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Michelle Booth

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lawyer/(sometimes missing) former life in cultural studies of science/ animal lover/ lost but still hopeful

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Michelle Booth @mebooth42.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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Human brain is two separate organs, study finds
Scientists have viewed the brain as one organ for centuries. A Stanford Medicine-led discovery challenging that view could advance research into ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, and other neurological di...
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID 'Airborne' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee
Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
While I don’t know if any Muppets break the second fourth wall on Television or Movies … There is this one camera test where Kermit and Fozzie ad lib being abstract entities …
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Muppet Movie 1979 camera test: The banter is so hilariously improvised.
YouTube video by LifeIsSublime
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Incredible short film Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin made for Late Night with David Letterman, so dark and nervy, filmed in Toronto too youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw
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'PMS- Premenstrual Syndrome' - David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival (1985)
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 15/01/2026
"Everything costs more because the algorithm says so" @vassb.bsky.social is really on one about personalized pricing. And she's right. It's predatory, and it makes it more difficult for us all to navigate the world. It should be illegal. thewalrus.ca/everything-c...
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Everything Costs More Because the Algorithm Says So | The Walrus
Tariffs and inflation dominate headlines, but personalized pricing is the real affordability crisis
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Jenn Cutter @jenncutter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
That reminds me. CANADIANS: don't forget to get your bread money! www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca
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Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement
This website has been established to provide general information related to the proposed settlement of the case referred to as Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Explore how medicine has – and still is – failing women. (MIS)Treated, a new TVO Today podcast hosted by @namshine.bsky.social, shares real stories of mistreatment and misdiagnosis, and speaks to the people looking to make a difference. Listen Sept. 30. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/09/2025
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
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Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
The trailblazing Canadian First Nations actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award, died in Toronto after a long illness Graham Greene, the prolific Oscar-nominated Canadian First Nations actor and Hollywood trailblazer, has died aged 73 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. “He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent, Michael Greene (no relation), told Deadline. “You are finally free.” Continue reading...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Detained hospital patients. Crushing debt. "Profit before life." How World Bank-backed, for-profit hospitals have destabilized the finances of families across East Africa, co-published with our friends @icij.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How the World Bank left African hospital patients "detained" and in crushing debt
It promised to improve health care for the poor through its investments with private equity firms.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
welp I sent an email
Hi Tripp,
I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well.
I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided!
I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article.
Best,
Julia Wong
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"If you show people pictures of a pointy star-like shape and a puffy cloud-like shape, and you say one is a kiki and one is a bouba, more than 90 per cent of people around the world ... will say the pointy thing is the kiki and the puffy cloud is the bouba" magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...
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The Hidden Power of Words - University of Toronto Magazine
How verb tenses, word sounds – even abbreviations – shape perceptions, behaviour and trust in a digital world Read More
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Today's Missing Middle: @carastern and I talk to @VassB and @denisehearn_ about corporate consolidation, the kayfabe nature of grocery store product competition and their new book 'The Big Fix'. Episode is free, as always, on YouTube: youtu.be/Uz5DkpZPH2k
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys. This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Jana G. Pruden @janapruden.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A devatasting piece of writing by a journalist who becomes homeless. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The best girl there ever was. I’ve been writing this for months in the background. It’s mainly a love story but also how one dog or person can change the world. You can pre order here lnk.to/TinaTheDogWh... Every penny I make goes to building Tina’s hospital 🙏🥰
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...
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Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023
It is always deeply charming when the science people on the livestream get all emotional while watching the eclipse 🥹 www.youtube.com/live/LlY79zj...
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The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (Official NASA Broadcast)
Watch live with us as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passe...
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/s... #science #feministsky #STS #academicsky #philsky #psychscisky #womeninstem
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Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 03/10/2023
Does something feel off to you? We’re living through a time of extreme insecurity — pandemic, climate change, affordability crisis, war, and more. The way through it is together. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/does-somet...
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Does Something Feel Off To You?
We are living through a time of insecurity as we face persistent and overlapping crises. Things bad and could get worse. The way out is through collective action and community.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/09/2023
The September edition of my newsletter, WATCH THIS SPACETIME, is out now! 🎉 Featuring: Aliens! Quantum superposition! Airplane physics! And more! mackkatie.activehosted.com/index.php?ac...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Wrote about the resurgence of racist pseudoscience on the American right, and the very transparent lies about what its proponents want and believe. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again
The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against.
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