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"Negroes with Guns"
Robert WilliamsMemoir of a war veteran who armed himself and neighbors against Dixiecrat racist violence in Monroe North Carolina back in Kennedy's day. No one from the local sheriff to Bobby Kennedy would help them...
so they helped themselves.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Inflammatory signaling sensitizes Piezo1 mechanotransduction in articular chondrocytes as a pathogenic feed-forward mechanism in osteoarthritis
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@silvermouse said:
Inflammatory signaling sensitizes Piezo1 mechanotransduction in articular chondrocytes as a pathogenic feed-forward mechanism in osteoarthritisPaid by the syllable or by the turgidity?
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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It is not turgid if you are a scientist with interest in replicating the findings of the study. For me it is worth wading through it to glean the information that will help me manage my osteoarthritis, information that my self-described country doctor likely doesn't have since he graduated from med school 40 years ago.
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@silvermouse said:
It is not turgid...Yes it is. Good on ye for reading it; but it is.
I'd be astonished if they don't have better than a country doctor for arthritis on Cape Cod. I'd think there'd be ample aches and pains in that clime and plenty of oldsters as well. Perhaps you should set up as the go to guy.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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at the risk of irritating webmost, here is a paper announcing the first synthetic bacteria that can reproduce. Research funds courtesy of the US Government. Why does this make me uneasy?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.07.326892v1.full.pdf
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@silvermouse said:
at the risk of irritating webmost, here is a paper announcing the first synthetic bacteria that can reproduce. Research funds courtesy of the US Government. Why does this make me uneasy?https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.07.326892v1.full.pdf
There's no risk in irritating me. People been getting away with it for over seventy years now.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Degrees of happiness? Formal education does not lead to greater job satisfaction
There is almost no relationship between formal educational attainment and job satisfaction, according to new research.
"Our study shows people who have invested in formal education do not tend to be more satisfied in their jobs," Solomon said. "We found that better-educated individuals do enjoy greater job-related resources including income, job autonomy and variety. But they also endure longer work hours and increased job pressure, intensity and urgency. On average, these demands are associated with increased stress and decreased job satisfaction, largely offsetting the positive gains associated with greater resources."
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Wandering minds limited eeg study.
https://www.futurity.org/wandering-minds-brains-eeg-focus-2503142/
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this essay nails it for me. As an autistic I find myself acting 'normal' in order to navigate daily social interactions. But it is not about autism, rather it examines what all of us go to lengths to reconcile. In some ways I see the larger social construct becoming more like the autistic. Interesting.
https://psyche.co/ideas/when-your-authenticity-is-an-act-somethings-gone-wrong
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@silvermouse said:
this essay nails it for me. As an autistic I find myself acting 'normal' in order to navigate daily social interactions. But it is not about autism, rather it examines what all of us go to lengths to reconcile. In some ways I see the larger social construct becoming more like the autistic. Interesting.https://psyche.co/ideas/when-your-authenticity-is-an-act-somethings-gone-wrong
Interesting. As a kid, I once asked my Dad why men who were actors seemed to command greater salaries, and had longer careers, than women actors.
Dad said: "In our culture, women are taught to act from an early age. Whether they like it or not, most of their actions must remain 'that which is expected of them'. So, they learn to smile when they're not happy, work when they don't feel like it, pretend not to be as smart as the men when they're probably a few levels up from their own male partner in most things. Because of this, the majority of women are fine actresses by the time they grow up, which makes them a cheap and expendable commodity in the business. It's rare to find a man with those talents".
Of course, that was in the 1960's.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
I'll take your word for it.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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"The Whole Truth" by David Baldacci.
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Sounds an awful lot like an aura.
Endeavoring to grok this bit:
Our non-conscious mind appears to be a parallel processor; our conscious mind is a serial processor
Thanks for this link, @silvermouse.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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editing epigenetic changes:
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-reversible-crispr-method-gene-underlying.html
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@silvermouse said:
editing epigenetic changes:https://phys.org/news/2021-04-reversible-crispr-method-gene-underlying.html
Astounding things those crispr's.
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Past Tense by Lee Child. Our library seems to be getting it's legs after a year.
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Not just introverts, dealing with people in the real world usually sucks. Unless she has a nice rack.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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