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My favorite fact about ctenophores is that they evolved their nervous system completely independently of other animals. They don't have serotonin or dopamine receptors at all and use L-glutamate as their main neurotransmitter

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Alternate cover photos of the Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies EP, released in Jan 1994. Photographer Rocky Schenck said he can't remember the name of the kid, but remembers his assistant making multiple trips up the street to gather hundreds of flies with a butterfly net at some nearby horse stables.

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WE HAVE OCD. A whole episode w/ ICON Dr. Wayne Goodman. Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope. Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP. www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...

Obsessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Dr. Wayne Goodman — alie ward

Ruminations and reassurances. Checking and counting. Suffering and stigmas. It’s OCD, babes! OCD is now considered one of the most common psychiatric conditions, afflicting 2% to 3% of the general pop...

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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

Responding to climate change isn’t just about solar panels and EVs It’s about access to clean drinking water It’s about access to shaded outdoor spaces It’s about access to N95s during wildfires It’s about checking in with vulnerable populations during heatwaves #Medsky