TFW you begin preparing a recipe for a particular grain, only to realize, early into the cutting up of vegetables stage, that it's really a stone soup recipe, with very little by way of grains. This being confirmed upon finishing the cook, and the grains have mostly only added a mucousal thickness to what is otherwise a vegetable stew, rather than bulking the meal out any.
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧠👁️ Around 10% of #students experience #aphantasia, a lack of mental imagery that can make #science harder to learn.
A study across seven #Sydney private schools found load reduction instruction boosted test scores by about 20% for these students. The #research recommends physical models and concrete language over “imagine this” prompts.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-assume-students-pictures-minds.html
#education #learning #teaching #neurodiversity #classroom #psychology
· Autopsy study found persistent SARS-CoV-2 virus in hearts of people who died after #COVID19
[https://my.uscap.org/uscap/program/S0tc675/index.cfm?pgid=5167&sid=14770&abid=51228]
· Study from Brazil found people with diabetes more likely impacted by #LongCOVID
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-42284-7]
· Small trial concluded “cognitive rehabilitation” may be a potential therapy for LC. But found no improvements in fatigue or sleep disturbances, nor improvements in cognitive scores
[https://thesicktimes.org/2026/07/07/research-updates-july-7/]
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/07/07/research-updates-july-7/
This may interest. It allows energy to be collected off-peak, then utilized during peak times without the peak costs. >>
In this Brooklyn warehouse, stoves are turned into… | Canary Media
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electrification/electra-brooklyn-induction-stoves-batteries
China is building 75 solar parks in Cuba, and the island’s power crisis is becoming an infrastructure experiment.
There's that old joke that you shouldn't shun someone for their politics, where politics means zoning laws and shit and not whether people are entitled to due process and human rights.
I'll absolutely vote for the lesser evil where I think that's true, where I think they agree with me on the big issues and we can disagree on the rest, but when politicians start threatening me and people I care about? No. I'm not morally obligated to support that.
Large numbers of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, devastated by two years of Israel’s genocidal war, celebrated Egypt’s performance against Argentina at the FIFA World Cup despite the team’s exit, which many fans described as unfair and controversial.
The era of heavy glass solar panels is ending.
In Japan, they now run them off a press. At enormous speeds, and flexible enough to use on curved surfaces.
#Electricity #Solar #SolarPanel
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:2474261-7479554737374306304/
Footage of parts the speech I gave at the protest today, with written excepts below:
Most recent #CDC dataset, updated Monday, again omits Nowcast for the most recent four-week period, "[d]ue to low numbers of sequences being reported to CDC".
For May-June reporting, XFG.23.1.3 / RV family appears to gain share among Stratus XFG family. Stratus-Eleventy XFG.1.1, now appears to be in retreat. Overall, XFG fam, the sole representative of the FDA-Vaccine-Target LP.8.1 lineage, continue to hold about two thirds share.
Nimbus NB.1.8.2 / PQ family appears to lose ground, as LF.7 family holds firm, under pressure from Cicada BA.3.2, and a troubling "Other" category that has exploded into prominence in the latest round of reporting.
Note that, in absence of robust data from states, CDC has given up modeling historical estimates, instead giving only "empiric" shares of reported sequences.
Raj's dashboard, updated end of March, showed XFG.1.1 at a quarter share, for the last half of the most recent reporting period, while Cicada grandkid RE.2 made a significant appearance.
That said, said GISAID data was dominated by paltry submissions from New York (171), Minnesota (85), Maryland (84), Nebraska (53), and Arizona (17).
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #variants #CovidIsNotOver #dataviz #datavis
The Labor Bureau's 'Current Population Survey (Household Survey)' saw a nearly 1.14 million increase between the end of the recession in 2008 and the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. This amounting to an average increase in the disabled population of less than 94 thousand a year.
For the period from April 2020 to date, that figure has climbed nearly 1.24 million, for an average increase in the disabled population of over 200 thousand a year, with no sign of slowing. Disability has climbed faster in the past half dozen years than it had in the previous dozen.
Another way to say all of this is that disability has been increasing at twice the pre-pandemic rate for six years straight, and continues to do so as we enter the pandemic's seventh year.
"A photo of a Black woman went viral. Her family says she's more than a symbol. "
Washington Post]
https://wapo.st/4p5CwJQ
#blackmastodon #blackfedi
PBS dispute could see MS patients pay $33k a year for crucial drugs https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-08/ms-drugs-could-be-pulled-from-pbs-pricing-stoush/106890154 #PharmaceuticalIndustry #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #MultipleSclerosis #Pharmaceuticals
"The celebrations came as Israel killed the head of the Egyptian Committee in Gaza during the opening stages of the match. According to Palestinian rights advocates, Israeli social media accounts celebrated the killing and cynically dedicated it to Argentina’s victory over Egypt."
https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116881354004821089
"Point-of-care respiratory virus testing in nursing homes could prevent hospital transfers"
Onsite PCR testing in Canadian nursing homes could stop 4 ER transfers per 100 beds each virus season, a new trial shows.
Testing for COVID, flu, and RSV right at the facility lets staff treat residents quickly. This change could prevent 64,000 emergency room trips nationwide.
Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2850884
My wife just sent me a photo of character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn wearing an N95... that's my fucking Nagus 🫡
More discussion of Nazis on substack.
Yeah I'm not clicking on any SS* links.
https://inkstickmedia.com/how-deep-does-substacks-far-right-problem-run-really/
*My use of that abbreviation is entirely coincidental, I'm sure.
Pictures released by the Israeli military shows personal belongings confiscated by Israeli forces from Palestinians returning to Gaza under strict restrictions and monitoring, including perfumes and phones which the military classifies as prohibited.
Israel turns Gaza into death camp denser than Srebrenica, forces displacement under guise of voluntary emigration (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 2026-07-06)
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7078
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>> Geographically and demographically, Gaza is now limited to an area about 15 per cent smaller than #Srebrenica, but with a population over 50 times larger and a density roughly 60 times higher, all amidst rubble, ...
>> Israel is changing the demographic and military landscape of the #Gaza Strip by increasing its de facto control and imposing severe restrictions on roughly 65 per cent of the enclave. ... These measures effectively amount to an unlawful annexation and seizure of land.
>> These systematic coercive measures, along with the dehumanisation they entail, are deliberately designed to force residents into a stark choice: either face physical extermination or be forced out of their homeland. This is not a voluntary decision …
#palestine #StopIsrael
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com
I discovered today that sighted people don't listen to audiobooks. They consume them. no wonder sighted people don't understand audiobooks. Sighted people can't just sit down and listen to something. They consume audiobooks while doing other things, and think I'm a genius when I can recall more of the book than they can with less effort. #Audible #Audiobook #Audiobooks