Kamisha Hendrix’s heart lay on the table between us. Seventy days ago, this heart had been beating inside of her, back behind the dark scar that plunged into the neckline of her blouse.
“No—my heart didn’t beat,” Hendrix clarified. “It trembled.”
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I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy.
After watching nonstop coverage of the hurricane and the incredible rescues that were taking place, I got in bed at 10:30 on Tuesday night. I had been glued to the TV for days. Every time I would change the channel in an attempt to get my mind on something else for a few minutes, I was drawn right back in.
Party Discipline
I don’t remember how we decided exactly to throw a Communist party. It had been a running joke all through senior year, whenever the obvious divisions between the semi-zottas and the rest of us came too close to the surface at Burbank High: “Have fun at Stanford, come drink with us at the Communist parties when you’re back on break.”
Malala Yousafzai, Shot by the Taliban, Is Going to Oxford
Ms. Yousafzai, the 20-year-old Pakistani-born activist who is the world’s youngest Nobel laureate, on Thursday tweeted a screenshot of her acceptance to the university.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/europe/malala-yousafzai-oxford.html
Britain to ban sale of all diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040
Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health.
The Body Language of Power
During a group photo of world leaders, he shoves aside the prime minister of a much smaller country to get into the first row, then buttons his jacket with an unironic scowl.
Lifelong Best Friends Build Their Own “Bestie Row” Of Tiny Houses So They Can All Live Together
If you’re lucky enough to have longtime friends even as an adult, then you know probably already know how much it means to be able to spend time together. Maybe you even have a dream to retire together and sit on each other’s porches with your families, sharing stories from the good old days.
#Jagärhär: Swedish Citizens Addressing Online Abuse, One Post At A Time
#Jagärhär (#Iamhere) aims to battle abuse in online threads and jumps to defend those on receiving end
Critics call #jagärhär censorship, but Dennert and the moderators on the group are quick to emphasise that #jagärhär never comes with an agenda. They don’t tell people what to say. They simply want to defend those who are being attacked online.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/the-swedish-online-love-army-who-battle-below-the-line-comments
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/the-swedish-online-love-army-who-battle-below-the-line-comments
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Sign-IO Sign-Language-To-Speech Gloves From Kenya
Roy Allela, a 25-year-old Kenyan technology evangelist, has invented smart gloves that convert sign language movements into audio speech.
According to Allela, his inspiration to build the technology was inspired by the need to communicate with his 6-year-old niece who was born deaf.
Allela disclosed that his niece found it difficult to communicate with her family since none of them understood sign language.
The gloves – named Sign-IO – have flex sensors stitched on to each finger. The sensors quantify the bend of the fingers and process the letter being signed.
The gloves are then paired via Bluetooth to a mobile phone application that Allela also developed, which then vocalizes the letters.
“My niece wears the gloves, pairs them to her phone or mine, then starts signing and I’m able to understand what she’s saying,” Allela stated.
TREEmail
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns. Read the weird, funny and philosophical emails that people are sending to Melbourne’s trees.
The Prison-To-Farm Pipeline
In Atlanta, an ambitious activist hopes teaching young people farming skills will break the cycle of incarceration. …
The “vision brings together two important facets of the modern urban revival—the locavore food movement that has become a fixture of gentrifying cities across the country, and an awakening recognition that gentrification was leaving behind, or even displacing, a significant portion of the population. Simultaneously, Gangstas to Growers also teaches young people the importance of building wealth in historically disinvested communities in Atlanta. Despite Atlanta’s reputation as a Black Mecca, the city’s low-income children have less of a shot to move up the income ladder compared with other major American cities.”
Mass Transit Now Free in Luxembourg
Government seeks to prioritise environment and end some of world’s worst traffic congestion