Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Moriré de un disparo, pero no de hambre”, afirma Fayza mientras separa las aceitunas de las hojas sentada en el suelo. Tiene 62 años y se dedica desde pequeña a la cosecha de la aceituna en la población cisjordana de Salfit, en la zona con mayor producción de aceite de oliva de Palestina. Fayza y otros nueve miembros de su familia son los únicos de los alrededores que trabajan en los olivares en plena temporada de recolección. Todo apunta a que serán los últimos. Desde el 7 de octubre, cuando Hamás atacó Israel, las agresiones contra agricultores se han multiplicado por toda Cisjordania, impidiendo a los palestinos acceder a sus tierras, recoger la aceituna e incluso matándolos si se acercan demasiado a sus campos.'
(photo credit: Alvaro Garcia).

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-11-17/los-ultimos-palestinos-que-resisten-en-el-olivar-los-colonos-tratan-de-quitarnos-la-comida-sobre-la-mesa.html

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Cooperative bonobos.

“To have extended, friendly, cooperative relationships between members of other groups who have no kinship ties is really quite extraordinary,” said Joan Silk, a primatologist at Arizona State University who was not involved in the study.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.html

"No dia 2 de novembro, durante a audiência da ministra da Ciência no âmbito do debate parlamentar do Orçamento do Estado para 2024, o deputado Rui Tavares, do Livre, confrontou a ministra com o facto de o investimento em Investigação & Desenvolvimento estar em 1,7% do PIB. Ora, o Governo havia prometido que este iria atingir 2,5% do PIB em 2025, que está ao virar da esquina."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/17/opiniao/opiniao/financiamento-ciencia-pais-unicornios-2070540

"How exactly the drug prevents major cardiac events isn’t fully understood. Some of the effects can likely be chalked up to weight loss itself, which is associated with improvements in metrics that influence heart health, such as blood pressure, Yang said. But mechanisms independent of weight loss may also be at work. In the trial, lower rates of cardiovascular events began showing up before participants lost weight. One explanation is the drug’s impact on inflammation, which is associated with heart disease: C-reactive protein, a rough proxy for inflammation, dropped by nearly 40 percent in study participants."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/ozempic-wegovy-obesity-drugs-benefits/676011/

“The current ideas to reduce the number of international students and staff give the wrong signal and will scare international top talent away at a time in which our economy and society as a whole are in desperate need of highly skilled labour forces,” said Robert-Jan Smits, president of the executive board of Eindhoven University of Technology. “We should not make the same mistake as Denmark.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/dutch-universities-slam-proposal-cap-foreign-students-omtzigt

"Dancer Amandine Albisson performs "Chiroptera" as thousands gather in front of the Palais Garnier Opera House in central Paris to watch the facade of the opera house transformed into a philosophical allegory of Plato's cave, as part of a new project by the French artist JR on November 12, 2023."

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/11/photos-of-the-week-snowy-dunes-northern-lights-platos-cave/676023/