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Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

by Roxanne Khamsi

bookshelves: biology, genetics, health, nonfiction, scibc-suggestion, science, currently-reading, medicine

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The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics

by Michael T. Osterholm

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“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
― bell hooks, Home Grown: engaged cultural criticism

tags: imperialism, patriarchy, white-supremacy

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“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes

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“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: equality, fighting, injustice, pick-a-side, white-supremacy

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