Who knew insects were so important? Olga Patricia Fulla Oviedo is a biologist and specialist in entomology, the study of insects. She leads a special team at the National Institute of Health that monitors insects that are responsible for transmitting tropical diseases in Colombia.
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Solitary grasshoppers are passive, minding their own business. Bunch them together in close quarters and it is a different story. Close together their hind legs kick their neighbours many times per minute; then watch out!! Serotonin courses through their little grasshopper brains and they then have an “Incredible Hulk” metamorphosis. Apart from becoming super horny, they double in size, become brightly coloured, super aggressive, and fly long distances, eating their weight in a day. Eating themselves out of house and home (like teenage humans) they swarm to new areas to eat, rendering the landscape devoid of vegetation.
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Roger Stone, the sixth former associate of President Trump to be convicted on charges stemming from the Mueller probe, is again at the center of controversy. Federal prosecutors recommended Stone be sentenced to seven to nine years in prison, but senior Justice Department officials intervened. Now, all four line prosecutors quit the case. John Yang talks to The Washington Post’s Matt Zapotosky.
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Feb 10, 2020
President Trump fired two key figures from the House’s impeachment proceedings Friday: the National Security Council’s Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. A Trump adviser said the move was intended to send a message to anyone considering opposing Trump.
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Feb 10, 2020
President Trump is set to unveil his 2021 budget request today. The $4.8 trillion budget would increase military spending while cutting Medicare and Medicaid, seeks $2 billion for construction of Trump’s border wall and slashes EPA spending by 26%. Axios is reporting Trump will also request nearly $50 billion for nuclear weapons programs. Experts and Democratic lawmakers warn that increasing the nuclear stockpile will increase the likelihood of nuclear war and defy international agreements.
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Feb 11, 2020
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance says he is considering reopening the investigation into Malcolm X’s murder, over half a century after the civil rights leader was killed in 1965. The announcement came just days after the release of a new Netflix documentary titled “Who Killed Malcolm X?” that sheds new light on the case.
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Feb 11, 2020
In Canada, 47 people were arrested Monday while protesting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders as they are raided by Canadian police. Protesters around the country blockaded ports, railways and other sites of transportation. The blockades affected 20,000 rail passengers and prevented 200 freight trains from traveling. Indigenous activists have been in a protracted battle to protect their land from the construction of TransCanada’s 400-mile, $4.7 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline.
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Feb 11, 2020
The U.N. is warning that the massive swarms of locusts devastating crops in a number of East African countries could become the worst infestation the region has seen in decades. Countries that have already been affected or are at risk are Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. Experts say higher temperatures and heavier rainfall due to the climate crisis are leading to worse locust swarms. A small swarm can work its way through enough food to feed 35,000 people in just a single day.
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Seventh Generation
Feb 4, 2020
What if we were meant to be the next greatest generation? Climate Change is our generation’s problem to solve. The solution will be our legacy. Get involved at https://www.seventhgeneration.com/Nex…
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Feb 6, 2020
Stephen Colbert has made a lot of jokes about Mitt Romney over the years, but today our host honors the only Republican Senator to stand up and defend the United States Constitution by voting to impeach President Trump.
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Transition Studies 