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191128~ 'It blows my mind': How B.C. destroys a key natural wildfire defence every year, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/it-blows-my-mind-how-b-c-destroys-a-key-natural-wildfire-defence-every-year-1.4907358. 

"... Aspen and other deciduous trees can help reduce the wildfire threat and , more thought will be put into planting broadleaf trees near homes and businesses. Aspen naturally thrives after a forest has been cleared by logging or wildfire. Their root systems can survive for thousands of years underground, and they're capable of sprouting new clone trees as soon as there's enough sunshine and moisture. "When fire is burning through needle leaf forest, it tends to be very vigorous and very fast-moving. When fire comes into a forest that has broadleaf trees in it, the conditions change so the fire behaviour is less vigorous and the rate of spread slows down. Trees like aspen naturally have a higher water content and don't usually contain the volatile chemical compounds that can make trees like pine so flammable. They also provide more shade, which creates a cooler, more humid environment in the understory.

~ Thằng Ròm | 16-30 Full Hd | Wowy Nguyễn | Phim Ngắn #wowynguyen #phimngan #rom Bộ phim nói về cuộc đời của 1 cậu bé & cuộc sống đường phố!, https://youtu.be/62qeEzxGZNQ 

~ Ngọc Lan có loạt bài trên Người Việt bề chuyện "lùm xùm" ở chùa Bảo Quang vì một "nhà sư"

Little Saigon: Thực hư chuyện ‘tranh chấp’ chùa Bảo Quang (I) - Ngọc Lan/Người Việt

https://www.nguoi-viet.com/little-saigon/little-saigon-thuc-hu-chuyen-tranh-chap-chua-bao-quang/;+ Thực hư chuyện ‘tranh chấp’ chùa Bảo Quang (II), https://www.nguoi-viet.com/little-saigon/little-saigon-thuc-hu-chuyen-tranh-chap-chua-bao-quang-ky-2/;+ Thực hư chuyện ‘tranh chấp’ chùa Bảo Quang (III), https://www.nguoi-viet.com/little-saigon/little-saigon-thuc-hu-chuyen-tranh-chap-chua-bao-quang-ky-cuoi/

~ Ăn nhiều chất xơ để sống lâu hơn! Why we need fibre — and how we can get more of it, https://nationalpost.com/health/what-is-fibre? 

~ Ba Chị Em Brontë Xứ Huế Xưa - Trương Quang Đệ, http://www.viet-studies.net/TruongQuangDe_BaChiEmXuHue.html. Minh Đức Hoài Trinh (Võ thị Hoài Trinh), Linh Bảo (Võ thị Diệu Viên) và Băng Thanh (Võ Tá Băng Thanh)

~ Armine Yalnizyan thắc mắc các chính sách thuế má có đóng góp cho năng lực cạnh tranh và  cũng tạo ra sự bất bình đẳng? Do tax policies that contribute to competitiveness also create inequality? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-do-tax-policies-that-contribute-to-competitiveness-also-create/? 

191127~ Ảnh Ly hoang Long, https://twitter.com/sniaguasch3/status/1198345896347521024?s=11

~ You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.—James Agee

191126~ It is a lesson we all need — to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.— Katharine Drexel,

~ Làm thế nào biến đổi khí hậu làm trầm trọng thêm sự bất bình đẳng giới tính trên toàn cầuHow Climate Change Exacerbates Gender Inequality Across the Globe - Alice Park, https://time.com/5738322/climate-change-gender-inequality/? “Climate change and environmental stress are common factors that intensify pre-existing disadvantages or gender and developmental inequalities. That’s especially true in poorer parts of the world, where families depend on agriculture and labor jobs to make money, and where male migration, male-dominated labor markets, and patriarchal institutions already put stresses on families, mostly women, that are struggling to survive. Climate change exacerbates those burdens

~ Nhà nữ quyền cấp tiến Neil Gaiman kỷ niệm nghành khoa học và sự đói khát sự thật. The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Subversive Feminist Celebration of Science and the Human Hunger for Truth, in a Gorgeous Animated Short Film, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainpickings/rss/~3/_nm3ctE_1Ik/. A lyrical journey into the history of our species as the sensemaking animal who hungers for knowledge and advances by love.;+ "The Mushroom Hunters" by Neil Gaiman - read by Amanda Palmer with music by Jherek Bischoff, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=236&v=ak6sdSAcNkw. 

~ Kiểu chôn cất mới: biến xác thành đất để bảo vệ môi sinh ở Seattle Seattle's Olson Kundig, Recompose create world's first human-composting facility. https://nationalpost.com/news/seattles-olson-kundig-recompose-create-worlds-first-human-composting-facility? 

The process starts by placing the body inside a vessel, which is both modular and reusable, according to Recompose’s website.  The body is then covered with wood chips, alfalfa and straw, and then aerated, which helps the thermophilic microbes and beneficial bacteria to decompose the body. It takes about 30 days for the body to transform to soil. That also includes the bones and teeth because the system adequately controls the ratio of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and moisture.

~ Clive James, nhà thơ, nhà phê bình và tiểu thuyết gia người Úc, qua đời ở tuổi 80. A Writer Whose Pen Never Rests, Even Facing Death, (NYT, 1/11/14), https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/world/europe/prolific-writer-clive-james-facing-death-reflects-on-getting-a-few-things-done.html;+ Clive James reads his farewell poem, Japanese Maple, in this tribute by animator Lucy Fahey, (, 27/11/19), https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-28/clive-james-japanese-maple-lucy-fahey-poem/11745902?pfmredir=sm 

 

~ Đêm thu lạnh, nơi anh. Trish Jewison (@TrishJewison), 2019-11-25, https://twitter.com/trishjewison/status/1199202481827241984?s=11 

~ The Jimmy Show | Ca sĩ Lê Uyên;+ Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel;+ Baja The Other California - The Secrets of Nature (Baja California, 1 dải đất hẹp, nằm kẹp giữa Thái Bình Dương và Biển Cortez, nơi muốn lẩn trốn, ẩn dật, khi muốn đi xa, nhưng sự an toàn không còn vì băng đảng loạn lạc bất an);+ Little Miss Sumo | Netflix (Hiyori Kon muốn thay đổi truyền thống sumo khắc khe ở Nhật để chấp thuận phụ nữ trong môn thể thao ngàn xưa này) ;+ El sendero de la anaconda | Netflix (Cuộc hội ngộ giữa một nhà văn và người bạn nhân chủng học ở miền xa xôi nhất trong bạt ngàn Amazon, về những câu chuyện của các cộng đồng bản địa chống lại sự thay đổi trong nhiều thế kỷ). 

~ Mốc thời gian đạo Công giáo Nhật Bản. A Timeline of Christianity in Japan (Nippon, 25/11/19), https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00597/a-timeline-of-christianity-in-japan.html 

Statistics from the Agency for Cultural Affairs report that there were 1.9 million Christians in Japan as of December 31, 2017, amounting to 1.5% of the Japanese population, which is 126 million.

Christianity first came to Japan in 1549 during an era of turmoil known as the Warring States period (1467–1568). In Kyūshū some daimyō (regional lords) underwent baptism and became Christians, protecting missionaries and allowing them to perform their work, and thereby securing great profits from trading with the West.

In 1587, however, the powerful warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–98) issued an anti-Christian edict, initiating a movement against the religion that was intensified with a further edict by the newly established Edo shogunate in 1612. After this, Japan entered a period of relative international isolation for some two and a half centuries, during which time it had no contact with Western Christianity. Missionaries returned to spread the faith once more in the second half of the nineteenth century, after the country was again opened to trade.

Key Dates for Christianity in Japan

1549  Francis Xavier of the Society of Jesus arrives in Kagoshima and begins the first Christian missionary activities in Japan.

1585  A mission of four Japanese youths sent by Arima Harunobu and other Christian daimyō in Kyūshū meets with Pope Gregory XIII (1502–85) in Rome.

1587  Toyotomi Hideyoshi issues an anti-Christian edict, limiting propagation activities and ordering foreign missionaries out of the country.

1596  Hideyoshi executes 6 foreign missionaries and 20 Japanese Christians at Nagasaki. They later become known as the 26 martyrs.

1612  The Edo shogunate issues an anti-Christian edict, forbidding propagation of the faith and ordering the destruction of churches.

1633  The shogunate issues the first of several sakoku edicts, setting the country on a path of national seclusion.

1853  US Commodore Matthew Perry arrives with a fleet of ships, triggering the reopening of Japan to international trade.

1858  The Japan-US Treaty of Amity and Commerce is signed, and US protestant missionaries come to Japan.

1865  Japanese “hidden Christians” declare their faith at Nagasaki’s Ōura Church, built by French residents of the city. The discovery that Christians had handed down their faith through the generations during the long years years of harsh repression is seen as a miracle.

1947  Japan’s postwar Constitution guarantees freedom of religion.

1981  Pope John Paul II makes the first papal visit to Japan.

2014  Prime Minister Abe Shinzō meets with Pope Francis and asks that he visit Japan to mark 150 years since the discovery of the “hidden Christians.”

2018  The Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (Nagasaki and Kumamoto) are registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

2019  Pope Francis visits Japan.

191125~ First Known When Lost: Our Place.… this afternoon, walking beneath the spacious empty branches of a long row of trees, I wondered about my grieving.  The day was windless and the trees were absolutely silent. The silence was breathtaking. As was the look of the declining yellow light on the trunks of the trees, on the thousands and thousands of twigs and branches.  The World was aglow. Silent and aglow.

191124~ Throat-singing sisters meld Inuit tradition with classic Christmas tunes, (CBC 24/11/19), Sisters Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik and Kayley Inuksuk Mackay make up the duo Piqsiq, originally from Yellowknife, have put their own spin on the Christmas album Quviasugvik: In Search of Harmony.  In the traditional practice, called katajjaq, two women sing together face-to-face in a close-up joust of resonating tones that is both competitive and intimate. 

~ Cá nuôi hay cá thiên nhiên? Cần đảo ngược xu hướng tuyệt chủng cá hồi Alexandra Morton: Mark, set, go—reversing the salmon extinction trend, https://www.straight.com/news/1328696/alexandra-morton-mark-set-go-reversing-salmon-extinction-trend 

191123~ Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.— C. S. Lewis,

~ Sacha Baron Cohen Links the Decline of Democracy to the Rise of Social Media, “the Greatest Propaganda Machine in History” (OC, 23/11/19). 

comedian Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't kidding around when he painted a bleak picture of our emerging world: "Today ... demagogues appeal to our worst instincts. Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream. It’s as if the Age of Reason—the era of evidential argument—is ending, and now knowledge is delegitimized and scientific consensus is dismissed. Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march. Hate crimes are surging, as are murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities."

What's leading to these destabilizing changes? Baron Cohen could cite many reasons. But if pushed, he'll emphasize one:

But one thing is pretty clear to me. All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history.

The greatest propaganda machine in history.

Think about it. Facebook, YouTube and Google, Twitter and others—they reach billions of people. The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type of content that keeps users engaged—stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear. It’s why YouTube recommended videos by the conspiracist Alex Jones billions of times. It’s why fake news outperforms real news, because studies show that lies spread faster than truth. And it’s no surprise that the greatest propaganda machine in history has spread the oldest conspiracy theory in history—the lie that Jews are somehow dangerous. As one headline put it, “Just Think What Goebbels Could Have Done with Facebook.”

On the internet, everything can appear equally legitimate. Breitbart resembles the BBC. The fictitious Protocols of the Elders of Zion look as valid as an ADL report. And the rantings of a lunatic seem as credible as the findings of a Nobel Prize winner. We have lost, it seems, a shared sense of the basic facts upon which democracy depends.

~ I prefer to think that you don't believe what you hear, trust what you see; esp. from those Chinazi representatives.