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A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation

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Koopman led a landmark 17-person trial that tested whether modulating the nervous system’s electrical-signaling patterns could tamp down inflammation and joint pain in RA. The 250-person Reset-RA study, in which half the participants receive no stimulation for the first 12 weeks after implantation, is now evaluating efficacy.

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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More Limited

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Although most national parks ban commercial foraging, about three-fourths allow people to explore and collect their favorite crops for personal use. Individual parks set limits each year, some like Death Valley in California and Nevada restrict the collection of foods like nuts and berries to a quart a day, and only for personal consumption.

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Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

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Each person who sent in screenshots had a unique ID tied to their phone number, but the only demographic information we collected was the worker’s metro area. and Target’s headquarters in Minneapolis. In addition to fair pay, workers also want transparency and agency.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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Somehow, in his random connections, Rob accidentally strikes the "master key of electricity," thereby calling forth the Demon of Electricity. It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. The illustration below as well as the book cover at top are from a first edition at the Bakken Museum , in Minneapolis.)