Drone on drone warfare! Makes you wonder what sort of cold war is playing out.
#BirdsArentReal
The article details issues with pharmaceutical benefit managers, which 2 of the big 3 are owned by insurance companies and the third is owned by CVS
Fossil fuel companies knew about global warming since at least the 1970s. Those companies have used their enormous wealth to reverse trends towards public transit (e.g. Los Angeles used to have street cars...), halt the green energy transition until very recently, and spread misinformation and buy politicians.
Edit: also think about how all of those oil spills, mountain top removal, air and water pollution, cancers, asthma, heart disease that were "necessary for the economy" over the past couple of decades. When instead we could have already had fully sustainable energy systems with similar economic growth. Vote for politicians willing to do something about it.
The majority of carcinogens from smoking tobacco are created by burning the plant fibers. Quitting smoking is the number thing someone who smokes can do to improve their health. Vaping exposes individuals to fewer carcinogens than smoking, but still has the negative health impacts of nicotine alone on heart and mental health and still some carcinogen exposure.
SmokeFree.gov has free evidence-based resources to help quit!
Love my new induction stove! Our old gas stove was leaking and could have blown up the house. We've noticed a lot less waste heat too, metal pan handles can be grabbed without a hot pad, the kitchen doesn't heat up as much from cooking. And it heats up blazingly fast.
Just in case it's helpful to anyone, SmokeFree.gov has free science-based resources to help with quitting!
Firefox just added PDF editing to the native browser!
The "nature only has two sexes" crowd obviously never heard of Schizophyllum commune which has thousands
Metal ions can perform interesting chemical reactions that organic molecules cannot. A positively charge metal ion can also naturally bind to negatively charged proteins. So the organisms that more successfully took advantage of these chemical reactions reproduced more effectively than the organisms that didn't.
Nice! That's got to be the Dragonstone bridge from the GoT universe
Too bad justice can't be this swift in the US
Check out the Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It's a guide for figuring out your brain and sense of self.