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Happy Darwin Day!

Darwin Day marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on 12 Feb 1809. The day celebrates science and humanity as well as the life of this great scientist who provided the foundation for modern biology, drastically changing our perception of the world and our place in it.
February 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Happy Darwin Day!

Darwin Day marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on 12 Feb 1809. The day celebrates science and humanity as well as the life of this great scientist who provided the foundation for modern biology, drastically changing our perception of the world and our place in it.
February 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Meditate on this.

Researchers using intracranial EEG recordings from deep within the brain found that #meditation led to changes in activity in the amygdala and hippocampus, key brain regions involved in emotional regulation and memory. 🧠
Meditation found to induce changes in deep brain areas associated with memory and emotional regulation
Researchers using intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings from deep within the brain found that meditation led to changes in activity in the amygdala and hippocampus, key brain regions invo...
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February 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." –Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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shanley tucci @markpopham.bsky... 20h Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving theforceisstronginthegirl For people who have never seen a cow I'll explain: Cows are covered in cow shit. All the time. Even clean cows who get bathed regularly have cow shit on them. But listen to me. Normal dairy cows are not getting baths. They have cowshit on them, the splash back from their cowshit gets on udders. So does cow urine. Also listen mud gets on cow udders, cow hair, bugs, and other nasties will get in the milk. But most importantly: cow shit. There is so much cow shit involved with cows even in the cleanest and healthiest dairies. Cows shit a LOT. Also for some reason cows like to lie down in cowshit. You will have a whole pasture with no cowshit and they will find the most disgusting pile of cowshit you've ever had the misfortune to smell and they lie right in it. When cows were milked by hand this was a problem- when cows are milked with machinery this is a problem. Cows are animals and they shit. A lot. And it's going to get into the milk. And listen. You do not want to drink cow shit germs in milk. And milk can be filtered all you want and it is- but germs? gotta cook those fuckers out. So you don't get sick from the cowshit. TLRD: cow shit.
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I don't care that much about wrinkles and gray hair, I'm more worried about keeping my worldview flexible enough that when I'm older I don't condescendingly tell young people to play by the rules that worked in my day, with no concern for whether or not those rules still apply 🤷‍♀️
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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If you disagree with scientists about science, it's not really a disagreement. You're actually just missing the point. Science is not truth, it's the process of finding the truth. When science evolves, it didn't lie to you, it learned more
February 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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February 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Here is an English language version of a cartoon by Joscha Sauer (the original cartoon is in German).

Credit: Joscha Sauer
The original German version is available at joscha.com/nichtlustig/...
Speech bubble: For years, experts all over the world researched and discussed. But in the end, it was Stephen who solved the problem because he read something on the internet somewhere that nobody knew. Left banner Thanks, Stephen Right banner Stephen, our Saviour!
February 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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From Digital Health to 'Self-Driving' Care: Insights with Dr. Daniel Kraft

A fun podcast I recorded with my friend @lucienengelen.com at HLTH
HLTH: From Digital Health to 'Self-Driving' Care: Insights with Dr. Daniel Kraft
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December 23, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Everything old is new again… 😬
December 30, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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It reminds me of this quote:

"Nothing can be quite so resentful as a man who has ridden on your back for 50 years and then you make him get off and walk."
-Tommy Douglas
January 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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There is a really pretty ring around the Moon tonight.
December 15, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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This is quite the honour, to have your photo in a NASA calendar alongside pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. Photographer Gunjan Sinha of 5elementsxposure took this photo on May 11, 2024, near Saskatoon, SK, and it is featured in the 2025 NASA Science Calendar.
December 15, 2024 at 8:11 AM