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The activists fighting to give nature human rights Animist activism or activist animism among Sami
https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/activism-2/the-activists-fighting-to-give-nature-human-rights/
As pollution levels rise once again after reaching a record low in lockdown, could rights of nature legislation prevent impending catastrophe? 2 Likes

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The lemur baseline: how lemurs compare to monkeys and apes in the Primate Cognition Test... This is fun, lemurs doing just as well as monkeys and apes in social domains
https://peerj.com/articles/10025/
Primates have relatively larger brains than other mammals even though brain tissue is energetically costly. Comparative studies of variation in cognitive skills allow testing ...

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#NoXiNoTrump: join solidarity actions from UK to New Zealand & online on 1 Oct October 1 is called as workers' solidarity with oppressed peoples of Uighur lands, Hong Kong and Tibet #noxinotrump
https://uyghursolidarityuk.org/2020/09/30/noxinotrump-join-solidarity-actions-1-oct/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
1 October marks 71 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China – and one year since Hong Kong ... 4 Comments

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Irregular periods linked to increased risk of death before the age of 70, says BMJ This is again erroneously citing 28 days as average, where in fact it lies between 29-30 days. So how can this be trusted!?
The real thing here is a woman's menstrual cycle is a barometer of her health. Far from ... 1 Comments 7 Likes

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Neanderthal genes increase risk of serious Covid-19, study claims Extraordinary! Take care, Neanderthals!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/30/neanderthal-genes-increase-risk-of-serious-covid-19-study-claims
Strand of DNA inherited by modern humans is linked to likelihood of falling severely ill 3 Comments

Very interesting!The pic is what got me here

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New Zealand firms switch to using nation's Māori name, Aotearoa Look what's happening in Aotearoa.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/new-zealand-firms-switch-to-using-nations-indigenous-name-aotearoa
Vodafone and communications agency DDB respond after calls on companies to use the reo term 2 Comments

Sounds abit like woke capitalism, but im glad indigenous land is represented. Not sure i'm ready to applaud companies like ...🔥❤️ inspiring news. renameBC is next ...

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Parrots removed from wildlife park after swearing at visitors The funniest parrot report 'until they were swearing and laughing like a working men's club'!
Actually really interesting scientifically speaking for a) the parrots teaching/learning and b) their responses to human laughter egging them on. Probably because they read it ... 8 Likes

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Grit and beauty: the lives of Irish Traveller children – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/30/grit-and-beauty-the-lives-of-irish-traveller-children-in-pictures
Jamie Johnson spent five years photographing the fun-loving, fashion conscious kids who are forced to spend their childhoods battling prejudice 17 Likes

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Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view Parrot verbal culture pretty contagious. African greys of course.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54340425
Although parrots are well known for mimicking bad language, these are "more sweary than most". 6 Likes

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Pantone launches new shade of red to end menstruation stigma Is some megacorp trying to trademark the earliest colour symbolism of human culture? No to privatisation. This colour -- the paint of fresh menstrual blood -- is the earliest symbol of humanity and belongs to humankind. Far from any stigma, ... 4 Comments

They should have a menstruation 'range' because it's never consistently the same colour! ( darker if older).No it actually looks like they are aiming to, if not clumsily, end stigma around menstruation. Wrapped up in that ...Jen Moore

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Vincent Namatjira’s ‘cheeky revenge’: the Archibald prize winner’s past work – in pictures Background on a prizewinning Australian artist
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/28/vincent-namatjiras-cheeky-revenge-the-archibald-prize-winners-past-work-in-pictures
The Western Aranda artist is renown for his irreverent exploration of colonisation and the power wielded by world leaders 1 Comments

Just love this painting of the Queen and Trump😁

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The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia Modern humans in Iberia much earlier than previously realised -- along with Neanderthals
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/23/2016062117
We report the remarkable discovery of an early Aurignacian occupation, ∼5,000 years older than any Upper Paleolithic site in westernmost Eurasia. The archaeological and radiocarbon data ... 8 Likes

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Indigenous communities in Russia are begging Tesla not to get its nickel from this major... Oil spill fallout
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/09/28/news/indigenous-communities-russia-are-begging-tesla-not-get-its-nickel-major-polluter
Elon Musk said in July that he would give a big contract to anyone mining the EV battery mineral 'in an environmentally sensitive way.

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Did Neanderthals Really Live in Caves? https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-neanderthals-really-live-in-caves
Despite their reputation as cave dwellers, there was a lot more variety in where these ancient human ancestors called home. 2 Likes

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Canadian astronomers contend with issue of Indigenous consent over Hawaiian telescope project | CBC News Again #indigenoussovereignty on Mauna Kea
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5738068?__twitter_impression=true
The Canadian astronomy community has named the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope its top facilities priority for the decade ahead while also recommending the creation of a policy focused on Indigenous consent in a section ...

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Regular UK lockdowns could help control Covid, says Sage expert Could this be lunarchy? Fortnite on fortnite off? It's an ancient human rhythm that just might help our planet to breathe again #lunarchy #decolonisetime
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/27/regular-uk-lockdowns-could-help-control-covid-says-sage-expert-coronavirus
Strategy of repeated ‘circuit breakers’ would reduce total number of cases, according to leading scientific ... 1 Comments

i welcome this

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Photography award winners show the fragility and beauty of mangrove forests Mangroves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-54241533
The Mangrove Photography Award winners show the beauty and fragility of the unique ecosystems. 8 Likes

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#WOMENSART on Twitter This artist began work at 95!
https://twitter.com/womensart1/status/1310107054896549888?s=20
“Australian Aboriginal artist Loongkoonan started painting at 95, pictured exhibiting her work age 105 #womensart” 8 Likes

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US officials clash with peaceful indigenous protestors on sacred land Protecting sacred land from the border wall
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/border-protests-indigenous-sacred-land-trump-wall-b555932.html
Border patrol agents physically remove peaceful protestors who were burning sage and praying on ancestral lands 2 Likes

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What the Climate Movement Can Learn From Indigenous Values Ojibwe activist voice
https://www.vogue.com/article/what-the-climate-movement-can-learn-from-indigenous-values/amp?__twitter_impression=true
We need climate solutions that go beyond statistics. 4 Likes

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'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion "If you designed a system that really fucked up human metabolic budgets, it would be the world we currently live in"
Theory of emotions as culturally constructed, not innate
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/25/im-extremely-controversial-the-psychologist-rethinking-human-emotion
How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how ... 1 Comments

thanks for link. Interesting.

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New study first to define link between testosterone and fathers’ social roles outside the family Fascinating contrast between Bayaka Hunter fathers (best have low testosterone) and neighbour Bondongo farmer fathers (best have higher testosterone).
https://news.nd.edu/news/new-study-first-to-define-link-between-testosterone-and-fathers-social-roles-outside-the-family/
Notre Dame News gathers and disseminates information that enhances understanding of the University’s academic and research mission and its accomplishments ... 1 Comments

There's an interesting docu on deutsche welle regarding research into the role of testosterone

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Activists outraged that sacred Chilean island is listed for sale for $20m Selling Mapuche sacred land
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/chile-guafo-island-sale-indigenous
Guafo, a 50,000-acre island, is a hotspot for marine biodiversity and part of the ancestral land of the Mapuche people 1 Likes

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Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds Evidence for destruction of Islamic sites in Uighur Central Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/25/thousands-of-xinjiang-mosques-destroyed-damaged-china-report-finds
Fewer mosques in China’s western region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, says thinktank 11 Comments

Radical Anthropology Group No difference between opposing Chinese state's erasure of Uighur culture and opposing US state's destruction of sacred sites with the ...“ASPI has long been receiving funds from the US government and arms dealers, and has always been eager to cook ...ASPI’s biased academic ethic and inflammatory rhetoric has led to a slew of criticisms. Former NSW premier Bob Carr has ...

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How Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome Y-chromosome takeover by modern humans
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/how-neanderthals-lost-their-y-chromosome
Homo sapiens’ Y chromosome spread through Neanderthal populations after early mating 1 Comments 7 Likes

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Australian history is much larger and more varied than the one told in classrooms |... Teach Australian history (clue: over 60,000 years of it!) Tho perhaps more accurate to claim 'one of the oldest living cultures in the world'.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/24/australian-history-is-much-larger-and-more-varied-than-the-one-told-in-classrooms
We are the oldest living culture in the world. This is a cause for celebration ... 17 Likes

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Imagining the Neanderthal’s World Down with speciesism
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/kindred-neanderthal-book/
In Kindred, an archaeologist urges readers to rethink a long-maligned member of humanity’s family tree. 12 Likes

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Chinese TV show accused of ‘erasing women’ in virus fight Chinese nurses quite cross!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54241734
A new drama has China asking if women are being written out of its epidemic history.

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Saweto's daughter fights for justice in the Peruvian Amazon A story of Asheninka resistance
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/peru-saweto-daughter-fights-justice-amazon/
Diana Ríos Rengifo took on the defense of the Peruvian Amazon in the fight against illegal loggers after the murder of her father, a well-known Asheninka leader. 3 Likes

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