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Tuesday Five: Health, Psychology, and Medicine

Jan. 23rd, 2024 at 4:36 PM

Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves. A photographer trained two rats to take photographs of themselves. They didn’t want to stop, from the NY Times

Gummy Vitamins Are Just Candy, from The Atlantic
(the title is misleading, but there's some good info in this article)

In This Oklahoma Town, Most Everyone Knows Someone Who’s Been Sued by the Hospital, from KFF Health News

The Heart Surgery That Isn’t as Safe for Older Women.Coronary artery bypass grafting, the most common cardiac procedure in the United States, was studied mostly in men. Women are paying the price, from the NY Times

CDC: Consider Testing Blood for 'Forever Chemicals'— PFAS blood testing may help guide patients on exposure reduction, from MedPage Today

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amaebi

Jan. 24th, 2024 06:58 am (UTC)

Unexamined by Emily Anthes or, apparently, Augustin Lignier: The possibilities that the arts view themselves as agents engaged in interactions-- with the world or with Mr. Lignier. Are they themselves experimenting? Or messaging?

The uninterrogated view taken of social media is of individuals operating transactionally, their behavior going through out-chats and their stimuli coming in via in-boxes.

But that's not the only way to live or to consider living.

Think about small children playing with gravity.