Coursera for Refugees launched in 2016 to provide free access to Coursera’s catalog to refugees around the world. Today more than 26,000 refugees are learning on Coursera, including Estella. Estella is a 25-year-old aspiring journalist living in Rwanda after she had to leave her home in Burundi. She participates in Coursera for Refugees through the […]
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Caterpillar Takes Tiny ‘Cat & Cloud’ Coffee Shop To Court Over Trademark
“Caterpillar Inc. is trying to stop a tiny cafe from using the word cat,” reports Fast Company. Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes:
Caterpillar wishes to cancels the coffee shop’s trademark claiming that the trademark on shop’s apparel and footwear is too similar to theirs and would cause confusion for consumers. For reference, the coffee shop’s t-shirts and merchandise feature a cat and…
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday
Buddhist celebrate Vesak, Sri Lanka president pardons a Buddhist nationalist leader, and a new app offers meditation by and for people of color. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
The post Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Source: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/vesak-buddhas-birthday/…
UN Chief Warns Nuclear Waste Could Be Leaking Into the Pacific
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: A UN chief is concerned that a Cold War-era nuclear ‘coffin’ could be leaking radioactive material into the Pacific. According to Phys.org, the structure in question is on Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands — where the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958. The tests included the Castle Bravo…
Why Airpods Are An Environmental ‘Tragedy’
Vice’s “Future Relics” column asks what people 1,000 years from now will think when they keep discovering abandoned Airpods from 2019:
For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop holding much of a charge, and the AirPods will slowly become unusable. They can’t be repaired because they’re glued together. They can’t…
Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change
A million species are threatened by human activity, but it’s not too late to save what’s left of our planet’s biodiversity, says a major new UN report Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201697-destruction-of-nature-is-as-big-a-threat-to-humanity-as-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…
$30,000 in notes found strewn across highway
Motorists in Grand Haven, Michigan couldn’t believe their luck this week as they scrambled to pick up the cash. Police officers became aware of the un… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/327308/30000-in-notes-found-strewn-across-highway…
Up to 1 Million Species Are at Risk of Extinction, and It’s All Our Fault
More than 1 million species could go extinct, UN report finds. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65314-human-influence-species-extinction.html
Robot news anchor raises eyebrows in Russia
A human-like robot known as ‘Alex’ has recently been deployed as an anchor on a Russian news channel. Developed by Perm-based startup Promobot, the un… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/327082/robot-news-anchor-raises-eyebrows-in-russia