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The Interrobang Film Festival, which was cancelled in 2020, will return with a hybrid schedule of in-person and online events.

Credit: Orlin Velev, NC State University 3D-printable gels with improved and highly controlled properties can be created by merging micro- and nano-sized networks of the same materials harnessed from seaweed, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The findings could have applications in biomedical materials - think of biological scaffolds for growing cells - and soft robotics. Described in the journal Nature Communications, the findings show that these water-based gels - called homocomposite hydrogels - are both strong and flexible. They are composed of alginates - ...

Bill Gates versus  Kaliamman: The meaning of ‘Health’ and well being I was pondering about the medical teleology, pining for the days of the General Practitioner who treated folks from their residences, knew the family history and took responsibility for a patient’s long-term health, rather than so called ‘experts’ and ‘specialists’ who focus narrowly on a particular disease, rather than the overall health of a patient. Today, despite our affluence, we had no health and there was no sense of responsibility in the system where patients are sent from pillar to post for numerous ...

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The left's pandemic purity culture Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter The phrase "purity culture" usually conjures sexual mores and the political right. After all, it's conservatives who care about purity and sanctity. It's primarily evangelicals who participate in the purity culture approach to teaching sexual ethics, a collection of practices (e.g. purity rings, purity balls, assigning girls responsibility for preventing boys' temptation) and rhetoric (e.g. that sexual promiscuity irreparably pollutes you as a person) that became popular in some American ...