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Miracle Of Colours by Nilofar Niri and Nursery Children
By Nilofar Niri herself:
“This picture is a collaboration between me and nursery children. They are from international backgrounds, with different skin colors.
When they started painting there were too many children and just a few brushes but amazingly without anyone tell them what to do they started using their hands instead of brushes and they managed to play without fighting for short periods of time and they were so happy. I think in a sweet way, it is a small example of truce.”
PSA: Free Hugs at Victoria station. #lol #life #london #transport #art #instacool #photooftheday (Taken with Instagram)
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Dryocampa rubicunda
The Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) is a North American moth in the Saturniidae family. Males have a wingspan of 32–44 mm; females of 40–50 mm. They have reddish-to-pink legs and antennae, yellow bodies and hindwings, and pink forewings with a triangular yellow band across the middle. Males have bushier antennae than females. As the name implies, rosy maple moths mainly feed on Maples, particularly Red Maple, Silver Maple, and Sugar Maple. Sometimes these moths become pests on maple trees.
Life cycle
Females lay pale yellow eggs in clusters of 20-30 on the undersides of maple leaves. After about two weeks, small gregarious caterpillarshatch. They will remain gregarious through the third instar, but the final two are solitary. The mature larvae are light green with black laterallines, red heads, and two filaments behind the head, and reach lengths of about 55 mm. When they are ready, they climb to the bottom of the host tree and pupate in shallow underground chambers. The pupae are very dark, elongated, and have small spines. The pupa ends in a small forked point. When the imago (adult) ecloses, it has small wings which it has to pump full of fluid in order for them to expand and allow for flight. Adult moths are generally nocturnal; they preferentially fly throughout the first third of the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001). The females emit pheromones at night and attract males, which have bushier antennae to detect the pheromones. by Wiki
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Shrinking Siberia | The Daily Beast
by Anna Nemtsova
Siberia’s population is disappearing. In a generation, if current trends continue, the vast land—one and a half times the size of China—will have fewer inhabitants than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Today, only 38 million people live in Siberia—2 million fewer than 20 years ago, according to Russia’s Institute of Demography—even though the region constitutes up to 77 percent of the nation’s landmass. Almost three quarters of Russia’s population is crowded west of the Ural Mountains, where the best and brightest of Siberia are flocking, too, away from the crumbling infrastructure, widespread corruption, and lack of opportunities in their homeland. Siberia “shows no sign of becoming the secure, modern, self-sufficient [state] that young people wish they could live in,” says Yekaterina Sokirianskaya of the International Crisis Group.
FULL ARTICLE (The Daily Beast)
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Shrinking Siberia | The Daily Beast
by Anna Nemtsova
Siberia’s population is disappearing. In a generation, if current trends continue, the vast land—one and a half times the size of China—will have fewer inhabitants than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Today, only 38 million people live in Siberia—2 million fewer than 20 years ago, according to Russia’s Institute of Demography—even though the region constitutes up to 77 percent of the nation’s landmass. Almost three quarters of Russia’s population is crowded west of the Ural Mountains, where the best and brightest of Siberia are flocking, too, away from the crumbling infrastructure, widespread corruption, and lack of opportunities in their homeland. Siberia “shows no sign of becoming the secure, modern, self-sufficient [state] that young people wish they could live in,” says Yekaterina Sokirianskaya of the International Crisis Group.
FULL ARTICLE (The Daily Beast)
Photo: Matt Hintsa/Flickr
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Students Left Behind In Pakistan’s Tribal Regions | Radio Free Europe
By Isram Alam Mohmand
FATA, Pakistan — As the fight against terrorism in Pakistan’s restive northwest rages on, one casualty has been left on the battlefield — youth education.
Schools are a popular target for militants, often because they educate girls or because their curriculum is not considered Islamic enough for the Pakistani Taliban, which wields significant influence in the region.FULL ARTICLE (Radio Free Europe)
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