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magidThe CDC is now recommending HIV tests become part of routine health screens for all, treating it as an infectious disease rather than only a stigmatized one. Good.
Massachusetts is considering banning the new-mother bags with formula passed out in many hospitals. A number of local hospitals have already stopped passing out the Similac/Enfamil bags, giving materials promoting their hospital instead of the formula companies. While I don't want mothers to become stigmatized for using formula, I don't think it's necessary to promote it to new mothers as just as good for your baby as breastfeeding, plus more convenient, when it's been shown that breastfeeding provides health benefits formula is unable to duplicate.
I hadn't realized there were so many Native languages in Maine, many on the verge of vanishing, but now there's governmental support (monies, even) for keeping them alive and teaching them.
Better bacon: animal breeders and geneticists are working towards building a better pig. Related site: there are mappings of a number of animal genomes, allowing more careful breeding (theoretically, anyway).
Vote early, vote often: vote for what properties should be on a new Monopoly board (through May 12).
When you should lose your job for your beliefs: a judge in the Phillipines lost his job for consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs (three of them, Armand, Luis and Angel).
Massachusetts is considering banning the new-mother bags with formula passed out in many hospitals. A number of local hospitals have already stopped passing out the Similac/Enfamil bags, giving materials promoting their hospital instead of the formula companies. While I don't want mothers to become stigmatized for using formula, I don't think it's necessary to promote it to new mothers as just as good for your baby as breastfeeding, plus more convenient, when it's been shown that breastfeeding provides health benefits formula is unable to duplicate.
I hadn't realized there were so many Native languages in Maine, many on the verge of vanishing, but now there's governmental support (monies, even) for keeping them alive and teaching them.
... "When I hear English, I feel competitiveness," Roger Paul says. "Once I switch that worldview and start thinking in Indian, it's difficult to think back in English again."
Language preservationists argue it's important to keep languages, like animals, from extinction for the sake of diversity. "Every language provides us with more knowledge about human thinking and behavior ... and a unique perspective. So, when we lose a language, we lose a lot of knowledge," says Pauleena MacDougall, associate director of the Maine Folklife Center housed at the University of Maine in Orono. "It's almost like losing an animal. So what? Why do we care about it? Because it's something missing that should be here."
Better bacon: animal breeders and geneticists are working towards building a better pig. Related site: there are mappings of a number of animal genomes, allowing more careful breeding (theoretically, anyway).
Vote early, vote often: vote for what properties should be on a new Monopoly board (through May 12).
When you should lose your job for your beliefs: a judge in the Phillipines lost his job for consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs (three of them, Armand, Luis and Angel).