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Quickies: How Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Protesters, the End of Net Neutrality, and the Myth of Colonial Calves
New Trends in Getting Mad Online – “Just to reiterate, with his actual, biological son seemingly unwilling to take part in his lame dad’s flame wars, Michael Rapaport enlisted his assistant to pose as his son in order to own the trolls online, going so far as to roleplay parenting his fake son on Twitter.” Were Colonial Men Obsessed With…
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Quickies: How to Make a Protest Work, Your Bra Size is a Myth, and Cat Island
Republicans will try a little-used tactic to kill five Obama regulations today – “The background here is that it would be tricky and time-consuming for the Trump administration to repeal many Obama-era regulations all by itself. But Congress can easily wipe out a subset of Obama’s agency rules using the 1996 Congressional Review Act, which allows the House and Senate…
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Quickies: Locate Your Nearest Airport Protest, Trump as Gul Dukat, and Lo-Fi Gaming
Airport protests against the Muslim Ban – If you are looking for your nearest place to protest, check out this site! From Jamie. The Undeniable Beauty of Lo-Fi Gaming – I definitely prefer lo-fi gaming (old school Space Quest and Chex Quest–the cereal-themed version of Quake), so I’m happy to see this having more of a comeback. All of Trump’s tweets are being…
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Quickies: Fear of Losing White Privilege, Effective Drug Abuse Policies, and That Soda Article in the New York Times
Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse. The World Isn’t Listening – “Their analysis revealed clear differences between the lives of kids who took up drinking, smoking and other drugs, and those who didn’t. A few factors emerged as strongly protective: participation in organized activities – especially sport – three or four times a week, total time spent with…
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Quickies: Black Market Doughnuts, Paper Centrifuge, and Today’s Senate Confirmation Hearings
The Paperfuge: A 20-Cent Device That Could Transform Health Care – The concept of the paper centrifuge is pretty cool, and if you have access to the original paper, you should check that out to see the results of the blood samples. ‘Goodnight Moon’ author was a bisexual rebel who didn’t like kids – “Margaret Wise Brown is the deserving…
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Quickies: Adding Pockets to Dresses, Wig-Snatching Schemes, and Anti-Vax Doctors
The Elaborate Wig-Snatching Schemes of the 18th Century – “Socialites had to be extra cautious of wig snatchers. Throughout England and Europe, finely powdered perukes, also called periwigs, were in vogue among royal courts and the upper class. The more ornate and towering your wig, the higher your social standing. The expensive and easily removable headpieces led to a series…
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Quickies: Risks in Editing Genes, Disney World as a Medieval Pilgrimage, and Complications of Organ Donation
Unexpected Risks Found In Editing Genes To Prevent Inherited Disorders – “The findings confirmed the suspicions of many researchers, and the conclusions drawn by Mitalipov and his team were unequivocal: The potential for conflicts between transplanted and original mitochondrial genomes is real, and more sophisticated matching of donor and recipient eggs — pairing mothers whose mitochondria share genetic similarities, for…
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Quickies: Scurvy, Teen Pregnancies, and BRAAAM
Asking this question can help prevent unplanned pregnancies among teens – “Primary providers, obstetricians, and gynecologists routinely ask their adult female patients, ‘Would you like to become pregnant in the next year?’ The Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health has helped popularize that question through its One Key Question Initiative. Pediatricians rarely ask it. But they should.” The Terrible, Mysterious Disease…
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