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Ah ! On le savait bien qu’il y a avait complot vegan !

A Tick Bite Could Make You Allergic to Meat—and It’s Spreading
▻http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/tick-bite-meat-allergy-spreading-spd

“You’re walking through the woods, and that tick has had a meal of cow blood or mammal blood,” explained Cosby Stone, an allergy and immunology fellow at Vanderbilt University. “The tick, carrying Alpha-Gal, bites you and activates your allergy immune system.”

From this, your body creates Alpha-Gal antibodies and, from that point on, the body is wired to fight Alpha-Gal sugar molecules. The majority of people who develop Alpha-Gal allergy syndrome realize their illness after eating meat, which is rife with Alpha-Gal. The sugar is also present in some medications that use gelatins as stabilizers.

#tique #allergie #viande

That Time in 8th Grade When an Electric Eel Almost Killed Sarah - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/that-time-in-8th-grade-when-an-electric-eel-almost-killed-sarah

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When you’re a kid, it’s easy to take things for granted—to assume, for example, that your experiences, however unique, are relatively common. But then you find out way later in life that no, in fact not everyone tested the “Mary Poppins Theory of Gravity” by jumping off their hay barn clutching an umbrella, as I did, or was sung to sleep each night by the high-pitched bugling of the neighborhood elk herd. That sense of distinction is how I felt reading the news that a researcher at Vanderbilt University had finally corroborated a centuries-old tale about electric eels. I thought: People don’t know this already? This month, Kenneth Catania, a scientist with a passion for studying Electrophorus electricus, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a peculiar behavior (...)

The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species - Issue 30: Identity
▻http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/the-man-who-used-facebook-to-find-an-extinct-human-species

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In some sense, Lee Rogers Berger found himself and the drowning woman at the same time. The Georgia native had just returned home after dropping out of Vanderbilt University, where terrible grades in his pre-law major and straight As in his electives had convinced him that he was ill-suited to law but well-suited to something else. For the time being, that something else was covering local news as a photographer. One night, Berger was reporting from the banks of the Savannah River on a woman’s disappearance when he spotted something in his peripheral vision. He dropped his camera onto the ground, himself into the river, became the hero of the day, and discovered an uncanny talent: being in the right place at the right time. Decades later, he pulled a similar trick with his career. (...)

Skinhead’s Story of Redemption, With Help from SPLC, to be Told in MSNBC Documentary | Southern Poverty Law Center

Erasing Hate
►http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/skinheads-story-of-redemption-with-help-from-splc-to-be-told-in-msnbc-doc

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In 2005, at a white power music festival in Kentucky called Nordic Fest, Widner met his future wife, Julie, who was also active in the white power movement. Together, they began to see the hypocrisy of the skinhead culture and realized it was no place to raise a family. Despite death threats and harassment, they left the movement.

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The SPLC provided financial aid that allowed Widner to get the tattoos removed from his face and hands at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Each treatment left Widner’s face badly blistered and swollen – a sort of penance for his violent past.

Là c’est l’amour qui a ouvert les yeux, après la marie jeanne, qui guérit de la haine...
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