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Public Health in the Age of Anxiety: Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada

Paul Bramadat, Maryse Guay, Julie Bettinger and R?al Roy

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Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the...

The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Midge Whitelegg and Sheila Kingsbury

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The Western Herbal Tradition is a comprehensive exploration of 27 plants that are central to the...

John Berendt recommended Exquisite Corpse in Books (curated)

"Call it Extreme Southern Gothic, New Orleans division. The protagonists of this dark French Quarter novel are knee-deep in murder, torture, sex and cannibalism. The story is unabashedly grim (or as Brite himself puts it, “twisted, horrific”), but Brite’s prose is crystal clear, and his literate tone is sufficiently wry and ironic that it creates a sort of safety zone in which readers not normally drawn to this sort of stuff (myself included) can take refuge while they read. But even arm’s-length readers are apt to find themselves being drawn further and further into the story—seduced in spite of the themselves. Material that would be merely sick, disgusting, and unreadable in the hands of a lesser writer is, with Brite at the controls, surprisingly erotic and captivating. It’s a tour de force, in a literary category all by itself."

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Neon's Nerd Nexus (360 KP) created a post

Oct 1, 2020

I never was really a huge fan of Jaws by steven spielberg but now I finally see it's importance as a film. It's not necessarily about the shark it's more a human behaviour study. It shows a towns ignorance, self entitlement and selfishness during a pandemic. How politicians cover up dangerous problems just for their own financial gain regardless of the casualties and public safety and how some people take advantage of a crisis to benefit themselves. If anything it's even more relevant today with the spread of covid than it ever was and my issues with it were simply I was far to young to understand it's deeper meanings. It's a mighty fine first film for a director that's for sure and worthy of all it's praise.

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