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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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The US medical system is still haunted by slavery

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

By Ranjani Chakraborty for Vox

As the high rates of maternal mortality in the US continue to concern researchers, a new ProPublica report digs into one factor in this alarming trend. According to the CDC, black mothers giving birth in the US die at three to four times the rate of white mothers. That’s one of the widest racial disparities in medicine today.

While many of the inequalities in medicine can be attributed to economic factors like access to good health care, studies have shown minority patients tend to receive a lower quality of care than non-minorities, even when they have the same types of health insurance and the same ability to pay for care.

So how do we better understand this divide? History is usually a good place to start. In this installment of Vox and ProPublica’s collaboration, we lay out some of the dark history of race and women’s medicine. From the experimentation on slaves for medical science to the forced sterilization campaigns in black and poor communities, the vestiges of abuse continue to haunt the medical system, and give context to current racial disparities.

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NET NEUTRALITY IS IMPORTANT, AND WE NEED TO KEEP IT ALIVE.

reblog if you think so too.

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I just realized the Five Stages of Grief (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance) spell out DABDA and I feel like this is Important Information

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Dad, Me too.

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Anderson Cooper saving a boy in Haiti during a shooting. A slab of concrete was dropped of the boys head.

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So I went to an art conference at my school. We discussed things there, like how colors can be very powerful and our subconscious picks up the subtlest of hints. Pixar’s UP was a very unforgettable example. The colors of UP had a lot to do with why we cried. You all know what I’m talking about, right??

Ellie’s death.

We were told that her color was pink. That’s why her hospital room had pinkish hue.

And the next scene had strong pink hues. He misses her. I think it’s got strong colors because of her personality.

Also, It’s like her presence is still lingering.

When he got home, only a small part of the frame (window on the right) has a pink hue as the sun is setting. By now, we know her presence is drifting away.

Mr. Fredricksen walks up the porch and goes into his house.

And when he shuts the door, the final frame looks like this:

Ellie is gone.

The entire frame is desaturated and cold because the warmth in Mr. Fredrickson’s life is gone.

And that’s another reason why this masterpiece is heart-wrenching. And that’s how powerful colors are in films.

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Physical Music 034 - Hypothetical resonance piano. What if a piano keyboard were to be constructed out of materials with relative resonances, could we use it to compose everyday products that were acoustically rewarding rather than just noisy ?

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“NOBODY realized how staggeringly incompetent, idiotic, infantile, impulsive, and irresponsible Trump would turn out to be as President.”

Raise your hand if you realized how staggeringly incompetent, idiotic, infantile, impulsive, and irresponsible Trump would turn out to be.

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Honestly shoutout to The Social Network for giving us the line “you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole” because if that doesn’t epitomize women’s feelings for entitled male nerds I don’t know what does

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*waits for the number of rape reports to drop significantly because victims fear losing their health insurance and then trump claims he helped reduce rape*

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men: *decided women weren’t allowed attend schools, study sciences, or have access to higher education* men: well if women are so smart then how come there aren’t many contributions from women in history huh

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I believe, that this problem could be solved much easier and much more quickly than our authorities try to convince us. This problem already seems to be endless, because people live in rough and inappropriate conditions for too long.

I like how this kid slams the authorities and acting government! 

Even children can value people’s lives, unlike our government…

#LittleMissFlint #WaterCrisis