#educationalpost

The deep ocean is one of Earth’s final frontiers… but it’s also one of the most extreme environments for the human body. 🌊 From crushing pressure to endless darkness, your body would struggle to cope even a few meters below the surface.

This article breaks down the science behind extreme pressure, why humans would be harmed by it, and what it teaches us about life in the deep sea.

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🐚 The Saltwater Series ~ Stories from the Pacific

“Shining light on the silenced stories of the Kanak people and the Pacific”

⋆₊𓇼࿐𖦹˖ ࣪⭑ Kanak Rising- What’s Happening in New Caledonia Today?⋆｡˚⋆ Part 1: Who are the Kanak people 

The Kanak people are the Indigenous Melanesians of New Caledonia, with ancestral ties to the land ranging thousands of years. Their homeland was first discovered by European contact when James Cook arrived in 1774 and named it “New Caledonia” due to its likeness to the Scottish Highlands. It was then colonized by France in 1841, leading to widespread displacement, land loss, and exploitation, particularly related to nickel mining.

Under colonial rule, the Kanak faced forced labor, land seizure, and violent repression. Their long-standing struggle for sovereignty and cultural survival led to the Nouméa Accord (1998), which promised progressive political autonomy and a path toward independence.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

“My flesh is of the earth, like all bodies. But so is the body of my wheelchair, the titanium extracted from the crust of the earth, an element that happens to be found in Canada. The same crust of ancient rock I crawled across as a kid contains the element needed to build my wheelchair.” – Erin Clark

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You will need:

A water bath or pressure canner

Mason jars, regular or wide mouth

Mason jar lids and bands

Jar lifter or similar device

A funnel

Canning recipes (easily found on the internet)

Once upon a time, before the widespread use of the steel plow swept the nation, the vast majority of the central United States was covered in grasslands from southern Canada to central Texas.

Prairies are generally defined as grassland that has less than 11% tree coverage at any given point and can be divided up into tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass sections.

Tallgrass prairies covered a little more than the eastern third of all prairies and could be seen getting up to ten feet tall. These types of prairies were extremely grass heavy, and there would generally be a decent amount of forbs and wildflowers. Walking through one would be like swimming through grassy stalks with no way to see where you were going!

Shortgrass prairie is the other predominant prairie type and mostly occurs in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Due to far less precipitation, the grasses here get only about a foot high and have a pretty low population of forbs. This is the home of the prairie dogs and pronghorn that many people think of when they think of prairies.

Mixed-grass prairie, as you might have guessed, is a bit of both. The increase in precipitation allows for more height to the grasses, but also for a boom in forbs and wildflowers.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

"I'm over it. All the little costs of having ADHD that add up in the long run. Lost customers. Overdue bills. Replacement phone chargers. Time spent looking for things. The way it makes me feel, like a child. As if everyone else is a real adult and I'm just pretending. The frustration that I can't do the simple, everyday things that most people can. Like laundry, and making phone calls, and remembering to take out something from the freezer for dinner. It's the missed deadlines for opportunities I could've had. The broken relationships. How people think I'm lazy and selfish. How they think I don't care. How I think I'm lazy and selfish, even though I know I care." – Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

“It’s a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I’m disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs.” – Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

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Check out Diversability, founded by Tiffany Yu, which is “a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us), on a mission to elevate disability pride, together.” Interested in the book the quote came from? If so, click here! For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi! Like what you see and want to know when there’s more? Click here to subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button!

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

“…in Afghanistan, the women refer to their illiteracy as blindness. When I asked them what they meant by that, one woman explained: ‘I couldn’t read, so I couldn’t see what was going on.’ In fewer than a dozen words, she described a system that men in power have relied on for centuries-keep women uneducated so they won’t know what’s going on.” – Sally Armstrong, Uprising: A New Age is Dawning for Every Mother’s Daughter

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