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Vasectomy: The week before surgery

• Avoid aspirin products for a minimum of forty-eight hours prior to your procedure.
• Make sure you talk to your doctor about any other medications you may be taking.
• If you wish, you can obtain a prescription for a mild oral anti-anxiety medication before the procedure.

Birth: The nine months before labor

• Avoid all medicines and enjoyable foods.
• Make sure you listen to the copious amounts of unasked-for advice and steel yourself from the dirty looks you will get in line at the coffee shop. Feel guilty every time you eat a hamburger instead of poached salmon. Also, every time you eat salmon, too, because of the mercury.
• If you wish, you can google things that are making you anxious, which will, of course, at minimum, treble your feelings of anxiety. Also, being anxious is bad for the baby.

Vasectomy: The day of surgery

Elliott Sober, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, is the winner of the first Philosophy in Biology and Medicine (PhilInBioMed) Award. The award, which will be given annually, recognizes “outstanding contributions to the advancement of biology or medicine through the use of philosophical and theoretical tools”. It is awarded by PhilInBioMed (previously), an interdisciplinary institute located at the University of Bordeaux, France, and its associated national and international network of interdisciplinary teams. The winner receives €5,000 and delivers a lecture at a ceremony at the University of Bordeaux. For further details visit the PhilInBioMed site.

FairFuel UK is leading the charge against the Labour mayor's expansion of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone - which will hit the most polluting vehicles including trucks and lorries

To survive, the broadcaster's governance needs to be completely overhauled, writes former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse

Brian Latham looks at the very different attitudes to migration in Southern Africa compared to the UK

Mark Temnycky shows how the greatest victims of Russian disinformation are Russians themselves

Pressure on Türkiye continues as US pushes F-16 deal that would see Ankara drop opposition to Sweden NATO bid, which became a long shot after Quran burning in Stockholm. Greece says it will expand its waters around Crete, enraging Türkiye.

An archaeologist, a therapist and doomsday preppers advise an anxious filmmaker on how to cope with the end of the world

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

Duma Speaker warns of powerful retaliation for weapons supplies to Kiev for attacks on Russia.

Top House Democrats have shown a willingness to work with the Freedom Caucus to block progressive reforms.

The post Reps. Adam Schiff and Jim Jordan Killed Mass Surveillance Reform in 2020. Will They Do It Again? appeared first on The Intercept.

The brewer and the yeast: why brewing beer sheds light on the philosophical debate about the boundaries of human agency

- by Andrei A Buckareff

Read at Psyche

‘Rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ is a popular weapon in the anti-trans arsenal. It is nothing but unscientific bunk

- by Quinnehtukqut McLamore

Read at Aeon

The innovative strategies used to vaccinate Juárez residents from across the Southern border offers a blueprint for how borderland cities can manage public health crises.

The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books, including a recently introduced section featuring open-access reviews from academic philosophy journals… New: Alexander von Humboldt by Dalia Nassar. Aesthetic Experience by Antonia Peacocke. Stoicism by Marion Durand, Simon Shogry, and Dirk Baltzly. Revised: Revolution by Allen Buchanan and Alexander Motchoulski. Determinables and Determinates by Jessica Wilson. Colonialism by Margaret Kohn and Kavita Reddy. Donald Cary Williams by Keith Campbell, James Franklin, and Douglas Ehring. IEP      Substance by Ralph Weir.     Pseudoscience and the Determination Problem by Massimo Pigliucci. NDPR           Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul by Charles Bonnet is reviewed by John H. Zammito. Heidegger and the Problem of Phenomena by Fredrik Westerlund is reviewed by Jussi Backman. Epistemic Explanations: A Theory or Telic Normativity, and What it Explains by Ernest Sosa is reviewed by John Greco. Socrates on Self-Improvement: Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness by Nicholas D. Smith is reviewed by Nicholas R. Baima.

The real problem confronting European manufacturing is not the threat of factory closures. It is that, compared to the United States and China, Europe has fallen far behind in the race to accumulate, and benefit from, the cloud capital that represents the future of profit in industries like electric cars and green energy. ATHENS – […]

The post Is Europe Deindustrialising? – Project Syndicate appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

The post Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Proverbs for introverts.

Plenty of people like to claim "1984" - but who deserves it?

The upcoming debt ceiling fight has an unusual feature: Republican opposition to military pork, or at least the Ukraine variety.

Yves here. Urban dwellers due to their limited contact with nature, are less afflicted by animal nuisances, with rats and pigeons as exceptions. However, given that focus, this post omits some favorites, like geese and invasive species such as rabbits in Australia. Animals routinely try to steal food from their fellows or other species; it’s […]

Yves needs to cut back on her coverage for a few weeks, but Lambert, Conor, Nick and KLG are already revving their engines!

"This is an extremely rare occurrence"