#institute — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #institute, aggregated by home.social.
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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. -
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.https://institutoemv.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/opposing-modes-of-production/
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A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe ← shared technical media article
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
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[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.“
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“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…”
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#Alabama #justice's ties to #farright #Christian #movement raise #concern.
"The #SevenMountains is a #structured #outline for #Christian #supremacy," said #MatthewTaylor, senior scholar at the #Institute for #Islamic, #Christian and #Jewish #Studies in #Baltimore.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1233968467/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-treatment-christian-nationalist
