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Texas approves new 54,000-acre state park in the Hill Country The land gift will make it the second-largest park in Texas.

#Texas is getting a new state park bigger than Manhattan.
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Doc’s Houston jazz venue sets opening date in historic Tower Theatre | Houston Public Media Following a soft opening Nov. 11, the live music venue in Montrose will hold a grand opening Nov. 15.

#Houston

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The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to ...

Honestly examining history means being willing to come to terms with uncomfortable truths.
#NativeAmericanHistoryMonth
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12,000-Year-Old Petroglyphs Found in India May Point To a Previously Unknown Civilization Over 1,500 petroglyphs, spread across more than 70 locations, have been documented so far!

Fascinating
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Came across a #Halloween surprise in #Houston while out walking today.

thecrashcourse: Native beliefs around gender were-and honestly still are- pretty diverse. In fact, many Native American tribes are matriarchal, meaning women hold significant power in our communities, including as the primary decision-makers.
Lily Gladstone!

Elk are again roaming on lands that California has returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian tribe.

Great initiative by #California in partnership with the #indigenous people of the Tule River region.

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Thank you Paz for coming to the book signing event for #EugenesisInception and for this kind review!
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Renewables 2025 – Analysis - IEA Renewables 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

Global #renewable #energy capacity is on track to more than double over the next 5 years - led by #solar PV.
Latest Renewables report from the International Energy Agency (IEA):
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Herman Hesse, Wandering, Solitude, and the Creative Life By: Erik Rittenberry

“To write, to create, one must first live. Not in the grinding wheels of repetition. Not bogged down by society’s profane obligations. But in the immediacy of direct experience, in the disquieted nuance of curiosity and discovery.”
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Happy #Diwali to all those who celebrate
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Olé Olinia! (Olinia means ‘to move’ in the indigenous Nahuatl language)
#Mexico #EV
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The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Ride a bike!
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Mirror Life: Addressing a Potential Biothreat | Think Global Health The first international conference on mirror life will take place at the Institut Pasteur in Paris in June

Is #technology development accelerating faster than our ability to ensure adequate safeguards? Recent #Biotech and #AI developments raise the question.
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The Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino #art gallery in #Houston, founded in 1994, was among the early vanguard of galleries in the US that represented avant-garde and contemporary artists from #LatinAmerica.
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Out today via @natgenet.nature.com, the first federally funded #Tribal #data repository, a revolutionary approach to data management and applied/operationalization of IDSov @d4itdr.bsky.social. Also, if you are at #ASHG25, come see us this morning in 205ABC
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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930 with the intent to record traditional Native American cultures. The work comprises twenty volumes of narrative text and ...

An enthralling digital archive of the extraordinary work of photographer Edward S. Curtis in capturing a vast tapestry of #NativeAmerican images at the dawn of the 20th century.
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The striking artistic vision of Édouard Manet (1832-1883)

Sold out again! A big Thank You to everyone in the #SanAntonio #Texas area who came out today to the @barnesandnoble.com branch in Selma and picked up a signed copy of #EugenesisInception.
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Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Bravo. Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

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#SanAntonio and #Texas #HillCountry friends, I’ll be in your neighborhood on Saturday. See you there @barnesandnoble.com
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Reminder: What you see depends on where you’re sitting.

YouTube video by Netflix A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

The Jane Goodall final interview was powerful and beautiful.
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YouTube video by Hashem Al-Ghaili EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility

Is a brave new world coming? This concept video went viral 2 years ago.

youtu.be/O2RIvJ1U7RE

What an energizing day today at the Baybrook @barnesandnoble.com in the #Houston area. It was great to see so many families out together. And I signed even more books than last weekend. A big thank you to everyone who stopped by and got a copy of #EugenesisInception !
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See you tomorrow!
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