planet’s land
An Australian field hockey player has opted to amputate part of his finger to compete at the Paris Olympics. Matt Dawson badly broke a digit on his right hand during team training in Perth two weeks ago, and recovery from surgery to repair it would have taken months.
Valeria was studying engineering in Venezuela before she arrived in Cúcuta at the start of 2023 to be what she called a camgirl. With her family struggling to eat, she said she made the decision to leave for Colombia […] A 2022 study estimated that in the border cities of Cúcuta and Villa Rosario alone, there were between 800 and 1,000 webcam houses hosting an estimated 11,700 migrants across them, the majority of whom are Venezuelan. The number of these houses could now be as high as 3,000.
In the film’s final scene, after deciding to leave Barbieland for the real world, Barbie enthusiastically tells a receptionist, “I’m here to see my gynecologist”[…] We hypothesized that this final line may have spurred public interest in gynecologic care. […] In the week following Barbie’s release, there were large increases in the national online search volume for terms referring to gynecologists and gynecologist definition. Meanwhile, there were no changes in searches for gynecologist appointments.
A 2022 study, using a sample of 953 people in the US who meditated regularly, showed that over 10 percent of participants experienced adverse effects […] According to a review of over 40 years of research that was published in 2020, the most common adverse effects are anxiety and depression.
More than one-third of the planet’s land is used to produce food, and 70 percent of all fresh water is used to irrigate farmland. […] the equivalent of South America is now used to grow crops, and the equivalent of Africa is used to graze animals. […] And according to the World Resources Institute, we may need to add almost two Indias to the world’s existing farmland to meet food needs in the second half of this century. — but adding that farmland means cutting down forests, which store carbon, in order to graze more animals, which produce carbon. […] agriculture is responsible for one-third of the global total of emissions [NY Times]
