Science Counseling Psychology US A |
Eliany Mejia Bachelor of Economics Economics US A |
Juan Contreras Bachelor of Economics Economics US A |
Marie-Guerline Paul Doctor of Science Health Care Administration US A |
Calvin Maguu Bachelor of Education Education Vietnam |
Martin Mutale
Bachelor of Renewable Energy
April 5, 2022
“After searching for an online
University that will enable me
complete my bachelor degree in an
electrical field, I came across AIU. AIU
promised a self-paced duration of program
and differently and most importantly
a curriculum design formulated
by a learner. I quickly enrolled and was
on the move to my degree.
At first, I struggled for a bit to come
up with my Curriculum Design (CD). I
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particularly how to add them to my
CD. Eventually, I started to flow with
the rhythm and added even more than
enough. In my CD I made sure I chose
what was necessary to my program of
study, taking into consideration the
credits I transferred from my previous
undergraduate program.
Writing the Essays was a challenge.
After writing a few of them, I managed
to come up with a strategy and was
sometimes writing even 2 of them in a
month. This gave me invaluable knowledge
in experiential training and added
to my management skills at work.
AIU generally, gives one an ...
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Nasima Joseph
Associate of Business
April 8, 2022
“As a Police Officer, who works
tirelessly and effortlessly, the
freedom to gain knowledge was inevitable,
because I wanted and hungered
for education on a university level.
My passion was met with my dedication
to thrive with inspiration by those
around me, I was driven. When the opportunity
presented itself to me I heard
from a credible source of Atlantic International
University. I was infatuated
with the idea to enroll, upon receiving
the opportunity. I was elated at the idea
of pedagogy.
AIU made my work easier, because I
took better statements because of the
essay writing. I had to learn how to
write and I feel empowered to say that I
know how to write an essay. There are
several things I learnt for example the
full context about human rights, how to
write a book, which I thought was pretty
easy but learnt that, it can be complex.
I gained confidence, skills and a life
changing experience that I know will
take me far into the education field. The
knowledge I gained helped others understand
how to write an essay using ...
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Tulasi Siatula
Doctor of Construction Management
April 13, 2022
“As a retired bureaucrat and passing
my free time in USA with
children, I was thinking of pursuing
higher studies through distance learning.
At this point of time, I was connected
with AIU through the internet.
I went through their course structure
for Doctorate in Engineering, and I was
convinced that this could be the appropriate
course for me, considering my
age and my requirements. I contacted
Admin Counsellor Mr. Roberto and
decided to join the course.
Although I was thinking of taking
the course in a leisurely manner, once
I was into the course, I decided to put
my full effort in it. Against the basic
requirement of one course per month, I
went on clearing the phases in shortest
possible time. For this, I chose many
courses of my interest and also matching
with my long career of 30 years of
teaching and managing the construction
projects. This enabled me to progress at
a faster pace.
I completed the coursework requirement
and moved on to Phase IV. I chose
my thesis proposal on a subject of ...
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Iruansi Itoandon
Doctor of Business Administration
April 18, 2022
“My name is Iruansi Itoandon.
I am the Portfolio Manager
of NAIC-NPK Limited, a Special Purpose
Vehicle (SPV) of the Nigeria Sovereign
Investment Authority (NSIA), where I
oversee the day to day implementation
of the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative
(PFI); a particular intervention of the
Federal Government of Nigeria in the
Agricultural Sector aimed at catalyzing
the fertilizer industry by sourcing
relevant raw materials for facilitating
local production and sales of different
blends NPK fertilizer and other specialty
variants.
Indeed, the Atlantic International
University (AIU) is unique and positioned
for the future. The combination of the
underlying principles of guided selfinstruction,
collaborative development of
curriculum unique to each student, and
flexibility of time and place of study, was
wholesome and ideal for learning.
A Doctorate in Business Administration
(DBA) at AIU provided me a diverse,
engaging, and research-intensive
learning opportunity without relocating
or quitting my job. ...
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When all the marriage
negotiations and dowry
payments have been concluded,
the groom’s side will fix the
date for the wedding ceremony.
It is usually the groom’s
family that decide on the kind
of marriage celebration they
want to have. This is so because
some families prefer big
feasts while others prefer just a
family come together parties.
During the preparations,
both families have to prepare
adequately enough money
for the ceremony and inform
friends and relatives. The news
of the ceremony is spread
around to whoever wants to
attend. In the villages, people
know each other and live well
together, such that communities
celebrate together, and
marriage ceremonies becomes
a community event (Olive, n.d.).
The food preparations start
a week before the ceremony
especially the brewing of the
traditional beer ‘gankata’,
which is an opaque brew. On
the eve of the event, the animals
contributed by both families
are slaughtered, and most
of the food preparation is done
on this day. The host of the
marriage ceremony whether
bride or groom’s family, invite
drummers and dancers who
sing and dance the whole night. Guests participate in
the celebration and enjoy the
various food stuffs and drinks
to kickstart the ceremony in
honour of the bride and groom.
The bride who had been
undergoing traditional counselling
prior is sent off by
the father who blesses her by
spraying water on her head
and wishes the bride well in
her marriage. The father gives
the bride advise on how to
take care of the groom and his
family. He tells her that the
family she was getting married
into was big and united
therefore she should not be
the one to break their ties she
should rather build them. She
is advised to be accommodating
to visitors in her home and
to treat everyone the same/
equally. The father also sternly
cautions the grooms family
members that are assigned
to collect the bride to equally
take care of his daughter, not
to abuse her and in case the
husband decides that he does
not want her to continue being
his wife, they should bring her
back to him in one peace just
the way they found her in his
home. They are also informed
of how important his daughter
was to his family and that
they have found a valuable
gem which they should equally
value. When the formalities
are done, the bride is taken
to the venue of the ceremony. The process of taking of the
bride to the man’s family is
the marriage itself and the ceremony
is just a celebration of
the union of the couple and the
two families (Kapambwe, 2018).
On the wedding day, the day
of the ceremony, the bride
and the groom each escorted
by a cousin called ‘sikaluli’
meaning ones holding an
umbrella they are brought in
and are made to hold hands
as they join the guests in
celebrating their marriage. As
they walk into the venue they
are escorted by the drummers
and singers up to the
table laid out for the married
couple. However, even when
the guests would be eating,
dancing and singing, the couple
will not be allowed to eat
in front of the audience, they
are taken to a separate room
to eat. The celebrations go on
until evening when the couple
is escorted to the man’s home
by two elderly women who
are offered a room next to the
couple’s room to spend the
night. The women hand five
to ten small pieces of grass or
sticks to the lady according
to the traditional counselling
she received. In the morning
of the first night as a married
couple, the newly wed
lady will take the sticks to the
women to signify the number
of times of the consummation
of the marriage by the newly married couple. When
the lady does not bring forth
any stick, it is assumed that
the marriage had not been
consummated, and the elderly
women will take time to
question the man’s family on
his ability to do so. After that
the women take the lady to a
cooking area to show her how
to cook ‘Kweenga masuwa’
(showing her the pots). They
create an assimilation of a
fire with pots and she is made
to pretend to be cooking as
a symbol of opening up the
man’s kitchen to the newly
married lady. Once that is
done, the lady freely starts
preparing meals for her new
family. If this is not done, the
lady will not be doing anything
around the house.
The lady will stay at the husband’s
house for two to three
days and early in the morning
of the third day, she returns to
father’s house without saying
anything to anyone. Some men
do escort their wives especially
where the villages are
far apart and for her safety.
This is called ‘kujosha matende’
or taking back the feet
to her father’s house. The
main purpose of this is for her
parents to traditionally pack
for her cooking utensils and
food that she prepares as she
turns from her parent’s house
(Tembo, 2008). That evening,
the husband then sends his sisters or cousins to collect her.
Traditionally, as she returns to
her husband’s house, she does
not carry any clothes with her,
she gives out all her clothes
to her relatives and after that
she become her husband’s
responsibility.
When she gets to her husband’s
house, as a newly married
wife she is not supposed
to answer when talked to or
eat anything unless she is
given some money or a chicken
to welcome her into their home and she is given freedom
to mingle. For the first
few months following into her
marriage, the newly married
daughter in-law cooks in
her mother in-law’s kitchen
until she is allowed to prepare
food in her own house. In this
way she prepares food for the
whole family and works hard
to impress her in-laws (Kapambwe,
2018).
In a future article, we shall
discuss the traditional practices
in the marriage.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Kapambwe, M. (2018, 03 23). 12 Traditions Only Zambians
can understand. Retrieved from theculturetrip.com: https://theculturetrip.com •
Olive. (n.d.). Zambian Wedding Traditions. Retrieved from zambianwedding.
org: https://zambiawedding.org • Tembo, M. S. (2008, 11 11). Traditiona marriages
in Zambia: a study in cultural history by Yizenge A Chondoka Ndola,
Mission Press, 1988. Retrieved from cambridge.org: https://www.cambridge.org
We are in the 21st century
and we hear that if the
laws of this than if the laws of
the other. At present it seems
like a world earthquake on
the right or not of women to
have an abortion. There are
countries in which, even due to
spontaneous abortion, women
have serious problems. Before
seeing the rights or not of
women to abort, it’s convenient
to know what life is.
We have worked on very
interesting topics in the years
that we have contributed with
contributions to the Atlantic
International University -AIUCampus
Mundi magazine and
many quotes from those contributions
are excellent for the
world situation that we have at
the moment: started with the
Covid-19 and recently continued
with the war between the
Ukraine and Russia, a war that
is actually between the allies of
the United States and Russia.
According to Morin: “Let us
remember once again that each
one lives a plurality of lives,
their own life, the life of their
own, the life of their society,
the life of humanity, the life
of life”. (Morin, 2011, p. 87) - (AI U,
Campus Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
According to Morin we can
see that all the aspects that we
as human beings seek constitute
life. For that reason we
often say: I want to achieve
this or that to be happy, to
know that I live.
There are those who think
that life is composed only of biological aspects and life is
more than the purely biological.
Tied to life we have the
doing; when we reach this goal
we call it progress.
Nowadays we are living a
stage of life in which progress
seems to be a star that is
getting further away when we
thought it was close; the world
divided by economic interests:
the allies of the European
Union and the United States
and Russia and their followers.
In the year 2021 we couldn’t
imagine the world situation we
are experiencing today.
Morin says: “We have lost
the promise of progress, but it
is a very great progress, finally,
to discover that progress was
a myth”. (Morin, 2011, p. 71) - (AI U,
Campus Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
As a production model we
are in the stage of Capitalism
called Globalization: trade is
done in a matter of seconds
but along with this speed the
interest of many political and
government groups has been
unleashed to want more and
more wealth.
We see countries in
famine and countries
throwing away food.
According Deaton: “The
Globalization of our days, like
previous globalizations, has
witnessed increasing prosperity
as well as increasing inequality”.
(Deato n, 2015, p. 21) - (AI U,
Campus Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
How life and death are?
“Almost 1,000 million live in
material poverty; millions of
children die from the accident
of being born in a poor country…”.
(Deato n, 2015, p. 297) - (AI U,
Campus Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
The previous Deaton indicator
with the changes since
january 2022 generated by
the Ukraine-Russia war, we
can infer that we will have a
greater amount of those who
die of hunger and lack of food.
Covid-19 changed the assistance
of workers to their work
sources and the quantity of assistants
to them as well as the
production and supply chain;
now the Ukraine-Russia war
is added and the production
and demanders of products are
changing trade routes together
with the rise in prices and
production of the same.
Deaton wrote: “It is easy
to think of the escape from
poverty as something related
to money: with the possibility
of having more and not having
to live with the stormy anxiety of not knowing if there will be
enough tomorrow…”. (Deato n,
2015, p. 15) - (AI U, Campus Mundi Magazine,
04-2020)
That’s what Deaton, Nobel
Laureate in Economics 2015,
said before the Covid-19 pandemic
and the Ukraine-Russia
war; new data is not accurate
given the way in which governments
showed their results
of Covid-19 and that the health
problem is not over yet. The
war of the mentioned countries
is just beginning. Faced with
these two great crises, everyone
questions freedom and
health. “...when I talk about
freedom I mean freedom to live
a new life and to do the things
that make life worth living…”.
(Deato n, 2015, p. 18) - (AI U, Campus
Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
What happens to us that
these years from 2019 onwards
don’t seem to give us happiness?
“You have to know how
to enjoy the present to love the
future”. (Morin, 2011, p. 88) - (AI U,
Campus Mundi Magazine, 04-2020)
This present is very uncertain:
the struggle of those
who have nothing but hunger,
there is no education, housing,
decent work and now shortages
and price increases are
coming, also new markets and
new distribution routes for
products with the Ukraine and
Russia war.
Politically and economically,
a great world crisis is coming.
“Against new tyrannies never
so powerful and disguised as
those of commercial brands,
television programs that offend
the dignity of the human
being, human pseudosciences
that justify the tolerance of
intolerance, fundamentalisms
that try to make humanity go
back thousands of years, the
stupidity or the unreason of
the reason of the strongest as
explanation and imposition
is indisputable and arrogant,
we find in the philosophy of
human and social sciences a
strength both universally and
personally, which is a pillar of
the human beings who want
to defend their quality of such,
not with the reason of force,
but with the force of reflective
criticism in favor of the best
of the individual and against
its own threat that can lead us
towards destruction”. (Ursúa and
ot hers, 2011, pp, 10 -11) - (AI U, State of
the World, Support Docu ment for stu dents,
05-03 -2018)
We are destroying everywhere
and without a solution
to the construction. Where do
we intend to go? We knew that
with knowledge everything was
possible. “What is wisdom?
the maximum happiness in the
maximum of lucidity. It is the
good life, as the Greeks said,
but a human life or, in other
words, responsible and dignified.
Enjoy? Definitely, rejoice?
As much as possible, but not in
any way, but not at any price.
‘Everything that gives joy is
good,’ said Spinoza; but not
all joys are valid. ‘All pleasure
is a good,’ said Epicuro. But
this does not mean that all
are worthy of being sought,
nor that all are acceptable.
Therefore, we have to choose,
compare the advantages and
disadvantages, as Epicurus
also said, that is, judge. This is
what wisdom is for”. (Comte-
Sponville, 2002, p. 163) - (AI U, State of
the World, Support Docu ment for stu dents,
05-03 -2018)
What is it to live as a human
being? “There is nothing
so beautiful and legitimate,”
Montaigne wrote, “how to act
as a man, and according to
duty. The only duty is to be human
(in the sense that humanity
is not only an animal species,
but a conquest of civilization),
the only virtue is to be human,
and nobody can be for you”.
(Comte-Sponville, 2002, pp, 28-29). -
(AI U, State of the World, Support Docu ment
for stu dents, 05-03 -2018)
Why have we forgotten so
many elements that make life
beautiful? “... love is the most
interesting topic, not only
in itself-for the happiness it
promises or compromises-but
also indirectly: because all
interests presuppose it”. (Comte-
Sponville, 2002, p. 43) - (AI U, State of
the World, Support Docu ment for stu dents,
05-03 -2018)
Let us now turn to the issue
of abortion. Abortion is the involuntary
or voluntary removal
of intrauterine life. Miscarriage
occurs when the fetus does not
find ways to continue its development
inside the mother’s
womb. Voluntary abortion is
when the woman decides to
eliminate the life of the being
she carries.
Nowadays we are experiencing
a global problem because
many States allow the practice
of abortion and others prohibit
it. All laws are in relation to
women. The questions are:
How many monthly pregnancies
can women have? In
one year? How many pregnancies
can men generate in a
month, in a year? Why is the
abortion situation seen only as
a women’s issue?
Why don’t states look
for parents who don’t
love the children they
fathered? Why, are there
no laws that make parents
comply with their
status as such?
Why are women afraid of
denouncing rapes? They fear
because the matter almost
always ends in the holy man
raping her because she was a
flirtatious woman.
It’s time for women to stop
taking second place. How long
did it take for women to have
the right to vote like men? How
long did it take for women to
be able to study careers that
were considered for men, such
as Engineering? How long did
it take for women, due to the
type of work, to be able to wear
pants like men? There are still
countries where women cannot
wear pants.
How long will it take for
women to have the same salary
as men with the same training
and the same functions?
Regarding abortion, it is a
serious problem due to the
psychological and physical
consequences that it leaves for
a woman to interrupt a biological
process such as the development
of a human being.
Governing lords, the
laws should be equal for
everyone.
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Jim Al-Khalili has an enviable gig.
The Iraqi-British scientist gets to
ponder some of the deepest questions
—What is time? How do nature’s forces
work?— while living the life of a TV
and radio personality. Al-Khalili hosts
The Life Scientific, a show on BBC Radio 4
featuring his interviews with scientists
on the impact of their research and
what inspires and motivates them. He’s
also presented documentaries and authored
popular science books, including
a novel, Sun Fall, about the crisis that
unfolds when, in 2041, Earth’s magnetic
field starts to fail. His latest book,
The Joy of Science, is his response to a
different crisis.
“The Joy of Science was motivated
by this sense that a lot of us have,
that public discourse is becoming increasingly polarized,” Al-Khalili tells
Nautilus. “There seems to be a rise in
irrational, anti-scientific thinking, and
conspiracy theories. And there’s no
room for debate, particularly amplified
by the internet and social media.” His
message is that we should all be thinking
more critically. “If we could export
some of the ideas of science, when
science is done well, into everyday life,
I think we would all be happier, more
empowered.”
Al-Khalili tells me that doling out
advice is quite the departure for him.
But after a long career in physics and
science communication, he says with a
laugh, “I’ve reached that stage where I
arrogantly think I can impart wisdom
to the world.” ...
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A new study has found that a significant
percentage of 4 to 7-year-old
children from the US believe hotdogs,
hamburgers, and bacon come from
plants. Published in the Journal of Environmental
Psychology, a team of psychologists
asked children to categorize a
range of foods, including cheese, french
fries, bacon, popcorn, shrimp, almonds,
and egg. The responses threw up a
number of surprises, such as 47% of
the 176 participants believed that french
fries came from animals.
Cheese was commonly misidentified
as plant-based (44% incorrectly identifyied
its origin). 41% believed bacon
to come from a plant and 40% said the
same of hot dogs. Even chicken nuggets,
with ‘chicken’ in their name, were
misidentified as coming from plants
38% of the time. Popcorn and almonds
were misclassified [as animal-based],
each by more than 30% of children.
As well as assessing the children’s
knowledge of the origins of foods,
the team looked at what animals and
plants the kids believed could and
couldn’t be eaten. It appears that there
is a lot of confusion about what is and
isn’t edible, with the majority believing
that cows (77%), pigs (73%), and
chicken (65%) are inedible. Sand was
considered edible by 1% ...
Part of the poor knowledge could be
due to parents withholding knowledge
about where meat comes from ...
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Isn’t a black hole just a region in
space where matter has become so
dense that not even light can escape its
gravity? Simple? Well, no. That’s the
layman’s way of expressing the effect
of the event horizon, which was classically
defined, [Erik] Curiel [a physicist
and philosopher asking scientists] says,
as “the boundary of the causal past
of future null infinity.” He explains
that the definition “tries to take the intuition
that a black hole is a ‘region of
no escape’ and make it precise.” Curiel
thought many of the folks he spoke to
would bring this up, but most didn’t.
Those who did mentioned it partly to
point out its problems. Curiel writes:
“This definition is global in a strong
and straightforward sense: the idea that
nothing can escape the interior of a
black hole once it enters makes implicit
reference to all future time —the thing
can never escape no matter how long it
tries. Thus, in order to know the location
of the event horizon in spacetime,
one must know the entire structure
of the spacetime, from start to finish,
so to speak, and all the way out
to infinity. As a consequence, no local
measurements one can make can ever
determine the location of an event horizon.
That feature is already objectionable
to many physicists on philosophical
grounds: one cannot operationalize
an event horizon in any standard sense
of the term. Another disturbing property
of the event horizon, arising from
its global nature, is that it is prescient.
Where I locate ...
Katharina Ribbeck’s lab collects
mucus —present in places like the
mouth, gut, reproductive tract, and intestines.
While the slimy goop may not
be pretty from the get-go, a purification
process can brighten it up. “Once
you remove particulates and microbes,
it’s a beautiful, beautiful clear gel—like
egg white,” says Ribbeck, a professor
of bioengineering at MIT. “It’s really
gorgeous.”
Ribbeck is trying to deconstruct how
glycans, sugar molecules hidden inside
mucus, work to keep a particular organism
healthy. Scientists already know
that mucus is important in maintaining
human health and supporting the microbiome.
The glycans’ job is critical. They
specialize in managing microorganisms
that can be beneficial —assisting in
food digestion, regulating immunity,
and protecting against germs— but that
can be harmful if they outcompete one
another or become virulent, potentially
leading to infection. Like microscopic
conductors, glycans ensure that each
section of the microbial orchestra is
playing in harmony.
In a study published in Nature Chemical
Biology, Ribbeck and collaborators
showed how glycans keep the fungus
Candida albicans from becoming problematic.
... The fungus is polymorphic ...
a rounded, yeast-like structure (generally
considered normal) can turn into a
filamented, thread-like shape associated
with virulence. ...
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Spain’s Air Nostrum could embark on
the first helium-powered flight in
a partnership with Hybrid Air Vehicles.
The blimp-looking aircraft, called Airlander
10, will only emit one-tenth of
the carbon emissions that a commercial
plane would. Hybrid Air Vehicles
has signed a deal with Air Nostrum to
produce 10 Airlanders to add to its fleet
from 2026 onwards where they will be
used for domestic flights. The aircraft
has a hull filled with helium and will
have a combination of electric and fuel
engines that will propel it. It plans to
go fully electric by 2030.
The blimp-like structure is able to
stay up in the air for five days and can
travel over 4300 miles at a speed of
80 miles per hour. While not as quick
as commercial jets, it’s definitely an
environmentally-conscious option
when traveling domestically. ...
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Robert Redford and George R.R.
Martin are the big names behind
Dark Winds, but they’re not the most
important. That distinction belongs to
the Native American creators and actors
who ensured the AMC mystery series
rings true to the Native experience and
enduring culture, which largely has
been snubbed or recklessly caricatured
by Hollywood.
This time the storytelling is “an
inside job,” said director Chris Eyre,
resulting in what he describes as a
“Native American, Southwestern film
noir.” Based on Tony Hillerman’s
admired novels featuring Joe Leaphorn
and Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police,
AMC’s Dark Winds puts the newly
teamed lawmen on a double-murder
case that could be linked to a brazen
armored-car heist.
The investigation and what underlies
it is gripping but, as with Hillerman’s
books, what distinguishes Dark
Winds is its intricate blend of nuanced
characters and relationships, spiritual
traditions and the devastating toll of
entrenched inequality.
The last aspect is painfully illustrated
by a midwife’s warning to a pregnant
woman to avoid a hospital birth or risk
unwanted sterilization, a reflection of
what Native Americans faced in the series’
1970s setting, the producers said.
(A 1976 U.S. General Accounting Office
study found that women under 21 were
being sterilized despite a moratorium,
among other issues.)
“A lot of our history is based on oral
tradition, said Zahn McClarnon, who
stars as Lt. Leaphorn.” We’ve been
telling our stories for thousands of
years... I think that the television business
is finally seeing that, and realizing
that we have our
own stories, and
that they’re rich,
deep stories.” ...
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Igus isn’t a bike maker, but a “motion
plastics” company. What that
means is they make things like plastic
bushings, fully-plastic ball bearings,
and plastic gears that make creating
a rust-free plastic bike a reality.
The idea came to Igus CEO Frank
Blase seeing beach bikes rust away and
get scrapped after just a few months
while on holiday. So their Igus:Bike
concept combines everything they do
with a frame, fork, wheels, and other
components all made from recycled
plastic to showcase the possibility of a
bike that won’t deteriorate out in the
elements, and will require almost no
maintenance.
But it’s not only a concept bike, Igus
says they will make the “key components
available to all bicycle manufacturers”
with a goal of availability of the
first bike model by the end of 2022. ...
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Besides skin cancer, prostate cancer
is the most diagnosed cancer among
U.S. males and the second leading cause
of cancer-related death among American
men.... Modern medicine still can’t
say for sure exactly what causes it.
Just like any other form of the disease,
prostate cancer develops on the cellular
level due to DNA changes and mutations.
Some of these gene mutations are
inherited, but many aren’t. ...
Some identified external risk factors
that may make a man more likely
to develop prostate cancer include age
(just about 60% of all prostate cancer
diagnoses are among men older than
65), obesity, and being a widower.
New research conducted at Loma
Linda University and published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has
identified a potential new major dietary
risk factor tied to prostate cancer. ...
Men with a high usual intake of dairy
milk face a significantly elevated risk
of prostate cancer in comparison to
other men drinking less milk. ... The
research found that men drinking about
430 grams of dairy daily (1.75 cups of
milk) showed a full 25% greater risk of
prostate cancer than other men drinking
less milk on a daily basis (about a
half a cup weekly). Prostate cancer risk
among daily milk drinkers was even
higher when compared to men avoiding
dairy altogether.
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Even as adults, we have a hard time
sorting through intense conflict,
chaos, heartbreak, and pain. ... What
makes us think little children know how
to do any of this?
During acute trauma 1 Remove the child from the danger as
quickly as possible. Get to safety. 2 Get proper medical help as quickly
as possible. 3 Immediately acknowledge the bad
behavior of the offender/attacker.
Do not blame the victim. ... 4 Sing a song, tell a story, and offer
many words of comfort to help calm
and soothe the child. ... 5Give the child a snuggly stuffie, a pillow
to hold —a tangible item to hold
near them is helpful and comforting. 1Allow them to talk openly about
what happened. Listen to their
words, and participate in the conversation
with compassion, and empathy. ... 2Confirm with them they are cared for,
loved, treasured, and valued. 3Listen carefully to the words said by
the child, as various portions of the
story will come out at different times,
and often at unexpected times. ... 4 Reassure, confirm, and comfort the
child’s emotions and experience as
they speak about what happened. ... 5 As the child speaks about their experience
and asks questions, provide
correct and healthy responses. ...
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Maui mountains, one of the wettest
places on the planet, for centuries
sustained biodiverse forests providing
abundant food and medicines for
Hawaiians who took only what they
needed. Those days of abundance and
food sovereignty are long gone. Rows of
limp lemon trees struggle in windswept
sandy slopes depleted by decades of
sugarcane cultivation. Agricultural runoff
choking the ocean reef and water
shortages, linked to over-tourism and
global heating, threaten the future viability
of this paradise island.
Between 85% and 90% of the food
eaten in Maui now comes from imports
while diet-related diseases are soaring,
and the state allocates less than 1% of
its budget to agriculture. Downslope
from the rain-soaked summits, there is
historic drought and degraded soil.
“We believe that land is the chief,
the people its servants,” said Kaipo
Kekona, 38, who with his wife Rachel
Lehualani Kapu have transformed several
acres of depleted farmland into a
dense food forest on a mountain ridge.
The soil there is once again full
of life, with wriggly worms and
multi-colored insects busy among
the layered roots and mulch. This
food forest provides a glimpse of the
ancient forests that for millennia
thrived on these slopes until being
burnt multiple times to create
cropland —a cultural and ecological
tragedy documented in traditional
songs, chants and stories. ...
The idea of improving the environment
by planting trees has
deep roots. One of the early efforts
was Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt
Movement in Kenya. Maathai started
planting trees with rural women in the
mid-1970s as a way to improve their
lives. The seedlings bound the soil for
better rainwater storage, and the trees
provided food and firewood. ...
Nowadays, many projects are not so
hands on. A recent BBC article showed
how off-track some projects have
strayed. BBC journalists followed up on
forests in the Philippines, India and
Mozambique to see whether the trees
were really doing their promised job
of sequestering carbon. Instead, they
found that along the Philippine coast of Iloilo, mangroves had been planted in
the sandier coastal areas, rather than
the muddy creeks where they thrive,
because it was easier to plant them
there. About 88% had died. ...
Fortunately, some people are trying
to get the word out about best
tree planting practices. The Center
for International Forestry Research
and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
produced a guide called Principles for
Successful Tree Planting to help wouldbe
planters determine the right tree
for their purpose. The CIFOR-ICRAF
helps steer people away from rookie
mistakes like planting invasive
species that will kill the local ecosystem.
...
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Nigerian police have rescued 35
teenage girls from what cops said
was a “baby factory” in the southeastern
state of Anambra. The teenagers,
four of whom are pregnant, were
discovered in the Gally Gally hotel on
Monday [June 13], where they were kept
as “sex slaves and prostitution,” police
spokesperson Tochukwu Ikenga said in
a press conference on Wednesday.
They are some of the dozens of
women who have been rescued in recent
years from so-called “baby factories”
—illegal facilities where girls and
women are forced to have babies to be
sold on the black market. “Following a
rigorous analysis of crime trends and
pattern, the command’s operatives,
working on information, busted the
hotel, where they use children between
the ages of 14 and 17 years old for sex slaves, prostitution and baby factory,”
Ikenga said. ...
Some rescued girls also spoke at
the press conference, describing how
they were tricked into coming to the
hotel under the promise of being able
to secure regular work. “I was lured
into the business by a friend who did
not tell me that we would be used as
prostitutes,” one girl said. “I was told
that I was coming to work as a sales
girl, only to be trapped. I came there
in August 2021. None of us could run
away because of the guards there and
the heavy security around us.”
The police say they have arrested
multiple suspects, including security
guards, but they are still searching
for the hotel’s manager. ...
It took 16 people 20 days to cover the
~520 km from Nepalgunj (southwest
Nepal) to Kathmandu (the capital
city) on foot. With feet swollen with
blisters from the mostly uphill march
but determined to ensure justice for
two women (Nirmala Kurmi and Nankunni
Dhobi), the group started their
first round of demonstrations in the
capital, including a 12-day ‘fast unto
death’, demanding proper investigation
into the cases of the two victims of
male violence. Finally, the government
agreed to form an investigative committee
and requested time to fulfill any
ensuing recommendations.
This committee was formed under
consisting of six members —five from
the government and one from the protesters.
The committee completed their work within seven days with a report
that included recommending a Central
Investigation Bureau (CIB) investigation
for one of the cases.
Two months after the committee
had submitted their report, the group
was forced to travel to the capital again
because the government had failed to
follow through on the committee’s
recommendations. After 41 days, the
government developed a four-point
agreement to address their demands.
Following the successful second demonstration,
DGR organizer Salonika interviewed
the leader of the group, Ruby
Khan, about her journey, her work, her
movement and the cases that inspired
it. The following ...
Polar bears in the Arctic Circle rely
on sea ice to help them hunt for
seals, their main source of food. But
with warming temperatures brought on
by human-caused climate change, that
sea ice is melting sooner in the spring
and freezing later in the fall, forcing
the bears to go hungry for longer periods
of time than they normally do.
Now, researchers have discovered
a unique group of polar bears who’ve
found an innovative way to survive
in the absence of sea ice: By hunting
from the ice that breaks off glaciers.
The bears live in southeast Greenland
and are a genetically distinct subpopulation,
which suggests they’ve been
isolated from other polar bears for
around 200 years, according to a paper
published this week in Science. The findings offer a glimmer of hope
for a species that, without intervention
to halt climate change, will be trending
towards extinction by the end of the
decade. The researchers urged caution
against extrapolating their findings to
other populations of polar bears, who
live in areas without glacial ice and
are still increasingly threatened by the
planet’s warming. The Arctic Ocean,
research has found, is warming four
times faster than the rest of the world.
“[The findings] show us how some
polar bears might persist under climate
change, but I don’t think glacier habitat
is going to support huge numbers of
polar bears,” says Kristin Laidre, a polar
research scientist ...
Travellers to South East Asia have
been warned to avoid a cruel
new trend alleged to be inspired by
Minecraft, a popular computer game.
Axolotls are being brightly dyed using
toxic colouring that leaves them dead
within days and sold at a major market
in Bangkok, Thailand. Critically endangered
in the wild, the amphibians,
commonly known as Mexican walking
fish, are a popular aquarium pet around
the world. While colouring animals,
particularly day-old chicks, is not uncommon
in the region, the axolotls are
suspected to have been altered using
dyes from printer cartridges.
Local media has linked their appearance
to the axolotls in Minecraft,
which features them in unusual colours including pink, brown, gold, cyan and
blue. The issue was first exposed by the
popular Axolotl Ville TH Facebook page,
whose creator —an axolotl breeder—
was tipped off by a concerned follower.
Speaking to Yahoo News Australia from
Bangkok, Piva said the problem is not
believed to be widespread, but he is
concerned it could grow. They have
visited the market to investigate the
issue, finding at least two stalls selling
multi-coloured axolotls. “They dye
them bright colours to attract children,”
Piva said. One animal documented
by them died within two days
of purchase. In captivity Axolotls can
live for 10 to 20 years. ...
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are forms
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which are most
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