All posts tagged: Perspective

Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale

Technology is changing our perspective on nature – at every scale

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Using a macro probe lens, Ariel Waldman filmed microbial mats in the desert valleys of Antarctica Ariel Waldman Ariel Waldman is standing all alone on a planet that looks a lot like Mars. At her feet are rock shards and barren soil. Overhead are jagged mountains streaked with dusty ice. The sky is a hazy white; the sun appears very far away. And then, Waldman smiles, explaining that she’s in Antarctica’s dry valleys, a vast stretch of deep-brown earth between frozen mountains and ancient glaciers. Maybe she’s not coming to you live from another planet, but in her new docuseries Life Unearthed, she may convince you that Earth is more alien than you realised. Now available on PBS and YouTube, Waldman’s 6-episode series is a journey into the microscopic jungle that lurks in our planet’s crust. Embedded with a soil-science team on Earth’s southernmost continent, Waldman brought her own microscopes, a macro probe lens that captures depth of field when shooting minute landscapes, a drone, and several complicated camera mounts to film the world’s most …

French sculptor Béatrice Bizot on being part of Sagrada Familia blessing – Perspective

French sculptor Béatrice Bizot on being part of Sagrada Familia blessing – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again Cover image: PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 10/06/2026 – 14:45Modified: 10/06/2026 – 14:48 09:52 min From the show Reading time 1 min On the day that the new tower of the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona is to be blessed by the pope, a sculptor whose work is to be placed inside the new parts of the famous building has told FRANCE 24 that she’s very excited to be a small part of it. French sculptor Béatrice Bizot has lived near Barcelona for over 20 years and has created a statue of the patron saint of pilgrims, Saint Roch, who was born in the French city of Montpellier. She says that seeing human beings capable of such a beautiful thing as the Sagrada Familia is incredible.  By: …

Aid worker Elsa Softic on Lebanon’s worsening humanitarian crisis – Perspective

Aid worker Elsa Softic on Lebanon’s worsening humanitarian crisis – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 03/06/2026 – 14:31 09:10 min From the show Reading time 1 min As millions of Lebanese remain displaced from their homes amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah, Elsa Softic, deputy chief of operations at Première Urgence Internationale, told FRANCE 24 how her organisation is helping those affected. She spoke to us in Perspective. By: Source link

French slavery law repealed: ‘Now we can start talking about reparations,’ historian says – Perspective

French slavery law repealed: ‘Now we can start talking about reparations,’ historian says – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 02/06/2026 – 14:37Modified: 02/06/2026 – 14:40 07:54 min From the show Reading time 1 min Now that France has finally repealed the so-called Code Noir or Black Code, experts are urging the country to also consider the issue of reparations. The Code Noir was the law that effectively regulated slavery by making people like property, notably in the French colonies – enabling people to be worked, beaten, sold, raped and even killed. It was only repealed last week, even though France abolished slavery back in 1848. In Perspective, we spoke to Olivette Otele, a historian and professor at SOAS in London. By: Source link

Ebola in DR Congo: ‘This could be a very bad outbreak,’ MSF health worker says – Perspective

Ebola in DR Congo: ‘This could be a very bad outbreak,’ MSF health worker says – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 20/05/2026 – 14:45Modified: 20/05/2026 – 14:45 10:02 min From the show Reading time 1 min A vaccination and epidemic response adviser who is about to fly out to DR Congo to try to help in the fight against Ebola has told FRANCE 24 that the signs are the current outbreak will be a serious one. Already more than 130 people have been killed, with over 500 more cases detected. John Johnson is vaccination and epidemic response advisor at MSF and is due to fly to DR Congo on Thursday. He explained that part of the problem is that tests had been carried out for a more common strain of Ebola, so they were coming back negative. He spoke to us in Perspective. By: Source …

Israeli-Palestinian author duo: ‘We must break the cycle of violence’ – Perspective

Israeli-Palestinian author duo: ‘We must break the cycle of violence’ – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 19/05/2026 – 15:33 12:18 min From the show Reading time 1 min A Palestinian and Israeli who have both lost family members in the conflict in the Middle East spoke to Perspective about their message of hope for the world. Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian whose brother was killed by the Israeli military, and Maoz Inon an Israeli whose parents were killed by Hamas in October of 2023.  It was after their deaths, that Aziz reached out to Maoz, and from that moment grew their book “The future of Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land”, which is also now being launched in French as “La Paix est notre Avenir”. By: Source link

‘I don’t believe the war is coming to an end’: Kyiv-based photographer Mark Neville – Perspective

‘I don’t believe the war is coming to an end’: Kyiv-based photographer Mark Neville – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 18/05/2026 – 13:33Modified: 18/05/2026 – 13:34 11:23 min From the show Reading time 1 min A British photographer who lives in Kyiv has told FRANCE 24 how he doesn’t believe the war in Ukraine is coming to an end. Mark Neville takes his photographs to tell the real stories of the Ukrainian people as they fight for their country against the Russian invasion. Amid the latest more positive news from the front line and further signs that Ukraine is finding new ways of fighting back, he says it is best to take things one day at a time. He also says that while Russian leader Vladimir Putin is obviously under pressure, that does not necessarily mean the end of the conflict is …

My mother is so kind that it annoyed me as a kid. Now I have a different perspective : NPR

My mother is so kind that it annoyed me as a kid. Now I have a different perspective : NPR

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Bertha Ngumbi (right) with daughters Esther (left) and Faith. Family photo hide caption toggle caption Family photo Bertha Ngumbi, my sweet mother, is one of the kindest women I know. But when I was a kid growing up in Kenya with four siblings, her kindness annoyed me. My siblings — three sisters and one brother who has passed on — say the same thing. My mother always made us prepare and serve black tea to every person who came into our home. It did not matter whether it was an expected or unannounced visitor, a close relative or someone passing through who was a stranger to us kids. And if unexpected visitors showed up during lunch or dinner, my mother would invite them to join us and ask us to serve them. Not only that, an additional guest at a meal would mean less food for everyone. My young and selfish self was not happy. My sister Faith reminded me that our mother would actually make us children leave our meal and go prepare tea …

Tweak Your Perspective and Financial Behaviors to Stress Less

Tweak Your Perspective and Financial Behaviors to Stress Less

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Two universal truths: Humans have automatic thoughts that we can prove to be a little (or a lot) irrational. Second, people stress over money no matter their balances. Using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the former can mitigate the latter. Events don’t influence our behavior as much as perception does. Take losing your job, landing you hurt, shocked, and scared. How is it that one person facing this may close the shades and swing open the liquor cabinet to douse feelings, while another sits at a computer, turning contacts into a network with a sharpened resumé? Perception or self-talk makes a huge difference. How much evidence truly exists to support your beliefs? Focus on what you can control. Ruminate less on what you cannot. This constitutes a cognitive reframe—unhelpful thoughts turned into positives. “Money touches every part of our lives, yet most of us were never taught how to think about it with clarity or confidence,” says Ryan Coulter, CFP, in Stop Following the Rules: The Real-World Guide to Building Financial Security.1 CBT helps you connect your …

‘At every single step there is death and danger’: The struggle to get food in Sudan – Perspective

‘At every single step there is death and danger’: The struggle to get food in Sudan – Perspective

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 15/04/2026 – 14:31Modified: 15/04/2026 – 14:32 08:30 min From the show Reading time 1 min On the third anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people, an aid worker from one of the main NGOs still there has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the starvation of the people. She also spoke about the incredible way the Sudanese come together to try to help each other.  By: Video by: Source link