u/paxinfernum

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He won a major school prayer case. It took years to get a proper obituary. Ishmael Jaffree’s Supreme Court victory shaped church-state law, yet his death went largely unnoticed.

In 1981, lawyer Ishmael Jaffree found out that his children were subject to the Lord’s Prayer every day at school. Then they had to say prayers at lunch. There were additional Bible readings in class. This was happening in Mobile, Alabama even though the Supreme Court had ruled in the 1960s that mandatory Christian prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.

friendlyatheist.com
u/paxinfernum — 2 days ago
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One Letter Change in DNA Can Reverse Sex

  • One letter change in DNA can make XX (female) mice develop male sex organs.
  • This same DNA region exists in people.
  • The mutation is in part of the DNA that does not make a gene, but instead regulates what genes get turned on.
  • This sex determining switch is missed in genetic analysis of people with differences of sex development.
psychologytoday.com
u/paxinfernum — 4 days ago
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Economists warned California not to raise the minimum wage to $20. They were wrong in almost every way so far, another economist says.

msn.com
u/paxinfernum — 5 days ago
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Trump’s macho MAGA economy is a bust. But there are plenty of high-paying jobs for men—in nursing and teaching.

fortune.com
u/paxinfernum — 5 days ago