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Neuroscientists have recorded the inner sensations of reading as “a felt motionless movement through space.” Once you’ve finished reading, that motionless movement leaves in your mind a numinous shape of the path you traveled. A river, roller coaster, wave.
Meander, Spiral, Explode
Jane Alison
According to KFF Health News, not a single nun serves in a top role at the nation’s more than six hundred Catholic hospitals. Sister Generose Gervais, a longtime administrator of the Mayo Clinic, is often quoted as saying, “No money, no mission.” A hospital can’t care for patients if it can’t pay for itself. But, O’Donnell told me, “people forget the second half of what she said: no mission, no need for money.”
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here | the New Yorker
Dhruv Khullar
In 1938, at Florida’s Marine Studios, Cecil M. Walker demonstrated the feasibility of training bottlenose dolphins, followed by the opening of the first ‘cetacean display facility’ at ‘Marineland’, thereby contributing to the growing appeal of keeping dolphins in captivity15. However, the surge in the display of captive cetaceans gained substantial momentum in the early 1960s with the release of the movie and TV series ‘Flipper.’ The heightened demand for dolphins during this period fuelled the widespread capture and trade of thousands of cetaceans.
The Cruellest Show on Earth
Whale And Dolphin Conservation
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