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arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

Gastrointestinal disease explodes in Ala. elementary school; 773 kids out

Highly contagious norovirus is the leading suspect; four other area schools affected.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/gastrointestinal-disease-explodes-in-ala-elementary-school-773-kids-out/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ParisWriters, 5 months ago to Letters

#Harvard receives another devastating letter from Bill Ackman, detailing the reasons why the university should fire President, Claudine Gay

(‘ In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage to the reputation of Harvard University than any individual in our nearly 500-year history’)

It is a very good letter.

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1733985787455168906

#highered #letters #DEI #antisemitism #reputation #university #scholarship #discrimination #hiring #bestpractices #evaluation

taylorlorenz, 6 months ago to random

Etsy secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. While pro-Israel items like shirts with the Israeli flag bearing the slogan “These colors don’t run, they reload,” have been deemed fine by Etsy’s policy team. https://www.platformer.news/p/how-banning-one-palestinian-slogan

ParisWriters, 8 months ago to Wisconsin

In 2018, gerrymandering gave Wisconsin Republicans a supermajority of seats in the Assembly despite losing the vote for every statewide office and the statewide legislative vote by 8 percentage points, 54 to 46

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/opinion/wisconsin-judge-impeachment-democracy.html

#wisconsin #democracy

ParisWriters, 8 months ago to Wisconsin

#Wisconsin's Republicans could help average Wisconsinites....help improve education, healthcare, infrastructure, worker wages.

Instead they try to fix elections, peddle culture wars and impose authoritarian minority rule

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/opinion/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeach.html

ParisWriters, 10 months ago to Futurology

cognitive decline, changes in brain size and structure, depression and suicidal thinking, tremors, seizures, memory loss, and new or worsened dementia have all been linked to previous SARS-CoV-2 infections.

In some cases, these longer-term problems occur even in patients with relatively mild COVID-19.

#Time has an article entitled,

#Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand #COVID-19's Effect On the #Brain

https://time.com/6294762/how-covid-19-affects-brain-memory/

#health #longcovid #medicine