Ihara Saikaku fue el gran cronista de la vida popular en el Japón de la época Edo. Ya tenemos 'Este mundo astuto', con 20 historias satírica sobre mercaderes y sus esposas, actores, monjes prostitutas, ronin... Todos ellos removerán cielo y tierra para saldar sus deudas antes de que acabe el año.

Like humans, every trees has its own microbiome. Fascinating!

The company that founded the Prosperá business town in 2017 has raised $120 million in investments, including from venture capital funds backed by Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel and Sam Altman.

US-Lawfare. Since President Xiomara Castro took office in #Honduras, the country has faced 16 investor lawsuits totalling $13.5 billion. These lawsuits are a response to the government's decision to reverse a US-backed initiative which aimed to turn Honduran territory into private corporate domains.

Botanical Resistance: In Mexico City, people fight to save one of their oldest neighbours in the barrio, the tree "Laureano", who is at risk because of an housing development.

Survey maps published last month have revealed more than SIX MILLION animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the greatest migration of mammals ever seen in the world.

#ForgottenStories: In 1804: Zhen Yisao 鄭一嫂, a female pirate, takes command of the largest pirate fleet in history, comprising around 200 ocean-going junks and 70,000 fighters.

El olor de una multitud. Cuando las plantas de maíz están muy juntas, liberan una sustancia volátil que induce a las plantas vecinas a producir compuestos que frenan su crecimiento, pero activan sus defensas contra las plagas. Se susurran mensajes para defenderse de sus enemigos.

Indigenous knowledge has existed for thousands of years, teaching generations how to live in balance with the Earth. So why can't science finally learn from it?

Westliches, rationales Denken steht einem mitfühlenden Bezug zur Welt im Weg. Von den Weisheitstraditionen ortsgebundener Gemeinschaften könnten wir in Europa hingegen lernen, eine Ökologie der Gegenseitigkeit auszubilden. Mein Essay für Culturescapes.

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#ForgottenStories: Year 1260: The birth of Khutulun. The Mongolian princess reportedly insisted that any man who wanted to marry her had to beat her at wrestling. Those who lost had to give her a horse, and it is said that she acquired 10,000 horses in this way.

#ForgottenStories: Year 859: Fātima al-Fihrīya founds the University of al-Qarawīyīn in Fès, the oldest university that still exists today.

Economic sanctions are often presented as a more humanitarian alternative to armed conflict. However, a new Lancet study finds that sanctions have a death toll similar to that of wars. Between 1971 and 2021, sanctions contributed to 38 million deaths.

"Within every binary, are worlds in their becoming." #BayoAkomolafe and Andrea Hiott are having a conversation about radical incompleteness, love and holding paradoxes. Very moving!

"Hot" in the sense that it will heat up the planet? Coming off the back of a devastating impact in Ecuador, Chevron is heading to Guyana.

There are also children born in places in Mexico or Belize who no longer have the opportunity to go to the beach. Locals often find themselves locked out of beaches they have used for generations and face hostility when trying to access public spaces. In Tulum, locals speak of #ApartheidTurístico.

JaBBEM is a grassroots organisation fighting against the effects of environmental injustice on beaches, beach properties and sensitive terrestrial ecosystems. You can find out more about them here: » www.jabbem.org

In Jamaica, only 1% of beaches are accessible to everyday Jamaicans, a new @theguardian.com story finds. This is one of the suffocating repercussions of colonialism acting as a biopolitical force. Allowing only a few to experience freedom of recreation and beauty.

Otan Aza Cananis neues Album #DieDemokratie verbreitet Witz und Wehmut im "Papierkramland". Yine muhteşem.

La noche nunca llega. La contaminación lumínica roba el sueño a los vecinos de Ciudad de México, expulsados de los barrios céntricos por los turistas.

Despite global gains on combatting child labour, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers. Approximately 63% - 87 million children - of the world's child laborers are in sub-Saharan Africa 1/2
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With cicadas emerging in a 17-year cycle in places like Georgia and Ohio, I recommend this article from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.

Die AfD behauptet jetzt, das BfV würde die Hochstufung zurücknehmen. Doch die „Stillhaltezusage“ bei Gericht dient dazu, das Eilverfahren zu beschleunigen. Solange nennt das BfV die AfD nicht „gesichert rechtsetxrem“ und behandelt sie bei den ND-Mitteln wieder wie einen Verdachtsfall. Mehr nicht.

"If 80% of new buildings were built with wood instead of concrete and steel, this would help to offset half of the emissions from the construction industry in Europe", this study found: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...