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By Oxford University By comparing the genes of current-day North and South Americans with African and European populations, an Oxford University study has found the genetic fingerprints of the slave trade and colonisation that shaped migrations to the Americas hundreds of years ago. The team, which also included researchers from UCL (University College London) and...
By Chris Bell Those white lines in the sky trailing behind jet planes are puffy plumes of water vapor. But online, some have twisted them into evidence of a secret plot to control weather or poison the environment. Although many of the believers in the danger in the sky have shifted their focus to the...
Miércoles, 13/10/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Una “Liga del Dibujo”, del papel a realidad (A”Drawing League,” from paper to reality) – 4 illustrators, cartoonists, and designers have organized an event to show people that there is more to their art than Marvel or DC comic book characters. The exhibit will open el viernes in...
By Chris Hedges Judge Loretta Preska, an adviser to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison last Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after he had already spent 787 days under house arrest in New York. Preska’s...
By David Leonhardt Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry. The headline was, “Your Unvaccinated Kid Is Like a Vaccinated Grandma.” The article argued that Covid-19 tended to be so mild in children that vaccinated...
By Nora Gámez Torres and Jacqueline Charles New Biden administration travel restrictions aimed at preventing the unvaccinated from coming to the United States will be felt particularly hard in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where wide disparities and lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines have left most of the population without protection against...
By Gregory Mottola The sun is a stranger here. The thick clouds over Ecuador’s Los Rios province can make one forget that the sky is blue, not a pearly shade of off-white. It isn’t the kind of weather that brings in tourists, but these are the precise atmospheric conditions that can grow pristine tobacco. This...
Martes, 12/10/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – See article below on Festividades en Azogues y Cuenca. Titular – Se tensan más las relaciones (Relationships become more tense) – See Tuesday’s article in CHL for the story. Cuenca – Festividades bio seguro en Azogues y Cuenca (Bio-safe festivities in Azogues and Cuenca) – There are high...
By Sandee LaMotte Synthetic chemicals called phthalates, found in hundreds of consumer products such as food storage containers, shampoo, makeup, perfume and children’s toys, may contribute to some 91,000 to 107,000 premature deaths a year among people ages 55 to 64 in the United States, a new study found. People with the highest levels of...
Lunes, 11/10/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – From viernes, 8/10/2021 Perros callejeros, eje de expo fotográfica (Stray dogs, axis of photographic expo) – Photographer Carlos Vázquez has taken pictures of street dogs during his trips around Ecuador. Leonel Gómez saw them and they have been printed for an exhibit, “Un mundo de vida,” which will...
By Paul Kingsnorth The numbers were in and everybody could see what was coming: at least ten billion human souls by the end of the century. All of us clamouring for food, water, space and the triumphant benefits of the all-conquering “global economy”, which the Western powers had been cajoling, threatening or enticing the rest...
Despite announcing that most of its electronic system were up and running again following a major cyberattack, many of Banco Pichincha’s ATM machines as well as other online services remained inaccessible Monday afternoon. Because Pichincha provides services to dozens of financial institutions in Ecuador, customers of other banks and cooperatives were also unable to conduct...
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