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How to make a guy compost in 10 days How can we use neuroscience to encourage environmentally-friendly decisions?

So - are there any guys you think should be composted?

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86K views · 1.9K reactions | The GABA-B receptor functions as a neuronal inhibitor, distinct from its counterpart, the GABA-A receptor. It operates as a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), meaning that... The GABA-B receptor functions as a neuronal inhibitor, distinct from its counterpart, the GABA-A receptor. It operates as a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), meaning that upon activation, it...

The carwash model of molecular biology

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

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“Jane Goodall” at Music City Masquerade,” Nashville, TN, 2025

I’m imagining a Neil Young song: “The Donald and the Damage Done”

I had no idea you are a contradancer.

I’m imagining a Neil Young song: “The Donald and the Damage Done”

The Deep Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy | Mark Honigsbaum In 1733, four years after his return from England, where he’d been exiled for humiliating a French aristocrat, Voltaire wrote a series of philosophical

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I have some breaking news: a list of all the countries with which the Trump administration has failed to make a tariff deal.

This news is devastating. "It's not a surprise" is an unhelpful response. The point is that vast numbers of people with long COVID, or immunocompromised and at risk, are harmed by this cruelty. It IS, of course, precisely, cruelty. #COVID #longCOVID #publichealth

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It’s like they’re drunk or something.

Trump’s Commerce Secretary just said seniors shouldn’t “call and complain” if they stop getting their Social Security checks: “A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and complaining.”

A high school classmate of mine has pancreatic cancer. Enraging that our government would *choose* cancer over patients.

I’ve caught a few nice trout in Valley Creek. I miss SE PA.

Now we know why Elon and the Orange Menace were so keen to visit Fort Knox: gold is the only asset currently increasing in value.

NEW: Rudy Giuliani has listed his Manhattan apartment for $4.18M; a $1.46M discount! I’ve written an ad:

JD Vance is a Bad Father The empty masculinity of Trump’s men

"There’s no Father’s Day card for men who turn their daughters into second-class citizens....How many little girls will grow up able to say their dad traded their rights away for a bit of political power & a pat on the head from the world’s worst man?"

-@jessicavalenti.bsky.social on #Vance

Barb , this is me.

@barb2dance.bsky.social

‘I’m on the side of the workers’: the Minnesota senator calling out Trump and Musk Tina Smith is leaving at the end of her term, and says she would call Musk a dick even if she had to face re-election

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These people are my neighbors

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Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

Second #measles death reported in New Mexico, on the Texas border. No info about patient except measles test was positive and "They did not seek medical care before passing."

Also in WaPo but no access to that story.

I don’t know where Zelenskyy is staying while he’s here in West Russia, but I hope he’s on the ground floor.