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I have decided to start wearing dainty little rings.

For those wondering, “How many dainty little rings? How many fingers?” I am excited to announce the answer is multiple fingers across both hands. Currently, I am up to three total dainty little rings: the middle and pointer fingers of my left hand and the middle finger of my right. From there, only time will tell where we will go.

You can expect to see the impact of this on my personality, effective immediately.

When I slip on my dainty little rings, I immediately feel ten years older and five times sluttier. Of course, there are still times when I do feel like a man who is still wearing his wedding ring, despite the divorce papers sitting in his desk drawer and the fact that his wife is in Cabo with her trainer, Stephen—the same feeling that prevented me from wearing rings in the first place. But when the rings are dainty, and my nails are shaped and painted like little Jordan almonds, I don’t feel like I have big fat man fingers; I feel like a Woman Who Works in PR.

Plus, how to consider the next generation without despair.

By backing ambitious and transformative environmental policies, Labour could offer a clear vision for substantive change, writes the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation

Miriam Margolyes says, "Tom Baker wanted me for his sidekick, but they wouldn't have it because I was too fat. I couldn't fit in the TARDIS."

The MVC team unpacks Michael Cimino’s infamous Western about the struggle of European migrants in 19th century Wyoming.

In just one year, book bans in the US have increased by a third – largely targeted at works containing content on LGBTQ+ rights, race and racism, physical abuse, grief and death

Case reports suggest psychedelics might reverse aphantasia (a lack of mental imagery), but is that necessarily a good thing?

- by Shayla Love

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Infertility treatments aim to improve women’s lives. But they risk tying womanhood to the toxic expectation of motherhood

- by Gulzaar Barn

Read at Aeon

In recent decades, computer technology has made the job application process easier and faster. Yet the job finding rate has remained unchanged during that time.

Back in 1991, when yours truly earned his first PhD​ with a dissertation on decision making and rationality in social choice theory and game theory, I concluded that “repeatedly it seems as though mathematical tractability and elegance — rather than realism and relevance — have been the most applied guidelines for the behavioural assumptions being […]

This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for several months at Kyoto University in Japan. It’s slightly cooler now in Kyoto but still warm. I have spent a lot of time in my life in the Netherlands and Belgium and they are very bike friendly countries…

It’s a movie we’ve seen over and over again in US politics. Centrists engage in respectful discussion with a thoughtful conservative[1], only to discover they are actually talking to a dishonest troll. Yet, just like Charlie Brown lining up to kick Lucy’s football, they keep coming back for another try. Examples include Paul “policy wonk” […]

I will be eternally grateful to all the scientists who made the mRNA vaccines that have saved millions of lives during he COVID pandemic. Today two of them received the Nobel Prize for medicine: Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer and other diseases. Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm. The panel said the pair’s “groundbreaking findings … fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.” Traditionally, making vaccines required growing viruses or pieces of viruses and then purifying them before next steps. The messenger RNA approach starts with a snippet of genetic code carrying instructions for making proteins.

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The world’s largest and smelliest flower teeters on extinction.

The post Save This Stinking Flower! appeared first on Nautilus.

The Political Economy Society at the University of Sydney are putting out a call for interest on their upcoming student led ‘UPSWELL’ journal. If you have experience or want to be involved, join us on Wednesday 4th Oct 6PM to hear our ideas, contribute yours, and create a vision for this project.

The post UPSWELL Journal appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

It’s just as bad as you thought The Guardian reports on the latest “intellectual” vomit spewing forth from the centers of right wing academia:  June, rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end. Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”. In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.

The longtime No Labels ally has denounced the group’s plans to field a 2024 presidential candidate — but he’s still appearing at their events.

The post Rep. Josh Gottheimer Headlines No Labels Call While Eyeing Run for Higher Office appeared first on The Intercept.

When sleep doesn’t come on time.

The post What We Can Learn from an Insomniac Fish appeared first on Nautilus.

Democrats are being pouty because they don’t have a young, dazzling superstar like Barack Obama to fall in love with. But they will vote and they will vote for Biden because they hate Trump. Negative partisanship is as powerful a motivator as 2008 style adoration.

Unemployed Celebrity Chef and aspiring immunologist Pete Evans is said to be conflicted over the concept of the Channel 10 show The Masked Singer, telling friends that he was unsure whether he would accept an offer to appear on the... Read More ›