ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)

Sad, but good article

74% reduction in the risk of death.

Paul Saladino is a nonpracticing psychiatrist who lives in Costa Rica. He has admitted he does not follow his own lifestyle advice because it made him physically sick when he tried. He claims to bring a bag of whole coconuts when he flies (a reusable water bottle wouldn’t get him as much attention).

Absofuckinglutely

I’ll admit it—a year ago I didn’t know what the phrase “no bill” even meant. Nowadays I get a thrill whenever I hear it. Power to the people ✊🏻

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Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help.

Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead.

He continues to be a national embarrassment.

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"there's a new serif in town"

Chic hits #1 today in 1978 with “Le Freak”, a song originally titled “F**k Off!” — and written after the band was turned away by the bouncers at Studio 54.

“We go back to my apartment really pissed off,” said Nile Rodgers, “and Bernard starts singing, ‘Ahhh, f**k off!’ .. and that became the hook.”

You Are Not Safe in Science; You Are Not Safe in History When I was three years old, I nearly drowned in a hotel pool in Mexico. My earliest memory is of what seemed a long moment, as if I were suspended there, looking up through a ceiling of water…

It is a scientist's meditation on the prose of two poets: Natasha Trethewey and Robert Frost, who both wrote about how our ability to analyze metaphor and figurative language shape our ability to understand the world

This essay is a key text for my book:
www.southerncultures.org/article/you-...

Gently ... composition as a course teaches us how to package ideas to an audience for understanding.

The skill being taught is thinking

Fuck yes he would

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

I like how at the end he remembers the girl is there 😭

Tricky because she’s a-movin’ up and back JUST LIKE A CHICKEN*

*naturally one assumes that the slacks would bestow chickenesque strutting moves upon the wearer

It’s really hard! I can barely speak of what a terrifying and stressful nightmare that time was. The care manager definitely helped take the edge off though

This is a hard road to travel but you are doing all the right things. It can help to remind yourself that your dad is still here, living and loving you even as his memory fails. Pay attention to and cherish the good moments when they come—they will! And take care of yourself ❤️

This exists! When my mom was diagnosed we hired a wonderful geriatric care manager (she had a masters in social work and expertise in dementia management). Her care & guidance helped mom remain independent for as long as possible before transitioning to memory care. Expensive but worth every penny!

The Secure Rural Schools Program—created by @wyden.senate.gov—helps rural communities keep schools and libraries open, maintain roads, and keep folks safe.

The Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act back in June—it's beyond time for the House to pass it!

Underground networks for abortion pills appear as states limit access Medication abortions account for more than 60 percent of all abortions in the United States, up from just a quarter a decade ago. But in the aftermath of Roe’s reversal, abortion pills are now banned ...

Another great PBS News report from my friend Sarah Varney. She looks at the underground network helping women access safe abortion care.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance.

Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Text of the 13th Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The clause “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” is crossed out.

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified, ending slavery. But that amendment came with a sinister loophole: a Slavery Clause that allowed for slavery “as punishment for crime.”

We need to pass @repnikema.bsky.social’s and my Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException once and for all!

The top 10 people of 2025 @nature.com who shaped science.
Recognizes Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC Director who was "fired for holding the line on scientific integrity"
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Estrogen! Again and again it’s freaking estrogen. I endured the menopause transition years without HRT or any other rx—felt pretty good on the other side of things and just found out I have osteopenia. Goddamn estrogen does EVERYTHING

Weird flaky skin in your ear canals
Insomnia
Achy joints
Migraines

I can’t stand it

I shall go
Up and down,
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed.
And the softness of my body will be guarded from embrace
By each button, hook, and lace.
For the man who should loose me is dead,
Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
In a pattern called a war.
Christ! What are patterns for?