“All External Enemies That Appear Before Us Are Merely Projections And Judgments Created From Our Own

2017 is the year to be a fucking savage

Make moves. Accomplish all your goals. Learn to fall in love with yourself. And stunt so hard on everybody that has ever doubted you.

On Genetic Engineering

Remember when I asked for ressources on this? You seemed kind of interested so here is some of the ones I liked - some are in Portuguese and one is in Spanish tho, long live Nuestra América.

I might update it when my friends send me their part of the project. 

Reading

YourGenome whole website (x)

National Human Genome Institute website which @cancerbiophd recomended to me - thank you again, it was a great start (x)

Nature: CRISPR gene editing is just the begining (x)

Wyss Institute: Gene drive FAQ (x)

Genetic Home Reference guide sheets (x)

Apostila de Biologia 7 do Hexag Medicina - pgs. 156-179 (x)

Uol: Tudo que você precisa saber sobre CRISPR (x)

Site do Conselho de Informação sobre Biotecnologia (x)

TED talks

TED Ed: How to sequence the human genome - Mark J. Kiel

TED Ed: The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen

TED: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA - Jennifer Doudna (who is one of the two women who discovered CRISPR-CAS9 by the way)

TED: Gene editing can now change an entire species forever - Jennifer Kahn

TED: What you need to know about CRISPR - Ellen Jorgensen

TED: How we’re harnessing nature’s hidden superpowers - Oded Shoseyo

Short videos

Unlocking Life’s Code: The Animated Genome (x)

Kurzgesagt: Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever - CRISPR (x) Are GMO Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & our food (x) Genetic Engineering and Diseases - Gene Drvie & Malaria (x) (They’re all very partial to defending genetic engineering, so you get just one side)

Crash Course: DNA: Structure and Replication (x) DNA: Hot Pockets & The Longest Word Ever (x)

N. Garcia:  Composición del genoma Humano (x)

Biologia Total com prof. Jubilut: Mosquito da dengue transgênico (x)

Documentaries

BBC: Playing God

PBS: Cracking your genetic code

GMO OMG (it’s a food conspiracy one I’ll tell you that but it’s intersting)

Gene Variant that Protects Against Alzheimer’s Identified

Authored by Kenny Walter, Digital Reporter, R&D Magazine

Scientists have identified a gene variant that, if reduced, may decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers from Brigham Young University (BYU) have discovered a rare genetic variant that provides a protective effect for high-risk individuals, including elderly people who carry known genetic risk for Alzheimer’s but never acquire the disease.

Read more: https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/11/gene-variant-protects-against-alzheimers-identified

Artwork by Glenn Marshall, Motion Effects by George RedHawk

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

Robert Bringhurst (via narnia)

Last year in my introductory course to health sciences, Determinants of Health (HSS 1101) I’ve learned that besides physical wellness, health encompasses 6 other dimensions: (1) social health, (2) emotional health, (3) spiritual health,(4) environmental health, (5) occupational health, and (6) intellectual health.

Taking this class and learning about the 7 dimensions of health made me realized that wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Each of these seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life.

Wellness is achieving one’s full potential. It is self-directed and an ever-evolving process that follows a lifestyle of balance in health that ultimately decreases the likelihood of becoming ill physically, mentally, and spiritually. Comprised of seven dimensions and characteristics, wellness is achieved when a person’s life includes all seven elements in combination and in whole.

Take Occupational Wellness Assessment Take Emotional Wellness Assessment Take Spiritual Wellness Assessment Take Environment Wellness Assessment Take Physical Wellness Assessment Take Social Wellness Assessment Take Intellectual Wellness Assessment

Published on #FITSO Motivation

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can you please explain how not using facebook, or shopping off amazon means i still give them money or the same amount of money? legit question. i don't understand those tweets.

What Brandon is saying here is that because these mega-corporations all use public infrastructure to run the logistics of their operations whilst avoiding paying taxes, it is the American taxpayer that is subsidizing the profits they enjoy by avoiding said taxes. This is true whether you shop with them or not.

You can take this even further with companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart who pay their workers such meager salaries that they need to go on public assistance and even encourage them to do so. This means that state funds are going towards subsidizing Amazon and Wal-Mart’s worker exploitation all in the name of increasing their profits.