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Cancer rates among those aged 15 to 49 have increased by 10 percent since 2000
even as they have fallen among older people.
Young women are more affected than men.
From ages 15 through 49, women have a cancer rate that is 83 percent higher than men in the same age range.

What researchers suspect may be fueling cancer among millennials
Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.

The flimsy evidence behind Trump's big autism announcement, explained (Dylan Scott/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/health/462311/trump-tylenol-autism-announcement-leucovorin
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p137#a250922p137

This is what happened to the web when the software industry never spent a moment thinking about long term stability. About users. About usability. About anything other than features and a fast buck.
Among many other failings.
Would be nice to some professionalism in future. One can hope, but I despair.
https://jimsbutchery.com.au

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

been faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
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The degree of stupidity required for him to actually make such an announcement is hard to conceive. His flunkies have to want him to look demented. @…

Catherine Berry (@isomeme.bsky.social)
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In a short period of time Trump has announced that
- paracetamol causes autism
- vaccines are bad for babies
- the West is being destroyed by immigration
- climate change is a hoax
This is all bullshit, and we all know it, but it needs to be reported like that.
Daft old man shouts at cloud (but also happens to be POTUS)

Watch live: Trump calls climate change a ‘con job’ and accuses countries of failing to control borders
Irish delegation intends on using the high-level week to emphasise the dire need for urgent resolution

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General,
Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of Parisa Salehi,
the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general,
the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.
Even among Republicans on Capitol Hill, Ms. Salehi’s firing is prompting some backlash.
Senator Charles E. Grassley,
Republican of Iowa, raised concerns that the termination was illegal, …

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general, the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 26 October - 2 November #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131024/h-net-…