Health

What Seat Belts Can Teach Us About Wearing Masks | Mickey Z.

Meme found on Facebook Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 4, 2020 Since I began penning articles again in early May, I’ve dedicated two of them to the topic of masks: here and here. As the pandemic worsens, I feel compelled to re-visit the subject — but through the lens of something I wrote 15 years ago! Credit: Detroit Institute of Arts In response to mid-2000s climate change deniers (they wer ...

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Little Ideas Can Add Up to a Beautiful Beginning | Mickey Z.

YouTube screenshot Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 30, 2020 As he was for many martial artists of my generation, Bruce Lee was a catalyst and inspiration for my own studies. In fact, I specificall ...

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6 Easy Ways to Choose Gratitude | Mickey Z.

Image from stoneclinic.com Mickey Z. -- Now With Purpose July 26, 2020 “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” Anne Frank I live in the boro ...

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'Try!' | John Michael Greer

July 15, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things that makes the magical history of America so, well, magical is the number of astonishing individuals who have played a central role in it. Even amon ...

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Island of the Undesirables: AIDS, COVID-19, Confederate Prisoners, and a Million More Stories | Mickey Z.

Claire Yaffa Children With Aids Photograph Collection, PR 290 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 15, 2020 Imagine a tiny, off-limits, allegedly haunted island upon which prisoners are recruited to di ...

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Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination | Catherine Bridges

An ibis as "seen" by a machine, 2015. This processed image, which is based on a photograph by Dr. Zachi Evenor, is courtesy of software engineer Guenther Noack, 2015, and is reproduced from Wikimedia ...

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By 2025, CO2 Will Be Highest In 3.3 Million Years | University of Southampton

The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton July 10, 2020 (Phys.org) -- By 2025, atmospheric carbon dioxide ( ...

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Examining and Comparing the U.S. response to AIDS and Covid-19 | Mickey Z.

July 2, 1986 - A protest at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. (Photo credit: Los Angeles Public Library) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 9, 2020 “What we have seen exposed as a result of this p ...

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Laura D: The Fall and Rise of a Homeless Artist | Mickey Z.

Laura D teaching watercolors at a homeless shelter (Courtesy of Laura D) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2020 “The only place I felt I did anything right was art class.” Those are the words of ...

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The epidemic that killed 8% of NYC’s population | Mickey Z.

Image source: Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2020 Yellow Fever hit New York City hard in the late 18th century. The Big Apple population at the time was 60,000 and over the ...

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Mask-less in Astoria: Covid Complacency from Coast-to-Coast | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 16, 2020 (Please click on all the hyperlinks for added context… and motivation.) I’ve been confined to my neighborhood of Astoria for a litt ...

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