How Do You Bring a Forest Back to Life?

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Half a millennia ago, forests covered much of the Iberian peninsula. But that soon changed. Centuries of wars and invasions, agricultural expansion and woodcutting for charcoal and shipping wiped out most of the woods and transformed places like Matamorisca, a small village in northern Spain, into degraded landscapes.

The region’s arid climate and depleted soils would be a recipe for disaster in your average reforestation program, but for the Amsterdam-based Land Life Company it’s an ideal place. “We typically operate where nature does not come back by itself,” says Jurrian Ruys, its CEO. “We go where there are rougher conditions in terms of weather, with rough or very hot summers.”

In Matamorisca, they intervened in 17 barren hectares owned by the regional government and peppered them with their signature device: a biodegradable cardboard donut they call the cocoon which can hold 25 litres of water underground to aid a seedling’s first year.

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/how-do-you-bring-forest-back-life

Passion for eating healthy food declared a mental disorder by ‘expert’ psychiatrists

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There was a very old one-liner that went, “You’d have to be nuts to see a psychiatrist!”

Seems it’s true! They are tenth rate quacks who never cure, only harm and more and more of them are being exposed, having their licenses cancelled or jailed for sexual abuse of their patients, medical billing fraud and other crimes.

https://www.naturalnews.com/052676_clean_eating_orthorexia_mental_disorders.html

Real Life Trick Shots 2

Real Life Trick Shots 2

I didn’t get more than half way through this but the coin in the pig and the CD in the player were impressive! Seriously way too much free time on their hands! https://www.flixxy.com/real-life-trick-shots-part-2-dude-perfect.htm

5-METER TALL HUMAN SKELETON UNEARTHED IN AUSTRALIA

5-METER TALL HUMAN SKELETON UNEARTHED IN AUSTRALIA

What could be the largest human skeleton ever discovered has been unearthed by a team of archeologists from the University of Adelaide at the Uluru archeological site near Ayers rock in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, reports the Adelaide Herald this morning.

https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/5-meter-tall-human-skeleton-unearthed-in-australia/

A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens

Books

If you have vested interest in comprehending and learning, this article is well worth a read! From the article:

Our work has revealed a significant discrepancy. Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer.

For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were more than a page in length. This appears to be related to the disruptive effect that scrolling has on comprehension. We were also surprised to learn that few researchers tested different levels of comprehension or documented reading time in their studies of printed and digital texts.

https://www.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10