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It is not worth a “higher quality of living” and we do not deserve it.

Noam Chomsky & Robert Pollin | Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal

New Studies Will Investigate The Link Between Covid-19 Vaccines And Irregular Periods

Due to numerous reports of women experiencing irregular periods after taking the Covid-19 vaccine, five American universities will be studying this issue.

Most important piece of info here: The CDC’s claims that no vaccines have been “known” to cause fertility problems are interesting given that the HPV vaccine has been linked to irregular periods and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI). POI is when the ovaries of women under 40 stop working. 

If you’re feeling tired or disoriented this could be why. On the positive side I’ve heard these powerful solar flares are helping awaken humanity…Bring it on!👍

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/the-sun-just-unleashed-the-strongest-solar-flare-in-nearly-five-years/

CNET

The Sun Just Unleashed the Strongest Solar Flare in Nearly Five Years

The worst of this one will miss us, but it is a hint of what's to come.

It should be said. Agriculture is slowly destroying the world

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Beautiful photos. Looks like true happiness springing from your work and effort.

If voting changed a goddamn thing, it would be illegal. The electoral college chooses the president, not the popular vote. It's almost purely cosmetic no matter what your government teacher tells you. If you tell me to vote, or worse, shame me into voting, fuck you

For the Love of Peat: Our Best Defence Against a Changing Climate

Canada holds between a quarter and a third of the world’s peatlands. It’s time we took better care of them

Canada holds between a quarter and a third of the world’s peatlands, including acidic bogs and more alkaline fens as well as swamps and marshes. They can be found across the country, from British Columbia to the Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, growing many metres deep into the ground. Due to their density of decomposed or decomposing plant material, one square metre of peatland in northern Canada holds approximately five times the amount of carbon as one square metre of tropical rainforest in the Amazon. But the country’s peatlands have been so degraded by the construction of mines and hydroelectric dams, by oil-and-gas developments, and by urban expansion that we are losing an ecosystem crucial to the prevention of natural disasters such as forest fires—as well as destroying a key mitigator of climate change.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Kyle Scott (kjscott.com).

Being a mother is hard work, but breastfeeding keeps babies the healthiest!

eviemagazine.com

No, You’re Not Imagining It, Breastfeeding Really Is A Full-Time Job

I breastfed all four of my children and am currently still breastfeeding the baby of the family. I love being able to nurture and provide nu

It's work, but if it matters to you, you can do it!

Found this method helps a lot in controlling anxiety and handling stressful situations

Wim Hof Method Step-by-Step

My latest biohacking exploration. I’m not really into the cold resistance part (yet), but the breathing exercises are wonderful. If you’re at all familiar with pranayama this won’t be new to you.

Wim Hof Guided Breathing (3 rounds with onscreen timer)

Tracking the Sun’s Cycles

Scientists just announced that our Sun is in a new cycle.

Solar activity has been relatively low over the past few years, and now that scientists have confirmed solar minimum was in December 2019, a new solar cycle is underway — meaning that we expect to see solar activity start to ramp up over the next several years.

The Sun goes through natural cycles, in which the star swings from relatively calm to stormy. At its most active — called solar maximum — the Sun is freckled with sunspots, and its magnetic poles reverse. At solar maximum, the Sun’s magnetic field, which drives solar activity, is taut and tangled. During solar minimum, sunspots are few and far between, and the Sun’s magnetic field is ordered and relaxed.

Understanding the Sun’s behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. The Sun’s violent outbursts can disturb the satellites and communications signals traveling around Earth, or one day, Artemis astronauts exploring distant worlds. Scientists study the solar cycle so we can better predict solar activity.

Measuring the solar cycle

Surveying sunspots is the most basic of ways we study how solar activity rises and falls over time, and it’s the basis of many efforts to track the solar cycle. Around the world, observers conduct daily sunspot censuses. They draw the Sun at the same time each day, using the same tools for consistency. Together, their observations make up the international sunspot number, a complex task run by the World Data Center for the Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations, at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, which tracks sunspots and pinpoints the highs and lows of the solar cycle. Some 80 stations around the world contribute their data.

Credit: USET data/image, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels

Other indicators besides sunspots can signal when the Sun is reaching its low. In previous cycles, scientists have noticed the strength of the Sun’s magnetic field near the poles at solar minimum hints at the intensity of the next maximum. When the poles are weak, the next peak is weak, and vice versa.

Another signal comes from outside the solar system. Cosmic rays are high-energy particle fragments, the rubble from exploded stars in distant galaxies that shoot into our solar system with astounding energy. During solar maximum, the Sun’s strong magnetic field envelops our solar system in a magnetic cocoon that is difficult for cosmic rays to infiltrate. In off-peak years, the number of cosmic rays in the solar system climbs as more and more make it past the quiet Sun. By tracking cosmic rays both in space and on the ground, scientists have yet another measure of the Sun’s cycle.

Since 1989, an international panel of experts—sponsored by NASA and NOAA—meets each decade to make their prediction for the next solar cycle. The prediction includes the sunspot number, a measure of how strong a cycle will be, and the cycle’s expected start and peak. This new solar cycle is forecast to be about the same strength as the solar cycle that just ended — both fairly weak. The new solar cycle is expected to peak in July 2025.

Learn more about the Sun’s cycle and how it affects our solar system at nasa.gov/sunearth.

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