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  1. THE MAJORITY OF #poles OPPOSE ACCEPTING #ukrainian #refugees : The Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS), a #polish polling #institute, published a #poll on July 17 revealing that, for the first time since 2014, 52% of Poles oppose accepting Ukrainian refugees.

    unn.ua/en/news/in-poland-for-t

  2. A New Learning Strategy: The IEMV Music in Colors Method

    Philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg and his talented wife, Professor M Zuckerberg, created the IEMV Music in Colors Method by combining a new musical notation based on the colors of the color wheel and neuroscience focusing on modifying brainwave frequency ranges through different musical genres.

    institutoemv.wordpress.com/202

  3. Opposing Modes of Production? Is There Really a Struggle Between Capitalism and Socialism?

    There is already talk of a new global economic model, the product of a series of unfortunate events. Some consider it the Sixth Republic, others the Scientific Revolution. What is certain is that it is a Humanist Revolution that pursues the well-being and social justice of all human beings and was proposed by Delcy Rodríguez at the Global Revo Union. Later, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Claudia Sheinbaum, Pedro Sánchez, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Gustavo Petro joined the movement.

    institutoemv.wordpress.com/202

  4. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
    #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  5. #institute : an organization with a common purpose

    - French: institut

    - Italian: istituto

    - Portuguese: instituto

    - Spanish: instituto

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    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  6. “Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration”

    by Robert Inlakesh in The Cradle

    @[email protected]
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    @iran

    “With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that Israel has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.

    As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of Israel lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that Israeli institutions can investigate themselves”

    thecradle.co/articles/israels-

    #Press #SocialMedia #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #OrganHarvesting #OrganTrafficking #OrgsnTheft #Prisoners #Torture #Evidence #Palestinians #Genocide #Transplants #AbuKabir #Forensic #Institute #MatnatChaim

  7. CW: uspol

    Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.

    President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums natio...

    #american-library-association #dc-bureau #federal-funding-libraries #institute-of-museum-and-library-services
    ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04

  8. Der #Welttag_des_Labors findet jährlich am 23.April statt.

    Am Welttag des Labors rufen #Institute auf der ganzen welt auf, sich an diesem Aktionstag zu beteiligen. Es gibt #Beratungen, #Führungen, #Vorträge und viele andere #Aktivitäten rund um das #Labor, um das es und seine #vielfältigen aufgaben öffentlich bekannt zu machen.
    welcher-tag-ist-heute.org/akti

    #Aktionstag

  9. So geht #JoinMastodon!

    Hallo 👋 und schön, dass ihr #NeuHier ins #Fediverse gekommen seid, liebe #Vereine, #Verbände, #Institute und #Initiativen.

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    #WissXit #Xit #SciXit #MastodonMigration #eXit

  10. NEWSFLASH: #Biden has finally authorized strikes deep into #Russia with long-range weapons known as #ATACMS.

    We spoke with George #Barros of the #Institute for the Study of #War to determine how this decision will affect the course of events on the front lines.

  11. ♦️Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
    (Phillips Andover, Stanford)
    as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).

    Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
    He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
    joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.

    He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.

    In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
    who often went by Ed.

    At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
    “My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”

    Dick said that same year that
    “my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”

    Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.

    Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends♦️ tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.

    Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the
    ♦️ #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
    and the
    #Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
    as the Daily Beast reported.

    Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
    sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
    was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.

    “Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
    recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”

    She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:

    “Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
    There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.

    We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.

    The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”

    The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.

    Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
    which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”

    Last year, Uihlein weighed in on ♦️recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.

    More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than♦️ $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.

    The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.

    For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.

    Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.

    For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
    Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
    hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
    dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.

    The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.

    Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
    with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.

    One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.

    “Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
    #Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace

  12. Die fünf führenden Institute für Wirtschaftsforschung in Deutschland erwarten in diesem Jahr deutlich weniger Wachstum und eine anhaltend hohe Inflation. Auch eine "scharfe Rezession" sei möglich.
    Prognose: Weniger Wachstum in Deutschland | DW | 13.04.2022
    #Konjunktur #Deutschland #Institute #Prognose #Rezession #Krieg #Abschwung