theodp writes: What if we could build a better world through code?”, begins the just-released teaser video for Microsoft’s 2020 Hour of Code: A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages . “Help us bring two villages together through the power of code! […] You will experience empathy and compassion for your neighbor while embracing the diversity that makes us all uniquely special.”…
Tag: slavery
Transatlantic slavery introduced infectious diseases to the Americas
The remains of three slaves found in Mexico contain the earliest signs of the hepatitis B virus and yaws bacteria in the Americas, suggesting transatlantic slavery introduced these diseases Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242363-transatlantic-slavery-introduced-infectious-diseases-to-the-americas/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Wealthy families in prehistoric Europe may have had live-in slaves
Ancient DNA suggests that during the Bronze Age, wealthy families once lived with poorer individuals, suggesting live-in slavery could be 1300 years older than we thought Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2219542-wealthy-families-in-prehistoric-europe-may-have-had-live-in-slaves/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
6 amazing facts about ants
It’s summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. And summertime is ant time. Here are 6 things about ants you might not know. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/amazing-facts-ants…
Slavers Burned the Last US Slave Ship to Hide Their Crimes. Now It’s Been Found.
After nearly 150 years, the last known ship used to bring kidnapped people to the United States to sell into slavery seems to have turned up off the coast of Mobile, Alabama. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65547-last-slave-ship-found.html
Polaris is the North Star
Many people think Polaris is the sky’s brightest star. In fact, Polaris ranks only 50th in brightness. Still, Polaris is famous because the entire northern sky wheels around it. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/polaris-the-present-day-north-star…
Hurricane Michael Unearths Evidence of Fort Occupied by Hundreds of Freed Slaves
The fort was the “nexus of freedom and slavery resistance.” Source: https://www.livescience.com/65397-hurricane-michael-fort-gadsden-artifacts.html
Schools keep teaching slavery and civil rights history in ways that traumatize black students
Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/19/18507873/arizona-school-segregation-lesson-slavery-civil-rights-history…