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He sees the next project, and it’s the simplest thing. Like evolution, it reuses all the old, successful parts of everything that has come before. Like evolution, it just means unfolding.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
This situation leads to a division within the medical community: those in favor of using cannabis who also usually see themselves as pioneers in this area and tend to prescribe cannabis even when the evidence is insufficient, while opponents of medical cannabis might perhaps end up denying a patient cannabis even in situations where cannabis has been shown to be beneficial (pain, nausea and sleep disturbance, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Report ).
BPS Publications
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The rhetoric of flexibility, in other words, despite its existential promise to make us more human, frequently undergirds policies that make the lives of workers more precarious. And it’s far from clear that all workers welcome the liberation from routine work. In many cases, people are left structuring each day from scratch, becoming responsible for a host of decisions that were once codified into the rhythms of the workplace.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
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