The names of coffee beans mostly derive from where they are grown. In the case of mocha, the beans are grown in Yemen and Ethiopia and named after Yemen’s port city of Mocha, where they were traditionally shipped from. Kilimanjaro beans are
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“—Hago programas de radio en euskera, escribo libros en euskera, ayudo a nuestra cultura. Es mi manera de aportar algo a nuestro pueblo, pero algo constructivo, sin dejar a mi paso un montón de huérfanos y viudas.”
― Patria (Andanzas)
― Patria (Andanzas)
“in a phone-based childhood, children are plunged into a whirlpool of adult content and experiences that arrive in no particular order. Identity, selfhood, emotions, and relationships will all be different if they develop online rather than in real life. What gets rewarded or punished, how deep friendships become, and above all what is desirable—all of these will be determined by the thousands of posts, comments, and ratings that the child sees each week. Any child who spends her sensitive period as a heavy user of social media will be shaped by the cultures of those sites. This may explain why Gen Z’s mental health outcomes are so much worse than those of the millennials: Gen Z was the first generation to go through puberty and the sensitive period for cultural learning on smartphones.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Young people born after 1995 are more likely to be stuck in defend mode, compared to those born earlier. They are on permanent alert for threats, rather than being hungry for new experiences. They are anxious.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“—Aita, ¡por favor! Tienes que hacerte a la idea de que ETA es, ¿cómo te diría yo?, un mecanismo de actuación.”
― Patria (Andanzas)
― Patria (Andanzas)
“children require exposure to setbacks, failures, shocks, and stumbles in order to develop strength and self-reliance. Overprotection interferes with this development and renders young people more likely to be fragile and fearful as adults.”
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
― The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Discourse in a Digital Age
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Welcome to the online face of Discourse in a Digital Age! This face-to-face book discussion met from 2013-2018 in St. Louis, Missouri. We talked about ...more
Schlafly Global Book Discussion Group
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Join the St Louis Public Library Schlafly Branch Global Book Discussion Group online or in-person each month as we read a selection of current global ...more
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