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Hola, disfruten en Canal europaEuropa de Total Play, de la maravillosa obra de arte que es la Película "Loving Vincent" - Con amor, Vincent - Dirigida por Lorota Kobiela y Hugh Welchman del Polska Film Institute, Worclaw, 2018. Hecha por un excelente equipo de Artistas Animadores.

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”

~Vincent Van Gogh

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Institutions in the global north hoard fossils from Brazil, study says

Almost half of fossils found in key Brazilian region now reside in Germany

[Image description: Brazilian fossils put up for illegal sale and seized by police, displayed in August 2021 in Crato, Brazil.]

On the shores of a great lake in the Cretaceous period, dinosaurs, fish, and crocodiles lived and died. For the next 100 million years, conditions were just right to preserve their bodies. During the past century, paleontologists joyfully excavated thousands of fossil specimens from what are now commercial limestone quarries in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. But most of those paleontologists were not from Brazil, and nearly half of the specimens now reside half a world away from their burial place, in German museums, according to a new study that collated who stores and analyzes fossils from key sites in Brazil and Mexico.

The work adds data to the ongoing ethical debates about what the authors call paleontological colonialism, in which middle- and low-income countries supply data and specimens for high-income ones, local collaborators’ contributions are devalued, and local laws are trivialized.

The study “is really game changing,” says Jeff Liston, a paleontologist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada. “Elevating this stuff from the anecdotal and quantifying it like this is the only way that we’re going to make any progress” in decolonizing paleontology.

Last year, an ethics controversy erupted over a Science paper by a mostly European team describing a stunning shark fossil from Mexico. In the wake of the debate, Brazilian paleontologists, who had been mounting a fierce social media campaign to repatriate a dinosaur fossil stored at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (SMNK) in Germany, teamed up with researchers from Mexico and other countries to explore colonialism in paleontology publications. The researchers defined colonial science as work that doesn’t include local authors affiliated with research institutions, houses fossils abroad, and publishes on specimens that were likely purchased, a practice outlawed in both countries.

But some of the researchers whose work is criticized say the paper amounts to little more than a personal attack. “I think it’s horrendously biased,” says paleontologist David Martill from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who wrote a number of papers cited by the new study. “And by and large, it seems to attack two people: myself and Dino Frey.”

The new study, Martill says, focuses too much on Germany, largely ignoring Brazilian fossils stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and other collections outside Brazil. “Without a doubt, they cherry-picked them.”

Another German paleontologist, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, agrees. Retired from Heidelberg University in Germany, Stinnesbeck has worked for 35 years in northeastern Mexico and several of his papers are singled out in the new study. He says, “The essential objective of this paper is doing us harm.” He says he has always collaborated with Mexican colleagues and used German funding to train local paleontologists. All the Mexican fossils his team has described, he says, have remained in Mexico; he says his work is not representative of what the authors call paleontological colonialism. He says personal conflict is behind some of the new paper’s charges. “A group of nationalistic activists is out to get rid of their foreign competitors by virtually destroying their credibility and reputation,” he says.

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Adoration of the Shepherds, 1616, Jacob Jordaens

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Microcosmos espejo del Macrocosmos

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Microcosmos espejo del Macrocosmos

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The Festival of The Distribution of The Land, 1924, Diego Rivera

Medium: fresco

https://www.wikiart.org/en/diego-rivera/the-festival-of-the-distribution-of-the-land-1924

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El amor, más que un sentimiento | DW Documental

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Ésta debe ser la razón primera, de la sobreproducción de sargazos en el Mar Caribe; la alta contaminación de material orgánico e inorgánico -Plásticos-.

¿Cómo y cuándo comenzaremos a resolverlo?, ¿Seguiremos gastando -sólo en México- un mil millones al año para enterrar toda la masa de sargazo (600 mil toneladas) que ensucia nuestras playas de Quintana Roo.?

Full story:

‘Sea Of Plastic’ Discovered In The Caribbean Stretches Miles And Is Choking Wildlife

https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/sea-of-plastic-discovered-in-the-caribbean-stretches-miles-and-is-choking-wildlife/

AND THE WORLD PRESIDENTS AND LEADERS KNOW THIS . Do they realize we only have one earth ?

All the billions and trillions of dollars should be spent on cleaning up the planet and making the world of better place for the kids.

this makes me so fucking mad

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A ballgame scene painted on a cylindrical, ceramic vessel that dates to between A.D. 682 and 701.

Credit: Courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art

Imagine a crowd roaring as royalty take to the ball court, rubber ball in hand in a sport so spectacular, it symbolized good versus evil. The ballgame played by the Maya, Aztec and neighboring cultures is famous for its ubiquity in Mesoamerica before interloping Europeans shut it down. But many mysteries and misconceptions continue to dog people’s understanding of the game.

For instance, did the game’s winners or losers get sacrificed at the end of the game? And were the hoops on the ball courts treated like modern-day basketball nets?

The answer to both questions is no; the players were most likely not sacrificed, and the ball wasn’t meant to go through the hoop, although it likely happened from time to time, said Christophe Helmke, an associate professor at the Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

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Un poema y un video que contemplan el problema político nacional como una cuestión de educación artística

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Artist mind by Creator

Ocean Photography by Japan’s Ryo Minemizu

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. Feed me! Photo by @douglascroftimages A hungry humpback whale feeds just off the foggy Monterey shoreline Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 🐋 #seemonterey #montereybay #humpback #whales https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnIpqzHGpC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a5xqlb6hnaz2

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The Judgment of Solomon, 1511, Raphael

Medium: fresco