There's a lot to love about summer, but mosquitoes are one seasonal nuisance most people could do without. You can try to combat pesky mosquitoes with bug

From net neutrality to H-1B tech workers to cellphone unlocking, much of tech policy revolves around an administrative state that the Supreme Court wants to destroy.

Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is a common heritable connective tissue disorder that lacks a known genetic etiology. To identify genetic contributions to hEDS, whole exome sequencing was performed on families and a cohort of sporadic hEDS patients. A missense variant in Kallikre...

Meat analogue research and development focuses on the production of sustainable products that recreate conventional meat in its physical sensations (texture, appearance, taste, etc.) and nutritional aspects. Minced products, like burger patties and nuggets, ...

Budget and other project documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show how the National Institutes of Health set up its flagship long Covid research initiative, including the scientific expertise that government reviewers prioritized in selecting research teams to lead the RECOVER program and the early goals and timelines. Experts who reviewed the contracts and project documents say the agency set itself up for failure.

Israel has long been at the center of international organ trafficking networks and has stolen organs from dead Palestinians

US agency found PFOS and other types of PFAS in pesticides but failed to disclose those results, watchdog group alleges

On cognitive dissonance:

"Leon Festinger introduced cognitive dissonance in the 1950s, just a few years before the Chinese famine. Basically, the idea refers to the deep discomfort it causes us when someone proves us wrong or when we find ourselves living in contradiction with our principles. We'll do anything to alleviate that discomfort before we actually change our behavior.

In Festinger's own words, "Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point." For decades, research on cognitive dissonance confirmed the most disturbing traits about human nature, that we're impulsive and easy to manipulate. We can rationalize anything, but if our cognitive dissonance becomes too great, we can't function. We go nuts."

The norms you want to protect are already gone. The ends don't justify the means, but they do define them. Tips on living in a fascist nation in a time of rising fascist power.

Is it loneliness or abandonment?

"Arendt described loneliness not as a physical or emotional state but as a state of mind, Hill says. It’s an inability to question our beliefs or adjust our thinking to reflect our own experience and the experience of others — a kind of mental isolation and rigidity that one can observe, for instance, in today’s social media pile-ons and pressures for ideological conformity. “Arendt says that wherever people desire simple solutions to complex problems, totalitarianism will always be a threat,” Hill says."

“Unless you’re an unborn fetus, they don’t give a shit about you.”

Plus Codes are short codes for locations, for places that don't have their own street address.

Discover the best way to start your journey as a landscape painter with the five easiest Bob Ross Paintings from 'The Joy Of Painting'!

Analysis of SMA outfit (blackbox) use in public equity markets for real-time insight into wealth distribution and direct stock market influence. A call for transparency and public discourse. - raul...

basically, proof the market is rigged.