Liz S

@lizscherer
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Independent health journalist, rebel, NY in DC. SUP, bourbon, cats, travel, and cooking.
As a writer, I am intrigued by the approach that Kaleidoscope took to tell the story of the heist. I almost want to watch it agin and see if a different order works as well.
Cool opportunity to cover Mastodon and the Fediverse: Inspired by @davew, we are offering a scholarship to our Newmark J-School creators entrepreneurial program to someone who has a great proposal for covering and serving Mastodon and the federated social universe. The best proposal from anywhere will win a full scholarship to our 100-day, online certificate program that helps creators establish their own enterprises to serve specific communities/markets. Apply by 2/3:
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Been a minute since I've been on this platform. 2023 has come in like a lion -- roaring in its power before devouring its prey!
Good morning from the DMV. Whoops, almost afternoon. I've got the windows open in early December. Whack.
Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs

The distant bundles of stars are far brighter than anyone expected, challenging views of how the cosmos first took shape.

The Washington Post

“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital.

#histodons #sciart #art #histodon #WeirdHistory #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #strangerthings #history #historian #medhistory #histsci #histmed #intro #introduction

Nice Op/Ed in Sci American about the need for clinicians to start recognizing climate change as important driver of disease. I wonder how many guidelines committees are even thinking about this? #climatechange #outbreak #disease. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-fueling-a-public-health-crisis-doctors-need-to-address-this/
Climate Change Is Fueling a Public Health Crisis. Doctors Need to Address This

It’s time for doctors to recognize the growing effects of climate change on people’s health

Scientific American

Israeli Archaeologists Find First Whole Sentence Written in Canaanite. On a Lice Comb - Archaeology - https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-11-09/ty-article/israeli-archaeologists-find-first-whole-sentence-written-in-canaanite-on-a-lice-comb/00000184-56c1-dc83-a7fd-fef3777f0000

'This one bears the earliest sentence ever found in Israel, seven words in the world’s first alphabet, archaic proto-Canaanite: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”'

Israeli archaeologists find first whole sentence written in Canaanite. On a lice comb

The earliest sentence found in Israel petitions the gods, but not to rain down good fortune or extirpate the foe

Haaretz
#Science Twitter in Mastodon right now