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My #weekendread is another article by @YearoftheMonSy which presents a historical and pedagogical sketch of Mindanao's Lumad Schools in the broader context of the Lumad struggle for self-determination #SaveOurSchools
The article does an admirable work of documenting the Lumad school from a critical pedagogy and social movement perspective, locating the building of schools as one of the repertoire of Lumad resistance developed in the course of their struggle. 
The Lumad school integrates practical knowledge on agricultural production and indigenous histories of resistance into its curriculum, thus serving Lumad community needs, interests, and life-world in the context of continuing land rights struggles.
A tale of two DARPA books ...
Both are very interesting, but they are different in their approach and their final conclusions. “The Pentagon’s Brain” presents what might be the expected treatment of an agency such as DARPA ...#weekendread 1/
Both are very interesting, but they are different in their approach and their final conclusions. “The Pentagon’s Brain” presents what might be the expected treatment of an agency such as DARPA ...#weekendread 1/
a storied history fraught with secrecy, political drama, and a healthy regard for the futuristic military technology the agency has and continues to explore. “Imagineers of War,” on the other hand, makes the assertion that following the collapse of USSR ... 2/
and a string of significant failures, DARPA has in effect become a flashy, public relations hound struggling to live up to its own hype. 3/
For our #WeekendRead, we recently published a story on coffee in South Sudan:
"A coffee treasure found, and potentially lost again"
worldcoffeeresearch.org/news/coffee-tr…
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"A coffee treasure found, and potentially lost again"
worldcoffeeresearch.org/news/coffee-tr…
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A new research paper confirms that South Sudan is a center of evolutionary origin for Coffea arabica, and the plant populations in the area possess unique genetic diversity. The open-access paper can be found here:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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The paper is based on a study led by Dr. @KrishnanSarada, who was the lead author of the Global Coffee Conservation Strategy, co-published by World Coffee Research and the Crop Trust.
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1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.
After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.
What would they report home?
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1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.
After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.
What would they report home?
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2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.
Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.
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#nature #life
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…
2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.
Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.
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#nature #life
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…
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3. But:
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.
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#wildlife #biodiversity #climatecrisis
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…
3. But:
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.
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#wildlife #biodiversity #climatecrisis
theplanet.substack.com/p/humans-only-…
"Every map is an argument about what is important, promoting a specific point of view that the cartographer embeds in the map intentionally or unintentionally."
Great #weekendread about the nature and limitations of a key tool of our profession. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…
Great #weekendread about the nature and limitations of a key tool of our profession. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…
It mentions one of my favourite maps - McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World. The story of this map is as cool as the map itself! mapdesign.icaci.org/2014/02/mapcar…
Cheers to @WDMills1992 and @Strategy_Bridge for sending me down a delightful map-themed rabbit hole - great way to while away a rainy Saturday.
