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Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN

Grist 2024-04-26

photo: UN / Manuel Elías

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. Last September, Nicaraguan state security forces arrived at Indigenous Miskitu leader Brooklyn Rivera’s home in Bilwi,...

From screens to streets: How Gen Z is disrupting the status quo and redefining activism

Dawn 2024-04-26

photo: Creative Commons

Soft. Entitled. Snowflakes. Lazy. These are some of the characterisations about Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012) pushed in the media by older generations who have largely failed to connect with and understand what they are all about. But these disparaging words used to describe the...

Two Trump courtroom dramas could help shape the tone of a future presidency

CNN 2024-04-26

photo: AP / Alex Brandon

A wild day of often outlandish legal arguments and tabloid tales could not obscure the stakes for the country. Only Donald Trump could conjure a two-city legal spectacle that gave equal billing to the deepest thoughts of George Washington and a former National Enquirer publisher known for lurid...

Listen to the popes on neoliberalism and the Global South

Asiatimes 2024-04-26

photo: Creative Commons / Mauricio A.

Just as Pope Paul VI’s controversial encyclical of 1968 – “Humanae Vitae” – foretold the demographic collapse now besetting much of the world, so his landmark “Populorum Progressio: On the Development of Peoples” has proven prophetic since its publication in 1967. It opens with this lapidary appeal...

Boeing, NASA’s longtime partner, may finally catch up to SpaceX with astronaut launch

CNN 2024-04-26

photo: NASA / Kim Shiflett

After years of delays and a dizzying array of setbacks during test flights, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to make its inaugural crewed launch. The mission is on track to take off from Florida as soon as May 6, carrying NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the...

How deep does life go?

Popular Science 2024-04-25

photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Michal Matlon

Microbial life may be pervasive everywhere beneath Earth’s surface under conditions long thought to be inhospitable, if not fatal. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from James Lawrence Powell’s book “Mysteries of the Deep“. When HMS...

China's lunar missions exciting time for space exploration

China Daily 2024-04-25

photo: NASA/JPL/KSC file

The success after success of China's space program, with all its diverse elements for scientific exploration and technological development in what remains a risky business, is as impressive as it is exciting. China is set to launch three astronauts into low-Earth orbit on Thursday night for a...

Extreme Connect 2024: AI in networks to live or die by trust

Computer Weekly 2024-04-25

photo: Creative Commons / École polytechnique - J.Barande

Over the past five years or so, artificial intelligence (AI) has proliferated throughout the world of networking driven by the complexity and scale of infrastructures, emerging as a transformative technology in optimising networks, and enhancing efficiency and reliability. However, according to...

Navalny’s daughter and Michael McFaul remember his defiance

Stanford Daily 2024-04-25

photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko

“He was constantly getting arrested and he was constantly traveling, because he wanted to make the world a better place,” Dasha Navalnaya ’24 said, at an event commemorating her father, Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny. Russian authorities reported that Navalny had...

How Donald Trump lit up a fascination with fascism

Alternet 2024-04-25

photo: AP / Julie Jacobson

Like good fascists throughout modern history, Donald Trump and the RNC are rolling out a program to try to intimidate minorities and Democratic voters so badly they’ll leave polling places without voting. Hugh Jackson writes about it for the Nevada Current:“Donald Trump and the Republican National...

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