University of Nebraska-Lincoln: More realistic content may reduce social media harms for new moms. “Scrolling through picture-perfect portrayals of motherhood may be doing real harm to moms, but a new study from University of Nebraska–Lincoln media scholar Ciera Kirkpatrick shows a ‘dose of reality’ may mitigate some of the damage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/university-of-nebraska-lincoln-more-realistic-content-may-reduce-social-media-harms-for-new-moms/
“If it is our mission
to alleviate suffering
as well as to preserve life
there should be no conscientious restraint…”
—Gael Turnbull, “James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission…”
from The Hand that Sees: Poems for the quincentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
James Young Simpson (1811–1870) pioneered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic in childbirth
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