What's a medical trick or fact you wish more people knew?

Mäuse zeigen weniger Verhalten von Angst, nachdem sie mehr Erfahrungen in vielfältigerer (artgerechterer) Umgebung gemacht haben.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

What about in public office? New research shows it’s never too late to help students learn to read – even in high school theconversation.com/new-research...

You don't say... From cages to fields: Lab mice lose their anxiety after a week outdoors share.google/q1TnADmDwNxv...

So someone found how to game the news feed algorithm... 🤦‍♀️

you fools thought we forgot? well, guess what! we did! that's why we do this ritual. now there's no excuse for you to forget too. do the thing. weekly reminder 💊⏰

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

H3N2 flu - latest: Streeting says ‘terrifying’ virus surge and doctors’ strike could collapse NHS | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers. Worth knowing. Insurance denied an $800,000 drug twice. A state-run outside panel helped a North Carolina teen get it. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Put another way: If you filled a stadium with the world's richest people, redistributing that wealth could quadruple the wealth of the people of subsaharan Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity share.google/Ro0gDPyr1Hx5...

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?

Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment Now they’re proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days True work life balance Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can’t afford food or healthcare.

A new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. www.wired.com/story/new-an...

I would like to extend a personal "Fuck You." directly to the administration which is murdering children only to spite their opponents. Child deaths projected to rise for first time this century, as aid cuts reverse decades of progress | CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/w...

anything can be a christmas movie if you watch it at home alone

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

far too much of modern life is people acting shocked when a nazi does some nazi shit that's what they fucking *do* that's literally the job description

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication share.google/BuXzqyTAjtjn... Oh, no kidding?

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

You don’t have to be suave, because I fall for sincerity long before polish. I look for the way your voice softens when you care, the steadiness in your hands when truth is all you offer. Style fades in the dark, but honesty is the only garment you need to earn my love. #vss365 #poetry #suave

The world is quieter than we think. That’s why it matters to declare love before the moment slips away. We forget how silence can feel like absence, even when we care. So we choose to say it, to give our heart, because letting someone know they're loved can change everything. #vss365 #matter

2000 people blocked roads, kept many delegates from arriving, and ultimately delayed the opening of the far-right AfD’s new youth wing “Generation Germany” convention. At least 25,000 people protested the convention overall. (AfD came in second in Germany’s recent election, with 20% of votes.)

UBI and related programs fucking work. Oregon pilot program giving cash to youth sees staggering reduction in homelessness - Salem Reporter share.google/IdZGfJlVPSeX...

A sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off that takes place 40 years later. Ferris is pushing 60 and looking back on his life, full of bad decisions, schemes gone wrong, and failure. He breaks the 4th wall to directly tell the audience that if God exists, we're the butt of his cruelest joke.

RFK Jr now has disinformation about Vaccines and Autism on the CDC website

Make your own, it's safer: Vyvanse Synthesis with ChemHacktica – Four Thieves Vinegar Collective fourthievesvinegar.org/2024/08/11/v... ADHD medication being recalled nationwide after failing effectiveness tests | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

Judge OKs deal for Sackler family and Purdue, makers of the opioid OxyContin | AP News share.google/xTzwFhRAt1Az...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Judge formally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement, with Sacklers paying up to $7B and some funds going to victims.

So who else woke up this morning, and thought "Huh, I can't remember the Cauchy form of the remainder." #PhDPTSD

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

The issue isn’t the depth of my love. I’ve already given it freely, steadily, wholly. The question is in the quiet between us and whether your heart has room to let me in. I stand here waiting to give, and all I ask is for you to let yourself receive what’s already yours. #vss365 #poetry #issue

It's going to get worse, before it gets even worse. Hackaday search.app/Z8iKV

Another one bites the dust...

I’m sorry but WHATTHEFUCK

I would sure prefer this over getting my arm swabbed with alcohol by a nurse who hooks me up to an IV that poison is then pushed into. South Carolina executes man by firing squad, in state’s third such killing in year | South Carolina | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Why do you measure me by the wound instead of the offering? I only loved you in the language I knew; hands open, voice trembling, heart unguarded. Was it so wrong, to want you without armor? #vss365 #poetry #measure

Oh, I hope so.