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Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images

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Know your horns!

(From Keith and Clothilde Sutton’s Pictorial Dictionary.)

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heeppy hoolida

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back to 4

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

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Reblog to heal the heart of the person you reblogged this from.

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Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

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I hate it when people are like Magnus chase is such a happy sunshine character when his mom died when he was like 14 and he’s been homeless for many years and he’s actually a mean and distrustful mf with severe PTSD and extremely low self worth

#he's not a happy sunshine character‚ he's a barely functioning solar panel #I think people mistake his fierce love and refusal to give up hope as Happy Sunshine vibes #.txt #magnus chase #mcga #prev tags: ulfie-by-osmosis

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The idea that only women can give birth is a misconception. Men can give birth too and that's a mrconception

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Palestine is not a trend

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Kaz's journey to grieving his brother properly will start with Matthias.

Do you ever realize that Matthias is the second loss Kaz has ever experienced? He had witnessed many deaths among the Dregs, but he never allowed himself to get attached to any of them, so he didn't really viewed them as losses. In almost ten years, crows are the first people that Kaz has accepted as his family, and while Kaz and Matthias are hard to call best friends, they are friends. They are on more of the "high school rivals" side of the spectrum, but it doesn't mean they don't care about what happens to the other.

And the news of Matthias's death hits the crew right after Kaz has finally avenged his brother.

So, don't imagine how lost Kaz will be when he realizes that the pain he felt after the swim from the reaper's barge came back, but now it was there on behalf of the big Fjerdan.

Don't imagine how he will freeze when he finds the map of the ice court with Matthias's crooked handwriting or pardon that he never got to use and realizes that it is all that's left of Helvar.

Don't imagine how his thoughts slowly switch from one thing to another, and he slowly realizes there's nothing left from his brother.

Don't imagine how he feels something on his cheek, and when he tries to wipe it off and feels water, he realizes that he's crying.

Don't imagine how, while walking through the Government District, and passing Fjerdan Ambassy, he sees an ash tree, and in his head, he hears Matthias mumbling something. It's some Fjerdan prayer, designed to give peace to the dead, that he was saying on the black veil.

Don't imagine how Kaz approaches the tree and quietly repeats that prayer.

And please, don't imagine how after that the pain in his chest finally disappears. He knows it will be back, but it won't be as bad.

And from afar, Jordie is smiling. His brother had finally forgiven himself for staying alive. He can finally be at peace.

#*just in case this is not a ship post!* #kazzle dazzle #kaz six of crows #kaz being kaz #jordie rietveld #kaz and jordie #kaz brekker #mattias helvar #matthias helvar #kaz rietveld #six of crows analysis #six of crows angst #soc #soc fandom #soc fanfic #soc analysis #soc angst #soc headcanon #grisha #incorrect grishaverse #grishaverse #the grishaverse #tw ptsd #tw death #crooked kingdom #ck spoilers #kaz and matthias #six of crows fic #six of crows #six of crows fanfic

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THE CROWS: A (Meme) Summary

#six of crows #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #kaz brekker #nina zenik #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #matthias helvar #shadow and bone spoilers

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thinking about how, as a child, kaz’s favorite trick seemed to be watching something disappear, and then he grew up and fell in love with a girl who could vanish into thin air, and how we’re told that when he looks at inej, he feels like a boy again and believes that there’s still magic in the world. imagine loving magic all your life, and then discovering that magic loved you too.

#i love them so very much #all these years later and kaz is still in love with magic!!!! #but inej is the magic now I can’t I’m — #kaz brekker #six of crows #text #shadow and bone #kanej #inej ghafa

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All of the soc fandom @ Netflix

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #wylan van eck #calahan skogman #amita suman #danielle galligan #nmnf #kaz brekker #kit young #jack wolfe #jesper fahey #nina zenik #freddy carter #inej ghafa #matthias helvar #six of crows

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If you’re a trans girl, you’re just a girl to me. Not a “trans” girl. Just a girl. Simple as that. If you’re a trans boy, you don’t need to explain yourself more than what your pronouns are because to me you’re just a boy. Not “oh I haven’t physically transitioned tho” bullshit or “I’m not taking hormones yet” NO. YOU ARE THE GENDER YOU SAY YOU ARE 💗

#t4t #t4t yearning #t4t lesbian #wlw yearning #lgbtq #lgbtq community #lgbt #lgbtqia #pansexual #polyamory #lesbian #t4t wlw #gay

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men stop following lesbian blogs challenge!

#lesbian #wlw #sapphic #wlw post #men dni

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mutual 1: I want to turn that man's prostate into silly putty

mutual 2: here's smth i doodled during science class lol

mutual 3: pls remember that you personally can drink milk and still be a lactose intolerance ally!! anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know their history :]

mutual 4: fucking a robot girl in the ass call that backend programming

mutual 5: holy shit I need him so fucking bad holy shit holyyy shit oh my god

mutual 6: anyone get kind of horny putting the ignition key in the car....it's so intimate....turning him on....

mutual 7: so lets talk about where scrimblo's arc is realistically going- I know a lot of people are trying to argue that he's being manipulated but this ignores the fact that there is clearly unresolved conflict between him and bleebus about their moralities

mutual 8: happy propeller penis thursday

mutual 9: "scrimblo and bleebus need to discuss their morality" god forbid a pathetic boywife does some torture 🙄🙄

mutual 10: WHO IS HYPED FOR THE NEW ALBUM LETS FUCKING GO

mutual 11: guys we're not getting a new album

mutual 12: please stop sending me death threats

mutual 13: why is my whole dash talking about this band I don't even listen to.....

mutual 14: hey boy nice knife wound can i put my tongue in it

mutual 15: i'm going to fall into lake michigan

#i'm #8 and 9

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this is the best sentence ever typed

#what the hell is this