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andrewducker, with entertaining narration/subtitles.right in your browser, where the address reads https://www.wired.com/2004/03/honey-i-shrunk-the-url/ stick right in front of it archive.ph/ making the full link http://archive.ph/https://www.wired.com/2004/03/honey-i-shrunk-the-url/
redbird, thank you! She posted it on Oct 1 and I thought I had missed the sale, but it was still active today. I don't know how much longer it will be active.TGD individuals demonstrated a significantly higher prevalence of hEDS and HSD than cisgender individuals (OR: 18.45). The prevalence among TGD individuals assigned female at birth was 2.62%, and among those assigned male at birth, 1.00%, compared with 0.16% and 0.04% in cisgender females and males, respectively. Hormone therapy status was not associated with significant differences in prevalence.
The researchers found 35 blood proteins that were different in people with hEDS compared to those without. Most of these changes were in proteins linked to the immune system, blood clotting, blood pressure, and inflammation. The largest group of changes involved the complement system, which helps the body fight infection and control inflammation.
ME/CFS is no longer viewed as a complete “mystery.” A simple PubMed search reveals hundreds of biomedical studies showing measurable differences between people with ME/CFS and healthy controls.
COVID is most often transmitted via the air, not droplets like we thought early in the pandemic. As such: Fresh air will be your easiest and most effective option, assuming climate safety. Even a slightly open window will be MUCH better than closed windows.
If you have had Covid-19 (tested or not), and are getting to a month or two on and still feel like you’ve been hit by a bus, please, for the love of God, rest.
CONVALESCE.
The new treatment is a type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery. [...] "We never in our wildest dreams would have expected a 75% slowing of clinical progression," she said.
We estimate that the average Tropical Cyclone generates 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, exceeding the average of 24 immediate deaths reported in government statistics6,7. Tracking the effects of 501 historical storms, we compute that the TC climate of CONUS imposes an undocumented mortality burden that explains a substantial fraction of the higher mortality rates along the Atlantic coast and is equal to roughly 3.2–5.1% of all deaths.
a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California. It attracted online attention in 1997 for its unusual location – it was located at the intersection of two dirt roads in a remote part of the Mojave Desert, 12 miles (19 km) from the nearest paved road (Interstate 15 to the northeast, Kelbaker Road to the southwest) and miles from any buildings.
[I]n the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar concentrator power plants, the kind where rings of mirrors reflect sun onto a central tower, which I think is now an outdated model, but it was striking to see the literally dazzling array; the second was a big field of solar panels around the town of Mojave t hat appeared to be tipping toward the setting sun; and then a long array of wind turbines just before the desert ends as the road heads uphill into Tehachapi
Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?
muccamukk. This made me go "Oooh!" and repost it immediately.Blessed are the outcasts;
the ostracized, the outsiders.
Blessed are the scared;
the scarred, the silent.
Blessed are the broken;
for they are not broken.
Blessed are the hated;
for they are not worthy of hate.
Blessed are those who try;
those who transform, who transition.
Blessed are the closeted;
God sees you shine anyway.
Blessed are the queers;
who love creation enough to live the truth of it,
despite a world that tells them they cannot.
And blessed are those
who believe themselves unworthy of blessing;
what inconceivable wonders you hold.
rosefox in preparation for discussing updating my website.house_wren.celli via conulyIt’s been five years since the start of the Covid pandemic. Although most of the government mandates, from social distancing to face masks, have been consigned to the past, the virus is still prevalent – and capable of causing real harm.
Although it was initially forecast to become a seasonal illness, the virus is on the rise in the US – making it far from the common-cold-style winter illness that was expected.
It was formerly a site plagued by Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD); we were able to hire environmental engineer Bob Hedin to implement an aesthetically pleasing passive treatment system that visitors can walk through to watch the water transition from murky orange to natural, clean clear water flowing into Chartiers Creek.
mrissa. New medical technology, plus capitalism. We all know what could go wrong, and maybe we know some ways it could be made right again.We created this directory to help you find local journalism in your area worth supporting. By donating or subscribing to the newsrooms on our list you’ll be paying towards the advancement of quality, community-focused journalism and contributing to a better informed citizenry, the bedrock of a strong democracy.
To overcome that fear, to begin to embolden potential defectors and peel off some of Trump’s key support, will require huge numbers of people pushing back, in organized, strategic ways. So our goal — the one goal, to which everything else is secondary if not irrelevant right now — should be to grow a bigger organized resistance movement.
No one deserves to live in cramped, unsanitary, inhumane conditions and have their medical needs ignored. No one deserves to have their religious needs ignored. And no one deserves to lack access to nutritious food. I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison. As a “detainee,” I not only endured my struggles but also had the privilege of connecting with remarkable women who shared their stories with me. Their experiences opened my eyes to a new realm of humanitarian crisis, expanding the circle of grief and compassion in my heart.
"These [high school students] had the words and whiteness to say what they were feeling and could act out in a way that Mexican-Americans who had been living this way for decades simply didn't have the power or space for the American public to listen to them," she says. "The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."
cosmolinguist. Powerful essay about being trans and genderqueer.Having that conversation reminded me of nothing more than being told, in kindergarten, that we were to line up every day by gender to go to the playground. I wanted desperately to go to the playground, and I did not know which line to join. I remember having a kicking, screaming meltdown at recess time for the first week of kindergarten because I could not in any other way articulate my rage that there were different lines, maybe any lines, at all.
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