5ASkia
I am a moral philosopher & eternal student. I like cats. Chocolate is the key to world peace. Surely, my brain is making me do all this.
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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"And as is often the case, the poorest citizens are bearing the brunt of bungled policies."
Bloomberg: Americans Start Adapting to Climate Change. They’re Doing It Wrong.
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#GIVEASHIT
Help us build the world’s first (and largest) poop image database.
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I just took a photo of my poop—for science. I dare you to #giveashit too: seed.com/poop @seedhealth seed.com/poop
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I just took a photo of my poop—for science. I dare you to #giveashit too: seed.com/poop @seedhealth seed.com/poop
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DAs trained how to keep people in jail despite new bail law
Jed Painter, an assistant district attorney from Nassau County, has been giving presentations on New York’s new state laws that limit bail, expand discovery in criminal cases and encourage speedy trials to audiences of lawyers and legislators across...
The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense
If you want to understand how meritocracy acts as a cover for inequality, look no further than our broken understanding of gratuity.
Pence swipes at Democrats for embracing 'far-left agenda,' impeachment
Vice President Pence took a swipe at Democrats during remarks Tuesday evening, accusing 2020 candidates of embracing a “radical, far-left agenda” and House Democrats of pursuing a “partisan impeachment” of President Trump.
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SMH. "It was freedom, not socialism, that ended slavery, won two world wars, and stands today as a beacon of hope for all the world."
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Food As Medicine : Interesting Facts You Do Not Know About Your Gut Mirobiome
Gut health and its importance to overall well-being has become a hot topic as more people seek ways to manage their health by paying close attention to what they eat. This article captures the interesting facts people do not know about gut health.
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I never appreciate assertions about what I won't know, and It's exactly because I know this shit, I was actually appreciating the accuracy of everything he said until I got to point 8: Interesting Facts You Do Not Know About Your Gut Mirobiome. #ins2019
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Scientists Engineered a Bacterium That Poops Out Huge Amounts of Psilocybin
Scientists have found a new way to harvest psilocybin, the psychedelic compound typically found in mushrooms. They've engineered bacteria to produce psilocybin in their cells and poop it out, in gram-scale concentrations that are higher than any othe
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What could possibly go wrong Scientists Engineered a Bacterium That Poops Out Huge Amounts of Psilocybin.
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We’re Getting Ripped Off
I knew the American health insurance system was bad. I didn't know it was this bad.
"Nothing should stand in the way of a girl and her education": Sophia Bush is fighting to end period poverty in the U.S.
According to a 2019 survey, nearly one in five girls in the U.S. have missed school due to a lack of period products
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CBS News: "Nothing should stand in the way of a girl and her education": Sophia Bush is fighting to end period poverty in the U.S..
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Probiotics 2.0: Your Gut Microbiome Is Getting A Tech Upgrade
With growing knowledge of the microbiome, more companies are seeking to use microbes to benefit human health. What if we could design microbes to target specific tissues and cells rather than your whole body, avoiding preventable side effects,...
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What could possibly go wrong?Probiotics 2.0: Your Gut Microbiome Is Getting A Tech Upgrade
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PubPeer - A lowered probability of pregnancy in females in the USA age...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: A lowered probability of pregnancy in females in the USA aged 25–29 who received a human papillomavirus vaccine injection (2018)
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HPV vaccination and seriously bad science to discourage it. Join the fray: pubpeer.com/publications/E… @MicrobiomDigest doing her thing at @PubPeer
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Common Mistakes That Could Lead To 'Keto Crotch' & How To Avoid Them
Pro tip: You're probably not eating enough plants.
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Pseudoscientific humbug: Common Mistakes That Could Lead To "Keto Crotch" & How To Avoid Them.
mindbodygreen.com/articles/what-…
via @GoogleNews
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A Florida woman was fined $100,000 for a dirty pool and overgrown grass. When do fines become excessive?
States, cities and counties collect billions of dollars in fines. The Supreme Court raised the possibility that some are going too far.
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Ain't this grand? A Florida woman was fined $100,000 for a dirty pool and overgrown grass.
usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
via @GoogleNews
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University Library Off Campus Login for Licensed Resources
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And I thought I had seen it all. www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.gsu.edu/science/articl…
#microbiomania #smh pic.twitter.com/88D8yiWPEK
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New York Times falls for “obesity probiotic” hype
Like many probiotic studies, it’s small, inconclusive, and has financial conflicts.
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Ars Technica: New York Times falls for “obesity probiotic” hype.
arstechnica.com/science/2019/0…
If only it were just the NY Times falling for it. Gut microbes? Anything goes. #microbiomania #arstechnica
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Search Alumni Exam Register since 1990 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
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@anitaleirfall @obrien_cathie I did some Dutch googling, but apparently there's no central system. The 14 Dutch universities are members of the association of Dutch universities, @deVSNU, maybe they can answer the question. Individual universities like @erasmusuni have registers
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Unexplainability and Incomprehensibility of Artificial Intelligence
If superintelligence explained itself we would not understand it.
Read and Watch Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Rebuke of Mitch McConnell at the House Reparations Hearing
Coates’ response was a catalog of crimes against black people by the federal government in McConnell’s own lifetime.