Category: Climate
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

With Monuments Falling All Over Europe, We Asked Historians and Artists to Weigh in on How They Should Be Replaced “If the community wants [monuments] to be removed, then they should be removed, but they should remain in public view, by creating museums for them, as a reminder so that we don’t make the same…
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American Uprising

On Our Own The year 2020 continues to be a time where the world is on fire both figuratively and literally. You’d be silly to think it wasn’t. In the United States, people have finally realized that ‘we the people’ are on our own. No saviors are coming to make everything better. I’m sure the…
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The Week in Stories Across the Globe

‘A Disgusting Display’: Police Fire Rubber Bullets, Stun Grenades, and Tear Gas at Demonstrators Protesting Killing of George Floyd “Firing them is a good start, but we want to see justice for our family. We want to see them charged. We want to have them arrested,” said Tera Brown, Floyd’s cousin. “What they did was…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

‘Dengue kills too’: Latin America faces two epidemics at once As the coronavirus kills thousands and dominates government attention across Latin America, another deadly viral infection is quietly stalking the region. #LatinAmerica #Dengue #COVID #Ecuador Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair “Deadlock in a legislature often is part of a healthy democracy as…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Where You’re Out of Work Makes All the Difference in the World “When life goes back to normal, I’m going to be at the lowest rung of the ladder,” Bowen said. “I’m not going to have anything, and I’m going to be so behind on all my bills. It’s just going to be an avalanche.”…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Anti-Corbyn Labour officials worked to lose general election to oust leader, leaked dossier finds One exchange shows a senior official described another from the left of the party as “pube head”. In another, months later, they called her a “smelly cow” and comment that she “had the exact same clothes on yesterday”. #LabourParty #Elections #UK #Corbyn Americans…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Neil Sardana

Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the fellow Midwesterner, Univesity of Michigan alumni,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Dismissed U.S. carrier captain gets hero’s ovation from crew He called for “decisive action”: removing more than 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them, and wrote that unless the Navy acted immediately it would be failing to properly safeguard “our most trusted asset – our sailors.” #GoNavy #COVID19 #Sailors #TrumpsAmerica “Shoot them dead”: Philippine President…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Coronavirus: US overtakes China with most cases Asked about the latest figures at a White House briefing on Thursday afternoon, President Trump said it was “a tribute to the amount of testing that we’re doing”. Vice-President Mike Pence said coronavirus tests were now available in all 50 states and more than 552,000 tests had been conducted nationwide.…
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There’s no going back

“Those mob fools want you gone so they can get back to the way things were. But I know the truth. There’s no going back. You’ve changed things…forever.” – The Joker, The Dark Knight Normalcy I’ve always felt this scene from the Dark Knight was one of those by god; he has a profound point…
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