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I've no fucking idea what I'm doing
I'm tired again
I'm not saying I have bad depth perception. But a laptop salesperson just explained to me that the model I was looking at on the shelf was not, in fact, smaller than the one I held in my hand. Just further away.
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#TheWomenWhoChangedIreland
It's almost 50 years since May McGee took on the Irish State and won access to contraception for married couples. She was spurred into action after Customs officials seized the spermicidal jelly she had ordered from the UK on a doctor's advice. I'm
Israel has broken SIXTY TWO United Nations Resolutions with absolutely no consequences.
Iraq broke two and got invaded and destroyed by the United States for 8 years.
In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis.
These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin.
As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom suddenly became a place of joy and hope.
In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923.
Banting was 32 when he received the Nobel Prize, and he chose to share half the prize money with Best, who was his assistant and just 24 years old at the time. Banting refused to put his name on the patent and instead sold it to the University of Toronto for $1. He thought it was unethical to profit from a discovery that would save millions of lives. "Insulin belongs to the world, not to me," he said.
@NathanJRobinson Read a history book! Cromwell invasion, "famine" (genocide) the almost decimation of our language, land and culture. This is so insulting, considering Irish people stand with Palestine by a vast majority