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Vote Against the Agenda of the Most Polluter-Positive President in Living Memory
Sometimes people say political parties in the U.S. are both corrupt, that it doesn't matter who is in power, that industry holds sway over our politics and our health regardless. Nothing could be more mistaken. Just now, The New York Times exposed how many Americans -- at least 3.3 million people…
From Kagi Small Web
A phone lock I can't undo on impulse because I never learn the code
We lock your phone with Apple's Assistive Access and hold the passcode — no cheating, no override, until your fast ends.
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Laila Yuile’s comments
I’m still home sick today, along with half the valley from the number of comments on a post in Comox Valley community yesterday! Take your pick – rhinovirus, covid and the flu […]
From Kagi Small Web
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style. Iván Moure Pazos tours the psychedelic chambers of Rochetta Mattei, optimised for electrohomeopathic healing, and Castello di Sammezzano, an immersive,…
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Given to Tri
A triathlon training & racing blog by Guillermo Esteves, a late-onset triathlete based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
From personalsit.es
Greg Ives
Greg Ives is a software engineer, currently leading the development of Myles Wellbeing.
From personalsit.es
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “resurrection men” and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards…
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HealthViewer – A local-first desktop app for tracking lab results
A private lab results tracker for your desktop. Import lab reports, chart every test over time, and keep it all encrypted on your own computer.
From Show HN
localghost (Sophie Koonin)
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
From personalsit.es
The Cost Before the Wait
Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
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Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering
To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
thechelsuk
A working-in-public second brain from engineering leader thechelsuk: notes on software, teams, leadership, finance, music and life with ME/CFS.
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Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a…
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a participant afterwards, and learn that yeah, actually, doctors are not supposed to give you propophol as a general anesthetic if you have a soy allergy. Which is really good to fucking know. Which is why I…
From Kagi Small Web
Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you
Find locally owned veterinary practices near you and see which clinics are verified independent or corporately owned.
From Show HN
Corona Simulator
why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
From Explorable Explanations
George Ho
Hello! I’m George …but on the internet, I also go by eigenfoo (for data, software and other technical stuff) and loplop (for crosswords and other games). I work at Flatiron Health, where I use machine learning on real-world patient data to accelerate cancer research. I like natural language…
From personalsit.es
A Journey Through Infertility
An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.
From The Pudding
Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
Great illustration of survival analysis, and of probabalistic proccesses in general.
From Awesome Explorables
I hate Migraines
I’ve been in bed all day, unable to function. I had a really bad migraine. It was so painful. I have been eating painkillers. Thankfully, it is gone now. I slept a lot and had weird dreams. Now I am up at 2 AM. Ready to start my day. I put music on and one […]
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Years You Have Left To Live, Probably
a morbid simulation using your info + CDC data
From Explorable Explanations
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