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“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
— Erich Fromm
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The civil servants at CDC, NIH, and FDA are invaluable to our national health, emergency response, and economy, both for their dedicated efforts and deep experience.
Their jobs are worth far more than $25K. Don't take the buyout.
Carlos del Rio@CarlosdelRio7
HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its workers as Trump administration continues cuts pbs.org/newshour/polit… The disruption this will cause to CDC and other HHS agencies like NIH and FDA, will create irreconcilable damage to public health and science.
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@JoyceCarolOates Hello from Canada I see your tweets loud and clear- but it’s probably because I made a separate twitter (x?) list with only you and a few other select folks
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600 million seems high for Twitter.
however many "followers" I am supposed to have, I would estimate that only about 20 persons actually see my tweets; engagement is minimal. you are surely correct--many of the accounts are fraudulent. we are often responding to bots. what a waste of time! but here & there, an actual valuable person!
Aaron B Brown@AaronBBrown
@JoyceCarolOates This platform has been packed with accounts created in Russia, Qatar, and Iran since Elon took over, he encouraged it because it makes it look like the platform was growing when it was actually contracting drastically. Down from 1.8 billion users to less than 600 million.
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@CDInewsletter Can you make one for dividends only instead of salary?
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Gross salary needed to net $100k per year, by province
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🚨#BREAKING: Search results for ‘Why do my eyes hurt?’ and ‘My eyes hurt’ have exploded after the total solar eclipse occurred
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Newly identified genes for depression may lead to new treatments
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For example, panic causes many physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, pounding heartbeat, sweating, and nausea, whereas #anxiety does not.
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Despite the fact that #PanicDisorder is classified as an anxiety disorder, there are significant differences between the two.
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Scientists @salkinstitute uncover key brain pathway mediating panic disorder symptoms.
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Individuals with this mutation are half as likely to develop the disease as those who do not carry it. The variant form of the protein is relatively rare and is found primarily in people of European descent.
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Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson's disease and offers hope for new therapies.
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Growth hormone found to influence regulation of anxiety via somatostatin neurons.
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However, according to the co-authors, this explanation fails to take into account that as information is encoded or recalled, these regions may in fact, share a common code in the brain.
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Prior to this work, the classic understanding of brain organization was that perceptual regions of the brain represent the world "as it is," with the brain's visual cortex representing the external world based on how light falls on the retina, "retinotopically."
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New coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory identified
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New study found no scientific evidence for Chapman's premise that people who choose partners that speak their love language, or learn to speak it, will have more successful relationships. #lovelanguages
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Enlarged spaces in infant brains linked to higher risk of autism, sleep problems, @UNC researchers find.
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