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full of Qs for #AcademicSky today - specifically, can anyone recc. a super introductory-level guide to humanities methodologies that would be suitable for STEM students doing med hums/STS for the first time? Like a v. basic "what is anthropology/lit studies/history" 🗃️

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

A buddy described Mark Robinson as “the character Tracy Morgan would play on Veep”

@dankaszeta.bsky.social maybe?

LMlarsga.bsky.socialSep 15, 2024 10:38am

Can you read Latvian, or you can share this with someone who can? If so, perhaps you can help me. I have 68 archive documents from the Latvian National History Museum, describing traditional farmhouse brewing, dated 1925-1943. But I can’t read them and need the text translated.

This is easily one of my favourite debunkings recently

Oonisillos.bsky.socialSep 14, 2024 2:22pm

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.” theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.” theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

But we can fight back. AIDS activists took on Jesse Helms in the 1990s, putting a giant condom over his house emblazoned with the phrase: Helms is deadlier than a virus.15/ www.poz.com/blog/in-memo...

In Memory of Jesse Helms, and The Condom On His House [VIDEOS]

On September 5th, 1991, I put a giant condom over Jesse Helms' house. Why? Because, as the condom

The filmmakers behind “Russians at War” have argued that a lot of the negative press surrounding the documentary comes from people who haven’t seen it. We asked the opinion of people in the film industry who have.

Is 'Russians at War' propaganda? We asked 7 people in film who saw it

The documentary “Russians at War” has sparked controversy since its debut on the festival circuit, with many accusing it of whitewashing Russian soldiers and their crimes in Ukraine. Canadian-Russian...

Love this!