The Giant Spider Invasion

with Barbara Hale (aka Della Street) and Alan Hale (aka "The Skipper" from Gilligan's Island). All this horror courtesy of Wisconsin.

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Mushrooms in elephant dung...

Mushrooms growing in elephant dung. Photographed in Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, East Malaysia. (Photographer/date unknown.)

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Medical misogyny

The healthcare system has largely been made by men, for men.

Medical researchers historically excluded women from experiments — partly because they believed hormonal fluctuations in female lab animals would complicate data, partly citing concerns about harming women’s fertility, and partly because of researcher bias.

As a result, the male body has been treated as the biological default. This healthcare gender prejudice has left gaping knowledge gaps around how illness and pain impact women.

Those knowledge gaps have often been filled with sexist narratives: among them, that women’s pain or symptoms are exaggerated, rooted in emotion, or “hysterical”. That term has origins in ancient Egypt in 1900 BC, where it was suggested a spontaneously wandering uterus was the cause of women’s mental illness.

Read rest of article here:

https://360info.org/made-by-men-for-men-why-medicines-gender-bias-matters/

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Music link....

Click this link. It's worth it!

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Horse hoof restoration

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G-Man Webcomics by Chris Giarrusso (May 18, 2024 -- May 24, 2024)

I noticed that my friend Chris (a fellow GoCreator!)

has a reader with some opinions, which is fine. What isn't so fine, in my way of thinking, is that after Chris politely explains his thought process, this reader basically invalidates Chris's response and tells him what he's really thinking as though he's a mind reader ("because you're ashamed of it!")

This is Chris's reader, so I don't want to butt in too much, but I'd like to ask you, my dear lame FA readers, to weigh in on this. Had Chris remained silent, things might have been looked at differently, but Chris took the time to explain himself. And very nicely, too.

What do you think? To me, it's not the content of Chris's cartoons (yes, cats can be mean), but it's more about Chris's behind-the-scenes explanation and that is was challenged as being false. 

Kindly leave your feedback on the individual pages of this G-Man series. I will later copy and paste your comments here. It's okay to mention that I sent you, but that will no doubt be apparent soon enough. 

---Teresa

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Chris and I seem to have a few things in common when it comes to our strips NOT falling within the guidelines of some unwritten rule about what a comic strip is or is not. (Notice that Chris. like me, uses the word "readers"---never fans.) 

Mangoes and avocados....

1.  Just soft enough to still be firm.  2. Yellow means sweeter (some red okay)  

To speed up ripening, stick in a paper bag to trap ethylene gas. To slow down ripening, place in the refrigerator.

1.  More blackish, than green. 2. Squeeze test. Just soft enough to be a little firm.  3. Clean bellybutton

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