Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#corruption](https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption) [\#DirtyMoney](https://mastodon.social/tags/DirtyMoney)
Proactive policing [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/nsw-police-shot-western-sydney-man-bradley-balzan-inquest/103592578](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/nsw-police-shot-western-sydney-man-bradley-balzan-inquest/103592578) [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [\#police](https://mastodon.social/tags/police) [\#ProactivePolicing](https://mastodon.social/tags/ProactivePolicing)
Asperger Syndrome and Psychotherapy: Understanding Asperger Perspectives by Paula Jacobsen People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) understand and respond to the world in a very different way from people without this condition. The challenge for psychotherapists working with Asperger clients lies in setting aside their own preconceptions and learning to understand their client's perspective. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#AspergerSyndrome](https://mastodon.social/tags/AspergerSyndrome) [\#psychotherapy](https://mastodon.social/tags/psychotherapy)
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, set to launch by May 2027. Once [#Roman](https://mastodon.social/tags/Roman) launches, it will allow astronomers to observe the universe like never before. In celebration of Black History Month, let’s get to know some Black scientists and engineers, past and present, whose contributions will allow Roman to make history. [https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/743419658577821696/black-scientists-and-engineers-past-and-present](https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/743419658577821696/black-scientists-and-engineers-past-and-present) [@nasa](https://hello.2heng.xin/@nasa) [@astronomy](https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy) [\#AfricanAmericans](https://mastodon.social/tags/AfricanAmericans)
[\#Roman](https://mastodon.social/tags/Roman) Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times greater than Hubble, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. [https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/) [@astronomy](https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy) [@nasa](https://hello.2heng.xin/@nasa) [\#SpaceTelescope](https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceTelescope)
In this map of a celestial hemisphere — compiled from data from the [#eROSITA](https://mastodon.social/tags/eROSITA) telescope — the colours reflect the wavelengths of X-rays. Hot gas haloes surrounding galaxy clusters have broad-band emissions (white), as do black holes (white dots); diffuse emissions have long wavelengths (red); and in the central regions of the Milky Way, dust blocks longer-wavelength emissions, so that only short-wavelength X-rays are visible (blue or black). [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8) [@astronomy](https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy) [#astronomy](https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy)
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that it was able to deliver food aid to the centre of Gaza City for the first time in several weeks. [@palestine](https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine) [\#Gaza](https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza) [\#food](https://mastodon.social/tags/food) [\#WFP](https://mastodon.social/tags/WFP) [\#children](https://mastodon.social/tags/children)
Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#extinction](https://mastodon.social/tags/extinction)
Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#empires](https://mastodon.social/tags/empires) [\#colonialism](https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism) [\#violence](https://mastodon.social/tags/violence)
The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#diary](https://mastodon.social/tags/diary) [\#WWII](https://mastodon.social/tags/WWII) [\#Nanking](https://mastodon.social/tags/Nanking) [\#JohnRabe](https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnRabe)
Good news stories of 2023 in Australia [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/2023-good-news-wrap-up/103269772](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/2023-good-news-wrap-up/103269772) [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [\#GoodNews](https://mastodon.social/tags/GoodNews)
Kawadji Wimpa dance team at the Laura Quinkan dance festival in far north Queensland. Photograph: Wayne Quillam/The Guardian [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [\#Australia](https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia) [\#Queensland](https://mastodon.social/tags/Queensland) [\#FirstNations](https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstNations)
Matt Bruce, who was in dispute with Byron Shire council over his tiny home near Lismore, NSW. Photograph: Tajette O’Halloran/The Guardian [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [\#Australia](https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia) [\#NSW](https://mastodon.social/tags/NSW) [\#TinyHomes](https://mastodon.social/tags/TinyHomes)
Ajahn Appicchato at his monastery south of Perth. The monks of the Bodhinyana monastery are fighting the WA government over a minerals exploration application in the jarrah forests that overlap the monastery and retreat. Photograph: Tony McDonough [@australia](https://aussie.zone/c/australia) [\#Australia](https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia) [\#WA](https://mastodon.social/tags/WA) [\#Bodhinyana](https://mastodon.social/tags/Bodhinyana) [\#conservation](https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation)
Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture Collectively, the articles here provide well-documented challenges to conventional wisdom about that for which people actually used Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, and Hebrew. This conference was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and social theorists to explore what writing meant to politics in the ancient Near East. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#AncientNearEast](https://mastodon.social/tags/AncientNearEast) [\#languages](https://mastodon.social/tags/languages) [\#writing](https://mastodon.social/tags/writing) [\#politics](https://mastodon.social/tags/politics)
Anger, Mercy, Revenge "Raging with an inhuman desire to inflict pain in combat and shed blood in punishment, it cares nothing for itself provided it can harm the other: it throws itself upon the very weapons raised against it, hungry for a vengeance that will bring down the avenger too." [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#philosophy](https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy) [\#Seneca](https://mastodon.social/tags/Seneca) [\#anger](https://mastodon.social/tags/anger) [\#revenge](https://mastodon.social/tags/revenge)
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#fiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction) [\#poetry](https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry) [\#sonnets](https://mastodon.social/tags/sonnets) [\#Michelangelo](https://mastodon.social/tags/Michelangelo)
Luís de Camões Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#fiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/fiction) [\#poetry](https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry) [\#sonnets](https://mastodon.social/tags/sonnets) [\#Portuguese](https://mastodon.social/tags/Portuguese)
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. The Chinese Myths not only retells the ancient stories but also considers their place within the patterns of Chinese religions, culture and history. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#China](https://mastodon.social/tags/China) [\#mythology](https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology)
A local resident leaves her apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich [@ukraine](https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine) [\#Ukraine](https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine) [\#Kyiv](https://mastodon.social/tags/Kyiv)
Ukrainian serviceman launches a kamikaze FPV drone at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia [@ukraine](https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine) [\#Ukraine](https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine) [\#drones](https://mastodon.social/tags/drones)
The Great Escape The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#America](https://mastodon.social/tags/America) [\#immigrants](https://mastodon.social/tags/immigrants) [\#ForcedLabor](https://mastodon.social/tags/ForcedLabor)
Poverty, by America The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#America](https://mastodon.social/tags/America) [\#poverty](https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty)
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg Relevant today. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#history](https://mastodon.social/tags/history) [\#PacificWar](https://mastodon.social/tags/PacificWar) [\#Japan](https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan) [\#WarCrimes](https://mastodon.social/tags/WarCrimes)
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#memoir](https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir) [\#China](https://mastodon.social/tags/China) [\#Uyghurs](https://mastodon.social/tags/Uyghurs)
Palestinians collect books from the rubble of a cultural centre following an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on November 18, 2023 [Mohammed Abed/AFP] [@palestine](https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine) [\#Gaza](https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books)
Drying field, Shandong province, China Kelp is an important marine vegetable and has long been cultivated in coastal areas as a part of human diets. This photo in June 2023 shows a clearing in the forest which is used for drying kelp Photograph: Chunshui Yu/EPOTY23 [@photography](https://lemmy.ml/c/photography) [\#China](https://mastodon.social/tags/China) [\#forests](https://mastodon.social/tags/forests) [\#kelp](https://mastodon.social/tags/kelp)
[\#Crocodilians](https://mastodon.social/tags/Crocodilians) A screenshot from Photo Ark. [@photography](https://a.gup.pe/u/photography) [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries)
Photo Ark Renowned photographer Joel Sartore's quest to document and save animals at risk of extinction. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7181320/?ref\_=fn\_al\_tt\_1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7181320/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) [\#photography](https://mastodon.social/tags/photography) [\#animals](https://mastodon.social/tags/animals) [\#EndangeredSpecies](https://mastodon.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies) A screenshot from the documentary:
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 'Read this book to learn, but also to honour the man. We shall never see his like again.' - Sunday Times See the world. Then make it better. See also the documentary: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11989890/?ref\_=fn\_al\_tt\_1](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11989890/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) [\#DavidAttenborough](https://mastodon.social/tags/DavidAttenborough)
George Church hopes to bring back the woolly mammoth. From Human Nature (2019) documentary about gene editing. [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) [\#GeneEditing](https://mastodon.social/tags/GeneEditing)
A pair of pūteketekes, or Australasian crested grebes, on Lake Alexandrina in New Zealand, where they were this week crowned the country’s bird of the century. Voters were won over by its bizarre mating dance, its beautiful plumage and its engaging habit of frequent vomiting. Photograph: Leanne Buchan Photography/AFP/Getty Images [@photography](https://a.gup.pe/u/photography) [#birds](https://mastodon.social/tags/birds) [\#NewZealand](https://mastodon.social/tags/NewZealand)
Terra – a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand Animals are the refugees we often forget. In this documentary by GoodPlanet and OMEGA, directors Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot examine the human relationship with other species on Earth. With a global population of 7 billion people, let’s have the courage to change the way we share our planet. Available on Netflix. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMScorWcyU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMScorWcyU) [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) [@animals](https://mas.to/@animals) [\#animals](https://mastodon.social/tags/animals) [\#evolution](https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution) [\#fungi](https://mastodon.social/tags/fungi) [\#ArthusBertrand](https://mastodon.social/tags/ArthusBertrand) [\#Earth](https://mastodon.social/tags/Earth)
Other Minds The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#books](https://mastodon.social/tags/books) [\#nonfiction](https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction) [\#cephalopods](https://mastodon.social/tags/cephalopods) [\#octopus](https://mastodon.social/tags/octopus) [\#intelligence](https://mastodon.social/tags/intelligence)
Defender of Bakhmut At a medical stabilisation point in the besieged city of Bakhmut, 51-year-old veteran Ukrainian soldier Oleh Nazarov, who sustained head, neck, back and right hand injuries from a Russian grenade attack on his trench an hour ago, waits to be transferred to hospital. Photograph: Kate Geraghty [@ukraine](https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine) [\#soldiers](https://mastodon.social/tags/soldiers) [\#Bakhmut](https://mastodon.social/tags/Bakhmut)
House of Culture A child walks inside the damaged House of Culture in Posad-Pokrovske, a village in the Kherson region that was heavily damaged last year during the Russian invasion Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images [@ukraine](https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine) [\#Ukraine](https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine) [\#Kherson](https://mastodon.social/tags/Kherson)
Cuncti Simus Concanentes Ave Maria [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9J\_tgvCeg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9J_tgvCeg) [@music](https://beehaw.org/c/music) [@YouTube](https://social.beachcom.org/@YouTube) [\#MedievalMusic](https://mastodon.social/tags/MedievalMusic)
The Science of Sci-Fi Cinema Essays on the Art and Principles of Ten Films This volume of essays examines 10 films, with a focus on discerning the possible, the unlikely, and the purely science fictional. With essays by scientists in relevant fields, chapters provide analyses of the movies themselves, along with examination of the actual science (or lack thereof) in each film. [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon) [\#Scifi](https://mastodon.social/tags/Scifi) [\#cinema](https://mastodon.social/tags/cinema) [\#movies](https://mastodon.social/tags/movies) [\#films](https://mastodon.social/tags/films) [\#science](https://mastodon.social/tags/science)
Earthflight A nature documentary about a bird's-eye view of the natural world, joining the journeys of snow geese, cranes, albatrosses, eagles and other birds across six continents. The best moments from Earthflight (Winged Planet): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeHmqKoisT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeHmqKoisT4) [@documentaries](https://lemmy.ml/c/documentaries) [\#birds](https://mastodon.social/tags/birds)
Indian rhinoceros A one-horned Indian rhinoceros grazes with her calf at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in north-eastern India. The reserve has the highest density of Indian rhinos in the world. Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstock [@animals](https://lemmy.stad.social/c/animals) [\#animals](https://mastodon.social/tags/animals) [#rhinoceros](https://mastodon.social/tags/rhinoceros)