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Is My Vagina Normal?

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SEXUAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK20/09: A Brief History Of... The PillTW: Racism, Ableism, SexismPhoto credits: TIME, Flickr, BuzzFeed The first human contraceptive pill - known today simply as ‘The Pill’ -

John Coates⚽️

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We are all waiting on some combination of a vaccine or effective treatment for #covid_19. Today's thread focuses on vaccines. 1/n Vaccine development is said to take years. The question

Maximilian Mayer

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Its difficult to explain why so many leading Western #epidemiologists and #virologists, against all advice from East Asia, still openly or indirectly suggest that "herd immunity" should be the ultimate

Zwickau

Zwickau8

Mental health, pathology, clinical psychology.How do you define “mental health”? Where does disease start and where does it end? We extrapolate the idea of health from medical science. There is

Graham Coop

Graham_Coop

Recording short "adaptation corner" segments to break up the material for my Intro to Evolution class. Will definitely be borrowing lots of egs from this wonderful thread. Thanks to everyone

Dr Benjamin Janaway

drjanaway

It is likely next week we will return to #lockdown, and with it we lose certain freedoms. Many feel angry and betrayed, many others scared. But let's stop for a

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Evolutionary psychology is beloved of a certain kind of "rationalist" who loves a good just-so story that casts some system that advantages him as biologically inevitable, as in, "Honey, the

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

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The other day I was accused: “you can’t just make up a new theory of gender based on your vague feelings of discontent.” Hold my beer. The old "theory" of

JW Mason

JWMason1

This Jacobin interview making the case for a herd-immunity approach to the coronavirus is really distressingly bad.https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality Weird for a socialist magazine to ignore the

Nightling Bug 🗝️

NightlingBug

Between the absolutely diabolic things screeched at Grace Lavery for being excited about womb transplants and the pushback to Detransition, Baby being nominated for the Women's Prize For Fiction...... trans

Tom Gray #BrokenRecord

MrTomGray

Let’s start from the top. The music business is like the finance industry 20 years ago. Unregulated by governments who misunderstand how it works. When I direct my anger at

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

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My friends, these are perilous times; we find certain styles of thinking, certain ideas, certain opinions which were commonplace and accepted in our living memory have now been so stigmatized

Neiha Lasharie (she/her)

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While I wait for the ibuprofen to kick in for my headache so that I can actually edit my capstone, how about a thread on women's menstruation in early "white

MrsQ.America.❤🤍💙

MrsQAmerica

"What You're Not Told About Coffee Is Destroying Your Health and Intelligence.& That Was Always The Plan 1. Caffeine is an alkaloid that the coffee plant uses to kill

bearistotle

gnrosenberg

This is one of the basic cliches of contemporary animal liberation and alternative food movement discourse: if people could *see* the brutal treatment of animals, they wouldn’t tolerate it. But

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Humanity’s history is a battle against the microbes. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively.My new post – and visualization – on how vaccines allowed us