Cartoon Network Website Shuts Down, Warner Bros. Discovery Kicks Visitors Over to Max
Warner Bros. Discovery shut down Cartoon Network's website and redirected visitors to a sign-up page on Max.
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Activist Research as a Methodological Toolbox to Advance Public Sociology - Miguel A Martínez, 2024
Sociologists – and social scientists more broadly – have often resorted to ‘public sociology’ and ‘activist research’ (AvR) with the aim of producing useful kno...
Valerie Castile says the state’s new school-meals law is an investment in Minnesota’s kids—and a tribute to her son, Philando
After the police killing of Philando Castile, his mother, Valerie Castile, has helped raise more than $200,000 to pay off the cafeteria debt of kids who can’t afford school lunch. On Friday, Governor Tim Walz signed a bill providing a basic breakfast and lunch to every kid in Minnesota.
Why Katie Ledecky initially kept her POTS diagnosis private
Katie Ledecky, the most decorated U.S. female Olympian in history, wrote about her journey to her POTS diagnosis and initial decision to keep it private in her book “Just Add Water: My Swimming Life.”
Why the Psychosomatic View on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Inconsistent with Current Evidence and Harmful to Patients
Since 1969, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has been classified as a neurological disease in the International Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization. Although numerous studies over time have uncovered organic abnormalities in patients with ME/CFS, and the majority of researchers to date classify the disease as organic, many physicians still believe that ME/CFS is a psychosomatic illness. In this article, we show how detrimental this belief is to the care and well-being of affected patients and, as a consequence, how important the education of physicians and the public is to stop misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and stigmatization on the grounds of incorrect psychosomatic attributions about the etiology and clinical course of ME/CFS.
The Covid Summer Games
You’ve probably seen by now that one of the stars of the Olympics collapsed in Paris last night with covid.
Column | Masculinity’s check-engine light is on. Let Tim Walz have a look.
Vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz’s “Midwestern dad vibe” comes with opportunities to rethink a whole tool kit of types.
Opinion | 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid
Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.
Enactive behaviour settings: situating agency, normativity and transformation | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Behaviour settings are sociocultural places defined by three main ecological aspects:
the affordances of material structures, typical patterns of skilful action and socially
situated norms. These aspects explain the observed regularities of human ...
Kamala Harris's WEIRD strategy
"Old and weird?" is linguistically interesting, and a new departure in political messaging. Let's see why.Edited with Gling AI: https://bit.ly/46bGeYv#lingui...
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Tim Walz and His Wife, Gwen, Open Up About Son's Non-Verbal Learning Disorder: 'His Secret Power' (Exclusive)
Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, are opening up to PEOPLE about their 'brilliant' 17-year-old son, Gus, who has a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD and an anxiety disorder — all conditions that they call his 'secret power'
Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis on Holocaust education, just as his own school's approach drew criticism - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The thesis built on Walz's own teaching and training from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Right Wants You to Forget Where DEI Really Started. You Shouldn’t.
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” DEI, is not a slur or offensive term.
Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual
By Thomas Ultican 8/5/2024 Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider just published The Education Wars. In their 2020 book, A Wolf at the School House Door, the focus was the rightwing and neoliberal a…
A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force
NASA declines to penalize Boeing for the deficiencies.
Age-Gating Access To Online Porn Is Unconstitutional
Texas is one of eight states that have enacted laws that force adults to prove their age before accessing porn sites. Soon it will try to persuade the Supreme Court that its law doesn’t violate the…
Computer Science Researchers Are Getting it Wrong When it Comes to Autism Inclusivity
Computer science Ph.D. student Naba Rizvi investigates the stereotypes about neurodiversity perpetuated by computer science research in a new study.
My Most Underrated Coping Skill
“You always had a hard time finding your place in this world, haven’t you? Never knowing your true worth. You can settle for a less than…
Stimming acts as the mixing process that stirs all of these ingredients together. The cake represents this soon-to-be-finished article. By repeatedly listening to a fragment of a film trailer, I have been able to transform various sources of inspiration into motivational energy. With this energy, in spite of a life now filled largely with despair, I am making something out of nothing. Some might say I am using my tragedy as a source of energy.
The phrase “What does not kill me makes me stronger” comes to mind. My autism was neglected so late into adulthood that, at age 42, my potential for a prosperous future was all but ruined. Nothing can repair the damage to my life, not to mention the psychological trauma. By embracing natural autistic stimming, I used what would otherwise be shunned as strange to make myself stronger. I am going to need it…
(2) @Autistic Realms on X: "1/6 New heartbreaking research from @AutCollab Change is needed. "It is only within nurturing, small ecologies of care beyond the human, that we can (re)discover our faith in humanity and our faith in the healing powers of the big cycle of life" https://t.co/W0djriEbHK https://t.co/4RYJP0gGka" / X
Change is needed.
"It is only within nurturing, small ecologies of care beyond the human, that we can (re)discover our faith in humanity and our faith in the healing powers of the big cycle of life"
— @Autistic Realms (@autisticrealms)
U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village
Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of Paris's medical services.
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces $10 billion Long Covid Moonshot legislation to support research, healthcare, education - The Sick Times
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Long Covid Research Moonshot Act of 2024. The bill allocates $1 billion in federal funding per year for the next 10 years for Long Covid research, treatments, public health education, and expanded healthcare. A draft version of the Act received thousands of comments from the Long Covid community in April. The official legislation, which would establish a new program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth, Ed Markey, Tina Smith, Peter Welch, and Tim Kaine, who has Long Covid.
Opinion | The Soul of Soil
The dirt beneath our feet is a bigger, bolder world than you think.
Tim Walz is leading the way on Long Covid funding
Under the new VP nominee, Minnesota became the first state to fund research on the debilitating condition.
Under Walz’s leadership, in May of last year, Minnesota became the first state to dedicate funding to Long Covid and associated conditions, including myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Billy Hanlon, the Minnesota ME/CFS Alliance‘s director of advocacy and outreach, says that Walz was instrumental in pushing for the legislation.
“Just as COVID-19 is not going away,” Walz wrote in his 2023 funding proposal, “Long COVID is not going away.”
The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
THIS IS WHAT TRANS PUNK LOOKS LIKE (full documentary)
"This Is What Trans Punk Looks Like" is a documentary about the transgender punk culture in Texas and the beauty of community. It features several interviews...
Pluralistic: Circular battery self-sufficiency (06 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
As a species, we have always treated energy as scarce, trying to wring every erg and therm that we can out of our energy sources. Meanwhile, we've treated materials as abundant, digging them up or chopping them down, using them briefly, then tossing them on a midden or burying them in a pit.
Chachra argues that this is precisely backwards. Our planet gets a fresh supply of energy twice a day, with sunrise (solar) and moonrise (tides). On the other hand, we've only got one Earth's worth of materials, supplemented very sporadically when a meteor survives entry into our atmosphere. Mining asteroids, the Moon and other planets is a losing proposition for the long foreseeable future:
As Chachra says, infrastructure is inherently altruistic, a gift to our neighbors and our descendants. If all you want is a place to stick your own poop, you don't need to build a citywide sanitation system.
Our species' historical approach to materials is not (ahem) carved in stone. It is contingent. It has changed. It can change again. It needs to change, because the way we extract materials today is both unjust and unsustainable.
This isn't to say that cleantech is a solved problem. There are many political aspects to cleantech that remain pernicious, like the fact that so many of the cleantech offerings on the market are built around extractive financial arrangements (like lease-back rooftop solar) and "smart" appliances (like heat pumps and induction tops) that require enshittification-ready apps:
Take "innovation." Silicon Valley's string of pump-and-dump nonsense – cryptocurrency, NFTs, metaverse, web3, and now AI – have made "innovation" into a dirty word. As the AI bubble bursts, the very idea of innovation is turning into a punchline:
Routledge Handbook of Creative Futures Author Series – Transformative Studies–CIIS
Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly and Dr. Alfonso Montuori, the co-editors of the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, delve into the challenges of thinking about c...
Identifying the functions of restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests in Autism: A scoping review.
Restricted and repetitive behaviours and interests (RRBIs) are common and integral to the everyday living of autistic persons. While RRBIs are often s…
Radical Unschooling: Anarchy Starts at Home — Academic Anarchy
Conscious parenting and unschooling go hand in hand, blending together into what Dayna Martin dubbed Radical Unschooling . This philosophy transcends traditional education, reshaping how we interact with and nurture our children. We cast aside conventional practices like strict bedtimes, mandatory
Former geography teacher Tim Walz is really into maps • Minnesota Reformer
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz really, really likes maps. The former Mankato geography teacher, now a vice presidential candidate, identifies as a “GIS nerd” and proclaimed November 15, 2023 as Geographic Information Systems day, writing that an understanding of maps and data “helps community leaders and government officials make data-driven decisions” governing important policy issues like […]