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"Revitalize your mitochondria." Is this a thing now? Ad spotted in Manhattan, July 2025
Also yet another example of the "headless, legless, baby bump," this one being mauled by numerous anonymous hands. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
After the evacuation order, residents of Mushtahi Tower tossed their belongings out of the windows, trying to save whatever they could. The tower is surrounded by thousands of displaced families living in the streets, and in its place lie countless tents sheltering the displaced.
"Seven hundred days in captivity, in a terrible nightmare â there are no words to describe it. They could have been here long ago," Cunio said. "Enough! End the war, bring them home," said Sylvia Cunio, whose two sons Ariel and David are still held captive by Hamas. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Twelve Israeli chefs & restaurateurs have come together for a social media campaign calling for an end to starvation in Gaza & the return of the hostages. Campaign participants were photographed holding empty cooking pots, with the inscription: "Resist starvation." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
After months of famine, Gaza's food markets show early signs of recovery as aid networks are restored, but nearly 6,000 children were diagnosed with severe malnutrition in August, and deaths from hunger persist, the United Nations reported Wednesday. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Link to @thelancet.com Lancet study: Based on official reported COVID-19 deaths, we estimated that vaccinations prevented 14·4 million deaths from COVID-19 in 185 countries and territories between Dec 8, 2020, and Dec 8, 2021. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Scientists believe that Covid vaccines have prevented millions of deaths. A study in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases estimated that the shots saved 14.4 million lives worldwide in the first year alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
In Tamra, northern Israel, on the evening of June 14, the wife, two daughters, and sister-in-law of Raja Khatib, a lawyer who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, were killed when an Iranian missile exploded on the roof of their house. âI felt the explosion,â he said. "I thought I was dead.â
At least five Iranian ballistic missiles struck populated areas of Israel during the June 2025 armed conflict in violation of the laws of war and should be investigated as war crimes, Human Rights Watch @hrw.org said. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
South Australia will be the first place in the world to ban fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers under a wider ban on single-use plastics that comes into force on 1 Sept. Plastic sushi fish are damaging because they could be mistaken for food by marine life. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
âThey have failed to silence me, and now I am more outspoken than before, and I will continue to work for peace and justice [...] I do this for the future of children, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis,â says Mohsen Mahdawi, who has returned to Columbia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
âItâs almost like theyâre not thinking,â says Dan Nardo, a writer of art & history books. âI canât say I understand that mindset at all.â A state law in Tennessee explicitly prohibits naked images, banning titles like Ancient Greek Art and Architecture from schools. pen.org/art-history-...
âI prefer not to go to jail, but if the question was to go to Gaza, go to jail, Iâd go to jail,â said Zeâev Bogomolny, 27, a Israeli painter who served in an artillery unit near Israelâs northern border with Lebanon. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
They despise women and freedom. Thatâll be a hard, no.
It always strikes me as interesting that the same people who wail about declining birth rates also hate immigrants, who could actually stem the decline in population.
Thank you for reporting on this very strange and misleading practice.
Tim Nicholls, assistant director at the National Autistic Society in the UK, said, âItâs outrageous that tooth stem cell procedures are being advertised to parents with the false claim of âtreatingâ autism. âAutism is not a disease or illness, it cannot be treated, and there is no cure."
The skull of a child between 3 and 5 years old â and other 140,000-year-old remains at Skhul Cave in Israel â represents the earliest known example of interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/28/s....
Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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âI prefer not to go to jail, but if the question was to go to Gaza, go to jail, Iâd go to jail,â said Zeâev Bogomolny, 27, a Israeli painter who served in an artillery unit near Israelâs northern border with Lebanon. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/i...
Waves of Israeli airstrikes swept across Gaza City & surrounding neighborhoods, ahead of the Israeli government's plan to occupy it. 'Even quadcopters are firing at people in the streets, like they are being hunted down. No one knows where to go,' one resident said www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Likud voters, favor a cease-fire and hostage deal that includes IDF withdrawal from Gaza www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Choking off food simply dooms Gaza's most vulnerable, experts say "The armed men will be the last to go hungry. You actually know that the targeting of your starvation will hit the poorest and most vulnerable first." www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...
âItâs almost like theyâre not thinking,â says Dan Nardo, a writer of art & history books. âI canât say I understand that mindset at all.â A state law in Tennessee explicitly prohibits naked images, banning titles like Ancient Greek Art and Architecture from schools. pen.org/art-history-...
âThis book sets a new standard in economic historyâ. Huge thank you to @timharford.ft.com for endorsing #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Get your copy today to find out how women have contributed to the rise and decline of civilisations.
No, they believe that if single women are unable to get contraception they'll be obliged to get married in order to have sex. Their logic is unfathomable.
Migratory birds are arriving in Britain weeks too soon. The arrival of the birds, which travel thousands of miles to reach winter breeding grounds, is sparking concern they will be disturbed by holidaymakers who are occupying their usual beaches and resting sites. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Foreign aid funds, including for PEPFAR, are being withheld illegally by the Trump administration despite being appropriated by Congress, advocates and experts say. My latest, featuring @agawande.bsky.social and @jenkatesdc.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I heard this woman interviewed on a podcast. She seriously suggested restricting contraception to married couples. www.louisemperry.co.uk
Heritage blames âfree love, pornography, careerism, the Pill, abortion, same-sex relations, and no-fault divorceâ as culprits behind the decline of American marriages.
A group of more than 85 U.S. and international experts publicly rebuked a report from the U.S. Department of Energy that questions the severity of global warming. The federal report is biased, error-ridden and unfit for guiding policy, the researchers said. www.latimes.com/environment/...
In Gaza, "journalists are dying, and everyone wonders if the next one will be one of the two working for us," said Jean-Marc Four, director of Radio France Internationale (RFI) radio. "The longer this goes on, the more it affects our teams. @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
âPalestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work," said @pressfreedom.bsky.social The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
âI am an honest entrepreneur who has been building his image for many years, & in 2 days it was crushed to dust,â said Roman Szkaradek, who owned his business, Drog-Bruk, for 13 years. Angry tennis fans confused him with hat-snatching Piotr Szczerek, CEO of Drogbruk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Labor Day Greetings from Emma Goldman: âI want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybodyâs right to beautiful, radiant things,â she wrote after a fellow anarchist had warned her not to dance âwith such reckless abandon.â My essay: www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/wha...
Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
There is no solution to this suffering except a ceasefire. CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW
In February, a security guard showed up to the office of Peggy Carr, chief statistician at the Education Department, as she was preparing to hold a staff meeting. Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Yikes. Thanks for sharing this!
In Gaza, health officials are warning of a sharp rise in respiratory infections â likely flu or COVID â that have already sickened thousands. The outbreak is spreading fastest among displaced families crowded into tents and shelters without sanitation. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
They are spelled differently.
Under a new pilot project in southeastern Sinoe county, Liberia, the government of Ireland is set to pay 28 communities $1.50 per hectare (2.5 acres) of forest they protect annually for the next two years. @mongabay.com reports news.mongabay.com/2025/09/libe...
South Australia will be the first place in the world to ban fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers under a wider ban on single-use plastics that comes into force on 1 Sept. Plastic sushi fish are damaging because they could be mistaken for food by marine life. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
âI am an honest entrepreneur who has been building his image for many years, & in 2 days it was crushed to dust,â said Roman Szkaradek, who owned his business, Drog-Bruk, for 13 years. Angry tennis fans confused him with hat-snatching Piotr Szczerek, CEO of Drogbruk www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Spanish PM SĂĄnchez described the response to Israelâs assault on the Palestinian territory as one of the darkest episodes of international relations in the 21st century.
Europe and the westâs double standards over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza threaten to undermine its global standing, the Spanish prime minister, Pedro SĂĄnchez, has warned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Watch this for a laugh. A German ad for renovating your bathroom, complete with choir making dripping and bubbling sounds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN5y...
"As people who dedicated their lives to the childrens' future, we call out: Don't take that future from them! Stop the killing, destruction and hunger in Gaza. Stop the circle of suffering and mourning in Israel and Gaza," a group of 200 Israeli teachers said. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel's army has begun calling up thousands of reservists and commenced razing remaining parts of Gaza City, block by block. Unless world powers, including the United States, make Israel stop, this next phase of fighting could usher in the end of collective Palestinian life in the strip.
FYI @aloner.bsky.social
âWe reject the far rightâs racist lies about âprotectingâ women and girls. They are not defenders of women â they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division,â says open letter, titled Women Against the Far Right. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Normal people." Who are they?
âThis is a blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development [...] A textbook case of international crimes on an unimaginable scale: forcible population transfer, demographic engineering, and collective punishment,â said Philip Grant of Trial International. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Did you know that 40% of big game hunters in the Americas were women, and so too were 40% of brewers in medieval London? Find out about womenâs involvement in the economy from the Stone Age to the present in my new book #Economica - out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social #econhist
Victoria Bateman: "As I show in my new book, Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power, women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer." @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hist...
âPalestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work," said @pressfreedom.bsky.social The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canât overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Labor Day Greetings from Emma Goldman: âI want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybodyâs right to beautiful, radiant things,â she wrote after a fellow anarchist had warned her not to dance âwith such reckless abandon.â My essay: www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/wha...
Yes. Absolutely.
Sheep grazing between solar arrays had enhanced wool quality with increased fiber strength and growth rates. The solar infrastructure created microhabitats that benefited both the animals and the underlying vegetation. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/22/1...
"When people rely on AI to complete tasks and think for them, they may be weakening their ability to think critically, solve complex problems and engage deeply with information," writes Aaron French @theconversation.com medium.com/wise-well/is...
You have to read to the end of this drivel to find a quote by a Palestinian in Gaza: Abu Mohamed, a 55-year-old father, said,âIâm staying in a partially destroyed house in Khan Younis now. âBut we could renovate. I refuse to be made to go to another country, Muslim or not. This is my homeland.â
âIâm staying in a partially destroyed house in Khan Younis now,â he said. âBut we could renovate. I refuse to be made to go to another country, Muslim or not. This is my homeland.â
I read through pages of this stuff before I reached a quote, at the very end, by a Palestinian man in Gaza: Abu Mohamed, a 55-year-old father speaking over WhatsApp from Gaza on Saturday, said that despite the catastrophic situation, he would never leave. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Is this what you voted for, Republicans?
Apparently, yes.
Have I mentioned that I loathe AI? An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into "AI slop" has found. www.bbc.com/news/article...
My 12-year-old son died of brain cancer in March 2023. Federal government said it would no longer provide funding to The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an assoc of 16 academic centers and childrenâs hospitals trialing novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
I know. Anger is so exhausting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
My 12-year-old son died of brain cancer in March 2023. Federal government said it would no longer provide funding to The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an assoc of 16 academic centers and childrenâs hospitals trialing novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
There's literally NO vegetables or fruit of any sort with this dinner.
Contents of this plastic-wrapped UPF dinner: A dinner made from ultra-processed foods served to study participants: creamy pasta with bacon pieces, chicken slices, and an elderflower drink, March 3, 2022, at the medical faculty in Copenhagen. UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
Cindy McCain: â#Gaza is at a breaking point. Iâve just seen it myself,â sharing a video of her visit to Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. She warned that âfamine is expected in the coming weeks if food doesnât reach the thousands of starving families here fast enough." forward.com/fast-forward...
Rigorous clinical trial shows ultra-processed foods "appear to have a profound impact on many biological processes, including rapid and significant weight gain, deteriorated cardiometabolic health, disrupted hormonal balance, and impaired male fertility." www.lemonde.fr/en/science/a...
Oh and hey: Harvest mice are the only mammals in Britain to have a prehensile tail, which means they can grasp or hold objects such as grass stalks. They were once ubiquitous in autumn as they made their nests in the grasses that sprang up after harvest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Best friends Eva Wishart and Emily Smith were upset to find out that harvest mice are threatened in England due to farming practices and habitat loss. The two girls took matters into their own hands and decided to replenish local harvest mice stocks themselves. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How interesting. I first heard about these communities when I was a journalism student at NYU and went to a screening of the movie "Quilombo," about the Maroon leader Zumbi dos Palmares. I see the movie is actually on YouTube these days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=icuI...
"The horrific images from a virtual tour of Gaza's Nasser Hospital â before Israel shelled it this week â make it clearer than ever: The power is in our hands. We must stop the atrocities committed in our name," writes Israeli pediatrician Michal Feldon @haaretzcom.bsky.social
Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.
Even the Today programme devoted breakfast airtime to pondering where Swift will get her material, once sheâs a smug married with no toxic exes to write about [..] tho of course women have been known to have interesting interior lives even over the age of 35. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
England needs to âwake upâ to its faltering infant vaccination programme, experts have warned, as it was revealed that one in five children start primary school unprotected from serious infectious diseases. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A large part of Zeitoun, a neighborhood in Gaza City, was still standing just three weeks ago. But as Israeli forces have expanded their military campaign, the area has been turned into a barren wasteland, according to satellite images reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
The wooden walls of the village hall in Charles Town, Jamaica, are adorned with a tribute to the resistance struggle of the Maroons â African people who escaped enslavement and created their own free communities in remote and hilly parts of the island. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
I feel so incredibly honored to be awarded the 2025 Whiting Award in Fiction for The Road to the Salt Sea. I am glad this novel is finding its way out in the world.
In a recent move, the Bangladesh government has canceled allocation of more than 4,000 hectares (10,000 acres) of forest land planned for different development activities. The move raised hope for the conservationists who criticized earlier decisions taken by the previous government.
Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Hannah Arendt, Frederick Douglass, and Emilio Zapata all got married, and obviously I'm not comparing the Double-T brand to them, but I am saying anyone who thinks marriage turns all people into conservatives should also ask what tank rolled over their cranium recently.
My latest interview for @natureportfolio.nature.com
There are small moments of joy in your novel amid the violence and despair and they are very moving.
I saw that and it's enraging.
I just finished reading The Road to the Salt Sea. So powerful.
Samuel Ká»ÌlaÌwá»leÌâs THE ROAD TO THE SALT SEA: "For much of the story, the bookâs protagonist, a man named Able God, is cast adrift. Mired in a struggle against implacable forces [...] Able God reminds us of Odysseus fending off foes." âȘ hopkinsreview.com/features/a-r...
Nationwide implementation of Denmark's Spiralkampagnen began in autumn 1967. By the end of 1970, almost half of all fertile women in Greenland, aged between 15 and 49, were wearing an IUD. The number of newborns dropped dramatically. @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...