BioCarbon Engineering, a United Kingdom based company, have invented a drone that can help to combat deforestation. The drone has the capability to plant a billion plants per year by depositing seeds in places that need to be reforested. The seed-depositing drone can reportedly out-perform the aerial methods that are currently being used. The drone […]
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Legal Eagles Fun Fact: Russia
Russia is the largest country on Earth. Russia spans 11 time zones and stretches halfway around the world. Russia contains one of the world’s last wilderness that is home to very rare species. Russia has almost every type of terrain and climate. It has deserts, dense forests, and Arctic tundra. Tweet
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“The undisputed historical backdrop fro racial profiling is two hundred and forty years of chattel slavery, a hundred years of Jim Crow, and four-hundred-plus years of intergenerational wealth transfer during which most of the time black people not only owned little property but were property. In roughly fifty of the first seventy-two years of our […]
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[SIDEBAR: I read the Dick Gregory book already, but I didn’t own the copy I read…I definitely had to have it for my personal library. I look forward to reading the Omar Epps book too.] Tweet
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“The three great organized forces through which social hereditary operates are: The schools, the churches, and the public press. Any ideal that has the active co-operation of these three forces may, during the brief period of one generation, be forced upon the minds of the young so effectively that they cannot resist it.” -Napoleon Hill […]
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You can thank a brutal natural disaster for the invention of no-melt ice cream. According to National Geographic, no-melt ice cream was accidentally created after a 2011 tsunami in Japan damaged the country’s strawberry fields. Due to the widespread damage of the fruit, they could not be sold as whole pieces. Therefore, a pharmacy professor […]
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“Go into the public squares of our cities and observe the monuments that have been erected to the leaders of war. Observe the posture of these statues as they stand as living symbols to glorify men who did nothing more than lead armies on escapades of destruction. Notice how well these statues of warriors, mounted […]
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In a 2013 interview between Piers Morgan and Joe Jackson, it was revealed that Michael Jackson almost owned Marvel. The music superstar was seeking to purchase the comics giant before Disney did. In a recorded voicemail message from 2002, Michael Jackson could be heard stating that he wanted to purchase Marvel and create a “Marvel […]
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“In my city, the brown fields and rotting piers and rusting factories are testament to an economy that shifted and then shifted again, rendering obsolete whole generations of union-wage workers and their families. The cost to society is beyond calculation, not that anyone ever paused to calculate anything. Our economic and political leaders are dismissive […]
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