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Hummingbirds live life on the edge. @KnowableMag looks at how these tiny creatures can shut their bodies down almost completely, fly thousands of miles, sometimes across open oceans, sometimes upside down and backwards, and can generate g-forces high enough to make a fighter pilot black out.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/how-hummingbirds-adapt-to-an-extreme-lifestyle
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Combined, Gabon, Nigeria and the Republic of Congo are the largest suppliers of crude oil to Israel. @[email protected] reports on whether this might constitute support of genocide, and how African countries have limited ability to do anything, thanks to the power of western oil companies. “Economically and geopolitically we are at the bottom of the hierarchy, playing the same roles today as during colonization,” says Fadhel Kaboub, a Nairobi-based senior adviser at Power Shift Africa. “This takes away a lot of your sovereignty.”
https://continent.substack.com/p/three-african-countries-are-fuelling
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric is part and parcel of some candidates’ campaigns in the U.S. election. @[email protected] shares this Arizona Mirror story about Trump and Harris’s different visions for the 11 million people who live in the United States without legal status.
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/092724_immigrant_rhetoric/changing-demographics-political-calculus-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-swing-states/
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“Your smart TV knows what you’re watching,” write Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit for @themarkup. They’ve put together a guide to turning off that ability on three different platforms.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
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Our @[email protected] sent out a newsletter this week, which they turned into this Flipboard Storyboard. It’s a fascinating look at who might win the “bro vote” in November, including stories from @Salon on Tim Walz’s normal-dad energy, @politico on the ever-widening gender gap, and GQ on the strange history of toxic masculinity.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/who-will-win-the-bro-vote-jtoamv4n0ck8lan7
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Now, to Philadelphia, where @[email protected] says Afrofuturism is thriving. Professor Aaron X. Smith writes about five artists you should know.
https://theconversation.com/afrofuturism-thrives-in-philly-5-artists-you-should-know-235069
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Last of all, our @CultureDesk, which shared the newly available @BBCNews sound effects archive (it’s free for non-commercial use). 73 results for plane; just the two farts. Happy Friday!
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
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Considering the rich symphony I’ve heard from myself, I think the archive is incomplete on at least one aspect. 😉💩
@[email protected] @[email protected] There are reasons that Aztec warriors thought they could be reincarnated as hummingbirds.