Category: Medicine
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Foluso Fakorede
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 founder of the Heart Disease and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Even Canadians Think Americans Are Toxic I would like to think that the American separation might end with the arrival of a vaccine, but why would it? Already the anti-vaxxers are mobilizing. There is no cure for being too stupid to take medicine. For the foreseeable future, there will be one world for non-Americans and another…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Sudan Refugees Face Life-threatening Risks from Floods, Coronavirus, UN Says The U.N. refugee agency says heavy flooding in Sudan is putting the lives of tens of thousands of refugees, internally displaced people, and host communities at increased risk at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is spreading. #COVID19 #Sudan #Africa #Nature Nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are…
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Fuck the Economy, Save Me
Guest article by Professor Michael Thomas. It feels strange to say it’s September. It’s been a long summer, and simultaneously everything’s moved at a blur. If we can remember back to January 2019 after the inauguration, there was event after event, protest after protest, and we kept asking each other, “is it ever going to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In photos: Scene of shooting in Kenosha Scenes from 40th Street and 28th Avenue Sunday evening, as neighbors gathered at the intersection where they say police tasered and then shot a man several times. #JacobBlake#SayHisName#blacklivesmatter Australia, Drugmaker Reach Deal On Potential COVID-19 Vaccine “The vaccine will need to satisfy all the same standards that all…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
These essential workers face evictions and could become homeless during pandemic Nearly 80% of California’s workers without legal status are in jobs deemed essential, according to a UCLA study released Monday, and on average these laborers lost 25% of their wages between February and April — more than any other demographic of employees. Workers living…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
5 things to know as Hiroshima marks 75th A-bomb anniversary The city of Hiroshima in western Japan marks the 75th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack on Thursday. Three days after its Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending World…
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How Dare You
A Twitter Karen’s Letter to all progressives, leftists, and Bernard Brothers Dear Bernard Brothers, My name is Karen, and I’m so annoyed with you coming in my mentions challenging my political beliefs. I told you, I’d be at brunch if Hillary Clinton were the POTUS. We have to fall in line and get behind Biden.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Rare ‘glacier bears’ with bluish fur may face grim future Yet as climate change melts the glaciers that have kept the animals cut off from each other, it’s more likely that bears will begin to mix once more, diluting the glacier bears’ genes, Garshelis says. So it’s possible that the glacier bear, like Alaska’s glaciers, may…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Anti-communist protesters heckle staff emptying China’s consulate in Houston Houston is a major medical hub known for top-notch research on cancer, infectious diseases and since the pandemic hit this year, vaccines for the coronavirus, which first emerged in China late last year. The city is also home to dozens of oil and gas producers that…
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