Brittany G 👾
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I’m into #biotech, sriracha, neuroplasticity of the brain, plant-based eating, and making sure my account’s not being hacked by teenage gamers in NJ
Manhattan, NY
Joined June 2009
Shall we keep doing things the way they have always been done?
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Conversations with slaughterhouse workers, by the son of one, explore family and masculinity.
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My vacation doesn’t matter and neither does yours. We should be inconvenienced by this. Over and over. It is unfair that the lockdowns only happen in Peru. They should be happening everywhere in response to this crisis. Because that would look like justice
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Documentarian Josh Fox travels to the Peruvian Amazon for a first-hand look at the fight to save the forest from Big Oil.
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For Christ’s sake #SCOTUS can’t you ever side with treating animals humanely? Driving profits down in sacrifice of millions of intelligent and sentient animals is abhorrent via @NYTimes
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A California law requiring that pork sold in the state come from humanely raised pigs posed questions about how far states can go in affecting conduct outside their borders.
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* for men and women. I am so intrigued by ants. “Social insects such as termites, some bees and wasps in general, and ants in particular, have held a mysterious fascination for men since the beginning of earliest recorded time.”
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Small acts of kindness yesss via @NYTimes
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New research shows small gestures matter even more than we may think.
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Dystopian reality via @NYTOpinion
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How we look matters as much as what we see.
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The life-saving medications researchers are sourcing from the bottom of the ocean - Scientific American
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Compounds that sea creatures make to defend themselves could yield lifesaving medicines
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There’s a great line that explores the octopus and the origins of consciousness: “If we can make contact with cephalopods as sentient beings, it is not because of a shared history, not because of kinship, but because evolution built minds twice over.”
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Beautiful. We are all intertwined 🌎
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Nonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them?
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This is chilling and beautiful. What a force of nature. RIP Madeleine Albright - via @NYTOpinion
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We can honor her memory by heeding her wisdom.
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Finally this is being talked about. The Fight for an Elephant’s Personhood - The New Yorker
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A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.
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#Energy , and How to Get It - The New Yorker
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All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view.
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@RachelNStephens I did this as a private business owner. It affected no one but myself (I cut my salary from $1.1M to $70k) - the definition of private enterprise. But what I did was very threatening to them because it disrupts the narrative of "CEOs must be paid 1,000x more than their employees"
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I have a message for all the little girls and boys out there who dream of growing up to be superheroes: Superheroes walk among us. They’re teachers, doctors, scientists, vaccine researchers—and you can grow up to be like them too.
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via @NYTOpinion a beautiful piece on death and dying
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How the pandemic is changing our understanding of mortality.
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Here I describe a brief overview of how the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccines work. Taking a vaccine is one’s personal choice, and I hope this video can help someone make that decision rooted in science.
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