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"Planet makes its imagery available to news organizations, NGOs, and first responders, and below we've collected imagery of the most impactful events of 2017, as seen from space (we've linked to news articles that feature these stories in the subheads)."

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use. Our research, recently published in Nature Sustainability (and summarised in The Conversation), is the first to quantify the national resource use associated with achieving a good life for over 150 countries. It shows that meeting the basic needs of all people on the planet would result in humanity transgressing multiple environmental limits, based on current relationships between resource use and human well-being. The chart below demonstrates the profound challenge nations currently face. National performance on seven environmental sustainability indicators is plotted against eleven minimum social thresholds for a good life (see About page for further details). Ideally, nations would be located in the top-left corner with no biophysical boundaries transgressed and all minimum social thresholds achieved."

This is an automatic bot that randomly generates posts, this is not an interactive bot (not yet, at least) so you can't send request to have a specific outcome. Most of the maps used come from these sources: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ https://gadm.org/ How it works A random territory is chosen Another random territory close to the first one is chosen and is conquered right away. There's no battle. It repeats the process until only one country remains

""Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples." Jacque Fresco Music: Protect Life, Human Nature, Koolen, Leelo - Eric Serra"

"France plans to outlaw the destruction of unsold consumer products, a practice that currently results in the disposal of new goods worth 800 million euros, or more than $900 million, in the country each year. By 2023, manufacturers and retailers will have to donate, reuse or recycle the goods, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Tuesday of the measure, which the government billed as the first of its kind. "It is waste that defies reason," Mr. Philippe said at a discount store in Paris, according to Agence France-Presse, and he called the practice "scandalous." Under a new measure that will be part of a bill set to be debated by the government in July, destroying unsold goods could result in financial penalties or prison time. The practice - widespread across the retail and consumer industry as a way to free up warehouse space or prevent unwanted items from being sold at a significant discount - has received bad press in France recently. ..."

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover has a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars. Strapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration - the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, may achieve a "Wright Brothers moment " by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet. Searching for Ancient Life, Gathering Rocks and Soil There are several ways that the mission helps pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that may be used in those endeavors. These include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (such as subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars.

"With little water, scorching temperatures, and not much arable land, the UAE currently imports 80% of its food. Can it go local? In an industrial park built off a highway in the arid land between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, a sprawling new indoor farm will soon grow tomatoes under LED lights in a climate-controlled warehouse near a plastic production facility and other factories. The farm, the first in the world to commercially grow tomatoes solely under artificial light, is one part of a push to transform food production in the United Arab Emirates, where 80% of food is imported. The government realizes that to be resilient, it will need to find new ways to grow food in a desert climate with little rain and temperatures that regularly stay above 100 degrees."

"CoRubrics, an add-on for Google Sheets helps teachers in the assessment process. It is used to assess students (or groups of students) with a rubric designed by the teacher and also allows students to assess other students (coevaluation). CoRubrics automates the entire process. First, teachers design the rubric they want to use in Google Sheets, then they add the students' names and their email address. (These can be imported from Google Classroom). Once this is done, the add-on will: Create a Google Form with the contents of the rubric. Send the form to the students by email or simply provide the link to the teacher. Process the data once the form is filled out (by the students or by the teacher). Finally, send the results to the students (each student receives only their results) with a personalized comment. In addition, CoRubrics allows: Insert comments when answered. Allow Co-evaluation, self-assessment and teacher assessment with one link."

"How can we understand the operations of technology and power in our era? Our technological systems are increasingly complex, interconnected, automated and opaque. Social institutions, from schools to prisons, are becoming data industries, incorporating pervasive forms of capture and analysis. Even places that were once off-limits to capital, from our emotional expressions to outer space, are now subject to computational control and extraction. Meanwhile, the industrial transformations in AI are concentrating power into even fewer hands, while accelerating polarization and alienation. If we are to address the urgent challenges of the contemporary time - including technocratic fascism, climate catastrophe, colonial wars, and wealth inequality - we need to contend with the interwoven nature of their histories. In order to have a future, we must first confront our past."

"into the benefits of a resource-based economy and scientific arguments for its feasibility"

"00:57 #10. "Flight of the Navigator" (1986) 02:06 #9. "Starman" (1984) 03:21 #8. "The Abyss" (1989) 04:20 #7. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) 05:23 #6. "District 9" (2009) 06:42 #5. "Contact" (1997) 08:00 #4. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) 09:07 #3, #2 & #1 ????"

"Open with a question or two. Another favorite education writer of mine, the cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, argues that teachers should focus more on the use of questions. "The material I want students to learn," he writes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, "is actually the answer to a question. On its own, the answer is almost never interesting. But if you know the question, the answer may be quite interesting." My colleague Greg Weiner, an associate professor of political science, puts those ideas into practice. At the beginning of class, he shows four or five questions on a slide for students to consider. Class then proceeds in the usual fashion. At the end, he returns to the questions so that students can both see some potential answers and understand that they have learned something that day. What did we learn last time? A favorite activity of many instructors is to spend a few minutes at the opening of class reviewing what happened in the previous session. That makes perfect sense, and is supported by the idea that we don't learn from single exposure to material - we need to return frequently to whatever we are attempting to master.But instead of offering a capsule review to students, why not ask them to offer one back to you?Reactivate what they learned in previous courses. Plenty of excellent evidence suggests that whatever knowledge students bring into a course has a major influence on what they take away from it. So a sure-fire technique to improve student learning is to begin class by revisiting, not just what they learned in the previous session, but what they already knew about the subject matter.Write it down. All three of the previous activities would benefit from having students spend a few minutes writing down their responses. That way, every student has the opportunity to answer the question, practice memory retrieval from the previous session, or surface their prior knowledge - and not just the students most likely to

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""Dice el refrán que una imagen vale más que 1000 palabras...". Pero en este caso le daremos la vuelta al refrán y diremos "...más de 1000 palabras que te darán una imagen... de mi aula". Así empezamos la primera sesión de tutoría del curso 2015/2016 con 3ºESO. Con esta actividad, que paso a relataros,pretendemos que el alumno rompa el hielo del comienzo del curso escolar desdevarios ámbitos: "el personal, pensando en quién es, que le apasiona, que le cuesta…; el grupal, descubriendo y conociendo a las personas con las que va a convivir los próximos nueve meses; y el espacial, convirtiendo el espacio-aula en un lugar del que también se sienta protagonista junto con sus compañeros..."

"El Kit de primeros auxilios digitales es un recurso gratuito para ayudar a quienes brindan respuesta rápida, entrenadores en seguridad digital y activistas con intereses técnicos a protegerse mejor a si mismos y a sus comunidades contra los tipos más comunes de emergencias digitales. Tambien puede ser usado por activistas, defensores de derechos humanos, blogueros, periodistas o activistas de medios que quieren aprender más sobre cómo se pueden proteger a sí mismos y ayudar a otros. Si tu o alguien a quien estás ayudando está sufriendo una emergencia digital, el Kit de primeros auxilios digitales te ayudará a diagnosticar los problemas que estás experimentando y te referirá a los proveedores de soporte adecuados para obtener ayuda más especializada si es necesario. ¿Qué problema estás experimentando? Perdí mi dispositivo Perdí acceso a mis cuentas Mi dispositivo está actuando de forma sospechosa He recibido mensajes sospechosos Mi sitio web no está funcionando Alguien me está suplantando en internet Estoy siendo acosada o acosado en línea Perdí mi información Alguien que conozco ha sido arrestado o arrestada"

"El Kit de primeros auxilios digitales es un recurso gratuito para ayudar a quienes brindan respuesta rápida, entrenadores en seguridad digital y activistas con intereses técnicos a protegerse mejor a si mismos y a sus comunidades contra los tipos más comunes de emergencias digitales. Tambien puede ser usado por activistas, defensores de derechos humanos, blogueros, periodistas o activistas de medios que quieren aprender más sobre cómo se pueden proteger a sí mismos y ayudar a otros. Si tu o alguien a quien estás ayudando está sufriendo una emergencia digital, el Kit de primeros auxilios digitales te ayudará a diagnosticar los problemas que estás experimentando y te referirá a los proveedores de soporte adecuados para obtener ayuda más especializada si es necesario."

"Farmer N'Da Alphonse grows cocoa and has never seen the finished product. "To be honest I do not know what they make of my beans, " says farmer N'Da Alphonse. "I've heard they're used as flavoring in cooking, but I've never seen it. I do not even know if it's true." vpro Metropolis was a video project by Dutch broadcast organisation vpro, that ran from 2008 to 2015. Metropolis is made by a global collective of young filmmakers and TV producers, reporting on remarkable stories from their own country/city. We made a trip around the globe on one single issue: from local beauty ideals to Elvis impersonators, to what's it like being gay, or an outcast or a dog in different cultures."