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Scientists have discovered an effective method for getting people to drink less alcohol. Telling them that it causes cancer is only part of the solution. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
Scientists have discovered an effective method for getting people to drink less alcohol. Telling them that it causes cancer is only part of the solution. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at 97. Read the full story from @AssociatedPress:
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at 97. Read the full story from @AssociatedPress:
How your #cat can contract #BirdFlu without seeing a bird
New data reveals unexpected infection pathways to #HouseholdPets
By Serena Summer
Feb 25, 2025
Excerpt: "The CDC report details two confirmed cases of indoor domestic cats contracting bird flu, with both felines belonging to #DairyWorkers who had previously displayed symptoms consistent with the virus. Prior to the cats becoming ill, their owners had experienced symptoms including #vomiting and #diarrhea. Although the owners declined testing for bird flu, laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of the virus in both cats, with one eventually dying from the infection.
"This finding represents a significant development in our understanding of #AvianInfluenza #transmission, as it suggests that #humans may serve as intermediary hosts capable of passing the virus to household pets. Previously, most concern centered on direct transmission from infected birds to mammals, but these cases indicate more complex transmission patterns may exist.
"The indoor setting of these infections is particularly noteworthy, as it eliminates the possibility of direct contact with infected #WildBirds, which had been considered the primary transmission route for cats in previous outbreaks."
Read more:
https://rollingout.com/2025/02/25/bird-flu-transmission-humans-cats/
#HPAINews #BirdFlu #AvianInfluenza #PetHealth #CatHealth
Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance? Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?
Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology
#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology
Chris Knight and Camilla Power ask what can we learn from monkeys and apes about resistance to male dominance? Among machiavellian intelligent primates, just being bigger and stronger doesn’t always win. This is not only true with Old World Monkeys who have female kin bonds (eg vervets) but also unrelated female great apes such as bonobos and the highly sex size dimorphic gorillas. Critical features are strategies of ganging together, confusing males on fertility, and ability to say NO! What could that say about gender relations and conflict in our ancestry?
Everybody welcome #UCLAnthropology
#primates #greatapes #females #dominance #resistance #coalitions #evolution #humans #anthropology
Chance Would Be A Fine Thing
https://metalabel-ktav.metalabel.com/chance-would-be-a-fine-thing-book?variantId=1
Created by Bangkok-based design-art collective COPODE. Each #book contains 100 designs and an essay about chance combinations in #graphic layout using custom-made auto-layout #software.
I’m currently working with COPODE on the design of a set of badges playfully responding to the ‘100% Human Made’ movement in #art. That movement promotes the belief that genuine art can only be created by individual #humans through sparks of inspiration born of lived personal experience and the long development of #craft and skills.
Our badges, by contrast, read:
100% Inhuman: Made With AI
The accompanying text will affirm that the work was not created through a spark of human genius – a claim to originality that, from a #feminist and #decolonial perspective, has been likened to a form of colonial violence – but emerges from an assemblage of #human and nonhuman forces: bodies, texts, political infrastructures and, yes, #ai.
Chance Would Be A Fine Thing
https://metalabel-ktav.metalabel.com/chance-would-be-a-fine-thing-book?variantId=1
Created by Bangkok-based design-art collective COPODE. Each #book contains 100 designs and an essay about chance combinations in #graphic layout using custom-made auto-layout #software.
I’m currently working with COPODE on the design of a set of badges playfully responding to the ‘100% Human Made’ movement in #art. That movement promotes the belief that genuine art can only be created by individual #humans through sparks of inspiration born of lived personal experience and the long development of #craft and skills.
Our badges, by contrast, read:
100% Inhuman: Made With AI
The accompanying text will affirm that the work was not created through a spark of human genius – a claim to originality that, from a #feminist and #decolonial perspective, has been likened to a form of colonial violence – but emerges from an assemblage of #human and nonhuman forces: bodies, texts, political infrastructures and, yes, #ai.
"When we measure the world with a ruler made for humans, other species inevitably come up short"
Christine Webb on the myth of Human exceptionalism—the belief that humans are fundamentally separate from and superior to the rest of nature.
#Nature#Humans #Animals#Biology #Science
Putting Humans First Is Not Natural - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/putting-humans-first-is-not-natural-1235544/
"We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
-- E. O. Wilson, describing humanity
How your #cat can contract #BirdFlu without seeing a bird
New data reveals unexpected infection pathways to #HouseholdPets
By Serena Summer
Feb 25, 2025
Excerpt: "The CDC report details two confirmed cases of indoor domestic cats contracting bird flu, with both felines belonging to #DairyWorkers who had previously displayed symptoms consistent with the virus. Prior to the cats becoming ill, their owners had experienced symptoms including #vomiting and #diarrhea. Although the owners declined testing for bird flu, laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of the virus in both cats, with one eventually dying from the infection.
"This finding represents a significant development in our understanding of #AvianInfluenza #transmission, as it suggests that #humans may serve as intermediary hosts capable of passing the virus to household pets. Previously, most concern centered on direct transmission from infected birds to mammals, but these cases indicate more complex transmission patterns may exist.
"The indoor setting of these infections is particularly noteworthy, as it eliminates the possibility of direct contact with infected #WildBirds, which had been considered the primary transmission route for cats in previous outbreaks."
Read more:
https://rollingout.com/2025/02/25/bird-flu-transmission-humans-cats/
#HPAINews #BirdFlu #AvianInfluenza #PetHealth #CatHealth
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