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MAY 11, 2022. On
March 23, Dr. Eduardo
Viana was sworn
in as a member of the
Board of Directors
of the PANAFSTRAG/
International-Pan-
African Strategic And
Policy Research Group.
Dr. Viana demonstrated his
willingness to work voluntarily
with a team that is the Board,
to overcome the challenges
that Africa and Africans face,
including those faced by people
of African descent around the
world. As can be seen on the
institution’s website, “PANAFSTRAG
was founded in 1992
to provide an in-depth study and analysis of the
challenges of political
stability, security and
development in Africa
and to propose policy
options and strategies
for these issues
while synergizing the
potentials of its diaspora to
execute these policies.”
Dr. Viana is the
only Brazilian
and South American member of the
aforementioned Board, which
further increases his responsibility
and he is very happy with
his appointment to the Board.
He will do everything possible
to help achieve the objectives
of PANAFSTRAG.
Dr. Eduardo Viana is completing
a Doctorate in Legal
Studies at Atlantic
International
University.
MAY, 2022.
This graduate student
completed the majority of
the requirements to obtain
honors, which included a
4.0 GPA, published works,
recommendation from her
respective advisors,
patent a product, etc.
Congratulations!
MAY, 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!
APRIL 29, 2022.
The Latin
American Studies
Association
has awarded
AIU student,
Kezia Zabrina
Henry Knight, from Cuba, with
an honorable mention award
for the best Doctoral thesis in
Cuban Studies.
Kezia Zabrina is completing
a Post-Doctorate Program
in Social Change at Atlantic
International University.
| Higino Luís Pedro Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering Angola |
Jorge Ramon Llarrull Doctor of Science Public Health Argentina |
Martial Fanga Agbor Master of Arts Political Science and African History Cameroo n |
Donnette Donnarie Brown Doctor of Business Administration Business Administration Cayman Islands |
Amos Belony Bachelor of Science Psychology Chile |
Fabiola Andrea Aguayo Flores Bachelor of Psychology Clinical Psychology Chile |
| Lokoho Empenge Didier Master of Science Project and Financial Management Congo (DRC ) |
Claudia Giselle Echevarría Echevarría Bachelor of Philosop hy Philosophy Dominican Republic |
Girard D. Vernaza Arroyo Post-Doctorate of Science Legal and Environmental Sciences Ecuador |
Milton Fredy Astudillo Master of Science Electronic Engineering Ecuador |
Sandra Beatriz Martínez Linares Bachelor of Science Psychology El Salvador |
Ngcebo Norman Mbuli Doctor of Project Management Project Management Eswatini |
| Amoin M. G. Porognon Amani-Fridrich Doctor of Philosop hy Sociology Germany |
Abdul-Razak Yakah Doctor of Philosop hy Public Administration Ghana |
Dennis Baidoo Amponsah Doctor of Philosop hy Petroleum Economics Ghana |
Hugo David Natareno Barrios Doctor of Management Rural Development and Risk Management Guatemala |
Elmer Hernández y Hernández Doctor of Economics Economics Guatemala |
Bakary Momodou Ceesay Bachelor of Sociology Sociology Haiti |
| Barak Tom Salakoff Doctor of Education Education Israel |
Lydiah Cherotich Korir Bachelor of Science Organizational Psychology Kenya |
Iddah Awuor Wawiye Bachelor of Science Forestry Kenya |
Kaoxiong Songzacheng Doctor of Science Safety Engineering Lao s |
Molupe Christopher Mokhakala Bachelor of Science Security Management Lesotho |
Gunther Julio Doll Bachelor of Science Mining Engineering Namibia |
| Edward Olusegun Alo Doctor of Philosop hy Business Management Nigeria |
Kingsley Joseph Omonobi Master of International Relations International Relations Nigeria |
Ogundipe Akinyemi Akintunde Doctor of Business Administration Business Administration Nigeria |
Hammed J. Sule Doctor of Science Telecommunications Nigeria |
Cyprian Evbanosi Adaba Bachelor of Theology Theology Palau |
Carlos Eduardo Gómez Velásquez Master of Project Management Project Management Panama |
| Terence Chross Master of Business Administration Business Administration Pap ua New Guinea |
Jimmy Franklin De Lama Vega Bachelor of Finance Finance Peru |
Samuel Perez Moreno Bachelor of Science Psychology Peru |
Fatmata Kanko Kamara Doctor of Science Human Resource Management Sierra Leone |
Jeffrey Mustapha Moijueh Master of Management Hospitality and Tourism Management Sierra Leone |
Alhajie Brima Caulker Doctor of Philosop hy Humanities Sierra Leone |
| Bol Joseph Gangdit Bachelor of Science Computer Science South Sudan |
Santino Ngong Garang Bachelor of Science Health Care Administration South Sudan |
Happiness Nompumelelo Magagula Doctor of Business Administration Business Administration Swaziland |
Judeth M. Mc Leod-James Doctor of Education Higher Education Leadership Trinidad and Toba go |
Şerafettin Alaca Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering Türkiye |
Amongi Betty Ongom Bachelor of Social and Humanities Legal Studies Uganda |
| Varinderjeet Kaur Master of Business Administration Business Administration Uganda |
Jacqueline Naomi Felton Doctor of Philosop hy Healthcare Management US A |
Juan Antonio Rodriguez III Master of Business Administration International Relations US A |
Lizandra Ramirez Valerio Bachelor of Accounting Accounting US A |
Cesar Leonel Orellana Menendez Master of Business Administration Business Administration and Management US A |
Alejandra Muñoz Cardenas Bachelor of Science Psychology US A |
| Guzman Illanes, Jhohanser Master of Science Machine Learning US A |
Augustine Kaponge Chisalu Master of Science Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Zambia |
George Sitali Master of Science Civil Engineering Zambia |
Abdulrazak Yusuf
Doctor of Accounting
March 8, 2022
“Becoming a Doctorate degree
holder has been my lifelong desire
and AIU came at a time when I was
looking for a school that will fit into my
life style and guarantee me a flexible
study time table. I started my program
in February 2020 having completed
all the enrolment requirement for the
Ph.D. program and my experience so far
has been very thrilling. The phase 1 was
more of general courses and introduced
me to communication and investigation,
experimental learning and organizational
theory as mandatory courses.
The other optional courses studied were
academic evaluation, fundamental of
knowledge, development of graduate
study, philosophy of education and professional
evaluation. These courses exposed
me to a new paradigm in learning
and prepared me for the andragogy way
of studying.
I had good support from my tutors
and advisors all through the process.
The phase 2 experience was awesome as
I was able to create my own curriculum
to cover my core courses. The courses
covered were business policy and strategy,
cost accounting, credits management,
financial management, financial
planning and control, introduction to
accounting and financial statement,
invest management and research methodology.
In as much as these courses
are not completely new to me, I was
able to explore new areas and wrote ...
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Yiying Liang
Master of Business Administration
March 17, 2022
“To study a Master’s Degree at
AIU, I received kind supervising
from a team of Local Academic Advisors
in Thailand. They provided advice
on how to put the combination of my
knowledge of all subjects and my experience
into practice in my business.
Moreover, I practiced to think
systematically, finding problems and
solutions by using research and development
in my work and also used participatory
operations to allow everyone
in my business think and act together
so that the results were satisfying,
especially the workpieces from my factory
that made my customers satisfied.
As a result, my employees are happy to
work and everyone set goals for future
growth together. ...
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Abdulaleem A. Ademola-Osinuga
Bachelor of Business Administration
March 11, 2022
“Studying with Atlantic International
University (AIU) is going
to be one of the best experience that I
would never forget in my lifetime which
was one of the best accomplishment
that I had to do away with when many
thought I would never graduate from
any university in life. I had fun beyond
studying online at the end because I
ended up a team of best advisors especially
Dr Edward Lambert in turn to be
the Academic Dean who were amazing
as well as my Academic Tutor, Mr Tobi
Opoola who I will continue to say thank
you too always which wasnt like in the
begining where I was facing challenge
due to the confusion from the first set
of tutors that I had.
It was not just about the degree but
finding answers to the issues that I
have been facing around me every
single day through understanding the
process and accepting the reality that
it is not everyone or everything that
I must listen or act according to their
will towards their growth. I have also
been able to understand that there are
lieing answers to the future by being
able to understand how to priotize
things through doing what you love
and not what you are forced to do in
order for you to be able to succeed in
your career, reduce the fun and face
the reality which I have done. AIU has
helped me towards being able to realize
my stupidity when I was building my
first startup towards identifying all the
mistakes that I have made and how it ...
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Ersan Asar
Bachelor of HR Management
March 18, 2022
“First of all, I made my lessons
enjoyable because I prepared my
curriculum myself. ... I was inspired by
watching the videos and interviews of
your former graduates and students on
AIU website, social media and google.
And that’s why I’m very happy. I would
like to express my gratitude to AIU.
I have adopted AIU a lot. I will recommend
your school to all our friends
who are in business life but have not
completed their university education
due to various reasons. My next goal
is to increase my career by working in
a multinational company and if I can
provide sufficient budget, I will join
your school’s master’s degree. ...
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Harare is the capital of
Zimbabwe and the largest
city in the country. It is situated
in the northwest of the
country on central watershed.
It is the seat of government
and administrative centre for
ten provinces. It is a focal point
of road, rail, and air services.
The site of Harare and its
surrounding area was formerly
part of the Shona chiefdom
of Neharawa, after whom the
city is named. White settlers
arrived in the vicinity of the
present city in 1890. On the 12
September 1890 they hoisted
their flag Union Jack on the
site of the Unity Square and
the settlement and named it
Fort Salisbury, after then British
Prime Minister. The first
buildings were erected near the
foot of the kopje, but it was
latter decided that the main
centre should be in the causeway
where most government
buildings stand today.
However, the continuous
movement of people from
rural areas to Harare and the
uncontrolled building up of
residential areas has caused the untold problems to the city
municipalities, the government,
and the general public.
The problems of urban growth
are very common in almost
all African cities as noted by
Schwab (1992; 209)
Harare has an unemployment
rate of 84%. There
are very few people who are
employed in the formal sector.
Thousands of Zimbabweans
are informally engaged in the
informal sector called the flea
markets. Flea markets involve
the selling of things like second
hand clothes, vegetables,
and almost everything is sold
at flea markets. Flea markets
do not pay tax to the government.
The informal sector do
not sustain the national economy
of the country.
Harare city fully crowed
with people selling all forms
of wares. You hardly find an
open space without vendors.
Buying a house is very dear
as well as buying a residential stand. So families end up
renting some rooms to use.
In old suburbs such as Mbare
families subdivide a room with
a curtain to accommodate
three or four families. Rents
are too high are too high such
occupants are chased away by
end of month if they fail to
pay the rent.
Harare city is known for
having poor sanitation and
waste disposal. The drinking
water supplied to the city
is usually contaminated with
industrial effluent or sewer.
Sewage disposal is a cause for
concern. It can be seen flowing
on roads. The municipalities
are failing to provide good
services to residents. It is a
fact that Harare’s main source
of water which is Chivero
contaminated as evidenced by
the rich growth of hyacinth a
water weed.
There is a proliferation of
land barons these are the
people who have the financial resources to buy large pieces
of land from the council or
from those with private lands.
These lands are parcelled and
sold to desperate home seekers
at very high prices. Once the
lands are sold construction
begins without plans approved
by municipalities. This led to
mushrooming of structures
that are condemned and usually
demolished by councils.
The land barons do acquire
lands through shoddy dealings
with and some end being arrested
by police.
According to Auret (1995)
Harare alone has an estimated
110 000 squatters across the
city. They pose a lot danger
to the residents health and standard of living. The squatters
live in ramshackle shelters
made up of scrap metal, used
cardboard paper, plastic, and
other used material.
The traffic congestion is a
major problem in Harare city
especially during the peak
hours or rush hours. This has
led to the rise of mushikashika
which is the use of smaller cars
used as public transport. This
has also caused a lot of traffic
gems and accidents. There
is also nuisance from touters
these are people who force
people to board mushikashikas
instead of the buses as public
transport. The large volume of
traffic has caused air pollution. Morrish (1988) noted that
about 80% of air pollution
is caused by unroad worthy
vehicles plying Harare city
dumped in Harare from South
Africa and Japan.
A visit to the Harare city
during the night one is greeted
with all forms of vices such
as drug abuses, prostitution,
robbery abortions, fist fighting,
batting syndicates, muggings,
gold peddlers, and hate speech,
unsavoury words. Corruption is
rearing its ugly head in the city
there are some known services
that you cannot get without
passing through a bribery route
for instance the drivers licence,
and other services.
We are in a world that
seems to be we don’t
know where to walk. We see a
conflict here, another conflict
there and what we feel is that
something or possibly many
activities are out of control or
out of the system to which they
belong. We have governments
that ask or rather force their
governed to follow a path that
doesn’t correspond to growth
as human beings.
We wonder what happens in
a world where we see that 10%
of the population only intends
to be richer every day. We are
witnesses of the extreme poverty
of many human beings, of
the hunger and death by hunger
of other beings, of children
who die in the first years of life
because they are born with all
the deficiencies that originate
from an unprotected pregnancy
of their mothers.
We are also witnesses to the
little well-being achieved by
the vast majority of human
beings: they work and work
and for education, for housing,
for health, for a decent place
to live, they barely reach an
objective.
Deaton’s definition of wellness
is beautiful: “By the term
wellness i mean all the good
things for a person that make
life good. Well-being includes
material well-being, such as
income and wealth; physical
and psychological well-being,
represented by health and
happiness; and education and
the ability to participate in
civil society through democracy
and the rule of law”. (Deaton,
2015, pp. 41-42)
This concept of well-being
doesn’t indicate that people
have to be owners of the planet
Earth: it means a dignified
life, a life that is satisfied with
being lived. Is the life that so
many human beings on the
planet have worth living?
The question is what do
they plan to do with so much
money that 10% owner of the
world’s wealth? What do the
rulers plan to do when they keep their ruled in a condition
of slavery where only those
who rule and their friends get
rich and have rights?
In this stage of the History of
Humanity we are witnessing a
great conflict and the conflict
has as background the sustainable
development of
the life of the planet for
the life of human beings.
Those who want to maintain
development based on
dirty energy fight and oppose
everything that is change. The
question is: Where do you plan
to live when the death of the
planet occurs? If our planet
doesn’t live the human beings,
until now, we have nowhere
to live.
What else do we expect
after a pandemic and now
the fight for sustainable
development?
According to Savater about
the pandemic: Now we must
add the fight for sustainable
development.
“It is as if we had to wait 21
centuries and a plague to realize
that the others are important.”
(Savater, 2020, Reflections, Ethic)
The question is. Where are
the others?
In 2021 Summits were held
to seek solutions for sustainable
development.
The Summits were:
The United Nations Organization
(UN), in Glasgow,
Scotland, United Kingdom and that of the Group of 20 (G-20),
in Rome, Italy.
The purpose of the G-20
conference was to resolve the
global financial crisis.
The G-20 Italy Summit focused
on the legal regulation of
the 2015 Paris Agreement and
climate change.
The agreements didn’t
have the great scope that was
expected: they only achieved
investment to help emerging
countries.
Regarding the use of coal, it
would be expected to see the
situation of the countries.
Little is said about health
and Covid-19, although poor
countries continue to have
problems vaccinating their
entire population.
An agreement was reached
on cultural monuments, an issue
that few now think about.
The Summit of Nations -UNin
Glasgow was called (COP26)
Conference of the Parties.
The agreements tried to
gather the pending of other
summits that hadn’t reached
the corresponding legal framework,
such as the Earth Summit,
in 1992, in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil and the Paris Agreement
of 2015 to maintain the temperature
at 1.5 Celsius because
otherwise, the forest fires will
destroy the vegetation and
therefore the food that we take
from nature.
The United Nations Organization for Education,
Science and Culture (UNESCO)
is extending until 2050 the
proposal it had for an education
that would generate sustainable
development which was
first for 2015, then until
2030 and now until 2050.
Nowadays we are witnessing
the mutations of the pandemic,
the situation of the supply
chain and the open conflict
of countries that don’t want
to change their economies to
generate the sustainable
development that planet
Earth needs and the possible
life for human beings.
The questions are:
What about the virtues
in human beings?
Why can’t human beings
take care of each other?
Why do human beings live
as if others didn’t exist?
Where are the
missing virtues?
Why have we not learned
to be proactive?
Why can’t we make
the activities
better and better?
Why can’t we tell others
‘what do you have’?
What is wrong with you?
Why can’t we tell others
in this way it is possible
that what you are doing,
it will be better? Why in our world have
human beings only
learned to look for their
own good?
We have to learn
to understand
what freedom is.
We can be proactive and
let others decide what
they want to do but not
without having put the positive before the other
human being.
The crisis we are experiencing
today must have
sustainable development as
a solution.
The crisis we are living
today must have
as a solution that human
beings learn to be
proactive with other
human beings.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Deaton, A. (2015). El Gran Escape. Salud, riqueza y los
orígenes de la desigualdad. México: FCE • Organización de las Naciones
Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO). Caminos
hacia 2050 y más allá. Retrieved from: https://www.iesalc.unesco.org/wp-content/
uploads/2021/11/Pathways-to-2050-and-beyond_ESP-1.pdf • Organización de las
Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO). Pensar
más allá de los límites. Perspectivas sobre los futuros de la educación
superior hasta 2050--25 de mayo de 2021. Retrieved from: https://www.iesalc.
unesco.org/2021/05/26/informe-sobre-el-futuro-de-la-educacion-superior-preve-respuestas-
colectivas-y-holisticas-a-los-retos-mundiales/
Home education provided via travel
or within the community was the
method of learning for thousands of
years, before school as a government
institution became popular in the early-
1800s. ... When parents are not the
teachers, but the child is learning, we
use the term “self-directed education”
or “unschooling” to describe learning
via home, community and travel. Home
education take less time because: 1 There is no busy work in home education.
Parents give their kids pretests
and if the kids know the concepts,
they skip the assignments and move on
to the next concept they don’t know. ... 2 Unlike teaching in a classroom,
there is no government mandated
amount of time that parents are forced
to “instruct” their kids so they don’t have to stretch out the “instructional
time” ... 3 Unlike teaching in a classroom, or
online, you can use experiences
to teach which include fun activities
like board games, videos, discussions,
projects and field trips which bring
learning to life. ... 4 You can skip things that you
consider irrelevant. Facts, skills
and activities that won’t stick in your
child’s brain, but that they can truly
learn when they really need it and it
brings meaning to them. 5 There is an incredible amount of
waiting time in and around school.
Imagine the difference between throwing
a dinner party at home for thirty
people, and just having a quick supper
...
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The Swedish island of Gotland began
its existence millions of years ago
as a reef in the warm waters near the
equator, before the drift and shift of
continental plates placed it in its current
location in the middle of the Baltic Sea.
As a result, the island’s limestone-rich
landscape, long sandy beaches and
sculptural sea stacks give it an otherworldly
beauty.
In a way, the island’s anomalous
nature makes it the perfect setting for
Suderbyn, a unique ecovillage that is
home to a diverse community of international
volunteers and some 35 longterm
residents united under the common
goal of leading a more sustainable
lifestyle. It is one of an estimated 10,000
ecovillages around the world. ...
This approach also sees that Suderbyn
residents, the land, and the infrastructure
work together to create zero waste
and resilience seen in natural systems.
Antoine Arquié describes it as “closing
the circle,” with one such example
being the reuse of the community
excrement and urine to fertilise the
gardens “the same way a plant’s waste,
oxygen, is a resource to us, our waste is
a resource to the plants” he says.
The garden has produced several
different foods this year, including
carrots, beans, and peas, but next year
may be completely different due to the
process of crop rotation designed to
keep the soil healthy. ...
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In the chaos of the first months of the
coronavirus pandemic, oncologist
and geneticist Ami Bhatt was intrigued
by widespread reports of vomiting and
diarrhoea in people infected with SARSCoV-
2. “At that time, this was thought
to be a respiratory virus,” she says.
Bhatt and her colleagues, curious about
a possible link between the virus and
the gastrointestinal symptoms, began
to collect stool samples from people
with COVID-19.
Thousands of miles away from
Bhatt’s laboratory at Stanford Medicine
in California, gastroenterology internist
Timon Adolph was puzzled by accounts
of gut symptoms in infected people.
Adolph and his colleagues [in Austria]
started to assemble gastrointestinaltissue
biopsies.
Two years into the pandemic, the
scientists’ foresight has paid off: both
teams have recently published results
suggesting that pieces of SARS-CoV-2
can linger in the gut for months after
an initial infection. The findings add to
a growing pool of evidence supporting
the hypothesis that persistent bits of
virus —coronavirus “ghosts”, Bhatt has
called them— could contribute to the
mysterious condition called long COVID.
Even so, Bhatt both urges scientists
to keep an open mind and cautions that
researchers have not yet nailed down a
link between persistent viral fragments
and long COVID. “Additional studies
still need to be done —and they’re not
easy,” she says. ...
For over a decade, Samuel Sánchez, a
chemist with the Institute for Bioengineering
of Catalonia, in Barcelona,
has been envisioning nanobots that
could carry useful payloads, like cancer
drugs or antibiotics, through the body’s
viscous fluids.
Picture a spherical particle of silica,
which functions as a chassis. Sánchez
has shown that you can dot its surface
with a mess of special proteins that
propel the particle through fluid, like
little motors. His lab has experimented
with different chassis, motors, and
cargo. In research published in late
April, they joined forces with antibiotics
researchers. The team loaded silica
nanobots with experimental antibiotics
—including one derived from wasp
venom— to treat infected wounds
on mice. The nanobots, which were
dropped onto one end of an infected
wound, traveled through the skin to
treat the entire area —the first report
of nanobots killing bacteria in animals.
“We see that the whole wound gets
covered. The machines can actually
travel around the wound and clear the
infection as they go,” says César de la
Fuente, a bioengineer at the University
of Pennsylvania who led the project
with Sánchez.
That matters, because drugs normally
depend on diffusion, or the process of
passively spreading through the body’s
fluids. If the most perfect antibiotic ...
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Jingna Zhang is a fine art
photographer and art director working
New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and
Japanese anime, Jingna’s work interweaves
Asian aesthetics with western
art styles, bringing unique visions of
painterly images to fashion and fine art
photography.
Prior to her work behind the camera,
Jingna was a world-class air rifle
shooter representing Singapore at the
Commonwealth Games and World Cup;
the only female founder of a North
American sports team in StarCraft 2;
and agent and consultant to concept
artists with clients such as LucasArts,
Amazon Publishing, and Sony Music
Japan.
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Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass received
its world premiere Nov. 21,
2021 at the Cathedral of St. John the
Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wis [USA].
Far from any kind of traditional Catholic
mass, the piece was written by a
Diné composer, performer and installation
artist from the Navajo Nation,
for chamber orchestra and pipe organ
—specifically for the pipe organ at St.
John the Evangelist.
[May 9] Chacon became the first
Native American composer to win the
Pulitzer prize for music. In its note
on the award, the Pulitzer jury called
Voiceless Mass a “mesmerizing, original
work ... that evokes the weight of history
in a church setting, a concentrated
and powerful music expression with a
haunting, visceral impact.”
Until recent years, music Pulitzers
have typically been handed to white
men. But since 2013, five women ...
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The Medical University of Vienna has
recently published a study in the
journal Exposure & Health which suggests
that on average, five grams of plastic
particles enter the human gastrointestinal
tract per person, per week. ...
Discarded plastic breaks down into
micro and nanoparticles entering our
waterways and soil. Microplastics,
which are between 0.001 and 5 mm in
size, and nanoplastics, which are less
than 0.001 mm eventually enter our
food chain via seafood or even fruit and
vegetables. They can also enter the body
when we drink from plastic bottles. ...
or microbeads, which are used in many
health and beauty products. ...
The research team ... has stated that
ingested particles passing through the
gastrointestinal tract lead to changes in
the composition of the gut microbiome.
These changes are linked to metabolic
diseases like obesity, diabetes and
chronic liver disease. “The particles can
trigger local inflammation and immune
response, and nanoplastics in particular
have been found to trigger chemical
pathways involved in the formation of
cancer,” reads the study.
Microwaving food in china dishes
instead of plastic containers and ventilating
your house, are some of the
solutions put forward to minimise the
ingestion of plastic particles. ...
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Our brains are identifiable as uniquely
human through their common
anatomical features, yet there is a tremendous
amount of variability among
human brains. ... Brain size alone in humans
can vary up to twofold, and region
size commonly varies by this amount.
The smallest variability in brain anatomy
is found between identical twins. Yet
MRI studies of identical twin babies show
that differences in patterns of cortical
folding can be used to tell them apart
with 100 percent accuracy, just as the
variations in their fingerprints can be
used to tell them apart. ...
The same areas of the brain can look
similar but function in radically different
ways in different people. For example,
the visual cortexes of congenitally blind persons become active when they
read Braille with their fingers. This does
not happen in sighted people. The visual
cortexes of blind persons are also active
when they hear sounds and language,
whereas those of sighted people are
hardly activated, if at all, by either auditory
or somatosensory inputs. ...
Another feature of the human brain is
the remarkable person-to-person variability
in cortical lateralization, folding
patterns, area sizes, and gray-matter
thickness in different regions of the cortex.
Some of this variability in the brain
—which correlates with differences in
personality, cognitive functions, and
susceptibility to various neurological and
psychiatric syndromes —is ... Read full text:
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You won’t find people chaining
themselves to trees to protect this
place, or national environmental groups
using pictures of it to sign up new
members, because few know it exists.
And yet, here it is —the Mobile River
Basin, one of the richest in the world in
terms of the sheer number of species
and types of habitat. The major rivers
and thousands of creeks feeding into
this basin together form the largest inland
delta system in the US, second only
to the Mississippi in how much water it
dumps into the Gulf of Mexico.
The river system, the fourth-largest
in the country ... stretches from the
northern edge of Alabama to the Gulf,
draining parts of four states, and
encompassing hundreds of thousands
of acres of forest, from Appalachian
hardwood stands to haunted cypress
swamps. A dedicated band of locals
know it for the incredible hunting and
fishing it affords. But few know it for
its greatest distinction. That’s a shame,
for this is America’s Amazon, far and
away the most biodiverse river network
in North America.
There are more species of oaks on a
single hillside on the banks of the Alabama
River than you can find anywhere
else in the world. The Mobile River Basin
makes Alabama home to more species
of freshwater fish, mussels, snails,
turtles and crawfish than any other
state. ... Nearly half of all extinctions
in the continental US since the 1800s
have occurred among creatures that
lived ...
What is a pollinator-perfect lawn?
It’s one illed with nectar-rich
blooms and safe places for pollinators to
rest. Of the 20 million acres of lawn in
the US, unfortunately, much is manicured
turf offering so little food and
shelter that it might as well be pavement!
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purple coneflowers and zinnias, are
particularly nectar-rich. ... 2 Create a mowable meadow. Plant
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them develop into a lawn full of texture
and natural beauty. ... You’ll only need
to mow it once per season! ... Crocuses
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white clover condition soil, suppress
weeds, and provide essential nutrients
for bumblebees and honeybees. 3 Improve your existing lawn. Focus
on soil health, aerate compacted
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pesticides. You’ll eliminate your lawn’s
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Of the ten clinical genetics labs in
the US that share the most data
with the research community, seven
include ‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice
category for patients’ racial or ethnic
identity, despite the term having no
scientific basis. Nearly 5,000 biomedical
papers since 2010 have used ‘Caucasian’
to describe European populations. This
suggests that too many scientists apply
the term, either unbothered by or unaware
of its roots in racist taxonomies
used to justify slavery —or worse, adding
to pseudoscientific claims of white
biological superiority. ...
Many working in genomics do have
a nuanced understanding of the issues
and want to get things right.
Still, I have been dismayed by how
often the academics and clinicians I’ve encountered shy away from examining,
or even acknowledging, how racism
warps science. Decades of analyses
have shown that ‘racial groups’ are
defined by societies, not by genetics.
Only the privileged have the luxury of
opining that this is not a problem. ...
In the US, people with ancestry from
the world’s two most populous countries,
India and China, along with every
other country on the continent, are
collapsed into a single racial category
called ‘Asian’. ...
We need to acknowledge that systemic
racism, not genetics, is dominant in
creating health disparities. It shouldn’t
have taken the inequitable ravages of a
pandemic to highlight that. ...
The 45-mile-long hunk of land,
belonging to Michigan, offers some
of the most interesting terrains for
researchers examining how natural ecosystems
work, and since 1958, researchers
have continually monitored animal
populations there. ... new research published
about wolves and moose in Isle
Royale’s special environment provides
fascinating insights into the relationship
between predators and prey.
Wolves take down moose with
arthritis and kill them at an outsized
pace, according to the study
in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
The moose on Isle Royale might need
wolves, the study suggests, to keep
their populations healthy from disease.
The research could offer data for fresh arguments in the divisive debates
over wolf management roiling many
communities, where some ranchers
view the creatures as a threat to their
livestock and livelihoods.
... “The moose eat themselves out
of house and home, literally, and
then they have a massive die-off.
They crash, and then it starts all over
again,” Doug Smith said. Then came
the wolves. They arrived on the island
sometime around the 1940s ... “By
keeping wolves in Isle Royale, you keep
the moose population in check, which
means they don’t eat the whole forest
up,” Smith said. “Without a predator,
they repeat the whole cycle.” ...
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“Instead of praising
people for being
‘resilient’, change
the systems that
are making them
vulnerable.”
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