"In this season of Advent, many people around the world prepare to celebrate the birth of a child whose parents fled their homeland to escape violence. Today, caring for migrants demands urgent, collaborative efforts to address the complex challenges driving their vulnerability—especially climate change."
Theologian Ruth Padilla DeBorst's work focuses on justice, community and sustainability. This week, I've asked her to share her good news, not so good news, and how the community she's part of in Costa Rica lives out their faith, from using solar energy and restoring local watersheds to accompanying migrants on their journey across her country.
Read more here and, as always, please use these ideas to spark conversations this holiday week!
talkingclimate.ca/p/millions-a…
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Thanks to our wonderful volunteers for all the hours of potting on, planting up, watering and caring for the plants in the polytunnel, to get them ready for restoring and expanding Scottish salt marshes
#SaltMarshRestoration #NatureRestorationFund #NatureScot
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The term "bug" was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.
Hopper did not find the bug, as she readily acknowledged. The date in the log book was September 9, 1947. The operators who found it, including William "Bill" Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Virginia, were familiar with the engineering term and amusedly kept the insect with the notation "First actual case of bug being found." Hopper loved to recount the story.
This log book, complete with attached moth, is part of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
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Credits: SDSS Team, Fermilab Visual Media Services
#nature #space #astrophotography
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Programs Manager, Coeur d'Alene Idaho
Museum of North Idaho
Full job description is available at 👇museumni.org/join-our-team/
Email Britt Thurman at bthurman@museumni.org to apply #Museums #museumjobs #jobs #employment
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“How He Came to Life One Day”: #Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
What did the first snowman look like? And who rolled it? In the early 2000s the world’s foremost (only?) #snowman historian, went searching for an icy Adam and its mittened creator publicdomainreview.org/collect…
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"The carnival-casino era of #cryptocurrencies has come back with a vengeance, riding a broader wave of investment in bitcoin that was itself spurred by the election of Donald Trump. It’s minting millionaires while potentially harming others — yet everyone, even the losers, seem to be in on the joke ... Yes, it’s called Fartcoin. Yes, it is totally useless. Nevertheless it tripled in value over the past week to a market capitalization of more than $700 million"
@davepell
nbcnews.com/business/personal-…
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It is frustrating seeing #blockchain technology being perverted. Just as papyrus makers would have been either abhorred or titillated at the invention of #Playboy magazine. When you release a true revolution and innovation into the world, the risk is that you lose control of the intention.
From field to Vault, how the largest Winchcombe meteorite was found
The fireball that fell from the sky in February 2021 has been formally classified as the Winchcombe meteorite. The largest piece, which was discovered in a field of sheep poo, is now on display in the National History Museum's Vault gallery
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/s… #museums #meteorite #Space
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The Secret History of #Risotto.
The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent.
archive.ph/YqDMG #cooking #meals #rice
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Nation-wide Academic Art Museum Governance and Funding Structures Inventory.
This study aims to mine the diversity of art museums affiliated with higher education institutions across the nation to gain insight into governance and funding structures in the field to determine how they impact academic art museum directors’ abilities to implement impactful DEI initiatives.
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searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/posti… #museums #museumjobs #jobs
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On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and threw the cargo of tea overboard. This act of defiance was a response to the British government’s decision to tax the colonies without giving them representation in Parliament.
@USNatArchives
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🐋A Cape Cod Lobster Diver Was Swallowed by a Humpback Whale—and Then Spat Back Out.
Except for severe bruising and a dislocated knee, the survivor is in good health and ready to return to work, he says
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/… #whales #CapeCod
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Paolo Marini
in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe • • •