we do what we must because we can

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Kids on screen behind Anthony Bourdian asked him how to cook a unicorn @noreservations (Taken with Instagram at The Great GoogaMooga)

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Haha!

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[explore-blog]

Real science is a revision in progress, always. It proceeds in fits and starts of ignorance.

A fantastic read on how ignorance fuels science and the evolution of knowledge. (via explore-blog)

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comment on peta article about snakes

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immigration and contagion

LAZZARINI: (Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine) "Most of our relatives - certainly my Italian relatives who came over in the early 1900s - all got checked for contagious diseases to the degree that they could check people at the time, and they could be turned back."

WILSON: "In 1952, Congress gave federal health officials the discretion to decide which diseases were grounds for excluding people who wished to immigrate to the U.S. But it was Republican Senator Jesse Helms who singled out HIV, first, by demanding that President Reagan issue an executive order in 1987 and then by getting Congress to enact it into law in 1993. Lazzarini says that from the beginning of this political battle, it was well understood that there was no public health justification for the rule."

LAZZARINI: We have known for many more years that HIV is not transmitted casually, that there is more HIV in the country and probably more HIV positive people leaving the country than coming in.

WILSON: And there it stood until 2008, when Congress again voted to allow federal health officials to determine which diseases belonged on the exclusionary list.

[navigatethestream]

black history month mantra: day 4

And on the fourth day, God gathered his children at the bottom of the mountain. And from on mount high he decreed “all those who have engaged in the folly of blackface must destroy their face paint, apologize to those who have been egregiously wronged, and vow never to do it again. those who don’t will be eternally marked with the stain of my disfavour.” And those who paid no heed to his words committed the grave sin once again. Soon after they found themselves marked with a plague which slowly ate away at the flesh of its host until there was nothing left. The sinners were punished, and the righteous upheld their covenant.

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a nice little re-write of the curse of noah.