Judi Lynn
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Judi Lynn started the topic Who’s Burning the Amazon? in the forum Foreign Affairs 2 hours ago
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
by KELSEY HAWKINS-JOHNSONWhile the world watches in horror as fires rage in the Amazon, activists are naming culprits.
“Put out the flames, we name your names — politicians, corporate vultures, you’re the ones we blame,” demonstrators chanted as they marched from the White House to the Brazilian Consulate on September 5.
The…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Giggles and 'joy jumps': rats love games of hide and squeak, scientists find in the forum Science and Environment 3 hours ago
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Judi Lynn replied to the topic New Sexual Misconduct Allegation Against Brett Kavanaugh Emerges: NYT in the forum Latest Breaking News 9 hours ago
Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh during the announcement of his nomination to the Supreme Court on July, 9, 2018.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
By Robin Pog…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic New Sexual Misconduct Allegation Against Brett Kavanaugh Emerges: NYT in the forum Latest Breaking News 9 hours ago
Audrey McNamara
Reporter
Updated 09.14.19 9:47PM ET /
Published 09.14.19 9:39PM ETA New York Times investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale University has uncovered another allegation of sexual misconduct that was previously unreported. Max Stier, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh in the 1980s, reportedly said he saw K…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Amazon Deforestation Supports Meat, Soy and Wood Markets in the forum Science and Environment 11 hours ago
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Judi Lynn started the topic Why we (still) need to talk about Chile's El Mercurio in the forum Foreign Affairs 13 hours ago
We examine coverage and CIA funding of the paper that supported the 1973 Chilean coup and the following dictatorship.
14 Sep 2019 10:33 GMTProduced by: Marcela Pizarro and Flo Phillips
Frequently on The Listening Post, we are warned about getting too close to the story. Like a lens that zooms in too close, there is always a danger that p…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic HYPOXIA CITY in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
At 5100 meters’ elevation, a Peruvian gold mining town is the world’s highest settlement—and a good place to study how life at extremely low oxygen levels ravages the body
By Martin Enserink, in La Rinconada, Peru; Photography by Tom Bouyer, Expedition 5300
12 September 2019
ON A COLD, GRAY MORNING earlier this year, Ermilio Sucasaire, a gold…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Image: Hubble glimpses faint galaxy in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019by Rob Garner, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30 million light-years away within the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), also known as the Whale. A bounty of…
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Judi Lynn started the topic Mysterious Indus Valley People Gave Rise to Modern-Day South Asians in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
By Stephanie Pappas – Live Science Contributor 8 days ago HistoryWho were the ancient people from the mysterious Harappan Civilization?
The skeleton of an individual from the Indus Valley Civilization whose fragile, ancient DNA revealed links to modern-day South Asian populations. (Image: © Vasant Shinde)
Ancient DNA evidence reveals that…
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Judi Lynn started the topic This Ancient Belt Buckle Retrieved from 'Russian Atlantis' Looks Like a Bedazzled iPhone Case in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
By Mindy Weisberger – Senior Writer a day ago HistoryThe black belt buckle was studded with gems and resembled a decorative cellphone case.
A 2,100-year-old “iPhone” accompanied a woman into the afterlife, in a necropolis in what is now Siberia.
(Image: © IHMC RAS/Pavel Leus)From the depths of Russia’s “Atlantis” — a famed ar…
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Judi Lynn started the topic The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
By Live Science Staff an hour agoBy Live Science Staff an hour ago Human Nature
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are some of the coolest stories in science this week.
Buried Hand-in-Hand
(Image credit: University of Bologna/EPA/Shutterstock)
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Judi Lynn started the topic Amazing Images: The Best Science Photos of the Week in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
By Livescience.com – staff an hour agoEach week we find the most interesting and informative articles we can and along the way we uncover amazing and cool images. Here you’ll discover incredible photos and the stories behind them.
Big Ol’ Bubbles
(Image credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory/ Heywood et al.)
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Judi Lynn started the topic There's a New Blackest Material Ever, and It's Eating a Diamond As We Speak in the forum Science and Environment 1 day ago
By Brandon Specktor – Senior Writer 5 hours ago TechIt’s so black, it turns diamonds into “black holes.”
A new exhibition in New York turns a sparkling yellow diamond (left) into a veritable black hole (right) thanks to the blackest material ever created.(Image: © R. Capanna, A. Berlato, and A. Pinato)
On the floor of the New York Stock…
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Judi Lynn started the topic 'It Is Our Very Governments Who Are Killing the Earth.' A Brazilian Indigenous Leader Speaks Out On Deforestation in the Amazon in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 day ago
Benki Piyãnko in his village, Apiwtxa, explaining about his work with agroforestry systems Carolina Comandulli
BY BENKI PYÃNKO SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
IDEASBenki Pyãnko is a community leader from Apiwtxa, an Ashaninka community situated in the Amazonian state of Acre, Brazil. He has led projects to defend his community from deforestation and to de…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Porto Alegre Judge Rules against Censorship of Cartoon Exhibit that Criticized Jair Bolsonaro in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 day ago
Exhibition will run for 12 days as planned
Sep.13.2019 1:40PM
Paula Sperb
PORTO ALEGREA court ruled that the critical cartoons of President Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) and his government–censored by the Porto Alegre City Council at the beginning of the month– can be displayed again to the public.
The injunction mandates that the cartoons be…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Brazilian Politician Offers US$2,440 to Kill Murder Suspect in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 day ago
State deputy made offer on the floor of the Espírito Santo state parliament
Sep.13.2019 1:26PM
PSL state deputy Captain Assumption, 56, stood on the legislative floor and offered a R$ 10,000 (US$ 2,400) award to anyone willing to kill whoever murdered young Maiara de Oliveira Freitas.
The crime happened in the morning, in Cariacica, a city in…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic The State of Colombia vs Alvaro Uribe | Day 6: three former paramilitaries and one senate aide in the forum Foreign Affairs 1 day ago
by Adriaan Alsema September 13, 2019
On the fourth day of Colombia’s trial of the century, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear three former paramilitaries and one of the assistants of former President Alvaro Uribe, who has been charges with fraud and bribery.
Witness #17 | “Castañeda”
“Castañeda” is a former mid-level commander of the Bloq…[Read more] -
Judi Lynn started the topic Trump to have dinner with Otto Warmbier's parents: report in the forum Latest Breaking News 1 day ago
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Judi Lynn started the topic Homeland Security investigating hand-drawn swastika found in DC building in the forum Latest Breaking News 1 day ago
BY JESSICA CAMPISI – 09/13/19 09:15 PM EDT
A hand-drawn swastika was reportedly found on Friday in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) building in Washington.
An email sent at about 5 p.m. to staffers in the building by Principal Deputy Undersecretary for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Brian Murphy said the Nazi symbol was found…[Read more]
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Judi Lynn started the topic Michigan Police Officer Is Terminated After K.K.K. Application Was Found in His Home in the forum Latest Breaking News 1 day ago
Michigan Police Officer Is Terminated After K.K.K. Application Was Found in His Home
A prospective homebuyer found Confederate flags and a framed Ku Klux Klan application in the officer’s house in Holton, Mich.
Officer Charles Anderson of the Muskegon Police Department in Michigan was terminated on Thursday.CreditCreditKayla Renie/Muskegon C…
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