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"Elsewhere in his Vancouver scrum, Poilievre properly accused Justin Trudeau of ignoring provincial jurisdictions. Is he [P] planning to take over health care and municipal policing?"
The Basque language has always been surrounded by mystery with regards to its origin. Today, there has been a massive breakthrough on its history and origin 🧵
This UNGA vote will haunt Russia financially for decades. Large sums, which can be retrieved for reparations, are already frozen on Western bank accounts, around 300 billion USD. That vote gives legal basis in those countries (all of them voted yes) to impound it. #Russia
Well, how about that: the Intermediate LSJ doesn't list "LXX" among its abbreviations, suggestion that the Septuagint's vocabulary isn't in the book. But "LXX" is cited throughout nonetheless.
RT @nevenjovanovic@scholar.social
CW: Query Wikidata in natural language
Sparklis: filter, drill down, see what is there... works for any SPARQL endpoint, not only for wd.
Learned about it from Wikidata Status Updates (1/2)
Many people should update their views on deworming based on this big study, and the many other reasons to believe it has large benefits.
And also consider – which other treatments are we underestimating because mortality benefits are difficult to identify? I think many.
Important update to 'the worm wars'...
This major new study, which is a 23-year follow up of an RCT, finds that deworming reduced mortality in under-5s in Kenya by 24% (!) 🪱
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ALT Study title: Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of
Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades
of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Abstract: We assess the impacts of a randomized Kenyan school-based deworming intervention on the mortality of recipients’ children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of original participants (N = 6,523) and their children (N = 14,172). The under-5 mortality rate reduced by 24% (18 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination of improvements in living standards, increased urban residence, higher schooling attainment, delayed fertility, and greater use of health care in the parent generation contributed to the reduction. This study provides further evidence that age-specific health investments are essential for development.
RT @drsueoosthuizen@mastodon.social
Newly-discovered inscription engraved on a #BronzeAge ivory comb c.1700BC reads ‘May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard’. Could the owner read it? How widespread was #literacy in the #prehistoric Near East?
Source: (1/2)
"It is distressingly obvious that while so many were tricked into believing this was the most progressive Canadian government ever, it is in fact, a slave to the status quo"
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