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Reflections on Micronesia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests. I also learned about traditional drugs that have important cultural overtones.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

This will accelerate warming even more, and also threaten the homes, livelihoods, and cultures of millions of people in Arctic regions, to say nothing of the wildlife and ecosystems. For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential.

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Greenlanders unite against Trump as they seek independence from Denmark

Fast Company Tech

most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture. “We’re just getting our culture back because of colonialism.” ” A model in the Marshall Islands?

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