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Climate change is scary, and something most people don't realize is that our targets are not to prevent damage, they're to prevent fullscale collapse. Whether we turn things around or not, we're likely in for some serious pain.
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Links to the paper, an MP3 of the paper, and the author's letter to the editor about it.

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There is a reason that the DoD has marked Climate Change as a massive risk to national security. Water/Resource wars are no joke.
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New contraceptive that could be symptom free unlike hormonal treatments. Would be pretty cool. It works by impairing motility of sperm so they can't get to or into the egg.

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Another neat feature of this is that it's rapidly recoverable. Stop taking the med and within 18 days everything's normal.
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Oldest known mariner's astrolabe. From the very end of the 1400s.

(Note that this is specifically the astrolabe. Other methods were used long before by many cultures)

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For example, the sidereal compass and pelorus, first pioneered by the polynesians. It's important to remember the polynesians as colonialism destroyed a huge amount of cultural knowledge and the research following that has been severely tainted by colonial bias.
Much of what is known and practiced now in this area is due to the efforts and knowledge of Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug

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Senator Gillibrand posted over the weekend that the solution to the opiod problem is to limit prescriptions to 7 days.

This is patently ridiculous and could only come from someone who hasn’t experienced a whole raft of painful problems, or done the requisite research.

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Pain is an odd thing, and something that we don’t understand very well. So what do we know?
We know that pain and stress slow healing. This is important. Being in significant amounts of pain and the mental distress that results, slows healing.
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