I'm not like all the other contrarians

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Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!
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Makes me wonder if we should be wearing striped shirts during mosquito season
Cette expérience fait partie des recherches scientifiques les plus étonnantes menées sur le bétail . En 2019, une équipe de chercheurs japonais a décidé de tenter quelque chose d’inattendu : peindre des vaches pour les faire ressembler à des zèbres . L’objectif n’était pas esthétique, mais scientifique : comprendre comment la peau du zèbre repousse naturellement les insectes. • Méthode de l’expérience : Les scientifiques ont peint des rayures blanches et noires sur les vaches en utilisant une simple peinture à base d’eau . • Résultats surprenants : Les piqûres de mouches piqueuses ont diminué de plus de 50 % sur les vaches rayées, comparées aux vaches normales . Même les vaches peintes uniquement en noir n’ont pas bénéficié de la même protection, ce qui montre que le pouvoir protecteur vient du contraste visuel entre le noir et le blanc . • Effet sur le comportement : Les chercheurs ont aussi noté une baisse d’environ 20 % des gestes de défense habituels des vaches (secouer la tête, la queue…), signe qu’elles étaient plus calmes et moins stressées . Le secret scientifique Les rayures perturbent la vision des mouches. Ces insectes se basent sur le mouvement et les reflets lumineux pour évaluer la distance et se poser. En voyant un motif très contrasté comme des rayures, leur perception se brouille : elles n’arrivent plus à estimer correctement leur trajectoire, ce qui les empêche d’atterrir sur l’animal . Reconnaissance internationale Cette étude innovante a remporté le prix Ig Nobel 2025 dans la catégorie biologie — une récompense qui célèbre les recherches à la fois amusantes et scientifiquement utiles. Cette expérience ouvre la voie à une idée révolutionnaire : protéger le bétail contre les insectes sans utiliser le moindre pesticide chimique
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Yet another study shows a 24% reduced risk of dementia after the Shingles vaccine. This one in over 500,000 participants with a recent skilled nursing facility stay, adding to 4 huge natural experiments in 4 countries (US, Canada, Wales, and Australia) acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM
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Discovery of a 14-protein biomarker that predicts lung cancer 5.6 years before it is diagnosed, even in non-smokers, and an anti-inflammatory medicine that prevents its progression. And, challenging dogma, the proteins are not coming from cancerous cells!
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Remembering a very special Kentuckian today ~ Jim Varney (aka Ernest P. Worrell) born on June 15, 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky. His final resting place is Lexington Cemetery. ♥️
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知ってました?赤ちゃんパンダの心拍をモニタリングする時って、しっぽにつなぐんですって!赤ちゃんパンダ充電中〜
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the list of shuttered arts institutions in the Bay Area is so depressing
Replying to @loomdoop
Also in the tech bubble era, we have lost the CA Culinary Academy, Mills College (1852-2022), Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, New College of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Mission Center for Latino Arts, California Historical Society (1871-2025)...
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My son quoted his uncle in his 6th grade yearbook and it is perfect.
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Surely a World Cup first that a match is sponsored by a company whose facility was bombed by one of the countries playing in the match
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This is the most ambitious management guidance in market history and there's been no 8-K filed $SPCX
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they got tired of people saying his tie looked like a little body
KFC has redesigned its logo.
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You're offered $50,000 but if you accept it, the person you haťe most in the entire world gets $100,000. Are you taking it ??
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i’m crying imagine being so tiny that your house is literally just an apple
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i follow this lady on tiktok who makes easy meals for her toddlers and unfortunately they work really well for me. shoutout moon and rue. anyway turkey sausage rolls
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La bandera de México en un libro de la Dinastía Qing en la China Imperial. De alrededor de 1884.
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Everyday we see real things from the government that the writers of Veep couldn’t come up with on an Ayahuasca retreat
🚨 SAFETY ALERT: Ambassador Herschel Walker has an important message for Americans visiting The Bahamas: Jet ski rentals pose a serious risk of injury, death, and sexual assault. U.S. gov't employees are banned from renting them — and you should avoid them too. Watch. Share. Stay safe. ⬇️
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Still thinking about the restaurant that took over the Burbank PF Chang’s, just removed the PF and C and called it a day!
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Post 1/5 I'm a cardiologist. TikTok is going to get someone killed. I'm not being dramatic. I'm not being old-fashioned. I am watching patients arrive in my office repeating advice from 15-second videos — advice that is not just wrong but actively dangerous. Last month a patient told me she stopped her statin because a wellness influencer said it was "toxic." Her LDL was 210. She has a family history of early heart attack. Last week a patient in his 40s told me he wasn't worried about his cholesterol because he "eats clean and exercises." His Lp(a) — completely genetic, immune to lifestyle — was sky-high. He'd never been tested. These aren't hypothetical scenarios. These are people I care about making decisions based on content created for engagement, not evidence. Let me walk through the most dangerous myths circulating right now — and what the science actually says.
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Quarterly reminder that James Garfield’s (President #20) great great grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic: The Gathering
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I know who my family and I are rooting for
Jamie Lee Curtis and Mariska Hargitay argue over how to pronounce “Los Angeles.” Stream the full #ActorsOnActors episode on the @CNN app: cnn.com/videos/title-2570358
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