These blobs on some tide-exposed rocks were so bright, I thought they might be human-made. I don't know what they are, but I think they're alive, and I vaguely recall that I may have asked on another occasion but forgot the answer. #MendocinoCoast #MarineLife #MarineBiology
As Europe’s personal care brands look for eco-friendly alternatives to animal and tropical fats, a new partnership bets on microalgae oils to usher in a new era for cosmetics.More and more Europeans are seeing cleaner beauty, with half of consumers n
The resolution passed by United Nations General Assembly on 25 March 2026 seeking recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” potentially creates a broader definition of crimes against humanity in international law and allows for restitution claims against perpetrators. The resolution could elevate the legal and moral standard for what counts as the worst crimes against humanity, and compel more people to legally pursue reparations or compensation cases and thus deter such crimes.
Proposed by Ghana, it was adopted with 123 votes. The United States, Israel and Argentina voted against it. Fifty-two countries abstained, among them the UK and European states.
The resolution passed by United Nations General Assembly on 25 March 2026 seeking recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” potentially creates a broader definition of crimes against humanity in international law and allows for restitution claims against perpetrators. The resolution could elevate the legal and moral standard for what counts as the worst crimes against humanity, and compel more people to legally pursue reparations or compensation cases and thus deter such crimes.
Proposed by Ghana, it was adopted with 123 votes. The United States, Israel and Argentina voted against it. Fifty-two countries abstained, among them the UK and European states.
There has never been a single “gravest crime” designation applied to one human event or condition. Instead, international law defines categories of crimes considered the most serious. Examples are genocide, war crimes, crimes of aggression, and crimes against humanity. Being classified under these categories triggers severe legal consequences. These include global prosecution, lifelong accountability, international sanctions, and reparation claims.
Ghana’s declaration views transatlantic slavery and its system of forced African labour as the worst crime ever committed. It explains how millions of Africans were abducted, treated like property, and abused because of their race.
The declaration points out that the effects of slavery still influence inequality and racism today. It calls on all nations to recognise what happened, teach its history honestly, and remember the victims. It also works towards fixing the lasting damage, including institutional and monetary reparations.
I am a professor of history who has researched and written extensively on the slave trade and its impact. I argue that Ghana’s resolution represents more than a moral or diplomatic statement. It marks a decisive step in an ongoing effort of historical reclamation and political transformation. It asserts that the histories of enslavement, displacement and organised theft are foundational to the modern world.
More importantly, it insists that recognition must lead to action. For contemporary Africa, this moment is about leveraging historical truth to reshape present conditions and future possibilities within a global system still marked by the legacies of transatlantic slaving.
Bioinformaticians of Melbourne, the next ABACBS-Melbourne Bioinformatics Coffee Catch Up is this Thursday, 2 April. (Please note the new time/day for 2026!)
Everyone is welcome. Details in the attached image. See you there!
I have seen the center of a monster. Most people describe the sound of a tornado as like a freight train, but up close, it’s more like a thousand screaming jet engines. I am one of the few people on Earth who has driven into a tornado and lived to tell the tale.
While it might sound like a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster involving a high-tech armored truck, my experience was much more dangerous and terrifying.
I am an atmospheric scientist who studies tornadoes, but I am only alive today because of split-second decisions and a massive amount of dumb luck. Believe me, I do not want to ever be in that situation again...
Investigation by Bloomberg exposes that despite being RSPO members, #SOCFIN plantations in #WestAfrica are the epicentre of #humanrights abuses, sexual coercion, environmental destruction, and #lan…
I like them being available (ie. that the characters are available) but I've never met anything "smart" that didn't do something I didn't want, at least some of the time.
The goal with RabbitWaves was always to use storytelling to teach traditional and general seagoing skills, to make it possible to click on certain objects featured in a comic to learn more about it.
This is the first step towards that goal :>! The page looks better when viewed on the website: rabbitwaves.ca/
"The world's largest producer of aviation biofuel, Finnish fuel firm Neste, has been using banned palm oil instead of recycled cooking oil, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT."
A former manager: "The entire biofuel market has problems with fake raw materials."
"The world's largest producer of aviation biofuel, Finnish fuel firm Neste, has been using banned palm oil instead of recycled cooking oil, according to Swedish public broadcaster SVT."
A former manager: "The entire biofuel market has problems with fake raw materials."
High in the canopies of #Indonesia’s remote northern islands of Salibabu, Nusa, Bukide, and Sangihe, the Talaud Bear #Cuscus Ailurops melanotis moves at a pace so slow they barely disturbs the leav…
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), known locally as “Payangko,” is one of the most evolutionarily distinct mammals and is native to the Cyclops Mountain…
@d6 I keep finding pathfinding writing about this but i have yet to try it out for myself to really understand, thanks for the link. I think I can make something out of that!
"Others' woes can be used as reproaches and sometimes are: how dare you think about your own private suffering when wars are raging and children are being bombed? There is always someone whose suffering is greater than yours. The reproaches are often framed as though there is an economy of suffering, and of compassion, and you should measure yourself, price yourself, with the same sense of scarcity and finite resources that govern monetary economies, but there is no measure of either. In high doses suffering is boundless and incomparable and overwhelming. Though sometimes paying attention to others gives you perspective, and in suffering similar to your own you might find encouragement in knowing that you're not alone."
Want to hear something trippy? Unlike other aspects of an object such as its size or mass, colour is not an inherent property. Perceiving colour is a function of an organism’s sensory system.…
"Start with one service, get comfortable, then add another. The point is not perfection. It is owning your library and making it available to the people you care about, without asking permission from a platform that can lock you out at a whim."
I don't know, I think you are giving them too much credit with the whole buying good health insurance thing Most of them wouldn't even think that far ahead and blow all the money on useless things and be broke within a few years after falling off and no longer relevant
We live in a charlatan's heaven these days. The only problem is to achieve this, one must suspend all morals and be willing to ruin lives or even cause deaths.
For some that doesn't seem to be much of a stumbling block anymore.
No. 72: Give yourself a ridiculous nickname evoking healthful food but is actually a grey/green greasy tree turd. Attract attention with outrageous conspiracy yarns that make you respected as an outsider standing up to The System. Fly all over the flat earth, insist chemtrails are real and vaccines kill millions. Take the true believers for everything they've got. #win
Greg A. Woods
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