Erin Biba

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Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
National Geographic, BBC, Scientific American, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.

I mostly post about Jewish stuff, disability, social justice, and Star Trek.

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Ouch

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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Masked and sweaty

y’all masking?

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[clears throat]

y’all masking?

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y’all masking?

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all the cool kids are doing it (and also me)

y’all masking?

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The US added 1.2Million EVs to the grid last year & electricity use dropped due to inc. efficiency. Grid stability will increase further when V2grid charging is deployed at scale. 🧪🔌💡https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/02/the-us-added-1-2-million-evs-to-the-grid-last-year-electricity-use-went-down/

The US Added 1.2 Million EVs To The Grid Last Year, & Electricity Use Went Down - CleanTechnicacleantechnica.com With over 1 million new EVs plugging into garage outlets, home charging stations, and Superchargers, you’d think our electricity usage would have shot up dramatically. You’d be wrong.

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I had a rough night, but I woke up at 4AM to find Strata had brought me her favorite toy and curled up against me. Such a sweetheart.

I tell her she’s pretty every day

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"coronavirus is “like throwing a bomb in your body,” said Dr. Ken Cadwell, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how Covid affects the gut. “You’re going to feel that in multiple different organs, not just the lungs.”" (Gift link)

This May Be the Most Overlooked Covid Symptomwww.nytimes.com Gastrointestinal issues are a common but often unrecognized sign of infection.

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I started to type “spots comin’ in” and my phone corrected it to “Spots Colin” so that’s his name now

This guy is such a fucking relentless weirdo.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'won't take sides' on what happened on 9/11www.nbcnews.com The independent presidential candidate made the remark in a social media post, later saying that he was referring to "possible Saudi involvement" in the 2001 terror attacks.

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If you don't know Claudia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food she is the GOAT of the Jewish food diaspora. It took her ten years and she wrote three other books just to fund it. A stupendous and tremendously enjoyable feat of heart and scholarship.

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other cousins have new puppies!!! they cannot stay still so the photos all suck.

look at my cousins' new puppy!!!!! 🤩 I love him

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Mood 😭

dw i'm on top of things...oh

By the way, My Jewish Learning's food section The Nosher is a really great place to find Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jewish recipes. www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/

The Nosher | My Jewish Learningwww.myjewishlearning.com Explore Jewish Life and Judaism at My Jewish Learning, a trans-denominational website of information about Judaism. Visit us today!

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Since I never had kids, here is my family recipe for sweet lokshen kugel. If you want to make it the way I do, use dried cherries or blueberries instead of raisins and add cardamom to taste. I also made it with dried cranberries and nutmeg for Thanksgiving once. www.tumblr.com/atalantapend... 🍽️

But what's fun about this is that means you put your own spin on it and tweak it to your liking and now you've left your mark on the culture and there's a little bit of you going into the traditions of future generations and if that's not the most Jewish thing ever then I don't know what is.

My family’s recipe for lokshen kugel!www.tumblr.com -copy-pasted from my mom- This will make about 12 good pieces. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Spray an oven proof pan - 9X11 or 13 pyrex or something like that with Pam 1/2 lb wide noodles (cook a…

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SPEAKING OF I have a very distant memory of my great grandmother having these dry crunchy cookies in her house with large sugar crystals on top but it was not mandel bread and the shape was kind of like an elephant ear but also wasn’t rugelah and I’ve never seen it in a Jewish deli so … ????

And this is ALL Jewish food. Cause we never stayed anywhere for long all our recipes are hand-me-downs. We have dishes that share the same name but you'll never find anyone doing it any way but the one they learned from their mom or grandma and it'll all depend on where they fled from and fled to.

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The only way to make accurate Jewish food is to serve it to six Jewish people who all say it’s good but quietly believe their grandma’s is better.

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I love those heritage recipes where everyone has a slightly different version, because after making 2 or 3 of them, you, too, have extremely strong opinions on which is The Correct Version and have started tweaking them all to get closer to your ideal recipe

I'm trying to learn more Sephardic dishes and Jewish foods from outside of Eastern Europe. If you've got non-Ashkenazi or dishes from outside the region you love please share them! I wanna broaden my experience of Jewish culture since we're from literally everywhere!

Tonight I'm making the Iraqi Jewish dish Tbeet, which I've never had before. But I just watched like 5 videos and each one was a *completely different* recipe so I figure I'll never actually eat Tbeet so much as I'll just taste its vibes.

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For weeks I'm going to be seeing people discussing help received from posts -- a motorized wheelchair, help finding housing, a new friend who believed them and helped through a tough time, a post that changed their outlook -- and thinking to myself "Ah yes, but posting? It doesn't even matter."

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I'm a fan of the Black Gotham Experience and the work they do. In particular, their walking experiences are excellent. I joined one of their walks this afternoon and it was a great experience. If you're in NYC, check them out. blackgotham.com#2

blackgotham.comblackgotham.com Black Gotham Experience is an immersive visual storytelling project that celebrates the impact of the African Diaspora since 1625.

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I still want to make a FPS videogame where one of the weapons is a big fucking snapping turtle that you just hold by the shell and let it chew through whatever’s in your path

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If our posts didn't matter, they wouldn't have wanted to make the internet a place where you can't decide whether a post was written by a bot, a troll or someone who actually knows what they are talking about. They have intentionally gone out of their way to try to sabotage online activism.

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People who believe nothing you post has impact- have no idea how to use a platform & they may also have an interest in discouraging you from speaking out. Online activism matters. Look at what they did to Twitter. Twitter was previously one of the most important communication tools on the planet.