African toys
Kateko is a proudly African doll who looks dashing in her traditional Xitsonga garb.
It is just one of the many unusual Afrocentric toys you can find at the African Toy Shop in Johannesburg, established six months ago by human rights consultant Greg Moran. Read more
Filed Under Uncategorized
Human rights for apes
The Spanish parliament has given its approval to a proposal by the Great Ape Project to offer official recognition for the right to life of apes. Read more
Filed Under Diversity, Environment, Human Rights
Help! My mom is web addicted
Not only parents have to be worried about their children’s internet habits.
Last year in Sweden, Children’s Rights in Society (Barnens Rätt i Samhället - BRIS), an organization supporting children in distress, dealt with more than 100 youngsters worried about their parent’s behaviour on the internet. Read more
Filed Under Media & Society, Modern Life, Research, Technology
Baby gorillas’ baptism
A unique ceremony to name 20 newborn baby gorillas took place on the edge of Volcano National Park in Rwanda last Saturday. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Events
The happiest day is the 20th of June
Don’t you know it? Today is the happiest day of the year.
It’s not an opinion. It’s a matter of fact: Cliff Arnall, a psychologist at Cardiff University, worked out a mathematical formula to prove it!
“O + (N xS) + Cpm/T + He” Read more
Filed Under Research, Wondering
Pandas and the earthquake
China earthquake, on the 12th of May 2008, was a terrible disaster.
Thousands of people died.
But in that dreadful day, a surreal experience took place in the famous Wolong National Nature Reserve near Chengdu, not far from the earthquake epicenter: during the magnitude 7.9 tremor 25 captive pandas were acting very strange…
Here is a comic strip from the Beijing-based graphic novelist Coco Wang about that fact.
Filed Under Art, Environment, Media & Society, Wondering
Catch that beaver!
Why someone should hate beavers?
In South America not only someone, but a whole nation plans beaver extermination. Read more
Filed Under Diversity, Environment