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Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water - Slashdot
December 17, 2025 at 8:45:39 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.
- https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/1550214/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water
A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's. -
What does it mean that hundreds of thousands of players are clicking on a banana? - Sherwood News
August 3, 2024 at 1:11:15 PM GMT+2 * - permalink -Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not
- https://sherwood.news/tech/hundreds-of-thousands-of-players-banana-clicker-game-egg-steam/
Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but microtransactions and trading elements which is likely why developers “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing so long as users buying content. They're earning about 10% every sale between players human not StupidFucksAward Zeitgeist -
Two Mindsets That Can Create Rude or Polite Coworkers | AOM Insights
February 2, 2024 at 9:15:50 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:
Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity. Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”
- https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2022.0069.summary
The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work: Humanistic mindset: an empathetic person-centric approach focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity. Mechanistic efficient task-focused utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons. “The mindset adopted by has implications whether they interact others in a civil or uncivil manner
