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I stopped reading at this passage. Naveah Crain is dead because the state of Texas put a layer of bureaucracy between women and their healthcare providers. Period. Abortion bans kill women.

@ugandan_weekly @anishmoonka Underwater it's called sonar

@anishmoonka Does she use ‘echolocation’ to find or kill the 🦑 ?

A mother sperm whale came up from half a mile down with a giant squid still in her mouth. A diver named Ludo caught the whole thing on camera. Nobody had ever filmed this before in human history. That was last September. A Smithsonian scientist named Michael Vecchione confirmed the species. It was an adult giant squid, an animal so hard to find alive that for a century we mainly knew it from beaks pulled out of dead whales and the occasional body that washed up on a beach. We have known these two fight for centuries. Sperm whales kept surfacing with large circular marks on their heads that matched the suckers on giant squid arms. Their stomachs were full of squid beaks, the one part of a squid that cannot be digested. The evidence was everywhere. The event itself had never once been seen. This hunt happened in complete darkness. The whale was far deeper than any sunlight reaches. She found the squid the way sperm whales always do, by making sounds that bounce off things around her. Her clicks hit 236 decibels. A jet engine runs at about 150. She is the loudest living animal on earth, and those sounds are how she sees in the dark. Her brain weighs seven kilograms. Five times heavier than yours. For a sperm whale, this was a routine meal. One whale eats four to eight hundred squid every day. The whole species eats about 110 million tons of squid every year, more than every fishing fleet on earth pulls out of the ocean combined. In the full uncropped video, you can see her baby swimming right next to her. Sperm whale calves do not go deep on their own. They only dive when their mothers bring them. She was teaching the baby how to hunt. That detail is the one that stayed with me.

A whole family gets a “mild sickness.” They recover but the 5 y/o never does. It starts the same: sore throat, fever, headache. OP mentions,”I told the doctors exactly what this looked like on day 1 & they laughed at me.” Then the child sickness escalates to severe head pain, inability to walk, seizures. White blood cell count: 51,000. Bladder: 500% full. Later develops encephalitis and meningitis which doctors said it came from a “simple sickness.” Days later, she passed away. Here’s the part people don’t want to face: Research has already confirmed that Covid can trigger both encephalitis and meningitis. A “mild” infection does not mean harmless. It means unpredictable. And Covid is still taking young, healthy lives every single day.

This is going to be one of the greatest health stories of the decade. For decades, every winter, we would admit many babies struggling to breathe from RSV, and now its gotten much rarer. Infected kids go on to have a higher rate of asthma. And a vaccine is eliminating all of that.

Part 2. A hospital in India can take someone who has been blind for years and give them their sight back in six minutes. It costs less than a pizza. And they have done it 6.8 million times. The hospital is called Aravind. It was started in 1976 by a man named Govindappa Venkataswamy, known as Dr. V. He was 58, had just been forced to retire, and his hands were crippled by arthritis so bad he could barely hold a pen. He had scalpels custom-made for his twisted fingers and still performed over 100,000 eye surgeries in his life. Two years before he retired, Dr. V walked into a McDonald’s for the first time. He looked at the menu, looked at the assembly line in the back, and came out with an odd idea. He would sell cataract surgeries the way McDonald’s sold burgers. So he mortgaged his house. His brothers and sisters pooled their life savings. He opened an 11-bed clinic in Madurai. Then he flew to Chicago and enrolled in Hamburger University, the actual McDonald’s training program, to learn how the assembly line worked. At Aravind, cataract surgery is broken into small steps. Nurses prep one patient while the surgeon operates on another. Each surgeon switches between two tables. The operation itself takes about six minutes. So far Aravind has seen 55 million patients and done 6.8 million surgeries. More than half of those patients paid nothing. Not a rupee. The ones who can pay subsidize the ones who cannot. A surgery at Aravind costs between $40 and $125 depending on the lens. In the US, Medicare pays about $1,766 for the same operation. Aravind also has better results. Their complication rate is 1.5%, and serious eye infections happen in about 2 out of every 10,000 surgeries. Most American hospitals are not that good. They built their own lens factory too, called Aurolab. Imported lenses were costing hundreds of dollars each, so Aurolab makes them for around ten. Today Aurolab produces roughly 10% of the world’s eye lenses and ships to 160 countries. Every year, Aravind sends doctors and nurses out to rural villages for 2,500 eye camps. They screen people who have been blind for years, bus them to the hospital, operate on them, and bus them back home seeing. Dr. V died in 2006. His family still runs Aravind. Harvard Business School has been teaching the story as a case study since 1993. I still do not see it in my feed. A 58-year-old with crippled hands walked into a McDonald’s. Fifty years later, 6.8 million blind people can see.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

There’s a famous story about a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, camps and all, while his entire family was killed. When he returned home, he said, “It could have been worse.” His students asked: “How could it possibly have been worse?” The rabbi replied: “It could have been us doing all the killing.”

ISRAELIS ARE NUMBERING PALESTINIANS IN THEIR CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

The people returning to their homes don't know the Yellow Line exists. But the IDF shoots them if they cross it, then labels them "terrorists". This is an outrage.

you are correct: this is an example of how language is manipulated for political reasons. obviously, these underaged girls in ICE facilities did not impregnate themselves. rape is not even mentioned. instead, the girls "test positive for pregnancy" as if it has been solely their own responsibility. what an insult to common sense as well as morality.

What disney did to matoaka's story is the evilest thing they've done. The sequel from these clips that sanitize the real story, in which matoaka was kidnapped, her husband murdered, raped repeatedly on her trip to england, forced into marriage and then murdered at 22 years old

@prinkasusa you cannot tell whether a woman has xx chromosomes, a uterus, or a vagina while walking on the street. you define a woman in your head based on how a person presents themselves. gender has and always will be a performance.

“women are people with periods.” not really many women dont menstruate. “well, women are people with uterus!” you can literally remove your uterus. “women are people born with uterus!” you can be born without one. “women are ppl with two X chromosomes” you can be AFAB and have a Y chromosome. “well women are people who are female at conception.” everyone is female at conception. there is no way to define womanhood that excludes trans women but includes all cis women.

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel. Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone. No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life. thenation.com/article/politi…

"allowed to leave the station" im sorry but some people are still in denial that d.c. is under military occupation

Friend texting me after surgery: They're trying to give me just tylenol. Me: Tell them that's not the plan agreed upon pre-op and failure to address pain appropriately is associated with worse treatment outcomes. Her: did that and they say they will give me meds but not the ones effective for me. Me: Mk tell them you'd like the charge nurse to review the treatment plan. Her: I did that and they just asked who I'm talking with rn. Can I say you're my lawyer? Me: Nah tell them I'm your advocate. And then tell them that you have a lawyer on retainer if they wanted his info (she does have one). Her: Did that. Her: They're giving me the right meds. Her: The charge nurse said she'd handle things and asked that I let you know there will not be issues going forward. Me: Let her know I expect there to not be but that I operate on-call.

We did this in the 1800s. Look up "vagrancy laws" and almshouses. And it didnt solve homelessness or poverty. People were just forcibly institutionalized and died. And it never turned a profit bc people either refused to work or were too disabled to produce enough for profit.

🚨🚨SCAM ALERT🚨🚨 ❌️This account is NOT the journalist Mohammed Ahmed.❌️ It's an impersonator. How did I discover this scam? They couldn't speak to me in natural Palestinian Arabic & instead sent stuff written by chatgpt. I asked for any document to prove his identity & he ignored me. Eventually, i contacted the real journalist on instagram & he told me this isn't his account. This impersonator account with location in Africa has already scammed some people out of money & sent me the receipts to convince me to donate to him. He also has an upscrolled. PLEASE REP000RT & BL0CK.

Here is the name of every senator that should be voted out after this unprecedented and abhorrent vote. They favor a foreign mining companies over our own country. There is a bullseye on all public lands by greedy capitalists starting today #VoteThemOut