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Does PRP Therapy Actually Work?
Art By: Johanna Walderdorff
Osteoarthritis. Your aching back. Tennis elbow. What if you could mitigate, or even cure, these conditions without surgery? Just a little injection and your body does the rest of the work.
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How LeftTube Is Rebranding Liberal Philosophy
Image Credit: YouTube
This group of YouTubers is countering toxic, far-right discourse online.
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Yes, We Can Regulate Online Toxicity: Here's a Roadmap
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Cash Is Dying
and the Unbanked Are Being Left Behind
Photo: Artur Debat/Getty Images
In the United States, the unbanked and underbanked make up around one-quarter of the population, according to 2017 data from the FDIC. The majority of that group are non-white, minimally educated, and make less than $30,000 per year. Over half the people surveyed for the report said they didn’t have a bank account because they couldn’t afford to open one.
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What Is Sales Effectiveness? Measurements and Improvement Strategies
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A deep dive for B2B SaaS brand Pipedrive on the essentials of sales effectiveness.
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Typical Customers for Health & Fitness Products: Find Your Target Market
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Blog post for email brand Constant Contact on how businesses can find the right market for their health and wellness products.
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Rice researchers find bias in healthcare data, hope to spur greater inclusion
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A group of Rice University Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. students and professors have found bias in widely used machine learning (ML) tools being leveraged for immunotherapy research.
Ph.D. students Anja Conev, Romanos Fasoulis, and Sarah Hall-Swan, working with CS faculty members Rodrigo Ferreira and Lydia Kavraki, reviewed publicly available Peptide-HLA (pHLA) binding prediction data and found it to be skewed toward higher-income communities.
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Why you should care about sales metrics
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How to get more clients (and make more money) in 2024
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Business tutorial article written for Nikon Europe, aimed at photographers looking to build their business in the new year.
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“You Have No Enemies Here”
Bocchi The Rock, Music As Therapy, And Social Anxiety
Image Credit: Crunchyroll
Bocchi the Rock! was the sleeper anime hit of 2022. The story of an extreme introvert with social anxiety who wants to form a band, the show’s hilarious framing of Bocchi’s anxious episodes always manages to be funny without laughing at her.
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‘The House of Usher’: Late Stage Capitalism Dressed In Black
Image Credit: Netflix
Where Midnight Mass deconstructs the horrors of a stereotypical small-town mindset and the toxicity of fake faith, ‘Usher’ aims at American capitalism and greed.
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Life Lessons From The Princess of Hell
On Charlie’s Relentless Optimism And Caring As Strength
Image Credit: Prime Video
The more you learn about what’s wrong with the world, the harder hope is to come by. But the message of Charlie’s character, to me, is that apathy won’t help us. No matter how hard it gets, we have to care. Because caring is the only way we can change things. -
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‘Fallout’, ‘The Boys’, and Corporate Evil
Even the apocalypse is a product
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Vought and Vault Tec are glimpses into the completely privatized capitalist hellscape we creep closer to every day. They’re a cautionary tale, a mural scrawled in two-story block letters and every color of the rainbow screaming: this is what will happen if you let corporations govern.
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Gods in the Machine
Pantheon, The Matrix, and Simulated Existence
Image Credit: AMC
Netflix released the first season of Pantheon to stream last year. The 90s-style animation and subject matter reminded me of Invincible, and after seeing it advertised several times on the home page, I clicked play. I expected a decent show with an interesting premise: what happens when you upload a human consciousness to the net?
What I got was an existential crisis.
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There is Still Time
‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ Self-Imposed Time Capsules, and Hope
Image Credit: A24
More articulate people than me have discussed the film’s themes of queer existence and identity suppression as slow suicide. Being straight, I’ll leave those themes in their very capable hands. What I want to talk about, and one of the things that hit me the hardest, is the related theme of suppressing change in our own lives.
