(03 Dec) Your guide to the weirdest winter virus season we’ve ever had As vaccination rates slide, there are still ways you can protect yourself from cold, flu, RSV, and Covid this year.

Vox

Your guide to the weirdest winter virus season we’ve ever had

As vaccination rates slide, there are still ways you can protect yourself from cold, flu, RSV, and Covid this year.

#even-better #health #life #public-health

(02 Dec) Anacondas became massive 12 million years ago — and it worked so well, they haven’t changed size since The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

Live Science

Anacondas became massive 12 million years ago — and it worked so well, they haven

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

#animals #reptiles #snakes

(01 Dec) OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

Ars Technica

OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets

OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

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(03 Dec) The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.) Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking they invented sex, Li...

Open Culture

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)

Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking they invented sex, Listverse brings us the papyrus above, the oldest...

#history #life

(25 Nov) “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) “Bananas. The old Irishman taking his pig to market.” “To the child mind”, Percy Collins wrote in Am...

The Public Domain Review

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911)

Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.

(05 Nov) 7 Things AuDHD Adults Think Are “Normal“ but Actually Aren’t I thought all these things were normal but turns out I was just dealing with both Autism and ADHD for 42 years without knowing. Sharing my late diagnosis exp...

(02 Dec) Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.

ProPublica

Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the p...

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