I know gender is all the rage these days, because it's been politicized like crazy by both the Right and the Left, but honestly, when I speak with people I don't know (the ones I know too, but it's different, I know them) I care much less about their gender (which won't affect my interactions with them) than their age or nationality. Both will greatly affect our culture and fields of reference and knowing them would prevent many misunderstandings in my opinion.

#gender #generations #cultures #SocialMedia

New interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree program "Languages, #Cultures, #Communication" provides qualification in #multilingualism in transcultural contexts / Start in the 2025/2026 winter semester @ftsk_unimainz 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQf64VSbOqU & https://press.uni-mainz.de/new-bachelors-degree-program-provides-qualification-in-multilingualism-in-transcultural-contexts/

Further information at 👉 https://fb06.uni-mainz.de/uebersetzen-dolmetschen-studieren/#bachelor-sprachen-kulturen-kommunikation

#StudyAbroad #StudyInGermany #StudyInEurope #Language #LanguageLearning #CulturalStudies #German #Culture #InternationalStudents #Degree
#Translation #Translate #Interpreting

Envie d'accueillir abondance et fertilité chez vous ? Qui mieux que Déméter pour vous accompagner cet été ?
Évidemment, elle demandera quelques prières et peut-être un ou deux sacrifices, mais après tout, on a rien sans rien. Vous trouverez bien un·e voisin·e pénible à lui offrir.

https://www.aemarielle.com/produit/demeter-aquarelle-originale/

#demeter #eleusis #MythologieGrecque #cultures #fertilité #abondance #Terre

#WeLiveOnline. 💞 Together, the #Web and #mobile technology not only connected the masses but also created an unprecedented era of #digitalparticipation and #cultures.

👉 https://Nethnology.com ᳆ #Nethnology is the adaptation of traditional #ethnologicalmethods to #study #cultures and #communities online, exploring how #digitalinteractions shape #humanbehavior. (2/2)

#geopolitics #usa #iraq Groundhog day? Baffles me why with all the expertise available the #USA consistently mis-steps in it's relations with #Islamic #cultures and #countries .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/us-orders-non-essential-embassy-staff-out-of-iraq-amid-growing-middle-east-tensions-israel-iran-nuclear-talks

📚 Suggested Book:

"Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive" by Eliot Stein.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1d0b82f6-2a52-4fa3-bcf9-01b9b3970af6

#reading #cultures #Traditions #tradition #traditionalcrafts

“Today we live in the world’s greatest period for #culture, for the #oral heritages of all #cultures are being poured through #visual #traditions to the enrichment of all.” - #MarshallMcLuhan, Counterblast, 1969

L'Anticapitaliste📣 L’archéologie en lutte contre la loi des profits: Du 12 au 15 juin, le monde de l’archéologie va se mobiliser contre les attaques contenues dans la loi de simplification de la vie économique. Le 4 avril 2024… 📣NPA-A #archéologie #lutte #lois #protectiondupatrimoine #cultures

L’archéologie en lutte contre ...

La sexualité #gay a une histoire riche, marquée par acceptation et répression. Les droits LGBTQ+ progressent, mais stigmatisation et discrimination persistent, nécessitant soutien continu. A lire ici --> https://wp.me/pbyKZP-18bz #LGBTQ #résistance #égalité #beauxgosses #beauxmecs #cultures #queer #Grèceantique #diversité

And that fear doesn’t stop attacks. It stops communication. Shame-based cultures don’t create safer systems. They create quiet ones — and in cybersecurity, silence is dangerous. Shame-based environments trigger: When the emotional cost of speaking up is higher than staying quiet, people...

https://medium.com/@mrsno1special/shame-culture-in-cybersecurity-are-we-teaching-people-to-hide-mistakes-1cd131c958e4

# #cultures #create #silence #environments #emotional

See Canada’s Largest Museum Dinosaur at the ROM in Toronto

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Ontario, is one of Canada’s most-visited museums. From its distinctive exterior to its impressive galleries, there are lots of reasons for its popularity.

Linda’s Pick of the Exhibits

When I find a skeleton of Canada’s largest mounted dinosaur, that has to come out as #1. Indeed, while Regina’s T-Rex is the largest of its kind in the world, it’s not the largest dinosaur. Rather, the largest museum dinosaur in Canada lives in Toronto. What type of dinosaur is it? A Barosaurus.

Never heard of a Barosaurus? Me either.

A Barosaurus, as this infographic shows, weighed about 20,000 kg (22 tons). It measured about 24 m (26.2 yards) long

The Barosaurus sauropod dinosaur on display at ROM is called “Gordo.” This informal nickname is believed to play on the Spanish word for big or fat, which describes his weight of approximately 20,000 kg (22 tons).

Gordo stretches to an impressive 27.5 m (90 ft) across the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of the Dinosaurs.

The infographic below provides details on the sizes of various dinosaurs.

You’ll find full details in the article, Comparing the sizes of dinosaurs in the lost world.

But what was the largest dinosaur? Argentinosaurus at 39 m (128 ft) long!

Gordo, however, wasn’t found in Canada, but at a quarry within the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, USA. The fossils were discovered by excavations done by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1912.

Important Fossils at ROM

ROM displays 50+ dinosaur fossil specimens, including Gordo and another 90-ft (27.4 m) sauropod skeleton. Displays show the diversity of dinosaurs through the millennia.

Here are some of the key dinosaur skeleton highlights at ROM.

• Futalognkosaurus (another sauropod) nearly 100 ft (30.5 m) long.
• Hadrosaur duck-billed dinosaurs with multiple full skeletal mounts — one of the world’s best collections.
• Gorgosaurus libratus, Massospondylus with fossilized nests.
• Well-known dinosaurs such as T-Rex, Triceratops, and horned ceratopsians like Chasmosaurus and Wendiceratops.

Fast Fact: ROM has a fossilized 310-million-year-old tree. It was discovered in fossil cliffs at Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

LUCA, a single-celled organism found in Quebec is also part of the exhibit. It’s from approximately four billion years ago!

Fossils from a number of Canadian UNESCO sites form part of the collection. They include examples of the first multicellular life forms from Mistaken Point in Newfoundland and the Burgess Shale fossils from BC’s Rocky Mountains. Burgess Shale tells the story of the Cambrian explosion origin of animals.

What’s in the Royal Ontario Museum?

The Royal Ontario Museum is well known for its collection and its unique architecture. The building integrates three parts:

• 1914 original stone building
• 1930s art deco addition
• 2007 Michael Lee-Chin Crystal extension

Altogether, these sections have 200,000+ square feet of space.

ROM’s world-class collection includes 18 million artworks, cultural objects and natural history specimens. They’re displayed in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces. Exhibits are from around the world covering culture and natural history.

Galleries and exhibition spaces are divided into three major categories of permanent galleries.

• Natural History Galleries: Located mostly on the second floor, including dinosaur fossil exhibits, biodiversity galleries, and mineralogy collections.
• World Cultures Galleries: Distributed across the first, third, and fourth floors, displaying artifacts from Africa, Asia-Pacific, South Asia, the Near East, the Mediterranean, and the Americas.
• Hands-On Museums and Interactive Galleries: Designed to engage families and children with interactive learning experiences, such as the Bat Cave and Biodiversity Discovery spaces.

Linda’s Road Trip Tips

Toronto is a popular tourist destination for tons of reasons beyond those ancient humongous dinosaurs! It draws many international tourists due to its diverse population. In fact, you may hear 160+ languages spoken as you travel its streets or walk the PATH.

Fast Fact: I highly recommend taking the PATH when you visit ROM. The PATH is a 30 k (18.6 miles) underground pedestrian walkway. 

While ROM isn’t one of the attractions in the PATH tunnels, it’s situated close to Museum Station on the Toronto subway, which has pedestrian access via the PATH system.

Visitors can reach the ROM conveniently by walking through the PATH from nearby connected buildings and transit hubs.

The PATH takes you to all types of businesses and services.

It also provides access to a number of museums.

I highly recommend:

• Bata Shoe Museum
• Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
• Hockey Hall of Fame & Museum

Who Should Visit ROM?

ROM is a large, impressive cultural institution that’s a great stop for Toronto residents and visitors to the city. As Canada’s largest museum, it’s a given that museum goers will learn new things its many exhibits and galleries.

It’s a great museum to explore natural history from dinosaur and fossil collections to exhibits on biodiversity and geology.

And for those who enjoy learning more about art, history, and culture, ROM is a must-see museum.

The museum is full accessible to visitors with mobility challenges, so it’s an inclusive experience for all.

Families with small children will find it easy to move through the spacious exhibits, too.

ROM is the kind of museum you can’t really take in during a single visit! I spent about three hours, but wished I’d had triple that amount of time. So, schedule a full day or plan to start with the galleries that most interest you, then revisit the rest at a later date.

How Do You Visit ROM?

ROM is located in downtown Toronto, easily accessible by public transit or car. For public transit, take the subway to Museum Station. Or, get off at Union Station as I did, and walk to several other downtown museums.

Parking: Park at Cumberland Parkade (148 Cumberland Street). It offers affordable parking near the museum.

Street Address: 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario.

Visit the ROM website for days and hours open, as well as information on special programs and events.

Keep up with what’s happening at ROM with the Royal Ontario Museum Facebook page.

Check out A Guide To The Royal Ontario Museum: Exhibits You Can’t Miss with Over Here Toronto.

Have some fun with the online ROM Resources Hub.

Take virtual tours with the Royal Ontario Museum on YouTube.

Plan your visit with Google Maps.

Find More Museums in Ontario

Check out more reviews for museum attractions in Ontario on guide2museums.com.

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• Minnesota Discovery Center: Iron Range Mining History Museum

• Museum of North Texas History: Wichita Falls

• Soo Line Historical Museum & Historic Site: Weyburn, Saskatchewan

• Pioneer Auto Show Museum: Cars & More in Murdo, South Dakota

• Fred Light Museum: Battleford, Saskatchewan

• Bishop Museum: Cultural Treasures in Honolulu, Hawaii

• Vilas Historical Museum: Snowmobiles to Paul Bunyan in a Wisconsin Museum

• Nanaimo Museum: Diverse History of Nanaimo, British Columbia

• Frontier Gateway Museum: Dinosaur Fossils & Glendive, Montana History

• Rosebud County Museum: Homesteader History in Forsythe, Montana

Reference(s)

Visual Capitalist. (2022, July 9) [Image] Comparing the sizes of dinosaurs in the lost world. Retrieved from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/comparing-the-sizes-of-dinosaurs-in-the-lost-world/#google_vignette [Reused with permission]

#1 #Canada #cultures #dinosaurs #fossils #history #museums #Ontario #Toronto #travel #UNESCO

“Peace through strength” is an illusion

Most adults living through the 1980s probably recalls former President Reagan’s statement of striving for “peace through strength“ during the Cold War Era. While this makes for a great tagline, does it really achieve what is being stated?

The problem with a statement like “peace through strength” is that uses the wrong methodology in an attempt to achieve a worthy goal. Peace and strength are virtually oxymorons, but worse yet, strength requires one to be constantly vigilant. It also subtly implies one must be a bully to achieve peace.

Does being wary, worried, and on-guard sound peaceful to you? Does being a bully sound peaceful? No, not to me either. Instead, it sounds stressful, if not debilitating. At what point does one actually know they have achieved peace when they behave this way?

What is missing from this Reagan quote are two of the most critical underlying factors for peace to be achievable in the first place: passion and compassion. True peace requires a constant passion for achieving it, not just a temporary feel-good slogan. Each and every action should be a step taken in furthering peace.

Furthermore, lasting peace requires sincere compassion, which in turn requires one to be empathetic to the suffering of others. One cannot talk down at others and dismiss their suffering, while claiming to be compassionate at the same time.

Every person, culture, nation, or society has their own sufferings. It might be a drought, a storm, an earthquake, a disease, a war, an illness, a personal problem, or some other affliction. To ignore that fact is to lack compassion and to utterly fail at working towards peaceful solutions and understanding.

Bombing the living daylights out of an entire subjugated population is hardly peaceful or compassionate. Killing unarmed aid workers is hardly peaceful or compassionate. Separating and deporting entire families is hardly peaceful or compassionate. Cutthroat policies that harm the poor, the unfortunate, and the disadvantaged is hardly peaceful or compassionate. To be an enlightened and compassionate society, we must not fall into the trappings of fear, wariness, and bullying for making our decisions.

Suffering is a global issue and we as individuals and as a nation must accept that fact before we can become truly compassionate. It doesn’t matter if those impacted by suffering are currently are friends or foes, true and honest compassion has no limitations. Most often, those who are suffering are innocent victims and have zero to do with broader decisions, actions, and policies.

This brings us back full circle to the topic of passion. Each of us must admit that we fail at being compassionate 100 percent of the time. To resolve that, we, me included, must become passionate to achieve compassion for peace to thrive. That means, also being in tune with the sufferings of those whose belief systems differ from ours. Admittedly, NOT AN EASY TASK. But, lasting peace through passion and compassion has to begin somewhere. And the easiest place for that to start is at home among our loved ones. From there, we can extend compassion to our friends, neighbors, fellow citizens, and the world as a whole.

To do otherwise, only increases suffering and lengthens the timeline for achieving true peace throughout the global community of beings occupying planet Earth. 🙏✌️

Peace!

#Buddhism #caring #civility #compassion #cultures #empathy #enlightenment #history #love #passion #peace #people #policies #quotes #society #suffering

How a book from the #1940s can you make a better marketer today. We review #TheChrysanthemumAndTheSword:

https://the-agency-review.com/chrysanthemum-and-the-sword

#Japan #Cultures #strategy #marketing #advertising @MarinerBooks #RuthBenedict

Dealing with a #Condescending boss? So did I. Unfortunately, this can happen in some #Workplaces, where the power dynamic feels one-sided, and you're expected to follow the tune that #PaysTheBills. However, not all workplaces or #Cultures operate this way. You have the #Power to set #Boundaries, communicate #Effectively, and #Advocate for yourself. Take steps to reclaim your confidence and create a healthier professional space for yourself.

#ClaimYourPower with Narghiza Ergashova

Le grand siphonnage #canadien ou l’ #accaparement des #cultures du #Québec.

En 1989, Christian Dufour publiait un des rares classiques de la science #politique québécoise: Le défi québécois.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/03/27/le-grand-siphonnage-canadien

Happy World Theatre Day, 27 March, 2025. The message for World Theatre Day for this year was delivered by Theodoros Terzopoulos, a Greek theatre director. Read his message here:

https://www.world-theatre-day.org/messageauthor.html

#WorldTheatreDay #WorldTheaterDay #theatreday #theaterday #theatre #theater #theatreart #theatrearts #theaterart #theaterarts #art #arts #culture #cultures #raiseawareness #raisingawareness #internationaltheatreinstitute #theodorosterzopoulos #sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ

Blast
Sophie Bessis, « La civilisation judéo-chrétienne : anatomie d’une imposture »
Comment est née une expression promise à une étonnante fortune, apparue assez récemment dans le langage courant, saturée d’idéologie
https://mcinformactions.net/sophie-bessis-la-civilisation-judeo-chretienne-anatomie-d-une-imposture
#civilisations #cultures

The fund will provide financial support to Day Scholars — those who attended Indian Residential Schools during the day but returned home at night — and their first-generation descendants to revitalize #languages, #cultures,
& #heritage while accessing #wellness & educational opportunities.

#Indigenous #FirstNations

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/new-50-million-day-scholars-fund-opens-cultural-revitalization-healing-and

🟩 Samedi 22 mars la Librairie Éphémère reprend la route pour se rendre à Velleron (84) dans ce joli parc où nous allons fêter les jardins, la nature et les oiseaux 💚
Pour nous trouver? Facile, nous serons à côté du @lejardindelfietola 🌱
Nous vous présenterons les nouveautés de @scopterrevivante 🌾

🟢 #librairieassociative #librairieephemere #librairieitinerante #librairiemobile #librairienomade #librairie #livre #book #bibliodiversite #recyclage  #ecologie #surcyclage #cultures #velleron