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2-year-old Nevada boy dies from brain-eating amoeba likely contracted at natural hot spring | CNN in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, f*@k, I was just in hot springs 2 days ago...

The Abyss in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bravo. Well spoke.

CDC facing major funding cuts, with direct impact on state and local health departments | CNN in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

CDC should never, ever suffer a B-B-Billion dollar budget cut. We are so boned.

FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Best news today. Keep it coming.

did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm 50, and yes. Except in HS, I sat and dared them to do something about it. My school knew how to pick their battles, they never disciplined me for my acts of civil disobedience (I also protested the dress code when they enacted one).

Spotted Coralroot (Corallorhiza maculata), one of the few orchids that we have here in Southern Colorado, USA in c/nature

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wuuuut?!? It parasitizes mushies?

That's craaazy!!!

If we get an AI overlord, then i hope its free and open source in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linux Nation will be considered too small and inconsequential for MS and Apple Nations to take the time to squash.

People who still use Reddit, how is it? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was a ghost town for a couple of weeks, after the first exodus. Activity has picked back up, but it seems like about half of it is dug up reposts from 1 wk - 10 yrs ago. So, bots? Not sure.

When you sit around a fire, you're participating in a ritual that has been performed by countless generations of humans since the beginning of our species. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And when I do, I feel the connection to my amcestors.

Researcher investigates undocumented prehistoric languages through irregularities in current languages in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Needs a name.

I propose Forensic Linguistics.
(But it's probably already been taken)

Just discovered @NewScientist - a geeky webcomic - enjoying it so far. What other scifi or science-based comics are you into (I mean, other than the Far Side)? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

XKCD, and PhD Comics

The Magic of Moss: The Tiny Plant Absorbs 6x More CO2 Than Other Plants, Says New Study in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Our frenz, dem mosses