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Initiatives like this have potential for big positive impacts on health. There are also many thorny issues to address: ethics, data protection, professional & public understanding of what DNA can tell us etc. I wonder if we're ready for a world where every newborn has their whole genome sequenced.🧬🧪
All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years
Newborns will have whole genome sequencing to enable personalised healthcare that predicts and prevents illness
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Initiatives like this have potential for big positive impacts on health. There are also many thorny issues to address: ethics, data protection, professional & public understanding of what DNA can tell us etc. I wonder if we're ready for a world where every newborn has their whole genome sequenced.🧬🧪
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As we head into Losar, the Tibetan celebration of the new year,
may the wood-snake year bring love, peace, happiness, and an end to authoritarian regimes for everyone, everywhere.
ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
may the wood-snake year bring love, peace, happiness, and an end to authoritarian regimes for everyone, everywhere.
ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As we head into Losar, the Tibetan celebration of the new year,
may the wood-snake year bring love, peace, happiness, and an end to authoritarian regimes for everyone, everywhere.
ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
may the wood-snake year bring love, peace, happiness, and an end to authoritarian regimes for everyone, everywhere.
ཤིང་སྦྲུལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
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Want to bring some Buddhist perspectives or Buddhist-inspired contemplative practices into the classroom? Join other higher education faculty and advanced grad students for this two-week summer institute in sunny Berkeley, CA! More info at www.mangalamresearch.org/summer-insti...
Summer Institute 2025 - Mangalam Research Center
Buddhist Perspectives on the Natural World in an Era of Global Climate Change - an NEH Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty. Apply by March 5, 2025.
www.mangalamresearch.org
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Want to bring some Buddhist perspectives or Buddhist-inspired contemplative practices into the classroom? Join other higher education faculty and advanced grad students for this two-week summer institute in sunny Berkeley, CA! More info at www.mangalamresearch.org/summer-insti...
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From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . .
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
February 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . .
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.
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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.
February 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.
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new paper of mine - "Dreaming oneself awake: Psychological flexibility, imaginal simulation, and somatic awareness in Tibetan #Buddhist #dream yoga"
doi.org/10.1037/drm0...
doi.org/10.1037/drm0...
February 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
new paper of mine - "Dreaming oneself awake: Psychological flexibility, imaginal simulation, and somatic awareness in Tibetan #Buddhist #dream yoga"
doi.org/10.1037/drm0...
doi.org/10.1037/drm0...
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Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
Who’s in charge of DOGE? Not Elon Musk, White House says
A Trump administration personnel official says Musk has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions."
www.politico.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!
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More Canadian water bombers and helicopters for fire fighting will be on their way soon to Los Angeles to help #CanadianWaterBombers #Canada #LosAngeles
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire | CBC News
Alberta is preparing to send water bombers, night-vision helicopters and incident command team support to help battle wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles.
www.cbc.ca
January 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
More Canadian water bombers and helicopters for fire fighting will be on their way soon to Los Angeles to help #CanadianWaterBombers #Canada #LosAngeles
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta preparing to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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They are taking back campaign promises faster than they made them.
January 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
They are taking back campaign promises faster than they made them.
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Skull Session: Ohio State ranks No. 1 in SP+ and the College Football Power Index, and Urban Meyer picks the Buckeyes to win the title "if Team A shows up" in the Cotton Bowl.
Skull Session: Ohio State Ranks No. 1 in SP+ and College Football Power Index, Urban Meyer Picks the Buckeyes to Win the National Title “If Team A Shows Up” in the Cotton Bowl
Ohio State ranks No. 1 in SP+ and the College Football Power Index, and Urban Meyer picks the Buckeyes to win the national title "if Team A shows up" in the Cotton Bowl.
www.elevenwarriors.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Skull Session: Ohio State ranks No. 1 in SP+ and the College Football Power Index, and Urban Meyer picks the Buckeyes to win the title "if Team A shows up" in the Cotton Bowl.