Ellen313
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Ellen313
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Journalist/Writer/Storyteller. Shoe lover. Animal rescuer. Caregiver. Living organ donor. I'd love to write for SNL. #NarrativeMedicine #binders
Actress Mena Suvari, Medical Ethics Group Offer Brown University $25,000 to Stop Killing Animals
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Actress Mena Suvari, Medical Ethics Group Offer Brown University $25,000 to Stop Killing Animals
Actress and Newport native Mena Suvari is partnering with a national medical ethics group to offer Brown University a helping hand. In a letter sent June 18 to school leaders, Suvari, of American Beau...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
~John Muir
May 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I feel seen. Coming from someone who routinely has 500 browser tabs open, crashing my computer.
April 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thank goodness people are waking up to the cruelty behind feathers in fashion: hats, boas.

How hat fashions ruffled feathers, spurring a conservation movement youtu.be/6wgs49RgFN8?si… via @YouTube
How hat fashions ruffled feathers, spurring a conservation movement
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
https://youtu.be/6wgs49RgFN8?si…
April 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Every morning you have to conquer the demons who say, “This will never be any good. This will never be what I saw when I dreamed of it.” But you just have to say, “Keep on, keep on,” and finally it gets through.

—May Sarton
April 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation www.openculture.com/2018/07/watc...
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation
Some filmmakers start in commercials, honing their chops in anticipation of making personal projects later. A select few go in the other direction, realizing their distinctive vision before fielding o...
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April 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The horror and we are complicit.
“I looked in the eyes of cows who could feel every slice of the knife as their ears were cut off and their faces were skinned, the workers holding the cows in place while they gasped for air and struggled to move away from the pain.”
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Opinion | What Some Animals Endure Before We Eat Them
An insider offers a grim picture of life inside a cattle slaughterhouse.
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April 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Maybe these people need to witness what happens in factory farming, slaughterhouses, see how these animals are abused and terrified so these people have meat on their plates.

Who’s Afraid of Lab-Grown Meat? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
Who’s Afraid of Lab-Grown Meat?
Mississippi became the third state to ban cell-derived meat, a product not for sale in the United States. But not all livestock producers are opposed to cultivated protein.
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March 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The egg industry hides a dark secret.
Every year in the [U.S.], more than 300 million male chicks are hatched...because they don’t lay eggs or produce valued meat, they are typically killed within a day, usually shredded alive in industrial grinders.
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A Simple New Technique Could Make Your Eggs More Humane
A system that determines the sex of chicks before they hatch eliminates the need to destroy young males.
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March 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I Teach at Harvard. Store Managers See Me as a Threat. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...
Opinion | I Teach at Harvard. Store Managers See Me as a Threat.
Maybe I just wanted to be seen as something other than a threat, a nuisance, because I happen to be Black.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nature is so amazing...

How Fungi Move Among Us www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...
How Fungi Move Among Us
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is exemplary of so many people's discomfort with death. Ideally the crew would have allowed the couple to trade with anyone who was not so upset to sit next to the deceased woman.

A Woman Died Midflight. Her Body Was Seated Next to Them.

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A Woman Died Midflight. Her Body Was Seated Next to Them.
Flight attendants placed the body of a woman who died during a 14-hour flight in a seat next to a couple from Australia. They described the experience as distressing.
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February 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Facing Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, She Fought for the Right to Plan Her Death www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...
Facing Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, She Fought to Expand Assisted Suicide in Quebec
Sandra Demontigny, 45, pushed Quebec to become one of the few places in the world to allow people to choose a medically assisted death sometimes years in advance.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Reposted by Ellen313
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal cancer diagnosis. Instead of pulling back from work, he chose to spend the fall quarter teaching a course about his own illness.
When This Stanford Professor Got Cancer, He Decided to Teach a Class About It
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
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February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Important: The Michigan DNR and USDA have decided to gas all Canada geese removed from area lakes and businesses in 2025. This barbaric practice must be stopped. We need your help to promote humane alternatives.

Please attend the Canada Goose webinar exposingthebiggame.blog/2025/02/23/p...
Please attend the Canada Goose webinar
Protect Our Geese, Protect Our Communities  Free Webinar: Hosted by In Defense of Animals’ National Goose Protection Coalition Important: The Michigan DNR and USDA have decided …
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February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Love him.... such a great writer.

Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
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February 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Ellen313
“Be brave” @janefonda.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Such a stunningly beautiful song…
🙏💓🙏

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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (2020 Remaster)
YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic
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February 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Exactly.

Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap
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Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap
Housing market appreciation has been the primary driver of growing white-Black wealth disparities since the mid-1980s.
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February 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM