Today I learned the story of Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda, who was abducted by a military commander during an infamous massacre in Guatemala’s civil war. http://www.propublica.org/article/finding-oscar-massacre-memory-and-justice-in-guatemala
I learned that although Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seems like it’s been around forever, the agency was created just nine years ago.
today my boyfriend learned, after hearing her music for a decade, that Kimya Dawson is not white.
so deep
I learned that bathymetry is the study of the ocean’s depth.
I have been learning a lot about Burma recently. I watched the documentary Burma VJ, which is about videojournalists who smuggled out footage. It was very intense to watch. So much defiance and sacrifice. Then at work, I happened to process a lot of old books about Burma. Hmm, serendipity.
I learned that philography is the pursuit of collecting autographs, which is maybe the lamest thing that word could possibly signify. Eleanor/27/Chicago
today, I learned about Mexican politics of the 1800s through the life of indigenous politician and writer Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. Lola/28/Austin, TX, USA
Today I learned that a boy has a crush on me.
I learned today that climate change is affected more significantly by deforestation and degradation than the use of energy (i.e. petroleum and gas emissions). Trees are carbon sinks: if you cut down, burn, or let it degrade, it releases significant amounts of carbon. If you plant a tree in its place, the net carbon released is zero. In Ecuador, on average 200 million tons of carbon is released into environment per year due to agriculture (agriculture implies deforestation), whereas only about 25 million tons is released due to energy (cars, emissions, etc). Robin/24/Quito, Ecuador
I learned about the existence of a Japanese Manga anime called Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa. It is the story of a survivor of Hiroshima, telling about his experience of living through the Atomic bomb. Tacuma/28/Quito
