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psychoneuroimmunology. It’s the study of how mental illness can arise in the brain, and how it’s linked to– here it is again – inflammation. Hmm . . . In other words, on the one hand there’s a connection between immune defence and
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“When asked unprompted to name the protections specified in the First Amendment:77 o One in 4 respondents (26%) said they can’t name any or don’t know o Freedom of speech was cited by 63% o Freedom of religion was named by 24% o Freedom of the press was named by 20% o Right of assembly was named by 16% o Right to petition the government was named by 6%”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“According to New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, “The United States has less than five percent of the world’s population and nearly one-quarter of its prisoners. Astonishingly, if the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans were a state, it would be more populous than 16 other states. All told, one in three people in the United States has some type of criminal record. No other industrialized country comes close.”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
“Because if you don’t feel loved, it’s difficult to feel anything at all.”
― We Solve Murders
― We Solve Murders
“You can think something often enough, but you will never be prepared for your heart disintegrating.”
― We Solve Murders
― We Solve Murders
“Moreover, America’s inequality is worse than other wealthy nations. The Gini coefficient is a common measure of a country’s inequality. It measures inequality from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (complete inequality). According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2017, “the Gini coefficient in the U.S. stood at 0.434.” This number “was higher than in any other of the G-7 countries, in which the Gini ranged from 0.326 in France to 0.392 in the UK, and inching closer to the level of inequality observed in India (0.495).”
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
― How America Works... and Why It Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the U.S. Political System
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