The abortion movement and its root in eugenics
In a recent decision on the abortion law of two US states, Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, wrote an opinion of his own that drew attention to the embrace of eugenics by some of the founders of the modern ‘reproductive health’ movement. As he says: “From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means […] https://ionainstitute.ie/the-abortion-movement-and-its-root-in-eugenics/
Thanks for hosting @freemo.
I'm going to use this account for keeping track of my learning, to complement the theme of qoto.org. Hopefully with that usage it might even be my Mastodon main.
Gonna start my first post with this article I came across on Quora, despite my slight distaste of the monetisation the platform has tread towards:
https://medium.com/better-marketing/how-to-actually-learn-a-skill-from-a-book-e72261fcae70
The article is suggesting the use of handwriting a particular lesson 100 times, before experimenting and learning from it.
I was born and raised in Hong Kong until 15. The way we learn Chinese (a language evolved from pictures, so instead of memorising 26 alphabets that you string together, you memorise >1k different shapes) was largely rote learning - recite a chapter until you can do it from memory, handwrite a chapter 100 times. If you were naughty at school, handwrite a chapter 100 times more.
Sounds daunting and ineffective in Western standards, and I didn't like it, but it did have its merit. Even more so if you care about what you are learning.
The article used copywriting as an example of the learning subject. Since I'm learning programming, I wonder how I'm gonna do this - handwrite code 100 times? Handwrite explanation of algorithms 100 times? I do love handwriting so any excuse to get my pen flowing is a good excuse.
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Our #openscience dataset from live human brain cells, which contains electrophysiological, morphological & transcriptomic properties gathered from individual cells, is publicly available to accelerate #neuroscience research worldwide. Access via
👉 http://celltypes.brain-map.org
UN report warns against all forms of surrogacy https://ionainstitute.ie/un-report-warns-against-all-forms-of-surrogacy/
series of photos of trees, moss, and other plant life growing over a sign, a ship, a Ferris wheel, a tank, a train, a car, a building, a fence, another ship, and a metal slide https://quinnception.tumblr.com/post/186856596374/id-series-of-photos-of-trees-moss-and-other /2
Fifth Avenue - Didier Graffet https://dieselfutures.tumblr.com/post/186860380560/fifth-avenue-didier-graffet
If you haven't checked out #QOTO yet you should probably check out https://qoto.org and get an account. We have thousands of people on the local server most with extensive STEM backgrounds. It's an active server. But best part is that its not only distributed and decentralized but we also offer a ton of other distributed and compatible services.
Some of the other services we offer for free:
- Host your own website on your own domain with us for free.
- Get a free unlimited GitLab account to host any files or source code you want to share.
- Get a free NextCloud account, also hosted on QOTO. Its like google drive just with actual privacy.
- Many other features coming up this week including: A discourse server to host discussions, Photo hosting, Video hosting, and music hosting. All for free, and all using decentralized and federated technologies.
#QOTO update, we now offer free web-hosting as part of the QOTO network of services. You dont even need to be a member of our MAstodon server (where I am making this post) to use it!
Our Gitlab instance is free for everyone to use for public and open-source projects. We recently enabled the Pages feature.This allows you to upload and host web sites directly from Gitlab. You can even bring your own custom domain, but if you dont have one you will be given a free URL to your page anyway.
As the first pilot test I moved my #Aparapi project over to the gitlab server. It is now hosting the following website: http://Aparapi.com
Please reach out to me if you'd like to use the service and have any questions.
A father’s brain and biology change when he cares for his baby – in humans, marmosets and voles
https://www.childandfamilyblog.com/early-childhood-development/father-brain-biology/
Assault on the natural ties reaching its logical endpoint
The attack on the natural ties is getting closer to its logical endpoint now. The Children and Family Relationships Act, buttressed by the upcoming legislation on Assisted Human Reproduction already tremendously downgrade natural family ties, but influential voices want Irish law to go even further in this direction. For example, they want surrogate mothers to […] https://ionainstitute.ie/assault-on-the-natural-ties-reaching-its-logical-endpoint/
Saw a great site today: https://www.mentalmodelsbox.com
Thanks Fediverse!
The broadcast of the current struggle for democracy in #HongKong can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrqxT-H0aFc
A few more changes out today!
* You can now filter searches by instance type.
* Added an option to hide connections from the map.
* Instance search was great for descriptions in English. Now it's great for 30+ languages.
Fascinating: you can be dyslexic in one language but not in another https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/sep/23/research.highereducation2
China’s CRISPR push in animals promises better meat, novel therapies, and pig organs for people https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/china-s-crispr-push-animals-promises-better-meat-novel-therapies-and-pig-organs-people
Special issue of
https://science.sciencemag.org
on CRISPR in China – all articles open access.
So far on #QOTO we have brought the following services up, I want to know what you want to see next. All of these services are free and open to the public for open-source and collaborative non-commercial ventures.
Here is what we have up so far:
Modified #mastodon server - https://qoto.org
#NextCloud server - https://cloud.qoto.org
GitLab server - https://git.qoto.org
Servers we intend to bring up:
Let me know which of the above you'd like to see next. Also if you have a suggestion of a service we didnt list let me know and we might just host it for you if it would be useful for others.
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I teach #philosophy and work as a researcher for the Iona Institute (www.ionainstitute.ie) Abruzzese. #Distributism