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Excellent contribution to the what % of outcomes are attributable to x, y, z www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Measured & unmeasured life-course factors explain up to 74% of chronic disease accumulation Clinical Lifestyle (term used advisedly!) Early life Socioeconomic All the above interacts 1

A worrying case - blasphemy isn’t illegal - but here it has been judged to be.

Well, that's another day nearly over, gang. Just enough time left to quickly check in on the AI takeover we're sacrificing our actual planet to fuel.

Today in 1937 Tommy Woodrooffe, a very drunk broadcaster, commentated on a Royal Navy Fleet Review. Only for a few minutes, until they faded him out. #CareerGoals.

A chunky article out today on the energy costs of AI: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1... tl:dr The problem isn't really now but the future - massive & rapid expansion is almost inevitable. And the bigger problem is tech companies are keeping the real (& likely gigantic) energy costs secret.

When did journalism change? When I did my journalism postgrad, we were taught to ensure the opening sentence summarised the key info. Today's online 'news' writers must've been taught to ‘hide the key info until paragraph 14!' so people must tediously scroll through copious ads

Normalise shushing people on a Sunday. Giving em the old Sunday shush. Loud cunts.

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One thing that really bothered me about this discussion was the number of speakers who insisted that the gov attacks on US science are "unprecedented". They're not. Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Iran, Turkey & more all purged their academy. Surely learning from that history is essential. #EGU25

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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Wow, what a fantastic piece. So interesting and full of really important information for anyone writing non-fiction, especially memoirs and essays. Thanks for sharing! :) @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social #memoirs #writingcommunity

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

True facts are true

As we head into the Easter weekend, we are asking everyone, please: 🚮 Take all your litter home and NO fires or BBQs 🐑 Dogs on a lead to keep lambs and ground nesting birds safe 📍 Download our FREE newly updated walking app ow.ly/bNJY50VBvr3 Thank you 🙏

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On Waterfall Wednesday this is a view along the four and a half mile Ingleton Waterfalls Trail which features some of the most spectacular waterfall and woodland scenery in the country. #YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday

Bwhahaha electrek.co/2025/04/14/t...

I’ve always been perplexed by people who need to leave the planet in order to realise how precious and beautiful it is.