#Ethiopia‘s renowned environmental scientist and researcher, Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, has passed away today at the age 0f 83, families and friends announced.
Dr. Tewolde, who was the former Director General of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority, leaves behind a towering legacy of his invaluable researches on biodiversity, community (farmers’ rights) and his emphatic fight against unregulated genetically engineered crops.
Winner of, among their awards, the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and “Hero of our Earth”, Dr. Twewolde is survived by his three daughters.
As Bacon said: “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” – The New York Times
Regardless of the diversity of the languages by which books are often written their goals often converge.
“The great and mysterious thing about this reading experience is this: the more discriminatingly, the more sensitively, and the more associatively we learn to read, the more clearly we see every thought and every poem in its uniqueness, its individuality, in its precise limitations and see that all beauty, all charm depend on this individuality and uniqueness — at the same time we come to realize ever more clearly how all these hundred thousand voices of nations strive toward the same goals, call upon the same gods by different names, dream the same wishes, suffer the same sorrows. Out of the thousandfold fabric of countless languages and books of several thousand years, in ecstatic instants there stares at the reader a marvelously noble and transcendent chimera: the countenance of humanity, charmed into unity from a thousand contradictory features.”
-Herman Hesse
Manneen kitaabaa waltajjii itti seenaa keenya darbe itti yaadannu, kan ammaa fi kan darbee wal bira qabnee itti ilaallu, guddina keenya gara fuula duraa itti madaallu fi itti karoorfannudha.
#Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture.
“More and more of our society is centered on pictures and images, which is a beautiful thing. But some of the most important parts of life are not visible in pictures.”
Dear Young Hero,
Imagine you can choose your own superpower from one of these three: flying, invisibility, or being able to read. You’d be the only person in the world with that superpower. Which one do you choose? Flying is not so useful without other superpowers. Invisibility is okay for being naughty or for a little fun but not good for much else. But if you were the only person who could read… you’d be the most powerful person on Earth. You would be able to tap into all the wisdom of the smartest people who ever lived. Their knowledge would go from their heads through squiggles on paper right into your head. You would learn things from them that no ordinary mortal would ever have enough time to learn. You would be as smart as everybody in total. Not that you have to remember it all. With reading you just look it up.
Reading is a superpower that also gives you a type of teleportation; it moves you a million miles instantly. That feeling of being immersed in a different place, or even a different time period, can be so strong you may not want to leave.
When you have this superpower you can see the world from the viewpoint of someone else. This helps protect you from the mistakes and untruths of others as well as your own ignorance.
More and more of our society is centered on pictures and images, which is a beautiful thing. But some of the most important parts of life are not visible in pictures: ideas, insights, logic, reason, mathematics, intelligence. These can’t be drawn, photographed, or pictured. They have to be conveyed in words, arranged in an orderly string, and can only be understood by those who have acquired the superpower of reading.
This superpower will always be with you; it will never leave you. But like all superpowers, it increases the more you use it. It works on paper and screens. As we invent new ways to read, its value and power will expand and deepen. At any time, reading beats any other superpower you can name.
Yours,
Kevin Kelly
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Finland tops the list for the sixth consecutive year as the happiest country in the world, and Ethiopia is among the unhappiest countries, scroll down to check the rankings.
International Day of Happiness is celebrated on 20 March every year. The purpose of this day is to know the value of happiness in one’s life and create awareness around it. The General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution on 12 July 2012 and proclaimed 20 March the International Day of Happiness.8 hours ago
World’s 20 Happiest Countries in 2023
1. Finland 2. Denmark 3. Iceland 4. Israel 5. Netherlands 6. Sweden 7. Norway 8. Switzerland 9. Luxembourg 10. New Zealand 11. Austria 12. Australia 13. Canada 14. Ireland 15. United States 16. Germany 17. Belgium 18. Czech Republic 19. United Kingdom 20. Lithuania
World’s 20 Unhappiest Countries in 2023
1. Afghanistan 2. Lebanon 3. Sierra Leone 4. Zimbabwe 5. Congo 6. Botswana 7. Malawi 8. Comoros 9. Tanzania 10. Zambia 11. Madagascar 12. India 13. Liberia 14. Ethiopia 15. Jordan 16. Togo 17. Egypt 18. Mali 19. Gambia 20. Bangladesh
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She has also been a champion of equity, diversity and inclusion, in particular by creating the inaugural position of Special Advisor on Inclusion, Diversity, Accessibility, Anti-Racism and Equity (IDAARE) to advance the Library’s work to create more inclusive environments for employees and library users alike.
The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) has reappointed Talia Chung for a five-year term with the title of university librarian and dean of libraries, beginning July 1, 2023.
Chung has been active in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), currently serving as vice-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, of which she has been a member since 2020. She was an ARL Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) career coach in 2020–2021 and an ARL Leadership Fellow in 2016–2017.
Today, the Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez announced the reappointment of Leslie Weir as Librarian and Archivist of Canada for a four-year term, effective August 30, 2023…
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