Early October horrors: I started cutting a pomegranate and 2 tiny black centipede-type things crawled out
Meet the TX man who’s making customized caskets for each of the 19 young victims and two teachers from the school shooting in #Uvalde. Trey Ganem visited with the families last week so each casket is personalized to include each child's interests. 📷: SoulShine Industries
Before many people even know they're pregnant npr.org/2021/09/01/103…
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Texas Law That Bans Abortion Before Many Women Know They're Pregnant Takes Effect
The law also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion, including those who give a woman a ride to a clinic.
The left image is Renaissance Florence; on the right is an Atlanta interchange, shown at the same scale. This was my first image to go viral, thanks to a repost by Lloyd Alter at Treehugger. For weeks, I had to keep proving that the scale was the same; I still have proof. 1/
The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify. apne.ws/hDTRYVl
One of the key reasons we got COVID transmission wrong is that the WHO failed to trust the science (physics) and listen to the experts (physicists). wired.com/story/the-teen…
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There are more than 700 species of fig, and each one has its own species of wasp. When you eat a dried fig, you’re probably chewing wasp mummies, too. nyer.cm/ka6p2uk
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday. st.news/3baEFjb
Today I learned from @guyverhofstadt that the original euro bank notes from 2002 featured fictional (!) bridges to avoid conflict between EU members. In 2012 the Dutch town of Spijkenisse claimed all bridges for the Netherlands by building replicas of ALL on a single waterway.
The evidence so far suggests that a full vaccine dose: 1. effectively eliminates the risk of Covid death 2. nearly eliminates the risk of hospitalization 3. drastically reduces the ability to infect somebody else. All of that is also true about the virus variants. (7/x)
President-elect Biden's German shepherd, Major, will soon be the first dog to go from a shelter to the White House. That shelter, the Delaware Humane Association, is planning a virtual "indoguration" ceremony for Major on Sunday. trib.al/YDWhbmj
tbh a dented, damaged can of beans that only fulfills its purpose (successfully!) after much delay because someone didn't know how to help unlock it is a decent metaphor
When you're feeling down, just remember: "Four Seasons Total Landscaping"
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