Category: Life Support
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Message to my male amigos: CHECK YOUR PROSTATE!
The author urges older men to recognize signs of an enlarged prostate, emphasizing early detection and treatment to avoid severe complications. Ignoring symptoms can lead to painful urinary retention. Seek help promptly.
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The growing up we need to do.
Let’s treat the land we live on well: it was not given to us by our fathers, but it was lent to us by our children. —Masai proverb Be it crack on mark… or one rabbit hole too far I will leave up to you to judge, but my belief is that all this talk…
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Where the frack is the snow?
Until our governments acknowledge that we are already in the deep-diarrhoea end of the climate change pool, and that this is an all of planet problem requiring brave, bold and politically unpalatable responses (no ifs, ands, or buts), we are destined for drowning. Instead, it seems we remain reliant on a cheap set of colourful…
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Scoping Near Death Experience
As you may know, I have an interest in the topic of near death experiences (NDEs). I believe there is now enough evidence in the scientific literature as well as enough quality first-person accounts to suggest some form of veridical experience occurs in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest (we cannot know further out…
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Earth at risk.
The abstract from this paper, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) sums up our current situation with clarity. Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequality. This review synthesizes the breadth of these interwoven emergencies and underscores the…
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Video: The shoe shop.
A beautiful little film documenting two peoples response to our changing world. Anna Björkman and Dougald Hine had been hosting online workshops for years, centering around the idea of regrowing a living culture. When they were looking for a physical place for their gatherings, they fell in love with an old shoe shop. Dougald Hine…
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If you want to know how things are going to be, look at how they are.
Mexico. May 2024. Mexico is struggling amid record-high temperatures and a severe drought. Water is being trucked into service hospitals and essential services. In protest of “intolerable” working conditions and lack of water in their barracks, the police themselves manned a protest blockade and blocked traffic. Meanwhile, in other species, a large number of Howler…
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Climate situation report: May 2024.
This is fine…. You may have seen some of the news reporting of severe world weather events spread over the past few weeks. When you group them all together the situation is a little more evidentiary to the impending badness of climate change. Remember, this is only mid May. The northern hemisphere is yet to…
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Australia’s continued support for the fossil fuel industry.
Alan Kohler is the finance presenter for Australia’s ABC News. In a recent article for thenewdaily.com.au, he laments our Government’s continued financial support for Australia’s natural gas industry. Support that bitch slaps the face of our climate scientists, a group of experts who are becoming more frustrated with the unwillingness of our leaders to take note…
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