#Biological

We need to talk about social-emotional learning.I know a family whose child is seriously struggling right now. So I am sympathetic to amazing school efforts, and parents seeking help. But
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Today @AnnMSinnott of Authentic Equity Alliance has a contested permission hearing in judicial review of @EHRC We should hear both sides' barristers outline the legal issues which would arise in
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I feel compelled to respond to the points that Laura makes here, because her thread has gotten a lot of attention and there seems to be some confusion about what
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“If we completely cured cancer, average lifespan would only increase by 2.8 years. That’s why we need explicit anti-aging research.” @elidouradoHow do we solve aging given what we know? To
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Anvisa (Brazil's drug regulator) has just announced it has denied the request to import Sputnik V vaccine because of absence of data & issues with the development of the vaccine,
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A partly declassified CIA document reveals the depth of the USSR's communist propaganda lobby in India for more than three decades. A Russian agency declared India as the model of
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Out of curiosity, I checked to see how many stories filed under coronavirus/COVID-19 we have over at @mmfa, and the number is... 864. Paging through it, it's just honestly hard
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I’m seeing a lot of talk about the role of “personal responsibility” in behavior (& behavioral interventions).The idea is that if people just took more “responsibility” they would be doing
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0/ COVID COGNITIVE BIASES Thread on some of the cognitive biases that got us to where we are today with COVID mass hysteria. 1/ The serious problem we’re struggling
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The Florida House has begun to take up HB 1475, which would ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports.Read our previous coverage of this issue, and follow along with
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This pandemic should upend how biologists think about virus transmission—for the better. My greatest regret is having parroted received wisdom early on. I said our @NEJM aerosol stability findings were
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"Each of the two sexes is a glorious gift from God. Our sexuality is meant to be offered back to Him either in complementary unity with the opposite sex in
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i've been thinking more about why Touhou grabbed me as hard as it did ten years ago (apparently), and i think part of it is that i've always been enamoured
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This Judicial Review brought by Kiera Bell against the Tavistock Gender clinic is a most important development. 1/xhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54450273 On either side of this case are two very different world-views.1) The
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Assignee: METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.Assignee: Citibank, N.A.Inventors: Gary Hoberman, Kyung Bae, Jason Gelinas, Francis Donohue, Lestan D'Souzahttps://www.unqork.com/about/leadership/garyhoberman#:~:text=CEO%20%26%20Founder%20Gary%
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The judge should return shortly to give his oral findings in @AnnMSinnott of Authentic Equity Alliance's contested permission hearing in a proposed judicial review of @EHRCWill AEA be permitted to
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