#1980s

Leigh Phillips

Leigh_Phillips

You get the impression from the eco-socialists and degrowthers that humanity wouldn’t face the threat of climate change or biodiversity loss if it weren’t for capitalism (or rather, if it

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

The DPP: $Huge NIH-funded trial (N=3200) in the 1990s. Conclusion: randomized diet/lifestyle significantly reduced T2D more than metformin or placebo. Big 58% reduction. The diet? Reduce total fat as much

Ritesh

riteshwriter

Maybe the best part of Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, that which isn't talked as much, is that it asks its readership, but esp critics, to put *just* as much critical thought/energy

princess molly bloch of the laniakea supercluster

guroflower

I’m back in @BulletPointsVG!This time I wrote about how Cyberpunk 2077’s braindances are a pale imitation of interesting (but still very problematic) work from earlier cyberpunk cinema and lit, including

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Summer 1970: a rare form of typhoid is infecting people in Edinburgh. Dr Nancy Conn, a bacteriologist at Western General, finds the source and prevents a major outbreak with detective

Brian Romanchuk

RomanchukBrian

The Texas electricity situation is sad, but it’s not clear that a lot of the finger-pointing is useful. Frozen wind turbines are a narrative being pushed, but the wrong reason.

YourWullie

YourWullie

These photos were taken during tbe construction of the Forth Road Bridge for engineering firm Sir William Arrol & Co which produced and installed the steelwork for the bridge. They

L.A. Times Latino Caucus

LATLatinoCaucus

The @LATLatinoCaucus formed to demand that the @latimes truly reflect L.A., which is half Latino. Our Caucus was honored this week to receive support from a special group: the @latimes

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

*sips coffee*It strikes me that we need more capacious and nuanced understandings of what "liberalism" is instead of making broad sweeping statements about it. I know, I'm a repeat offender

Centre for Memories

cfmemories

RANGERS INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CLUB OF ENUGU IS 51 YEARS OLD TODAY.Formed on January 29, 1970, just two weeks after the Nigeria-Biafra war, Rangers Remains the only Football Club in Nigeria

Chad P. Bown

ChadBown

1/ The US–China trade war thrust the semiconductor industry back into the geopolitical spotlight. But this time was different.My latesthttps://www.piie.com/publications/working-papers/how-united-states-marched-semiconductor-industry-its-

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

Here's the long & short of it. We have been & are being pushed, against our will, into a future of unfathomable death & destruction, by massively profitable industries &

Patrick Strudwick

PatrickStrud

I’m deeply saddened to learn that Dr Joseph Sonnabend, one of the most important figures in the history of AIDS, died yesterday. I spent time with him in 2018 for

Tshepo Madlingozi

TshepoMadlingo1

On this day in 2005, Kabelo Sello Duiker ended his life. The seeds of his anguish were laid down long time ago: his great-grandpa changed the family surname from an

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

The War on Drugs had at least one success. What it defeated was a compound that was a sleep aid, a party pill and a chemical warfare agent. A drug

rachel syme

rachsyme

so last night we watched a bonkers film from 1988 called vibes, which if you can believe it is an adventure romcom about two psychic mediums who get caught up

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