Because of this man: Japan is one of the cleanest countries in the world , but paradoxically there is a huge shortage of baskets on the streets. The reason why Japanese people keep waste in their pockets and then throw it indoors is worrying. In 1995, the religious sect Aum Shirikyo planned a terrorist attack Read More…
Education
Food Stamps: Direct Payments To Arrive In Four Days In These Four States
Food stamps: Direct payments to arrive in four days in these four states Recipients of benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are set to receive a new payment throughout July.Recipients usually see their SNAP benefits reloaded on the same day each month, with the date depending on a recipient’s Social Security number, last name, case number, or account number. UNIVERSAL Read More…
Black Father and Son Summer Camps To Teach Literacy
Nationwide — Kevon Chisolm and his 16-year-old son, Kamari, the founders of Junior Wallstreeters, Inc. a non-profit, are offering online summer camps for children for the fourth year in a row. Their camps are great for preventing learning loss and offer fun environments for students to learn wealth-building concepts with other like-minded students. The course Read More…
Graduate Survives Earthquake in Haiti Now Ready to Pursue Ph.D. at UGA
Though most students face hardships during their academic journey, Marie Delcy’s story of overcoming is remarkable. Marie Delcy was born in Haiti. Her parents planned for Delcy to complete her primary education in Haiti and move to the US to finish college and graduate school, but those plans changed in 2010. On January 12, Read More…
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us
They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? Annual production of plastic exceeds eight hundred billion pounds; much of it ends up as microplastics, spreading across the ocean.Illustration by Daniel Liévano Listen to this story Read More…
Friendship, Digital Connection, and Death
For one writer, the death of a long-distance friend results in very real grief — but also leads to deep reflection on how we define and nurture our friendships in the 21st century. By Lynn GilmourPublished: “We are futuristic pen pals.” I’m looking at the text Gav sent me two months after we met in Read More…