illegal drug connotation.

I don’t even know what the ‘spirit of sport’ is.

driven by governmental views

They have the potential or proven ability to enhance performance, they have the potential to cause harm to an athlete, or their use is considered against the spirit of sport.

but there’s no evidence that cannabis is performance-enhancing,

A 2018 paper co-written by WADA’s medical director found no evidence that marijuana is a performance enhancer.

“I want to take responsibility for my actions,” she told the “Today” show. “I know what I did and what I’m not supposed to do. I know what I’m not allowed to do, and I still made that decision.”

The news of Richardson's suspension due to marijuana use caused an uproar since the drug is legal in many states — including Oregon, where the Olympic trials were held and the sprinter used the drug.

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This culture method enabled us to detect weak spontaneous electrical activity in COs after as early as 1 month in culture. We noted the gradual evolution of EP features in COs within 3 months in culture, as evidenced by elevated mean spike rates and characteristic spontaneous action potentials with discrete depolarizations. In addition, we characterized the simultaneous development of morphological and transcriptomic features in COs with immunohistochemistry (IHC) and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). Maturation of electrical features correlated with dynamic changes in the development of cell types within COs, such as the emergence of astrocytes and diverse neuronal populations. Last, as COs transition into increased cellular and morphological complexity, we observed activation of the neurotrophin (NTR)/TRK receptor signaling pathway.

conclusion based on insufficient or biased evidence.

Slippery Slope:

The failed GOP VAWA alternative was about giving House Republicans the ability to say they voted for a better, conservative alternative.

t also brought LGBT victims and illegal immigrants under the law's ambit, two other aspects many Republicans criticized

it allowed non-Native Americans accused of committing violent acts against women on tribal lands to be tried in tribal courts. Some Republicans said that was unconstitutional.

hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. disclosed a more than 4% stake in eBay and said the company should consider selling its StubHub ticketing business and classifieds-ads unit and focus on repairing its core marketplace.

"bully culture."

EBay has at other times pressured detractors to remove negative content.

the company had been struggling to compete with a surging Amazon in the marketplace business. He was intent on restoring it to its glory days as a tech darling. He sometimes wore a black T-shirt with a white pirate emblem, given to him by employees, to encourage disruptive thinking. He redesigned eBay's logo and poured millions of dollars into renovating its San Jose headquarters.

After her post was published, Mr. Wymer texted a link to Mr. Wenig, adding: “We are going to crush this lady.”Image

They called it AuctionBytes, which later morphed into EcommerceBytes

breaking the analysts down psychologically — making them doubt themselves, isolating them, turning them against each other,

, the U.S. Department of Justice charged six former eBay employees, all part of the corporate security team, with conspiring to commit cyberstalking and tamper with witnesses.

At least five times, Ms. Zea was compelled to watch a scene in which a billionaire toys with a subordinate he has caught considering a job with a competitor.

As Mr. Wenig and other eBay executives tried to make nice with the hedge fund, they did not want to hear criticism of the company.

Elliott Management, a hedge fund considered merciless even by Wall Street standards, bought a chunk of eBay and asked for changes.

not smiling in front of executives.

he group was entirely female.

turnover was high.

individuals who might pose a danger to eBay — and rank them in a threat matrix.

It was never removed, a warning for the timid.

Mr. Baugh would bring the analysts into a conference room and show the scene from “American Gangster” where Denzel Washington coolly executes a man in front of a crowd to make a point. Or a clip from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” where the feds are investigating shady deeds but none of the perpetrators can recall a thing.

The chemicals’ impacts on humans are unknown since no studies have been conducted.

chronic low level exposure and most regulatory agencies base their work on acute high level exposure, which is not analogous to 20 years of occupational use of the pesticide,

Many developed countries, including the United States, have phased out organochlorines and organophosphates,

and the organophosphate insecticides diazinon, malathion and parathion

Wohlleben smiles. “Scientists insist on language that is purged of all emotion,” he says.

We pick it apart and study one process at a time, even though we know these processes don’t happen in isolation.

It’s an interlinked system: fish-forest-fungi.”

old German romanticism about the purity of forests.

He makes these blunders sound like conscious, sentient decisions,

by pumping sugar

are connected to each other through underground fungal networks.

that trees of the same species are communal, and will often form alliances with trees of other species

Trees are far more alert, social, sophisticated—and even intelligent—than we thought.

it harms potentially innocent defendants and enables guilty ones,

why UCI compounds itself; the very power that allows it to happen in the first place also aids it’s concealment.

the Military Justice Improvement Act

On Jan. 19, at Secretary Austin’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), asked him about his willingness to overhaul the military justice system by taking prosecutorial power away from commanders, and giving it instead to trained prosecutors. That proposal is more contentious than it might appear. During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-candidate Biden expressed support, but noted that the Joint Chiefs of Staff disagrees.

shifting higher level offenses to non-judicial punishment; outright threats and orders issued to decisionmakers; open opinions on accused defendants’ culpability; interfering with witnesses; or even casual jokes in front of potential witnesses and jurors.

Convening Authorities (most often the first general in the chain of command) have exclusive power to decide disciplinary matters,

ar the biggest factor. However, SDS can bind differently to different proteins. Hydrophobic proteins may bind more SDS, and proteins with post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation and glycosylation may bind less SDS. These effects are usually negligi

the negatively charged proteins will try to move through the gel towards the positively charged anode

biochemical technique

SDS disrupts the non-covalent bonds in protein molecules.

Human societies increased the abundance and distribution of useful species. This can also be used to preserve the forest, I think,” she told me.

ceramics, earthworks, rock paintings, and mounds of dirt.

show that indigenous populations in the past were more numerous, more complex, and had a greater impact on the largest and most biodiverse tropical forest in the world,”

domesticated to have fruits as large as 200 grams

cocoa tree

The continents were not vast uninhabited expanses but a bustling network of towns and cities

colonial practices of the past grow to become the backbone of the present

ignorance, repression, and active disavowal

The Western question it seems, now as then, remains one of manipulation and self-preservation:  How can we use indigenous subjects or knowledges to save ourselves, our ways of life, our institutions, and ultimately our world?

We need to mind the gap between theory and practice.

the real attraction to indigenous resiliency is for the way it might help Western cultures cope with how to live within the eco-crises of the Anthropocene: 

decolonizing and indigenizing

Indigenous groups and considerations of colonial violence. 

settler nations

significant CO2/carbon decline (that they dub “The Orbis Spike”), is directly the result of drastic population decline due to war, enslavement and disease, with the Americas going from 54 million people in 1492 to only 6 million people by 1650 [16]

Indeed, the same language and colonial logic continues to be used, over two centuries later, in discussions about the Canadian tar sands. 

colonial expansion and the violent treatment and dispossession of Indigenous peoples

Blankets were to be infected with smallpox and given as gifts to Indigenous groups,

I offer one particular eighteenth-century event—the British military’s bio-weaponization of smallpox against North American Indigenous peoples—as a touchstone for thinking about this structural violence, an event that might also serve as a metaphor for some of the dangers we continue to face in our conceptualization of the Anthropocene today

In what ways is a certain structural violence, a colonial violence, smuggled in under the covers of this definition?

nvironmental degradation and racial violence

“Plantationocene”

a manufactured loss that ultimately engendered a profitable return.

he jettison of enslaved passengers was standard operating procedure in the transatlantic slave trade. 

The murdered were, as Christina Sharpe has noted, merely committed to the official historical record as lost property—as jetsam

lost cargo that had been properly insured could now be written off, leaving sailors more inclined to part with their commodities—human beings notwithstanding—if circumstances required.

As more and more ships began transporting commodities to and from Europe’s colonies, there was a corresponding increase in shipwrecks, attacks, and other accidents, filling the Caribbean with commodities, raw materials, and trash lost from these vessels and necessitating clearer parameters regarding how to define these objects and to whom they belonged. 

the plastic, metallic, and organic flotsam and jetsam routinely cast off cargo ships, cruise liners, and sailboats are now visible in the fossil record in and around busy ports and heavily trafficked shipping lanes throughout the world.

intersecting legacies of colonialism, capitalism, and ecological destruction underpinning Michalopaulos’s

  The surrounding environment experienced more than a partial loss and the resulting disaster is part of a long history of environmental degradation in the Caribbean

the job description

unionized,

REF show how public policy can push institutions to recognize and reward public-facing work.

government programs can be hugely effective in encouraging public-facing work

Scholars are encouraged to write only for other scholars — an incentive structure which impoverishes both academia and everyone else.

helping non-experts better understand the most crucial challenges

Public scholarship is research-based work intended for audiences beyond the university.

ethanol

only the first global analysis of mouse membrane and soluble RBC proteins

deep coverage mouse RBC proteome with the recently derived deep coverage human (29Pasini E.M. Kirkegaard M. Mortensen P. Lutz H.U. Thomas A.W. Mann M. In-depth analysis of the membrane and cytosolic proteome of red blood cells.Blood. 2006; 108: 791-801Crossref PubMed Scopus (329) Google Scholar) RBC proteome.

presented an in-depth proteome for the human RBC.

Latin American Youth Center in Hyattsville

s a young girl, Tatiana Sandoval ’19 and her family flew from El Salvador to visit relatives in the U.S.

85,000 affordable units are currently needed for families and individuals earning less than 30% of median income

high construction costs, barriers to development and a lack of public-private investment have led to a deficit of affordable homes.

the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

The third error of judgement was the Bush administration’s belief that Saddam Hussein was linked to, and actively supported, Al-Qaeda.

Second, President Bush stated that Iraq posed an imminent threat to U.S. security,

irst error was the public assertion that Iraq had large amounts of WMDs

group dynamics and pressure toward conformity leads to a weakening of “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement” (

a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are.

what are the barriers to action that I can’t see?

Situational constraints typically predict behavior far better than personality, intelligence, or other individual-level traits.

Indigenous peoples have done much better than the general population in engaging the most urgent concerns raised by climate change.

The colonization of North America was legitimated by Indigenous erasure

diminished the production of hundreds of important food resources including acorns, huckleberries, and elk, as well as a wide variety of mushrooms and bulbs.

vectors of colonialism.

to protect commercially valuable conifer species from being “wasted” in fires, as the language put it in a 1923 Forest Service report

ire suppression was mandated by the very first session of the California Legislature in 1850

European settlers who came to the Klamath region at the turn of the last century feared fire

that it’s not just a matter of what you eat

What people have described as “traditional management”

Low intensity, purposefully set fires are used to provide protection from the fuel buildup that causes larger, hotter (potentially quite dangerous) fires

using fire to enhance specific plant species, optimize hunting conditions, maintain open travel routes, and generally support the flourishing of the species upon which they depen

hunting and fishing for their food, weaving baskets using traditional techniques, carrying out important ceremonies to keep the world intact—activities their ancestors had done back into time beyond memory.

like most settlers of this continent

One of the key tools the Karuk have long used to maintain this natural wealth is fire

Karuk people, together with their Yurok, Hupa, and Konomihu neighbors, are considered to have been the wealthiest of all Native people in California.

part of our lifestyle is curtailed dramatically.

Since the beginning of our life as a people, this territory has been our supermarket, our pharmacy, our hardware store,”

As extractive industries touch ever more remote corners of the planet, including the deepest reaches of its rainforests, indigenous communities are accelerating a coordinated fight to win legal ownership of their ancestral lands.

Many governments’ development policies and priorities directly conflict with the rights and interests of indigenous communities living in nominally protected areas.

Others don’t have confidence that indigenous people can look after these areas.

a lot of conservation organizations feel their jobs are at risk if they adopt the new paradigm,

Some governments have begun to put the new paradigm into practice

Indigenous peoples are the world’s secret weapon in the fight against climate change and deforestation,

Unlike distant bureaucrats, indigenous communities live on the front lines and are eager and able to monitor the forests they know better than outsiders.

[Indigenous peoples] have cultural and spiritual relationships with the forest and its ecosystems that the government doesn’t have

granting indigenous peoples title to their lands — the legal recognition of land ownership — is the low-hanging fruit of successful rainforest conservation and climate mitigation.

Faced with a need to make money, the young migrate to nearby cities, where they often join a permanent indigenous underclass, or take jobs with the companies that are sometimes the drivers of their dispossession.

The real turning point, however, came in 2003 at the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa. Delegates from 154 countries formalized a commitment to what they called “rights-based” conservation,

Indigenous groups and their advocates forced this realization over the course of decades of
protest against conservation policies that dispossessed local inhabitants of their ancestral land.

It was not until the 1990s that a critical mass of mainstream conservationists began to consider the idea that an environmental model that ignored indigenous inhabitants was bound to fail.

“Underpinning the dominant conservation approach in the 20th century was the idea that ‘wilderness’ must be kept uninhabited,

In practice, however, conservation policy often conflicts with the indigenous traditions of stewardship that have kept the rainforests intact and in balance for thousands of years

The government looks favorably on ‘productive’ activities like mining

The government is issuing large-scale gold mining concessions around the edges of the park — contaminating the local watershed

For decades, conservationists advocating the creation of such areas insisted on drawing a clear line separating nature — understood as raw, unpopulated wilderness — and culture, meaning any human activity that impacted the local environment.

And yet, in many countries, misguided government policies relegate them to the sidelines, sometimes by force.

These vital biomes produce and recycle much of the planet’s fresh water, absorb gigatons of excess carbon, exhale a fifth of the oxygen we breathe, and contain 80 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity.

Because the local governments often lack the will or resources to prevent industry encroachment, many such arrangements also end up undermining their creators’ explicit goal: conservation.

landlord-tenant relationship with the state that deprives them of control over their land.

Defending the planet means changing the world.

fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism.

The answer to the question “How should we live?” is: “Simply.”

Yet it is only as citizens taking political action that we can promote meaningful change.

From this misdirection arise a thousand perversities

the great majority arise in poorer nations

Abandoned fishing materials

Even marine plastic is in large part a fishing issue.

Throughout the oceans, this industry, driven by our appetites and protected by governments, is causing cascading ecological collapse.

The problems we face are structural: a political system captured by commercial interests, and an economic system that seeks endless growth.

But systemic thinking is an endangered species.

the sheer volume of consumption is overwhelming the Earth’s living systems.

What is the author hoping to achieve with this text? Why did the author decide to join the “conversation” about the topic? What does the author want from their audience? What does the author want the audience to do once the text is communicated?

Was there a debate about the topic that the author of the text addresses? If so, what are (or were) the various perspectives within that debate? Did something specific occur that motivated the author to speak out?

Who is the author addressing? Sometimes this is the hardest question of all. We can get this information  of “who is the author addressing” by looking at where an article is published. Be sure to pay attention to the newspaper, magazine, website, or journal title where the text is published. Often, you can research that publication to get a good sense of who reads that publication. What is the audience’s demographic information (age, gender, etc.)? What is/are the background, values, interests of the intended audience? How open is this intended audience to the author? What assumptions might the audience make about the author? In what context is the audience receiving the text?

What kind of experience or authority does the author have in the subject about which he or she is speaking? What values does the author have, either in general or with regard to this particular subject? How invested is the author in the topic of the text? In other words, what affects the author’s perspective on the topic?

author, audience, setting, purpose, and text.

WWF makes four recommendations to its partners and the broader market:

This disclosure is a giant leap. If

According to the first report, “Transparency 2020,” these five companies totaled 4.2 million metric tons of plastic collectively in 2018.

Transparent accounting of the plastic that is getting into the system is the first step

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Fifteen million waste pickers in the developing world pick up plastic off

Recycling systems around the world are starting to break down because of COVID-19 budget strains.

Single-use plastic use is going through the roof as a result of increased takeout.

The oil market collapsed, making plastic cheaper to use than ever.

However, the same cannot be said for our oceans,

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the reign of the dinosaurs and thus marked the end of the Cretaceous Period about 65 million years ago.

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Based on that dramatic shift, 1610 should be considered the start date of a new, proposed geologic epoch—the Anthropocene, or recent age of humanity—according to the authors of a new study.