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agender🌈vegan🌶️atheist punk🧠// pro: feminism/socialism/environment // con: sexism🤮/racism🤮/fascism💩🤮/😇 religions// interests: biology, cultures, politics, etc.
The Belly Fat Battle
A wider waist is dangerous for reasons we don’t fully grasp
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-belly-fat-battle/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sa-editorial-social&utm_content=&utm_term=health_news_text_free&sf189086888=1
Anti-pipeline activists in Virginia face fines for protesting on their own land
Protestors have also been denied medical care and at least one may not have access to food and water.
https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-pipeline-protest-fines-doctors-91819308e26e/
9 reminders why David Attenborough rules
From playful spoofs to interrupting birds, here are our favorite moments with the official voice of nature as he celebrates his 90th.
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/9-reminders-why-david-attenborough-rules
Lyme Isn't the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading This Summer
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/lyme-isnt-disease-ticks-spreading-summer/
The true American role model would be Milo Minderbinder, I think.
Failure to wave while black. It's a crime now.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/05/07/wave-wave-like-your-life-depended-on-it/
#selfcloningTick #LonghornedTick #invasiveTickSpreading
This self-cloning tick now calls N.J. home
Longhorned tick survived the winter and is poised to spread.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture announced last week that the longhorned tick, a species native to China, Japan and Australia has successfully survived the New Jersey winter and may be spreading throughout the state.
https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/self-cloning-longhorn-tick-new-jersey
#ReconquistaInternet
German satirist Jan Böhmermann wants to shower online hate with love trolls
Jan Böhmermann wants to fight online hate speech with an army of "love" trolls. The controversial satirist has said more than 50,000 people have already signed up to serve on the digital frontline.
http://www.dw.com/en/german-satirist-jan-b%C3%B6hmermann-wants-to-shower-online-hate-with-love-trolls/a-43644818
China going vegan? Massive decline in meat consumption, vegetarian restaurants double in 5 years in Shanghai
In 2014, a Xinhua news agency report claimed that more than 50 million people shun meat in their meal in https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/china-going-vegan-massive-decline-in-meat-consumption-vegetarian-restaurants-double-in-5-years-in-shanghai/1079511/ ... https://framasphere.org/p/4989873
Here's How Old You Can Be And Still Master a Foreign Language, According to Science
Don't give up yet!
The new analysis suggests that we remain very skilled at learning the grammar of a new language up until the age of 17 or 18...
However...:
"If you want to have native-like knowledge of English grammar you should start by about 10 years old,"...
https://www.sciencealert.com/window-for-mastering-new-language-wider-than-we-thought
Go Girl! She did the right thing, it's called self-defence. Stab/counterattack those disgusting sexual assaulters! 👠 ✍️ 🌂 🗡 🔪 🔨
Teen stabbed with scissors after pulling student's dress up at Memphis school, police say
https://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/teen-stabbed-with-scissors-after-pulling-students-dress-up-at-memphis-school-police-say/743287735
Why you should grow a lawn for bees
Leave these weed flowers intact, and pollinators will thank you.
If your landscape goal is to have the perfect lawn, who is it for? Yourself? Your neighbors? If the answer is both, perhaps you should expand your definition of neighbors and rise to a different challenge: Try growing a perfect lawn for bees.
https://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/bee-lawn-leave-certain-weed-flowers-intact-help-pollinators
Meet the defiant grandmothers who still call Chernobyl home
'Babushkas of Chernobyl' offers a story of life in a disaster area.
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/smiling-defiant-grandmothers-who-still-call-chernobyl-home
Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brains Work
This is how neurons actually fire.
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-overturn-old-theory-spatial-summation-brain-cells
Humans Have a Second Immune System, And It Could Be Ruining Your Dating Life
This is... weird.
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-have-a-second-immune-system-and-it-could-be-ruining-your-dating-life
Mistletoe Survives Without One of The Key Ingredients For Life, And Scientists Are Baffled
This is something we've never seen before.
https://www.sciencealert.com/mistletoe-survives-without-one-of-lifes-key-cell-ingredients
European Mistletoe is Unique among Multicellular Organisms, Biologists Say
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/european-mistletoe-05976.html
Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks
Long-overlooked “tunneling nanotubes” and other bridges between cells act as conduits for sharing RNA, proteins or even whole organelles.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-talk-and-help-one-another-via-tiny-tube-networks-20180423/
"In a busy and insane news week, the return of Dr. Harold Bornstein was welcome comic relief. I hope he backed up his files before Trump’s goons seized them."
source:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/4/1761903/-Cartoon-Trump-s-medical-chart
