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rogue scientist // Alex // US // 19 // white // chronic pain // he/him or she/her

[heavyweightheart]

“The third theme of inaccuracy [in the weight-centered health paradigm] relates to the depiction of relationships between body weight, morbidity, and mortality. Life expectancy is the primary health indicator used at the population level. The claim that life expectancy is reduced as a direct result of body weight higher than the ‘normal weight’ BMI category is not supported by large epidemiological studies. The largest epidemiological study ever conducted followed 1.8 million people over a 10-year follow-up period and demonstrated an inverted U shaped relationship between BMI and life expectancy, with the highest life expectancy in people with a BMI between 26 and 28 (in the ‘overweight’ BMI category) and the lowest life expectancy in those with a BMI under 18 (in the ‘underweight’ BMI category). Those with a BMI between 18 and 20 (in the ‘healthy weight’ BMI category) had a lower life expectancy than those with a BMI between 34 and 36 (in the ‘obese’ BMI category;).”

- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018772888

[70sscifiart]

Syd Mead concept art

[anneofgreengaybles]

sometimes I tweet about the funny/cute/utterly bizarre shit my 3rd graders do and say

[anneofgreengaybles]

[anneofgreengaybles]

[anneofgreengaybles]

the latest dispatches from room 156

[anneofgreengaybles]

happy monday folks

[whitepeopletwitter]

[pettydavis]

a horror film not being scary isnt a bad thing. horror is supposed to HORRIFY, and conflating it with this obsession with scares has really messed with the genre imo. its why so many films are ineffective with audiences, because they leave no lasting impression due to the fact that filmmakers are focusing so muchon trying to scare you and not actually exploring things that deeply unsettle us.

[jewish-tutter]

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

[rizaoftheowls]

Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Let’s eat some fried food. Candles!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.

[rizaoftheowls]

Yup. Or as we say, “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.”

[galaxy-of-great-possibilities]

thank you for the desc’s bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated

[above-d-clouds]

A handy table for everyone:

[cityglowing]

Y’all have no idea how happy it makes me to see my goyim followers reblogging this. Really. It means the world to me.

[curseworm]

[curseworm]

hell? this is hell? hell? is that what this is? hell?

[runcibility]

They want us so scared of being dead we can't pay attention to anything else.

[caramara3]

And this, THIS RIGHT HERE, is why this election is crucial.

I don't like getting political on here but if you are eligible to vote this year... GO VOTE.

Flip the Senate. Get rid of Tr**p.

[julanar6]

“The proposal would supersede such federal worker safeguards as the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, among others.”

It abolishes workplace protections THAT ARE ALREADY THERE.

KICK THESE FUCKERS OUT OF OFFICE!

[nativenews]

[shiny-good-rock]

hey all, here's a petition to the Honolulu City Council, the Kailua Neighborhood Board, and Kailua and Oahu residents, urging them to support the Kawainui Street Apartments project in Kailua:

Sign the Petition

Hawaii needs more affordable housing NOW! Please support the Kawainui St. Project!

this petition only has 310 signatures.

and here's another petition (with 5 signatures at the time of posting this) by a group of volunteers working with the Faith Action for Community Equity group that made the other petition:

Keep Kailua Locals IN Kailua -- We need affordable housing in Kailua NOW!

We are a volunteer group of Kailua renters and homeowners working in association with Faith Action for Community Equity. We believe housing

if reading the above post bothered you, do something about it!

sign the petitions before August 2nd and share this post.

want to do more?

write an email to a member of the council urging them to support affordable housing for Kailua residents.

here's the contact information for the council members!

do some good today!

[newtonpermetersquare]

Chad wisdom teeth

[ottosgotanothergun]

Wisdom tooth impaction is a very recent phenomenon starting mainly as a problem after the Industrial Revolution.

Why Cavemen Needed No Braces

Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale symptom of an underlying epidemic.

Wisdom teeth are impacted due to diminishing jaw strength during a human’s development; crucially during a human’s toddler years when the child’s jaw is developing the fastest. Most children are raised on soft food and humans continue to eat primarily soft foods for most of their lives.

I can’t find it currently, but there was a study in a dental journal published in the last few years that compared jaw-room/strength between urban and rural children in Ireland in the 1880’s(?) and children today. Overall modern children have smaller room in their mouths and their jaws are smaller than children of the same age in the 1880’s(?). But there was also a contrast between urban children and rural children in Ireland. The urban children, on average, had smaller mouth room versus their rural counterparts due to the urban children having greater access to processed foods while children in the rural areas ate raw/harder foods more often and a stronger jaw was developed during their formative years.

If you want to help prevent a weak jaw and the later issues of misaligned teeth and impacted molars, regularly introduce harder/tougher foods to them at a young age.

[zahnegott-lives]

glad to know incel jaw has a scientific precedent and that the solution is to feed my toddler beef jerky

[kingmakings]

You came back. Yeah.

KIKI LAYNE and CHARLIZE THERON as NILE and ANDY | The Old Guard (2020) (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

[doramilaje]

THE OLD GUARD (2020) dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood

bonus:

[caroldanversenthusiast]

THIS SCENEEE the gays as dramatic as ever

[nuclearharvest]

Y’all.... this is not good.. #freebritney

[yeettherich]

For anyone wondering what’s happening: For 12 years, Britney Spears has been under a conservatorship wherein her father and a lawyer have been granted full legal authority over her life and assets. The status is arranged for individuals deemed unable to feed and clothe themselves, and was implemented in Ms. Spears’s case after a mental health crisis in 2008.

The situation has returned to the spotlight because the conservatorship was recently extended, and because Kanye West’s presidential campaign announcement has brought the situation into contrast with his mental health history, as West was institutionalized over psychological issues in 2016.

Many argue that the conservatorship is abusive and unnecessary, as Spears has demonstrated full mental faculty in the decade since her guardians were appointed, and see a double standard between her continued conservatee status, 12 years after her mental health episodes, and West’s presidential bid after just 4.

[ithelpstodream]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[molothoo]

It’s crazy to think how The Black Panther Party was born out of these very acts…and the police worked alongside the FBI to dismantle and murder the movement and its leaders…and now here we are again, actively having to witness all interactions with police because literally nothing has changed since the 60’s…

[supermassivebutthole-deactivate]

Hey, this is just the daily reminder for the twilight rennaisance that you should care about other native peoples than the Quilleute people. You should know the name of the tribe who lives/d on the land you inhabit, and the closest reservation to you, At LEAST. I dont think most ppl know that information but you live on stolen land so get to fucking learning it

[teamjacobthot]

!!! here’s a map of native lands

[dykecosette]

Drunk Bitch Hierarchy of Needs

[butchlynz]

@thanks-a-maxamillion​

[kaelio]

[dollfat]