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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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09.02.2025 17:38 — 👍 30200    🔁 7886    💬 517    📌 267

Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.

22.01.2025 14:45 — 👍 4202    🔁 1395    💬 219    📌 61

We should always remember and highlight this. After all these years, Biden is the guy who actually did something about the pipes in Flint

05.01.2025 05:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well would you look at that.

25.12.2024 19:39 — 👍 34682    🔁 9573    💬 1581    📌 709

Cheap, smart and efficient: how giant rats are transforming the fight against TB After success in Tanzania, other African countries may introduce the rodents to help sniff out the disease

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18.12.2024 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reposting to save for myself

17.12.2024 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...

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17.12.2024 15:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
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14.12.2024 21:10 — 👍 10093    🔁 3743    💬 230    📌 155

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Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress,...

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free theonion.com/black-man-gi...

02.12.2024 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

27.11.2024 19:08 — 👍 9494    🔁 2660    💬 362    📌 214

Why GIS in Education Matters GIS offers a powerful decision-making toolkit that can be used in educational administration, educational policy, and in instruction.

geospatialworld.net/blogs/why-gi... Why #gis in education matters - one of my articles on this what I feel is an important topic.

27.11.2024 14:57 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father.
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?

27.11.2024 03:18 — 👍 57512    🔁 9387    💬 1804    📌 424

So, the US has definitely proved it's always the bear. Always. At this point, I think even some of the men agree.

24.11.2024 01:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Red Dwarf

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