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Zoology professor; fan of unions, taxing and spending, environmental regulations, and cats.
Gender: female
Location: New York
Groups: DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY, Elders of Zion, New Diarists, New York State Weekly, Fighting and Defeating the Neo Nazis, Museums
Diaries published: 18 (640 days since last diary on Tue Mar 08, 2022 at 11:01 AM PST)
Comments posted: 5712 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 06:20 PM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: Take a break from the headlines and enjoy Randy Rainbow's latest...., 142 comments, 352 recommends
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Paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History described a new octopus species today in the journal Nature Communications. The species description is based on a 325 million year old fossil specimen, collected in Montana in the 1980s, that...
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on Tue Mar 08, 2022 at 11:01 AM PST
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This morning, a front-line nurse became the first New Yorker (and apparently the first American) to receive the vaccine outside of clinical trials. “I feel like healing is coming,” she said. “I hope this marks the beginning of the end of a...
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on Mon Dec 14, 2020 at 08:36 AM PST
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I took a short trip to London last month with a couple of entomologist friends. Given our mutual interests, we decided to take a day trip to Down House, the home of Charles Darwin. What a happy pilgrimage that was! I can tell you a little about it,...
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on Tue Feb 11, 2020 at 11:09 AM PST
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Greta Thunberg did not win the Nobel Peace Prize (this year, anyways) but this week she received perhaps the highest honor that scientists on the front lines of the battle to preserve biodiversity can bestow. Just under a millimeter long, this little...
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on Sat Oct 26, 2019 at 07:38 AM PDT
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It did me some good. Cheeto Christ, Stupid Czar …… yes, nailed it.
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on Thu Aug 29, 2019 at 07:51 AM PDT
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So Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 years old today.
I have a story about him.
Not much of a story.
About 15 years ago I was sitting in the cozy wood-paneled waiting room of an optometrist's office in the SF Bay Area, next to some older guy; I...
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on Sun Mar 24, 2019 at 08:00 AM PDT
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- So we decided to flee Indiana. For background, my name is Alexis, I'm a nonbinary trans person, married to my trans husband Ian, and we have 2 kids, Felix, aged 12, and Zinnia age 9. Indiana is currently attempting the "Florida Speedrun" insofar as it...92 comments 290 Recs
- Ninalyn of the DailyKOS community presents a songfilk: I have a new menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! Menorah, my menorah, I got it just this year I’ll put it in my window to spread Chanukkah cheer! I...68 comments 16 Recs
- I am posting early but at the usual time later today, expect a posting from Ninalyn who signed up for this week’s posting. As I was working on a post about some archeology articles from Ha’Aretz I noticed a few parallels with this week’s Parsha and one...13 comments 6 Recs
- Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District was one of the places where Moms for Liberty lost big in the 2023 elections, with a right-wing school board majority swept out and replaced with ...65 comments 304 Recs
- Today, Brett Stephens has an op-ed entitled: “An appalling silence for Israeli rape victims.” In it, he notes that the war criminal-level behavior toward women in the initial attack is basically being ignored, by progressives in Congress, major...118 comments 39 Recs
- I’m in the hospital in the heart center. I’ve been sick for several weeks with severe coughing and weakness. I thought it would blow over as most colds I’ve had do, but this one didn’t. I finally went to the ER, as getting an actual doctor’s...104 comments 249 Recs
- JTA - November 24, 2023 ‘We will choose a new path’: How Israel’s peace activists are responding to the war in Gaza __________________________________________________________ TheGuardian — Oct 31Violence rages in Gaza, but a meeting of Jewish and...32 comments 50 Recs
- Yemen Houthi rebels and Iran are keeping US warships busy in the Red Sea. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/03/us-warship-in-red-sea-reportedly-attacked-by-drones-from-yemen “We’re aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and...118 comments 100 Recs
- FROM: m.benezra@rebses.edu CC: —all staff— DATE: 18 Kislev 5784 TIME: 08:32am SUBJECT: Student Diversity Training Shalom all, As we move toward Chanukkah, I’d like to remind you all that Reb Shammai has a wonderful and diverse student body, with a...24 comments 28 Recs
- Friday morning brought an end to the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, and the return of fighting, as Hamas fired the first shot. Each side is now blaming the other for breaking the ceasefire. Israel and the US says Hamas ended the ceasefire by...26 comments 21 Recs
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