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This 17-Year-Old Scientist Is Making an Acetaminophen Alternative That Is Less Damaging to the Liver

Lee’s project began with a deep dive into research. “I noticed that current solutions against acetaminophen toxicity are limited,” she explains. “Antidotal therapy, a clinical approach against toxicity, is widely inaccessible and also unreliable, and current approaches to chemically modifying acetaminophen, what my research seeks to do, are impractical since they sacrifice acetaminophen’s pain-relieving properties.”

Can't really remember what I was doing at 17, but it was definitely nothing like this.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: hee hee hee honh honh honh

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Story: The sin offering [BG3]

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The History of BL (Boys’ Love)

“Boys love” as an expression first came into existence in the 90s, and was used to describe commercial manga and light novels with a focus on male relationships, but gradually also incorporated non-commercial works, such as fanzines and doujinshi.

Posting mostly for my own reference because I lost the original article that teen!Bear read when she looked for the difference between "yaoi" and "BL."

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: she make me go CRAZY

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Story: read me like them bones [My Time at Sandrock]

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Still slowly making my way through House via using it as background noise while cross stitching.

In one episode, a young supermodel mentions that the fashion designer she was walking for promised her that she would be the bride during the next show. Which confused me because? She's gonna get married on the runway?

I then ended up in a search spiral and ended up here:

An Explanation About The Random “Bride” During Couture Shows

“It's about money, mainly, but the whole cliché of ending a fashion show with a bride is not unlike the ridiculous lie of Hollywood romantic comedies that predictably end with a wedding,” says fashion critic and author of Fear and Clothing, Cintra Wilson.

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“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult

Charlton wonders whether he and Wildish could have stopped Smith from going down the path he did. “At least I know there were opportunities where truth was spoken and where he would’ve had an opportunity to decide differently,” Charlton says. “But at the same time, I also know that God never takes away free will...you still have to make a personal choice as to what the rest of your journey is going to be.”