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"The musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause"Wright, V. J., Schwartzman, J. D., Itinoche, R., & Wittstein, J. (2024). The musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause. Climacteric, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13697137.2024.2380363

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Nonlinear dynamics of multi-omics profiles during human aging - Nature Aging

Understanding the molecular changes underlying aging is important for developing biomarkers and healthy aging interventions. In this study,

"Functions and risks of aging-related diseases change nonlinearly across the human lifespan and provides insights into the molecular and biological pathways involved in these changes."

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Financialisation: a 21st century commercial determinant of health equity

In 21st century capitalism, financial markets reign supreme. The elevation of investing, trading, and speculating as a way of making profit

"The global public health community must pay close attention to these key commercial determinants of health. It is now crucial to reduce the power of financial actors and hold financial actors accountable. Civil society groups can highlight their practices, articulate alternative visions, and hold financial actors and governments to account. Interdisciplinary research must provide a diagnosis of the financial and public health issues, and, importantly, illuminate effective pathways forward. Financial and commercial worlds must return to stakeholder primacy rather than that of the shareholder."

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Back in 2022, I had the honor of presenting at Prefiguring and Resisting Tech: Towards Just Transitions organized by Lilly Irani, Bonnie Fan

"Academics devote our lives to producing ideas because we know that ideas matter, yet to admit that they matter would require changing everything about the institutions that nominally determine the value of our work. The boundaries of academic discourse and the cordiality due to colleagues force us into this double bind. We are not “conforming to the traditions or rules” if we name the consequences of the positions that others hold, if we get upset, or if we implicate ourselves in the work."

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Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” –Georgia O’Keeffe * Someone at the dinner table wanted to know what everyone’s turnin

"Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite: an argument that the status quo must be changed, and it will take steadfast commitment to see the job through. It’s not accepting defeat; it’s accepting the terms of possible victory."

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flag by the inimitable @hellenhighwater

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A Brief History of Pickles

From ancient Mesopotamia to New York deli counters, pickles have played a vital role in the global culinary scene. But where do pickles come

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One Thing I learned...

[From the August 3, 2016 issue of the newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sociology of Education]   I very rece

One Thing I Learned By Editing Sociology of Education

"Most papers simply lacked a soul—a compelling and well-articulated reason to exist. The world (including the world of education) faces an extraordinary number of problems, challenges, dilemmas, and even mysteries. Yet most papers failed to make a good case for why they were necessary. Many analyses were not well motivated or informed by existing theory, evidence, or debates. Many authors took for granted that readers would see the importance of their chosen topic, and failed to connect their work to related issues, ideas, or discussions. Over and over again, I kept asking myself (and reviewers also often asked): So what?"

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This Is Not a Review of Lars Von Trier's Repulsive 'The House That Jack Built'

"I am [...] already sick of heartless men playing loveless games; of the way, for men who have never been at risk of attack, who have no reason to fear the world, the violence on this planet can be simply another playground to have fun in. [...] You can write a film that requires the dead bodies of women to be arranged in comical poses, as an arch metaphor for your own tyranny — or you can write something else. You choose."

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Climax, SK - Pilot | STORYHIVE

Pilot for Climax, SK: in which a spy hides from assassins

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Sonic Seasoning — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

Taste is one of our most subjective of the five senses. A flavor that elicits delight in one individual may evoke strong disgust in another.

On the relationship between sound and taste

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Over 83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns Are Now Available Online

The Vintage Patterns Wiki boasts over 83,500 vintage sewing patterns from the 1920s to 1992. It's possible to browse by year or garment type

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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?

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Zombie projects and the ‘forever homework’ of academic life

Like many academics, I have too many things on. By ‘things’ I mean projects of all shapes and sizes, from ‘write a book on neurodiversity an

“Waste of time, low hanging fruit, soul sucking abyss, or strategic investment”?

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How to know when to fold ‘em

Plus references to two chart-topping hits separated by 44 years, numerous mentions of chocolate, and a shout out to the Oxford comma.

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The Long Hand of Slave Breeding, Redux

Alito’s draft opinion is correct on two points: The historical section of Roe is a mess; it says nothing about slavery, let alone controlled