#children
#News Briefs 03-05-2024
In our desperation to search for ET intelligence, we’ve forgotten to look at other life on Earth…
Wounded orangutan in Indonesia observed self-medicating using a paste made from plants.
Pet #parrots prefer live video-calls over watching pre-recorded videos of other birds.
The mysteries of #plant ‘intelligence’: scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom.
The #children who #remember their #past-lives.
The Pentagon is lying about UFOs.
Where does #consciousness come from? It could all be vibrations.
Alien Earths: how to find habitable worlds in our galaxy.
Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves — just as Schrödinger predicted.
How AI is testing the boundaries of human intelligence.
DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say.
How the world’s largest octopus went from legendary cryptid to protected species.
Tolkien’s Middle-Earth wasn’t a place. It was a time in (English) history.
New evidence ancient Mars was more Earth-like than thought – and maybe even habitable.
#Quote of the Day:
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as “human rights”? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
Carl Sagan
Forget the Autism
There is substantial statistical evidence suggesting – suggesting, mind you, not proving – that sufficient vaccines can make you trans and gay:
Here are the odds ratio between the fully #vaccinated/fully #unvaccinated. Odds ratios >2 are traditionally associated with #causality:
Sexual orientation: 4.78
Gender identity: 4.81
Gender dysphoria: 5.54
These effects are huge and consistent.
Also, the odds ratios for partially vaccinated are in line with the fully vaccinated: in general, the greater the number of #vaccines someone has, the more likely they are to have a trait that differs from traditional norms. So the vaccines themselves are the elephant in the room here and the #driver of the response, not #environment, #upbringing, #social #pressure, etc.
Now, I already lean pretty heavily #anti-vax, which is why refusing the #Covid #not-vaxx didn’t even rise to the level of having to think about it for one second. But these results should make even the most mindless pro-vax #parent think twice about signing up little Bobby or Jenny for the endless series of foreign substances presently being pushed on the #parents of young #children. Especially in the aftermath of the #global #vaxx #debacle.
At the very least, more genuine scientific research is required, and no amount of fake ethical special pleading about how it is immoral to have an unvaccinated control group will suffice to avoid it.
Not From The Onion: The Ukrainian #Pravda reports: 161 Ukrainian #children abducted by #Russia found in #Germany
Ivan Vygovskiy, Chief of the National Police of #Ukraine, during a meeting in #Berlin with Holger #Münch, President of the German Federal Criminal Police Office, has announced that Ukrainian law enforcement officers in cooperation with German counterparts managed to find 161 Ukrainian children, abducted by #Russia, on German territory.
WTAF!
The amputated limbs of children
https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/the-amputated-limbs-of-children
Millions of children trapped in Gaza, living under unimaginable horror, the trauma at such early age, is damaging them in a way one can't fathom. But then, there are those who try their best to do what they can to help making this living hell a bit less scary. The image, brought tears in my eyes, such a small act, can make a HUGE difference in the lives of children who have lost everything and living under a constant fear or bombs, explosions and dead bodies.
North #Gaza in the morning... Clowns emerge from the rubble. Children exclaim over the death that enters them from every door and window. Warplanes strike a target that is only a few hundred meters away from an entertainment carnival. Shrapnel falls in the middle of the joyous circle. The boys flee in terror. He calls out One of the young men told everyone: “Are we afraid of bombing?”
The transcendent wheat is shouted on the sickle with one voice: noMy photography 😊
Journalist Youssef Fares - #Gaza
HOW, just HOW can we ignore such crime to go on?
#Children #Trauma #Clowns #Genocide #SaveGaza #SaveTheChildren #StopIsrael #CeasfireNow #PeaceNow
Medical sources have reported that four Palestinians, including two #children, succumbed to #malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medications at Kamal Adwan #Hospital in northern #Gaza today due to the Israeli #blockade.
#FoodAsWeapon #Inhumanity #Genocide
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
https://mastodon.world/@RafaelSalazar/112151882415922229 RafaelSalazar@mastodon.world - 'Springtime Whimsy' 🌸🐇 ©️2024 by Rafael Salazar
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Embrace the spirit of the season with this heartwarming artwork, sure to bring a smile to all who behold it.
#BuyIntoArt #easter #Bunny #artmatters #ayearforart #fediart #fediverse #mastoart #mastoartist #children #rafaelsalazar #artbooster #fedigiftshop #flipboard @Flipboard @FlipboardUserGroup #spring #colorful #whimsy #happy #art
End the Phone-Based #Childhood Now
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger #children, too, as they began to get access to their #parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary #school.
#technology #news #change #humanity #future #society #smartphone #problem
300,000 more #UK #children fell into absolute #poverty at height of #CostOfLivingCrisis | Poverty | The Guardian
#UK #Politics Tories #Economics
“Appalling clinical injuries, mostly upon children and women. Terrible burns, traumatic wounds, and no real room to deal with these tragic cases.”
Dr Nick Maynard, a volunteer consultant surgeon in Gaza, recalled a young girl with burns so bad on her face bone could be seen. “She clearly had no chance of survival and was going to die, but we had no pain relief to give her. She died in agony on the floor of the emergency department.”
#Gaza
#hospitals
#children
#women #Inhumanity
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
Growing in Darkness
🇲🇿 Photography by Mário Macilau [Mozambique, 2017]
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mario-macilau-growing-in-darkness
#MárioMacilau #street #children #kids #portrait #dark #stairs #mozambique #photo #art
...but it sounds so much like a Tom Hanks movie...
♲ PhoenixSerenity - 2024-03-13 02:01:42 GMT
A #Taiwanese #movie about #children & #PreTeens with #cancer is currently being shown in the #UnitedStates & #Canada."BIG," which is directed by Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) and is about children living in a Taiwanese #pediatric #oncology ward who move into Room 816, or "BIG" as they call it, began its North American tour on March 7 as part of the 6th #NorthAmerica #TaiwaneseFilm Tour Festival.
