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On Using Tech While Poor
Image Credit: John Bogna
I didn’t understand how to invest in things that would help me get ahead, or how to decide what was worth spending money on. Money — or lack of it — came to define my life, including the technology I had access to and how I used it.
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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
Image Credit: Getty / moment / krisanapong detraphiphat
Big Tech doesn't really care about our mental health. Here's how to get them to pay attention.
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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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Blog post for B2B SaaS brand Monday.com on how to understand sales metrics. -
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How to get more clients (and make more money) in 2024
Image Credit: Nikon
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. It’s an empathetic look at what social anxiety is like that pays just as much attention to Bocchi’s inner monologue as the minutiae of being a musician.
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‘The House of Usher’: Late Stage Capitalism Dressed In Black
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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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The Anime Guidebook to a Better Life How Frieren Teaches The Value of Connection
Image Credit: Viz
Frieren’s story of a long-lived elven mage and her group of friends is very D&D coded; there’s magic, dragons, warriors, and your typical fantasy Big Bad: the Demon King. But in episode one we find out the Demon King is already dead — our heroes are trying to figure out what happens afterward.
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Life Lessons From The Princess of Hell: On Charlie’s Relentless Optimism And Caring As Strength
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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
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It’s not subtle: capitalism is the villain in both worlds. 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.
