health
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Every weird kid I’ve ever known selects one worldwide disaster and gets way too into it. I am, unfortunately, the weird kid who never grew out of the practice. I started with the Black Plague, then moved on to the geography of syphilis, then meandered around in the world of parasites and prions and smallpox…
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I missed yesterday’s prompt because of its eyerolling assumption of comfort as king. I needed to sleep on it, consider why it made me groan aloud when I first saw it at 8:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. There is nothing wrong with curling up on the couch, tucked away from the heat of…
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Which is to say, that there is no single magic bullet that will end all cancer. This is because of what cancer is — a nature often obscured by the language of treatments and punchy catchphrases and political platforms of “advancing a cure” — but the nature of cancer is that of an animal outside…
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One piece of advice I saw on the internet years ago changed my life. It goes a little something like this: “If you hate everyone, eat something. If you think everyone hates you, take a nap. And remember, nothing you think about yourself after 9pm is true.” Its sound advice. There’s very little a nap…
from the pen of icarus blake 