0000-0002-8715-2896 Lizards, microbes, and climate change after leaving the Paris accord Posted June 9, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above LIZARDS AND GLOBAL WARMING Been reading about howCategory Archives: contraception
Can US Cities, States Reduce Carbon Emissions without Feds? Coping with Trump and Climate Change
0000-0002-8715-2896 Lizards, microbes, and climate change after leaving the Paris accord Posted June 9, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above LIZARDS AND GLOBAL WARMING Been reading about howNobel-worthy gravitational waves; Supreme Court legalities for climate change, abortion
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES MAKE WAVES Here it is only February, but the long-sought detection of gravitational waves announced last week is likely to be the biggest science news of 2016. The ability to see/hear gravitational wavesPosted by in abortion, ACA, affordable care act, Antonin Scalia, Astronomy, climate change, contraception, cosmology, Einstein, featur, featured, global warming, gravitational waves, health care, LIGO, Nobel Prize, Obamacare, On Science Blogs, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Physics, Politics, Research, united states, US Supreme Court, women
Is the government telling women not to drink? How many microbes in the human body?
The headlines called it “incredibly condescending” (Alexandra Petri, ComPost), “unrealistic” (Jia Tolentino, Jezebel), and “bonkers” (Olga Khazan and Julie Beck, The Atlantic.) The post from the aptly named Brandy Zadrozny at The Daily Beast) wasPosted by in alcohol, archaea, Bacteria, brain, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contraception, drinking, FASD, featured, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, fungi, health care, media criticism, medically unexplained symptoms, microbes, Microbiology, On Science Blogs, Palaeomerycidae, Politics, psychology, Research, united states, women
Science for the People: Contraception
This week, Science for the People is taking a closer look at our current – and potential future – contraceptive methods. We’ll speak with Beth Sundstrom and Andrea DeMaria, Co-Directors of the Women’s Health Research Team at the College of Charleston, about why the pill is still our go-to birth control choice when we have long acting reversible contraception methods like the IUD and the implant available for women. And we’ll talk with Elaine Lissner, Executive Director of the Parsemus Foundation, about their continuing work to bring Vasalgel, a long acting, reversible, non-hormonal male contraceptive, to market.
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Again, water on Mars. Also abortion, Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue research
WATERY MARS AGAIN Emily Lakdawalla thinks everybody should calm down about NASA’s much-trumpeted latest discovery of liquid water on Mars. The discovery, which is probably not flowing water but rather something more like damp sand, doesn’t, she argues at the … Continue reading
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Drug price hikes: revolt on the way? Also, the Pope, climate change, and a super eclipse
WILL DARAPRIM DISPUTE TOPPLE DRUG PRICES? Will the rage over Martin Shkreli’s extortionate overpricing of the old reliable toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim trigger a rebellion over the cost of our medicines? That’s what Dan Diamond argues at Vox. He hails Shkreli … Continue reading
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Obamacare lives and Kennewick Man is a Native American
WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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Election: marijuana, climate change, abortion, Obamacare, soda tax, GMOs
Still going to pot The Republicans won big last Tuesday. But so did marijuana. Here’s a summary, from Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: “Oregon and Alaska just became the third and fourth states to legalize the drug. Washington, D.C., … Continue reading
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Population Explosion 2.0, perfect writing software, model organism sex, tardiness
Son of The Population Explosion? It matters hardly at all what is done to control population growth. If Homo sap‘s birth and death rates remain more or less as they are, we will grow from 7 billion plus today … Continue reading
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Birth control, Hobby Lobby, and the war against women
Anything left to be said about the US Supreme Court’s latest decisions about women?
The US Supreme Court finished out its term with decisions that were terrible for women. This piece concentrates on only one of them, Burwell v. Hobby …
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