Humanity
How Green Are Plastic and Wire Coat Hangers?
It’s not pleasant to hear, but the fact of the matter is that the majority of the clothes Americans are wearing nowadays are being imported mostly from countries located overseas. Each one of these items of clothing arrives in the United States on some type of coat hanger, usually plastic or wire. This holds true even for baby hangers, used for baby clothes which are almost always made of plastic. These then get dumped in landfills, where they are left to leak toxins such as bisphanol-A and benzene right into the groundwater.
By Monica Pocelujko2 years ago in Earth
Monkeypox: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Options
Monkeypox: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Options Monkeypox is a rare disease that is usually found in tropical areas. It’s caused by the same virus that causes smallpox in humans and other animals. There have only been about 400 cases of monkeypox ever reported, and most of these have been limited to central Africa, with scattered reports from West African countries. Monkeypox outbreaks are rare because the people who live in areas where the virus thrives take great care to avoid contact with monkeys, which can easily transmit it. This means that while there are many places where you can catch monkeypox, it’s not a very common disease in developed countries. If you contract this disease, the symptoms can be quite severe but they also tend to be fairly brief. Left untreated, however, they can become life-threatening. Let’s take a look at what you need to know about this unusual infection…
By Lai Lai chu2 years ago in Earth
"The Western" a genre of a film, or just the setting of one?
After much movie-watching, researching about film, and a thought-provoking conversation or two, I ask myself: is "The Western" a genre of a film, or just the setting of one? How do you define it? If John Wayne isn't the star, is it even a Western? Do people still even make western films?
By Gina Stefan2 years ago in Earth
To Feed the Beast is to Feed the People?
To develop a critical understanding of hunger and its relationship to the food system one must first understand the political motivation and mechanisms underlying the production of labor behind the modern food system. The real root problem of hunger has never been addressed by western society. Food injustice brews in Western Societies inequitable class system; Capitalism. A mistruth continues to grow; its hunger worsens. Band Aids, or ‘token solutions’ have been applied to the problem instead (Poppendieck 1998). How long will the bandage hold?
By Alexis Carpenter2 years ago in Earth
The Ones with Charmed Lives
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The story that the old ones passed down was that once the dragons were hummingbirds, and before that, they were angels. As the hummingbirds lost their voices, their bright and colorful feathers vanished. Their bodies expanded and their wings became vast, dark, and leathery creaking appendages that snapped like sails as they beat against the sky. Those newborn dragons eventually became Mara– our demons. They shrieked and howled as they circled the kingdom like vultures, bruising the earth with their heavy shadows, weighing it down in their rage and sorrow.
By Brijit Reed2 years ago in Earth