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AvatarKiki SurnameFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA New London Art Installation Is Designed to Make You Crymentalfloss.com - Shaunacy FerroSome art is so powerful that it can move you to tears. A new installation at London’s Tate Modern is virtually guaranteed to do so, regardless of how …
AvatarKiki SurnameFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe 'Pet First Aid' App From The Red Cross Prepares Pet Parents for Almost Any Situation | Mental Flossmentalfloss.com - Michele DebczakPeople who have owned a cat or dog for years know intimate facts about their pet's health—like how many pairs of shoes they can eat without getting …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarWhere 'Human Zoos' Once Stood, A Belgian Museum Now Faces Its Colonial Pastverified_publisherNPR - Joanna KakissisAimé Mpane remembers when he first saw the old statues. It was 1994, and the Congolese visual artist had just moved to Belgium, which once ruled his country. Growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mpane says he had been taught in school that the Congolese were descended from the Gauls — …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarElephant Tusk DNA Helps Track Ivory Poachers (Published 2018)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Karen WeintraubResearchers are examining the genetic data in seized elephant ivory to trace it back to the animals’ homelands and connect it to global trafficking crimes. Poachers are killing 40,000 elephants a year and with a global elephant population of just 400,000, it doesn’t take a mathematician to figure …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarHow the Smallest State is Defeating America’s Biggest Addiction Crisisverified_publisherPOLITICO - By ERICK TRICKEYCRANSTON, R.I. — By the time police caught Paul Roussell with heroin last summer, the 58-year-old lobster fisherman had been addicted to the drug for almost 10 years. He’d gone from sniffing two bags of heroin a day to 10, then as many as 17. He was running drugs for dealers to afford his habit. “I …
AvatarKiki SurnameFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe ‘feel-good’ horror of late-stage capitalismverified_publisherthinkprogress.org - Jessica M. GoldsteinFairy tale or American horror story: Could be either, who can say? Have you heard the one about this guy in California? He’s unemployed right now, and …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarUS Catholics urged to withhold donations amid 'grave moral failures'verified_publisherThe GuardianThe president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said Wednesday that sex abuse allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick dating back decades raise serious questions about how the claims could stay secret for so long as the retired archbishop from Washington DC rose in prestige …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatar'Māori has gone mainstream': the resurgence of New Zealand's te reo languageverified_publisherThe GuardianMax Smitheram, 54, has attempted to learn te reo Māori (the Māori language) on numerous occasions, but he has never stuck with it – until now. A pakeha [European New Zealander], Smitheram attends free weekly classes and practises at home with his Uruguayan partner, who is also learning the …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarHHS official who spread conspiracy theories forced outverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Dan DiamondXimena Barreto — a Donald Trump political appointee who used social media to spread conspiracy theories about a supposed pizza shop sex ring and made other inflammatory remarks — was escorted from Health and Human Services Department headquarters Friday, according to an individual with knowledge of …
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarThey thought this was Trump country. Hell noverified_publisherGuardian US - Sarah SmarshAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders visited Wichita, Kansas, in support of congressional candidate James Thompson. Is the red state ready to turn blue?
AvatarKiki SurnameAvatarAvatarWhite House press corps showing unity after reporter barred from Rose Garden eventverified_publisherCNN - Brian StelterWhite House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event The ultra-competitive White House press corps is displaying something rare and refreshing: Solidarity. Journalists reacted with dismay when the Trump administration barred CNN's Kaitlan Collins from attending a presidential event in the …