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How Indigenous education helped four lost children survive in the Amazon for 40 days after a plane crash

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Even before starting elementary school, children in this area accompany their parents and elder relatives in various activities such as gardening, fishing, navigating rivers, hunting and gathering honey and wild fruits. In this way the children acquire practical skills and knowledge, such as those demonstrated by Lesly, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin during their 40-day ordeal.

Indigenous children typically learn from an early age how to open paths through dense vegetation, how to tell edible from non-edible fruits. They know how to find potable water, build rain shelters and set animal traps. They can identify animal footprints and scents – and avoid predators such as jaguars and snakes lurking in the woods.

The cost of basic groceries in each of the U.S. states

According to CashNetUSA, Alaska and Hawaii see their high prices offset by relatively high local incomes.

Meanwhile, Alabama and Tennessee suffer the double whammy of being among the six states with the highest Walmart price hikes while also having some of the lowest average incomes in the U.S.

Key Findings »

  • Groceries in Hawaii cost 26.18% more than the national average — the highest disparity in the U.S.
  • West Virginia has the cheapest regular groceries, at 7.70% under the national average.
  • The cheapest vegan groceries are in New Mexico, where they cost 5.03% below the national average.
  • It takes two hours and two minutes of work to afford the average basket of regular groceries in Alabama — the worst local affordability of any state.

More at CashNetUSA »

Republicans don’t or can’t appreciate the potential gravity of the situation or even understand the basic details

Washington Post »

Multiple polls focused on the Trump classified documents case suggest that many, if not most, Republicans don’t particularly appreciate the potential gravity of the situation or its details. And it can’t simply be explained by mere partisanship.

One of the inescapable facts of the situation is that Trump got himself in trouble not because he took the documents in the first place, but because he declined to return them. The indictment only charges conduct after the government subpoenaed Trump’s documents in May 2022. After that subpoena, Trump only returned some of his remaining classified documents before the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago turned up more. The Washington Post recapped how Trump’s fateful decision not to return the documents resulted from rejecting his lawyers’ advice.

But despite it being readily apparent that Trump didn’t do what the government asked, a new YouGov poll shows Republicans, by and large, maintain that he did. It shows 53 percent say Trump “cooperated in returning documents,” with just 15 percent saying he didn’t.

Several US National Parks are hosting stargazing events in 2023

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