Author: tremendousblog
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This morning, my friend Bill* texted me asking if I knew anything about what’s going on with GameStop, whose share price has skyrocketed recently. I may have told him a bit more than he wanted to know! But I thought this text thread might be useful to others too, so…
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A health and economic crisis is scaring nearly everyone right now, including investors. Stocks recovered in record time, but what about investments in real estate? Are they doomed, or is the bad news perhaps a bit overblown? I invest in real estate through Fundrise, which allows me to spread my…
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The AstraZeneca COVID vaccine is being manufactured today at a plant in Baltimore. This vaccine has been show to be between 62% and 90% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID. But despite those excellent results in trials in the UK, Brazil, India and South Africa, the US government plans to wait…
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+ Activism, AstraZeneca, Congress, Coronavirus, COVID Vaccine, COVID-19, FDA, News, Science, Vaccines+
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Providing critical medical care to patients who sometimes have very few resources, all in the face of enormous political opposition, is challenging at the best of times. The pandemic has made it even harder. But Planned Parenthood is adjusting rapidly to make sure that people who need help get it.…
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+ Abortion, Birth Control, Charitable giving, Charity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Family Planning, Medical care, Medicine, Pandemic, Right to choose+
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I recently subscribed to a newsletter from the journalist Matthew Yglesias that has turned out be outstanding. A message I received this morning really struck me. Yglesias argues that the best thing we can do for the poor, given that housing is their biggest expense, is to build housing like…
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+ Affordable housing, Construction, Development, Gentrification, Housing, Policy, Poverty, Real estate, Rent, YIMBY, Zoning+
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This little guy has superpowers. I just attended a fascinating talk from the Broad Institute at MIT on how the genomes of other species relate to our DNA as humans. Drs. Elinor Karlsson and Diane Genereux of the Broad Institute are intensively studying other mammals, working to uncover the genetic…
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After I finished a workout last night, I found myself chatting with the gym’s owner for the first time. He told me that some classes would be cancelled this week, due to both a lack of instructors and students. He hoped that it would be just this week. He also…
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Many people have experienced worsening mental health since the COVID pandemic began. Many others struggled even before. But I came across an interesting article today about a very innovative program in Zimbabwe that just might have the solution. It’s called the Friendship Bench: This is a community-based psychological treatment programme…
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+ Anxiety, BBC, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Mental health, Quarantine, Talk therapy, Therapy, Volunteering+
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I just listened to a fascinating discussion with Dr. David Sinclair, PhD, on his lab’s recent success in reversing aging in mouse eyes. Sinclair and his team damaged the optic nerves of mice and then, using Yamanaka factors, reprogrammed the cells to “remember” their youthful vitality and regenerate. The mice…
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+ Aging, David Sinclair, Exercise, Fasting, Intermittent fasting, Lifespan, Research, Science, Supplements, Vitamins+
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By Day 23, which is 2 days after the second shot, there is a 60% drop in hospitalizations among vaccinated people aged 60-plus, Maccabi revealed after monitoring 50,777 patients. Times of Israel Israel is already seeing its hard work pay off. It leads the world in COVID vaccination, and new…
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