Research suggests that how a body reacts to a vaccine is altered by the type of microbiome a person has. Studies on the Covid-19 vaccine, for example, suggest it affected the snot's microbiome, and in turn, the microbiome affected how efficient the vaccine was.
I hope those researchers get paid extra.
The researchers asked 22 adults to shoot themselves up the nose with a syringe full of snot from healthy friends and partners each day for five days. They discovered that symptoms like cough and facial pain, for instance, dropped by almost 40% for up to three months in at least 16 of the patients.
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There's no way those 22 could have been paid enough.
The researchers examined about 222,000 menu items from over 2,000 restaurants in Boston, about 1.6 million menu items from roughly 9,000 restaurants in Dubai, and about 3.1 million menu items from about 18,000 restaurants in London. In Boston, about 71 percent of the items were in the USDA database; in Dubai and London, that figure was 42 percent and 56 percent, respectively.
So only 3 cities, with London getting the best dataset.
In Dubai, the researchers did not have the same types of health data available but did observe a strong correlation between rental prices and the nutritional value of neighborhood-level food, suggesting that wealthier residents have better nourishment options.
This makes a case for "correlation does not mean causation". The title usues the word "link", but it sounds like poor neighborhoods have cheap restaurants because that's what customers can afford, which is just another way of saying there's a correlation between obesity and low incomes.
The research moves toward evaluating the complex mix of food available in any given area, which can be true even of areas with more limited options.
Okay, I appreciate that this is now adding to the data about what food options are available. So even though it sounds like something we already knew, having more proof from a different view is a Good Thing.
Notice that A is obesity prevalence and F is housing prices, which we'd expect to be opposites. There seems to be correlation with A and C. It would be easier to read all of this if F was reversed to 'lowest housing rates' or some such.
Edit: above image of the London breakdown is from the cited paper which also breaks down the same factors for Boston and Dubai.
They wrote that piece well and linked to archive.ph so people can see the history. They have a snapshop from July 10th with 'bisexual' erased, but as of July 11th, it is back. As I write, the text they cite reads:
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living authentically as a lesbian, a bisexual person or a gay man was illegal.
It still omits transgendered as it has since the Februrary 'purge'.
I've played this game enough that I'm tired of it. New DLC won't change my mind.
The game got me to figure out that I don't want to play a game where the people are always going to be really unhappy no matter how far I advance. If I'm playing a city/world builder, I want a game where my advancment also means things are better for the NPCs. In this game, my advancement means I can start with some tiny different perks, but nost of those are wiped out by Prestige runs, so the NPCs have really brutal conditions all the time. And if things start going well? Poof! You're on to the next town before you can enjoy the last one.
Ah, yes, I remember those days with the text-only LYNX browser from the unix terminal and the joy of Netscape Navigator on machines that could handle windows. Searching was difficult until there was Alta Vista, which was AMAZING compared to the competition, but even it failed for D&D-style gamers who tried to search for "role playing games" and got back a list of a million sex sites and zero visible pen/paper/dice games. Happily, you could add boolean operator rules to get rid of some of that (NOT sex NOT babes NOT XXX) -- but you'd either be typing a lot of naughty words to skip or you'd have to remember the sites that catered to RPGs because searching could be very hit or miss.
At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says.
I've never had that happen (U.S.). I've either gone to the pound or accepted someone else's pet when they could no longer care for care for it (due to: illness/death/move requiring dubious 30 day animal quarantine).
Imagine a, say, Star Trek episode that is set on some planet we don't know with some species we don't know, where some characters we don't know occasionally mention Star Fleet and The Federation, but are mostly just doing their jobs and concerned with their own issues. At the end of the episode, they've had a dramatic arc in their relationship and -- oh yeah -- in the middle, they finished that work-thing as an incidental. At the end of the episode, we see the cast we know on the starship we know and final shot closes in to emphasize that the work-thing is on board. We didn't NEED to know the backstory of the people that worked on the thing, and their story doesn't matter at all for using the work-thing, but the audience has a deeper view of the show's universe.
Is that sort of show filler, bridge, or neither?
Edit: Dr. Who's Love and Monsters was a little like what I mean, but that had more Doctor than my hypothetical would allow.
If any of y'all watch The Last of Us, I'm curious about what you think of S1E3, "Long Long Time" where the main characters are absent for most the episode, which is mostly about Bill and Frank. Where does that fit in the world of 'filler' or 'bridge' or whatever?
I agree that there is too much unnecessary age discrepancies in TV and film, but sometimes that is the point the authors are trying to explore. I may be misremembering, but I think I even Humphrey Bogart thought he was too long to be the love interest of just-back-from-private-school Sabrina in the movie of the same name, so that works as an example of where the ages should have been closer. There was no reason for the disparity.
In contrast the disturbing relationship in L.I.E. between a teen and a pedophile had to have that age disparity (I'm not recommending this movie and I do not think it appropriate for most audiences -- I saw it as part of a film festival and was not ready for it, but I do feel it has a right to exist).
I have not seen the webtoon in question here, but from the title, it sounds like the whole point of the show is the age disparity -- but that is not an appropriate subject for kids. That's something that should only be tackled in an NC-17 style drama because as soon as you make it light entertainment, you normalize a bad behavior.
To me, Léon feels more Don't Stand So Close To Me than My Sharona, which is to say that in the former song, the male character recognizes his attraction is inappropriate and in the latter the guy is proclaiming, " Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind. I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind. "
More explicitly, Léon has a moral objection to killing woman and kids. He isn't looking to lure in children for exploitation, he just wants to get paid to murder adult men. His morals are not our morals. While he absolutely falls for Mathilda, I see no evidence that Léon has a pattern of sexualizing kids.
I can see your point of view that by teaching Mathilda how to assassinate people Léon was in fact grooming her, but he was not the one coaxing his too-young neighbor to hide in his house and learn his trade to avenge her family. She is making these demands of him and he is initially reluctant. That is not to say his attraction to her is appropriate. He is a villainous 'hero', and like so my of the archetype, must pay for his years of immorality with his life.
TL;DR: I think you stretch the definition of 'Grooming' when the adult is trying to keep distance and the child makes the demands.
You are correct, but I mow kinda high and my lawn has lots of low flowering weeds and flowering shrubs. In the spring, there is patch of ... probably purslane? and daffodils on the border. Then the comfrey has its first bloom, then the clover and dandelions. Right now there's more dandelions and comfrey's second bloom. Next comes the invasive morning glorys and rose of sharon. There are a bunch of other things that flower, like wild strawberries, wild violets, and yarrow that is stanted by getting chopped down every week or two -- but there's more and I don't know all their names.
We also have some type of carpenter/bumble bee trying hard to destroy the edge of the porch overhang. I'm just letting them do their thing and plan on repairing it if/when it becomes a structural issue.
While I tend to agree, I want to point out that it's a very modern view point.
American pet stores these days are pet supply stores. Way back when (1970s and before), they were stocked with all kinds of creatures; some that were probably illegally imported as well as a mix of cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, canaries, and the like that were partially from people whose pets gave birth. You fancy canaries and some of hatch chicks? A nice side hustle was to sell the excess offspring back to the store. Same for mice. Stores were offered enough rabbits, guinea pigs, and kittens that they'd be overstocked if they took them all -- especially kittens.
Spaying/Neutering was not common. Cats and dogs roamed off-leash and got pregnant. When you went to the grocery store, there was a fair chance someone was out front with a box of "Free Puppies!" filled with mongrels that pet stores did not want because they weren't pure. The same was true for "Free Kittens!" but that, again, was because no store wanted as many kittens as the supply. That's also why there were so many kill shelters: supply far exceeded demand.
I like it better now that most pets are NOT allowed to uncontrollably breed, but I do miss the chance to find some adorable mutt that isn't half pit bull.
My lawn isn't totally natural because I mow it, but I don't use any chemicals. Despite some trees and shrubs, my yard doesn't have ticks. We have grubs, mice, shrews, squirrels, birds, and occasional poison ivy that we pull up, but no ticks. They are in the park (with forest) a couple blocks away, but not in the trimmed lawns in my chunk of suburbia.
Ticks like shady, moist leaf litter with an overstory of trees or shrubs and, in the spring, they deposit their eggs into such places allowing larvae to emerge in the fall and crawl into low-lying vegetation. The 3 meter boundary closest to the lawn's edge are a tick migration zone, where 82% of tick nymphs in lawns are found.
I hope those researchers get paid extra.
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There's no way those 22 could have been paid enough.