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  New Study Provides First Evidence of Dopamine System Injury in the Brain of Long COVID Patients Findings have important implications for the pathophysiology of key COVID symptoms and suggest new potential avenues for treatment

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  Reading Is Not Dying Reports of a literacy crisis misunderstand the way we read today. I like that this article clarifies that there is or could be a problem, but the book it's responding to does a poor job of describing the issue. Because confronting and countering a problem is easier if you know what the problem is. You can solve things by randomly throwing solutions at it, like how we used to do medicine when we believed in the humours - sometimes we randomly got it right! We usua...

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  Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? For reference: https://gizmodo.com/are-humans-hardwired-to-detect-snakes-1453865235 I had a moment last week where I stopped before I consciously recognized a snake. The poor thing was dead, but it reminded me that I'd read about this happening before. However, since I know about it, I could be reading into my response. When I've asked other people, a couple have been like &quot...

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  Meet the Fake Redditors Who Make You Hate Women A link to the transcript of the recent skepchick video about a public relations firm that uses bot armies to aid their clients, frequently (but not always) by defaming women. If you missed my previous videos on these cases, the quick summary is that wealth[y] celebrities, including Jeffrey Epstein, have hired Nathan and her cohorts to engage in massive efforts to distract and manipulate public opinion online.

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  When the FBI took over an alleged international kidnapping case from local law enforcement—and sent a plane to retrieve a child from Cuba—certain details of the story changed in telling ways.

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  In what may be our most requested episode of all time, Dr. Sydnee addresses the hantavirus outbreak in the headlines, looks at its history and evaluates just how badly the U.S. is handling the situation.