Category: Medicine
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Sirizani Butau
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individuals alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Zimbabwean native and truck driver Sirizani Butau. At…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Earth’s final frontier: China and the deep-sea gold rush set to cause environmental catastrophe For Yasuhara, given the unprecedented levels of ocean warming and the increased acidification of the sea, combined with ignorance of the destructive impact of deep-sea mining, this is the least appropriate moment to be embarking on large-scale destructive processes on an…
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Happy New Year, COVID19!
It’s Fucking New Year’s! It’s almost 2022. There are no hoverboards (no, not the ones that blow up!), A.I. robots, or flying cars. Instead, we are entering year three of the COVID19 pandemic. Since this thing started, we’ve lost 800k Americans, and the unofficial death toll may be much higher. We’ve lost millions of people…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Iraq, Christmas is becoming many Muslims’ favorite new holiday Christmas has been classified as a holiday in Iraq since 2018, but that designation was up for annual renewal. Now it’s permanent. This is relatively unusual in the Middle East. While they may celebrate Christmas in some way, only four other nations out of 20…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Is President Xi Jinping undoing capitalism in China? In the last 40 years, China has become the only global economy to rival the U.S. But President Xi Jinping is cracking down on some of the private sectors, companies and individuals that led to the country’s prosperity. Lesley Stahl reports. #XiJinping #China #capitalism #Asia AWS appears to be down,…
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War: We’re Killing Each Other and the Planet
The U.S. Department of Defense is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. And it is also one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels. If the U.S. Military was a nation, it would be #47 in the world for being an emitter. The DOD is also a mass consumer of resources; in the…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Kyle Rittenhouse On Trial: Build A Movement To Defeat the Far-Right The capitalist legal system is never favorable terrain for winning the demands of working people, and this trial is no exception. Before the trial even began, Judge Bruce Schroeder ruled that the protesters Rittenhouse shot cannot be referred to as “victims” and should instead…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Cultural Revolutions If this theory strikes you as ridiculous, it is enough for now to bear in mind that no matter how different you believe China to be from the United States, there are lessons from Ai’s history that are uncomfortably easy to recognize: “If you try to understand your country,” he writes, “it’s enough…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Dr. Jonny Kim
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the former Navy Seal, Harvard-educated doctor, and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
COVID-19 has killed 5 million people—and the pandemic is far from over Global mortality data show that the Americas and Europe have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Peru has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world with 615 deaths per 100,000 people. Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Hungary have…
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