And baby makes tree... owl monkeys peep out of a hollow tree on the Marańón River near Nauta, Peru. The nocturnal monkeys make their homes in trees to be shaded from the sun and have a clear view of any predators prowling below
Photograph: James Cai/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News
Cassava: The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop. An anthropology professor shares what he's learned from "studying cassava gardens on the Amazon River and its myriad tributaries in Peru."
@TheConversationUS reports: "Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop. But there’s a problem: Cassava is highly poisonous."
TIL that not only is the Grand Canyon not the deepest canyon on land in the world, it’s not even the deepest one in the USA (where it’s third deepest!)
The deepest land canyon is in the Himalaya Mountains.
File import/export in R is simple and elegant with the {rio} #rstats 📦. It uses just 2 main functions for dozens of file types: import() and export(). Whether .zip, .xlsx, Google sheets, json, .rds, .csv or more, rio handles file-extension checks and selecting the right functions. http://gesistsa.github.io/rio/
There's also a convert() function.
One of my favorite R packages!
By Thomas J. Leeper, Chung-hong Chan, David Schoch & Jason Becker @rstats
We were looking at the #Dengue data for #Peru using #RStats, and that is when rio::import() failed after reading only 87,872 records out of the expected 501,692 -- readr::read_csv() worked, reading the whole thing w/ a warning.
23 Apr 1616: d. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega chronicler of #Peru - a person with a #Spanish father and #Inca mother, author of a number of important historical works (John Carter Brown Library)
20 Apr 1586: b. St. Rose of #Lima in #Peru#otd The first person born in the Americas to be canonized in 1671 (BM) She was a Dominican tertiary. A very ascetic reliever of the poor & Patron of #Peru.
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found....
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation (news.mongabay.com)
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found....