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African, Latin & Caribbean music.

African, Latin & Caribbean music.

Congolese popular music

Congolese popular music

Robert Lustig is a physician (pediatric endocrinologist) and medical researcher. In this engaging and wide-ranging talk, he identifies the most important cause of America's epidemic of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary disease, liver disease, and metabolic disorder. The culprit is sugar, specifically fructose. . . . (Continued under "Credits.")

Robert Lustig is a physician (pediatric endocrinologist) and medical researcher. In this engaging and wide-ranging talk, he identifies the most important cause of America's epidemic of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary disease, liver disease, and metabolic disorder. The culprit is sugar, specifically fructose. . . . (Continued under "Credits.")

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Let us imagine for a moment, you are a student in a class or more appropriately, a school lasting for 10 years. Each year represents a specific stage in the evolutionary process of not only yourself but the functioning of the school. You, along with 10 others are selected to “manage” the school for the rest of the students. How are you selected – by birthright. Most students don’t know your name but still revere you and see you as Godlike because your power over them. You inherit the school from your parents who didn’t necessarily take care of it, embroiling it in various conflicts with other schools, letting its structures sag and deteriorate all while penalizing the students who attended and worked there with heavier taxes while all the while decreasing the services and classes available to them. When you inherit the school, sort of, your parents are still there, guiding you and watching over your shoulders, you inherit a fiscal mess and social decay. Not wanting to partways with their stolen, (my mistake) plundered and looted riches; your parents advise you to “stay the coarse” which you do, yet soon after your ascendence, the public doesn’t stay theirs, a moment your parents admit they were ready for. They hand you the keys to a massive surveillance apparatus, a machine you instantly use only to find it makes things worse – what would you do. The planning machine is broken, the elites fear what is to come, with fear comes over reaction.

SHAPE in Houston- Self Help for African People through Education Meeting of The Elders Institute of Wisdom

Forget about giant machines to suck out carbon. If you worry about the climate, you have to save tropical rainforests. We talk with the doyen of forest activism, Frances Seymour from the World Resources Institute. But first, one of the top American climate scientists, Dr. Jonathan Overpeck on science that warns the whole world will be reclothed in unpredictable ways as the climate goes out of control. How do we know? It has happened before, when the world warmed 5 degrees Centigrade. I'm Alex, and this is Radio Climate Shock.

Forget about giant machines to suck out carbon. If you worry about the climate, you have to save tropical rainforests. We talk with the doyen of forest activism, Frances Seymour from the World Resources Institute. But first, one of the top American climate scientists, Dr. Jonathan Overpeck on science that warns the whole world will be reclothed in unpredictable ways as the climate goes out of control. How do we know? It has happened before, when the world warmed 5 degrees Centigrade. I'm Alex, and this is Radio Climate Shock.

Forget about giant machines to suck out carbon. If you worry about the climate, you have to save tropical rainforests. We talk with the doyen of forest activism, Frances Seymour from the World Resources Institute. But first, one of the top American climate scientists, Dr. Jonathan Overpeck on science that warns the whole world will be reclothed in unpredictable ways as the climate goes out of control. How do we know? It has happened before, when the world warmed 5 degrees Centigrade. I'm Alex, and this is Radio Climate Shock.

This talk explains the origins of the Doctorine of Discovery. This is the legal basis that was used to justify the theft of non Christian people’s lands by the authorization of the Pope. This doctrine is called a Papal Bull. Spanish Sovereigns agreed to finance Christopher Columbus but how would they finance the trip? In 1492 they were able to overwhelm the last Muslim community in Grenada and expropriate their property. Also they decided to expel the Jews. While Columbus was in a port in Western Spain getting ready to make his trip to the Americas literally next to him are ships full of Jews whose property has like the Muslims been taken by the crown and they use that wealth stolen from these people in order to finance his trip.

David E. Kirkland is a trans-disciplinary scholar of English and urban education, who explores the intersections among urban youth culture, language and literacy, urban teacher preparation, and digital media. He analyzes culture, language, and texts, and has expertise in critical literary, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods. He has received many awards for his work, including the 2008 AERA Division G Outstanding Dissertation Award and was a 2009-10 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and is a former fellow of NCTE’s Cultivating New Voices. Dr. Kirkland has published widely. His most recent articles include: ” Black Skin, White Masks’: Normalizing Whiteness and the Trouble with the Achievement Gap” in urban contexts: Politics, Pluralism, and Possibilities” (English Education), and “We real cool: Examining Black males and literacy” (Reading Research Quarterly). He is currently completing his fourth book, A Search Past Silence, to be published through Teacher College Press s Language and Literacy Series. Dr. Kirkland believes that, in their language and literacies, youth take on new meanings beginning with a voice and verb, where words when spoken or written have the power to transform the world inside-out

This week our Palestinian voice is that of our old friend Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, who never fails to challenge us with the depth of his political analysis. Today we feature Mazin speaking to the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC on May 22, 2018. His subject: “Mayhem vs. Sanity in Western Asia…Why Palestine is still the issue.” In this extraordinarily wide-ranging speech, Mazin observes that almost every nation in the world is a colonizer or colonized, depending on whether it has nuclear weapons. He views the entire 8000-year history of homo sapiens as a mere click away from ending. This is neither the first nor the last time you'll hear Mazin's wisdom on This Week In Palestine. Mazin is an MD geneticist who taught at Duke and Yale Universities before returning to his home in Beit Sahour, Palestine where he continues to teach at Bethlehem University and Birzeit University. He is also the founder and director of the growing Museum of Natural History at Bethlehem University. It's clearly a labor of love, for which he accepts no pay.

Golden Oldies (70s, 80s, 90s)