immunology
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On ‘Babel,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ and violence.
Violence begets violence; to create a better world, we must act as though it could possibly exist.
Abel's sacrifice, Abraham, An Arcane History, authority figure, Babel, Bible, binding of Isaac, blessing, Cain and Abel, Cain's sacrifice, capitalism, curse, disease resistance, disruption, diversity of languages, Edenic language, electrical shock, Everything Everywhere All at Once, fantasy, fear, film critique, film review, folktales, Genesis 22, Genesis 4, germs, great floods, gun violence, guns, Guns Germs and Steel, Ham, hierarchy, hubris, human migration, immunology, inequality, language, leap of faith, love, Michael Bazzett, Milgram Experiment, Milgram shock experiment, Milgram test, multiverse, myths, Noah, Noah's curse, obedience, Old Testament, origin of Bible stories, origin of inequality, origin of languages, parallel worlds, quantum mechanics, R. F. Kuang, Rebecca Kuang, religion, slavery, spoken word, Stanley Milgram, Steel, The Matrix, The Necessity of Violence, The Popul Vuh, Tower of Babel, Translation, why did humans build the Tower of Babel, Yahweh
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On vaccination.
How do the Covid-19 vaccines work, and why were they made this way?
Alexandra Lahav, ancient history of vaccination, ancient medicine, biochemistry, bioscience, coronavirus, Covid, covid vaccination, covid vaccine, Covid-19, expression systems, fat bubble, fermentation, gene expression, history of vaccination, how do vaccines work, immune system, immunology, medical safety, medical testing, medicine, Medicine Is Made for Men, membrane trafficking, protein expression, protein folding, science, structure and function, vaccination, vaccine, vaccine production, vaccine safety, vaccines
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On moral outrage.
I was upset about the young people partying during the pandemic. I was wrong.
2022, asymptomatic spread, catching coronavirus twice, catching Covid-19 twice, coronavirus, coronavirus deaths, coronavirus epidemic, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus versus flu, coronavirus vs flu, Covid-19, Covid-19 data, Covid-19 deaths, Covid-19 model, Covid-19 response, Covid-19 spread, Covid-19 vaccine, Covid-19 versus flu, Covid-19 vs flu, data, David Katz, demographics, demographics of risk, DNR, do not resuscitate, domestic violence, duration of coronavirus immunity, duration of coronavirus protection, duration of Covid-19 immunity, duration of immunity, ending the lockdown, ending the shutdown, epidemic, epidemiology, fading immunity, fading protection, flu, flu vaccine, food insecurity, harm minimization, harm reduction, Harvard, Harvard model, herd immunity, how long does immunity last, how long does protection last, how soon will we have a vaccine, immune system, immunity, immunology, infectious spread, influenza, influenza vaccine, joblessness, Katz, length of coronavirus immunity, length of Covid-19 immunity, length of Covid-19 protection, length of immunity, lockdown, lost immunity, low vaccination rate, Pandemic, PCR test, protecting others, quarantine, response to Covid-19, returning to normal, second infection, self isolation, selfish young people, shelter in place, sheltering in place, shutdown, social distance, social distancing, spread of infections, vaccination, vaccine, vaccine development, vaccine protection, viral spread, virus, virus epidemic, virus panic, waning immunity, waning protection, want healthy young people to get Covid-19, working from home
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On violence and gratitude.
Although I consider myself a benevolent tyrant, some of my cells have turned against me. Mutinous, they were swayed by the propaganda of a virus and started churning out capsids rather than helping me type this essay. Which leaves me sitting at a YMCA snack room table snerking, goo leaking down my throat and out…
animal cruelty, animal life, animal welfare, apoptosis, appreciation, autotroph, biology, biology from a cell’s perspective, cancer, cancer biology, cell biology, cell death, cellular biology, cold, competition, consciousness, cooperation, cost, defection, DNA, do plants have feelings, doom, eat more plants, ethics, farming, gamete, genetics, germ cell, herbivore, heterotroph, immunology, inevitable death, irrationality, metastasis, microbiology, molecular biology, multicellular organisms, other perspectives, photosynthesis, plant-based diet, plant-based lifestyle, programmed cell death, psych experiment, psychology, Richard Dawkins, sacrifice, self sacrifice, selfish gene, sick, somatic cell, Suzana Huculano-Houzel, terrorism, The Human Advantage, the inevitability of death, tyrant, value, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, violence, viral infection, virology, virus, we value what we pay for, wine, wine tasting
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On playing outdoors, and allergies.
K has been on a big kick reading books about sending students outside. Obviously, I approve. Being outdoors seems to make most humans happier, and people who spend time outside seem more likely to care about preserving our environment. Plus, K even has scholastic reasons to ask students to sit contemplatively outside — it’s reasonable…
allergies, allergy, allergy epidemic, AP biology, asthma, autoimmune disorders, cute kid photos, David Strachan, eating peanuts to cure a peanut allergy, expecting to fight makes us more aggressive, farm animals, farmed-animal sanctuary, fatherhood, fieldwork, Hay Fever Hygiene and Household Size, hygiene, hygiene hypothesis, immune system, immunology, let your kid eat dirt!, oral immunotherapy, outdoor learning, outdoors, outside, parasites, parasites as medicine, parenting, pathogens, peanut, play, spending time on a farm to prevent allergies, The Watchmen, Uplands PEAK, vegan animal sanctuary
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