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

Medicine that fights alcoholism may be an option for the treatment of sepsis – Mágica Mistura 能

The work was conducted at the Research Center for Inflammatory Diseases (CRID) – a Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center (CEPID) of Fapesp based at Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP).

“We already know that the drug is safe, as it has been in use since the 1950s, and we are proposing its repositioning for the treatment of sepsis. We saw that it works on tests in vitro and in animals. A clinical trial is now needed to assess its effectiveness in septic patients, ”says Camila Meirelles Silva, postdoctoral fellow at CRID and the first author of the article.

Source: Medicine that fights alcoholism may be an option for the treatment of sepsis – Mágica Mistura 能

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Alexandria Troas, 2018

Din micul port Geyikli unde am debarcat venind din Bozkaada, am luat-o spre sud unde, în scurt timp, am identificat, de o parte și de alta a șoselei, rămășițele metropolei Alexandria Troas, întemeiată de un general din armata lui Alexandru Macedon.

Sfântul Apostol Pavel a poposit aici de două ori între anii 50-57,

în cea de a doua și a treia misiune de creștinare a populației din Asia Mică și este menționat faptul că s-a îmbarcat chiar din acest port, cel mai notabil din vestul Asiei Mici, spre Macedonia, cu destinație precisă Kavala.

După încheierea celei de-a treia misiuni, a revenit pentru o săptămână ca să predice localnicilor credința crestină și menționează într-una din epistole că aici i s-a deschis, în vis, o ușă.

Un fapt anecdotic legat de participarea la serviciile religioase s-a înregistrat, în premieră, în timpul unei slujbe prelungite oficiată de Sf.Apostol Pavel…

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Vid + Squat 4 Health/Politics + Pod16: J. Diamond Published 100+ Books

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Photo of 3 men smiling and doing full squats.
Can you do this and smile? Image by edwindoms610 from Pixabay.

https://anchor.fm/s/622e2888/podcast/rss

Click H-E-R-E for my new podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s audio show is the audio version of “Novelist Jacqueline Diamond Published 100+ Books!” that you can read the text version of H-E-R-E.

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts and Breaker, to Pocket Casts and RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher, plus an RSS feed. The full list of 50+ places is H-E-R-E.

Picture me sitting on my haunches atop a conference table, assigned to perform an entertaining Toastmasters speech titled, “Benefits and Politics of Squatting”…

The subject first piqued my interest years ago, when my mom moved in with us. To make things extra comfy for all (including for when I’…

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Day 33/67 of GED in Five Months, coordinates, and area

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      Adulting must include understanding how complex ideas fit together and affect other ideas, people, places, and/or things.  The Cartesian coordinate system also gives us access to yet another form of language, allowing us to describe the world around us more fully in terms of precise location.

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     Figuring out the area of a polygon in a coordinate plane can also help us figure out other things, don’t you think?

Middle of week 9/18
Day 33 Wk 9
Grammar: coordinating conjunctions
Math: Area of polygons on a grid/coordinate plane
Day 33ExitTix
(Day 32 … Day 34 )

Action Prompts:

1.)   How important do you think mathematics are, especially more complex maths, and how might it help, if you think it does, with Adulting?

2.)  Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write…

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Coral Reef Restoration is Important — FunWritings

It is so good that there are people who care about ecosystems and the creatures who depend on them Even though there are others who don’t, and they only destroy and cause problems Living in a sustainable way and protecting our environment is a great thing to do And being productive as we produce needed……

Coral Reef Restoration is Important — FunWritings