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Saturday, 11 September 2021
quote [ There are things we all do, or don't do, that lead us to waste far more time than we realize in the moment. ]
Clickbait but damn if I didn't get something from it.
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Thursday, 2 September 2021
quote [ A species of marine bacteria shows promise for curing a nasty brain cancer. ]
Brain cancer Fuck you
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Sunday, 22 August 2021
quote [ For millennia, these systems have been built out assuming a steady, predictable landscape, allowing us to design long-lived networks where century-old aqueducts underlay new college campuses. But this predictability is becoming a thing of the past. ]
Some thoughts on invisible values and boundaries. N.Y. sewage has no goddess though.
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Thursday, 8 July 2021
quote [ The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ?prove? that its product has a public benefit. ]
Fucking help me find my fucking JUUL!
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Friday, 4 June 2021
quote [ The greater the genetic distance between the clades, the bigger the cost of making the wrong choice. Vaccine that protects reasonably well against one might perform poorly if the other turned out to be the dominant strain in a given winter.
[?] But an unexpected upside of the Covid-19 pandemic may have solved this problem for us ? or at least made flu?s diversity more manageable. ] It wasn't long ago that I read about people fearing of not having a diverse enough source for good flu shots ? looks like it was the other way around.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2021
quote [ Sex educators share the super-valid reasons a person may benefit from faking it. ]
We should also probably take it less personally if we find out our partners do it.
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Friday, 14 May 2021
quote [ In disjointed style, Daszak is referring to the fact that once you have generated a novel coronavirus that can attack human cells, you can take the spike protein and make it the basis for a vaccine.
One can only imagine Daszak?s reaction when he heard of the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan a few days later. ] The latest of several articles collecting good arguments that blame sloppy lab handling for the whole outbreak thing. As with everything, it's a complex net of responsibilies and the authors reiterate that no theory is bullet-proof.
Some more in extended.
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Monday, 3 May 2021
quote [ Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy. ]
#ThisIsFine
New, antibody-resistant coronavirus variant discovered in Texas Scientists sound alarm over triple-mutant ?Bengal strain? | India News - Times of India CVS, Walgreens have wasted more Covid vaccine doses than most states combined India Requests Vaccine Raw Materials; US Says First Duty Is to Americans
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Thursday, 22 April 2021
quote [ One farm in Britain can supply ground beef to the entire United Kingdom. This is why, if you go to donate blood, a questionnaire will ask you whether you traveled to the UK in the 90s. ]
This is so gloomy it should come with a trigger warning. The article does not mention that there is ongoing treatment research.
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Monday, 19 April 2021
quote [ Introducing Ralph, the new spokes-bunny of the global campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics. #SaveRalph?? is a powerful stop-motion animation short film produced by Humane Society International, featuring an all-star multinational cast including Taika Waititi, Ricky Gervais, Zac Efron, Olivia Munn, Pom Klementieff, Rodrigo Santoro, Tricia Helfer and more. ]
Taika Waititi? I love Taika Waititi!
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