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A forest-based yard improved the immune system of daycare children in only a month

An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved its regulation when forest undergrowth, lawn turf and planter boxes were added to yard areas of daycare centres.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-biological-and-environmental-sciences/news/forest-based-yard-improved-immune-system-daycare-children-only-month

#science #culture

Scientists develop battery material that doesn’t lose charge capacity over time.

#Science #Technology #EV #Transportation #News

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/scientists-develop-long-life-electrode-material-solid-state-batteries-ideal-evs

US COVID death toll would be 4X higher without vaccines, modeling study finds - Enlarge / A woman watches white flags on the National Mall on September... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904032 #infectiousdisease #hospitalizations #publichealth #vaccination #infections #covid-19 #vaccines #science #deaths #cases

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Berlin 💙- #Iran 🖤

A Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control, in Deanda v. Becerra. - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra F*ck this guy. #BirthControl #Law

I realised that today is the #InternationalMountainDay after posting a mountain pic. So here are a few more of my mountain pics. #Photography #MastIndia

S. Winfrey wrote the following post Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:37:12 +0200

In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

And now it's 100% official: Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago special master case, following the 11th Circuit's ruling that she lacked jurisdiction to do all of this.

Previously: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/justice-department-freed-to-use-trump-mar-a-lago-records-in-criminal-probe

And: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-09/what-donald-trump-s-court-battle-over-mar-a-lago-records-lost-and-won

If Elon thinks New Twitter is hardcore, he should check out reality:

“The booing got louder as Musk wandered around onstage with a microphone in hand. Musk started pacing and waving, clearly unsure what to do about such a negative reaction…

“Thanks for having me up on stage,” Musk said awkwardly to more boos.

“The first comedy club on Mars....” Chappelle said, as Musk stood by awkwardly just saying “yeah.””

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192

Absolute gold-tier crypto comedy, FTX NFTs now point to a page with information about the bankruptcy. https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/ftx-hosted-nfts-break-after-website-is-redirected-to-a-restructuring-page

Okay, so I used to regularly do this on the other site, but now let's do this here: If you are a reporter and you are writing about a lawsuit where you have access to the complaint and DON'T link to the complaint in your article, you are failing at your job.

NEW: Florida State Representative Joseph Harding, the Republican who introduced the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, has been criminally indicted by the Justice Department for wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements.

🚨 On Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. EST, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral argument in Moore v. Harper, a case out of North Carolina that gives the Court the opportunity to consider the fringe independent state legislature (ISL) theory. You can find the audio live stream at this URL (bookmark it :)

#MooreVsHarper #Democracy #votingrights #scotus
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-updates-u-s-supreme-court-hears-moore-v-harper/

One of my favorite Twitter accounts was always Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America. Matthew closed up shop on Twitter and moved to Mastodon as @AbandonedAmerica. You should follow and support his work not only because we need more mid-size original content accounts here, but because his photos are FANTASTIC.

https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/109452123378940711

Trump Organization guilty on all counts in NY tax fraud case!!!