Date archives "June 2018"
A Galaxy Full of Exomoons
#MPRRaccoon Climbs Tall Building, Becomes Social Media Star
As a raccoon made a pecarious climb up a tall building in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) broadcast live coverage of the tiny climber and the world quickly tuned in to the #MPRRaccoon saga.
In an age of increasing hostility on social media, this is a welcome breather. Will it make it down OK? Or need to be rescued?
A raccoon that found itself stuck on the UBS building in St. Paul, Minnesota, decided the only way to go was up. The raccoon made it to the 23rd story, and the fire department is trying to lure it to the roof so they can usher it to safety. #mprraccoon https://t.co/xWMW3yUq7C
— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) June 12, 2018
Oregon: Tiny Homes For The Homeless
A Nightclub for Senior Citizens
Mr. Rogers: “Radically Subversive”
Fred Rogers’s worldview, a kind of humanism that had roots in Rogers’s Christianity but expressed itself as a commitment to everyone’s dignity, is what helped many navigate the scariest events of childhood (RFK’s assassination, the Challenger shuttle explosion). And the power of that worldview, the film suggests, doesn’t stop when childhood ends.
Have Space Helmet, Will Travel
Future Floating Cities
Launching Today: “Atlas Of Utopias” – real-world examples by Transnational Institute
Worldwide, mayors are increasingly a progressive and fearless voice advancing bold agendas on climate change, welcoming refugees and trialling new forms of democratic participation. …
Can a group of cities really offer any fundamental solutions to a crisis created by the immense power of corporate capital?
To try and answer this question, the Transnational Institute in 2017 launched Transformative Cities, asking communities to share their stories of radical transformation, in particular in the areas of water, energy and housing. With hundreds of examples, these are now arrayed in an ‘Atlas of Utopias‘. http://transformativecities.org/atlas-of-utopias/
TNI also asks you to VOTE for your favorite of many examples, for an award to be announced June 06! More to come.
School Dog Discovers Commerce
Early on in the dog’s tenure at the school, he came to be aware of the little store on campus where students gather to buy things on their breaks; sometimes they’d buy him cookies sold there.
This, evidently, is where the dog first learned about commerce — and decided to try it out himself.
“He would go to the store and watch the children give money and receive something in exchange,” teacher Angela Garcia Bernal told The Dodo. “Then one day, spontaneous, he appeared with a leaf in his mouth, wagging his tail and letting it be known that he wanted a cookie.”