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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

How Much Weight Comes Back After You Stop Using a Weight-Loss Drug? – The New York Times

Cost is also a factor — insurance coverage can be spotty, and the list price of Zepbound is over $1,000 a month, though some patients end up paying less at the pharmacy counter. Often, patients struggle to find the medications in the first place — some doses of Wegovy and Ozempic are in shortage, and Mounjaro has also faced supply challenges over the last year.

Björk Takes You on a Journey into the Vast Kingdom of Mushrooms with the New Documentary Fungi: Web of Life | Open Culture

As far as narrators of documentaries that offer a hypnotically close view of nature, David Attenborough has long stood unopposed. But just this year, a relatively young challenger has emerged: the Icelandic musician-actress Björk Guðmundsdóttir, much better known by her given name alone. “The living world is connected by a vast kingdom of life we are only just beginning to discover,” she says, her distinctive accent and cadence recognizable at once, in the trailer above for the documentary Fungi: Web of Life. And she emphasizes that fungi — known or unknown, prevalent or at risk of vanishing altogether — are so much more than mushrooms.”

Source: Björk Takes You on a Journey into the Vast Kingdom of Mushrooms with the New Documentary Fungi: Web of Life | Open Culture

Poetry/poetry: One cold night in the city / One cold night in the city | Yolanda and her creative scream

Sparkles through the city

Neon signs, bolts, tells

Vehicles cry along weary roads

People are thinking about something

Emotions, everywhere, one breath

Where street lights rest

Source: Poetry/poetry: One cold night in the city / One cold night in the city | Yolanda and her creative scream

Snippety Snarkety … Here We Go Again! | Filosofa’s Word

Some days I just wake up with a really snarky attitude, y’know?  Not the mean kind, just the kind of snark where everything makes you roll your eyes as you realize that some people really are “that kind of stupid.”  On that note, I have just a few thoughts for the day!

Source: Snippety Snarkety … Here We Go Again! | Filosofa’s Word