by Grace Ebert | May 6, 2024
When visiting his hometown of Runik, Kosovo, back in 2010, Petrit Halilaj realized that his elementary school was being demolished. He went to the site—which had miraculously survived the Yugoslav wars that spurred his family to flee to an Albanian refugee camp in 1998—and found a pile of desks, many with doodles and notes scratched into their surfaces.
These etchings have now found their way to New York, where they’re perched atop The Met’s rooftop garden for Abetare, which translates to primer, as in the early education books used for learning basic literacy. More
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by Komoneed | May 6, 2024
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by Komoneed | May 6, 2024
This post was originally published on UNDPRising to resilience: Bangladesh’s journey towards sustainable climate adaptation admin Fri, 05/03/2024 – 08:46 By Dr Farhina Ahmed is secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Stefan...
by Komoneed | May 6, 2024
Get ready: Building materials made from fungus, AI-powered thrift shops, vacuum shares and more.
by Grace Ebert | May 6, 2024
A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) reveals the riotous activity of the sun’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Taken by the Solar Orbiter in September, the footage captures a lush blanket of “coronal moss” met by bright arches, or the magnetic field lines that shoot from the interior. Researchers say the brightest regions reach a whopping one million degrees Celsius—the cooler spots appear darker because they absorb radiation—and the “fluffy” hair-like structures are made of charged plasma. More
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