graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Impossible to explain that pre aca, having an insurance policy that you paid for regularly didn’t actually mean you had insurance. Insurance companies would regularly just cancel your policy if you got sick.

America is sleeping on a powerful defense against airborne disease.
The Atlantic

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You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL?

Defend it by defending IMLS.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

Less than two months in, already the most corrupt presidency in American history. youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

This Nutrition Advice Will Change Everything You Know About Your Diet — Women’s Health Why experts say it’s time to recalibrate our codependent relationship. it’s early in the morning, and Lulu Hunt Peters, MD, sits at her desk, puzzling over the manuscript she’s writing about a miracul...

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Sure, I can see it now, put Rick Scott in charge of finding Medicaid fraud.

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

This is probably the most accurate take.

Your Consciousness Can Reach Back in Time to Shape the Past, a New Theory Suggests

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Dopamine doesn’t actually make you feel good—here's the science behind the 'happy hormone'

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Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites Amid takedowns of various government sites and databases, several organizations are working to preserve vital climate, health, and scientific data before it’s gone for good.

Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites

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never made calls? need info or a script? use 5calls.org (or download their app) — it makes it all super easy.

There is a public database of all ICE detainees
locator.ice.gov/odls

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Did you know that Elon and Trump want to start using the same AI claim denial process used by United Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs?

Just thought you might want to know.

A bike camper weighs in on Man or Bear
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The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming - The Atlantic

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Why don’t they make condoms mandatory?
No condom and no signed statement from partner stating that she wants to be impregnated? That’s rape. Presence of semen = proof of rape.

Some People Are Just Lucky. You Can Make Yourself One of Them.
Unlucky people skip over opportunities right in front of them. Make sure you don’t miss out.
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I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You We open in a fucking airport. A fucking AIRPORT!!! Of course Love Actually, the apex of cynically vacant faux-motional cash-grab garbage cinema would hang its BIG METAPHOR on the bleak, empathy-stripp...

It’s crazy that people go viral every year talking about how bad Love, Actually is as though Lindy West didn’t do it first and best. Or I guess it’s just a measure of how bad it is jezebel.com/i-rewatched-...

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I want to teach a History of Technology course just so I can use this in the opening lecture.

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How new antimatter science could soon explain the existence of everything From anitmatter to dark matter, the Universe is filled with all sorts of unusual substances. Understanding them could help us to learn more about ourselves.

“This September, a group of researchers at CERN finally, after years of engineering an extraordinarily precise experiment, managed to create and carefully capture a sample of antihydrogen […] And then they dropped it.”

My latest for BBC Science Focus Magazine:

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Scientists have studied near-death experiences (NDEs) in an attempt to gain insights into how death overcomes the brain. What they’ve found is remarkable: www.freethink.com/health/after... www.freethink.com/health/after...