A child in a heart shaped swing, the sculpture of a mother watches over a kinetic sculpture,used as a swing it almost looks as if the mothers heart is beating with the child safe inside, a metaphor for a mothers love “Bruno’s Swing” by Federica Sala x.com/MasayukiTsuda2…

"What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie next to it smiling?" ~ @RickyGervais. Ban #TrophyHunting NOW!!!

@dk_munro 99% of ChatGPT reflects the bias of the datasets used in training which is a snapshot of the internet up to 2021. Trained to predict the next word, it's reasonable that those 10 named philosophers by sheer quantity appear most often in the dataset. However:

Now that the Greenbelt is about to be carved up, developers are moving on to other protected land. This is just the beginning thanks to Doug Ford #HandsOffTheGreenbelt newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/dev…

Happy International Women's Day

On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide. He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys. A THREAD!

What is at stake? Everything. We are at the #climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future? We simply can’t pave over nature and ramp up fossil fuels if we want a livable future. #onpoli theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today is the spring equinox, but what actually is an equinox? It's one of only two times in the year when day and night are (almost) exactly equal all over the world...

Where the terms 'uppercase' and 'lowercase' came from: from the early days of the printing press [read more: buff.ly/2J5iUB6]

Venus and the Seven Sisters, tonight! Maybe even zippy little Mercury, if you look carefully. Sky & Telescope

Apr 10, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: CANADIANS LEAD IN TRIUMPH. CANADIANS PUT IN FRONT TO CAPTURE VIMY RIDGE

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then. [full interview: buff.ly/3h2ufYP]

Bottled water cost is astounding when you think of how much you’re paying for production and distribution compared to the water itself. It’s even more shocking when you consider the detrimental effects it has on the environment [source, read more: buff.ly/2LvDWvx]

The truth [by Visualize Value: buff.ly/3R9MB5S]

I had a great time in Waterloo region this week visiting Conestoga College ’s Bloom Restaurant where students learn and research ways to reduce environmental impact and become a net zero restaurant.

Reminder that every time you and another person vehemently argue on-line, based on a post that inflamed your emotions, somebody plotted the outcome and is making money from it.

This article was written 110 years ago. 110 years and we still aren't doing what we need to do to address the climate crisis. No time to wait. Let's make 2023 the year we #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #ClimateEmergency #renewables #GreenNewDeal.

Today marks World Press Freedom Day, and nearly a year since journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed. “This wasn’t errant gunfire – this was deliberate targeting” by Israeli forces, reporter Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس tells me, and forms “part of a pattern of impunity.”

Posting more information about Projet à Québec. Ontario FSL teachers, apply to go. Great learning, networking and fun.