Joseph Yaroch

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Hike/run/photograph rocks and plants. Psychiatrist. New Mexico. Armchair philosopher, and founder of the Society of Perpetual Sophomores. Posts are optimized for NCSA Mosaic.

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Gift article: "I think the MAGA movement is different. Partly because it doesn’t do bridging social capital. I mean, that’s part of my diagnosis. It does bonding social capital." #PolTheory 🧠 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/m...

Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonelywww.nytimes.com The author of “Bowling Alone” warned us about social isolation and its effect on democracy a quarter century ago. Things have only gotten worse.

Collared lizard. 📷 🦎

Is there any disease with an inflammatory aspect that isn't triggered or exacerbated by air pollution? It's certainly getting harder to name one with any certainty...🩺 www.medpagetoday.comermatology/psoriasis/11...

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Eagle Claw Cactus, Echinocactus horizonthalonius. Las Cruces, New Mexico, Tortugas Mountain. Most of these are deeper pink, ranging to magenta. This one is unusually pale. 🌵📷🌿🌷

Flowers in the shade. Timeline cleanse. 📷🌷

Something positive for the day 🤝🏼 🧡 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Iceland's First Lady takes you on a tour of her super chill nationwww.bbc.com Eliza Reid moved to Iceland 20 years ago for love and now she's the First Lady. Here are her favourite ways to enjoy a "chill" Icelandic weekend.

The CCC constructed some flood-control dams near Las Cruces NM in the 1930s. This one is in Box Canyon.

Saturday cat 📸

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Two large cohorts (N=204,175) of women without SLE were followed over many years to assess ultra-processed food (UPF) intake and SLE incidence SLE risk was over 50% higher in the highest vs. lowest tertile of cumulative UPF intake In AC&R loom.ly/AJlxX2Y 🩺

Asilidae, robber fly family. Radium Springs, New Mexico, USA. 📷

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He literally four days ago signed a bill to fight Parkinson's because it's an issue his administration has been working on for awhile, might it be related to that, you weirdos? www.parkinson.org/blog/awarene...

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

President Biden Signs Parkinson's Bill into Lawwww.parkinson.org On July 2, President Biden signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act — the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson’s.

The mountains are so big, I feel small. The sky is so big, I imagine the mountains feel small. I am tempted to imagine how the sky feels, but it is better to just sit in wonderment. 📷

This rabbit was in our garden. I got one clear photo before it bolted. 📷🐇

These are similar to what I posted last week. When I posted the first set, my wife said "You didn't get the purple one!" 📷🌿🌷

We keep hearing about solid-state batteries. These folks now believe it is realistic to expect them at scale. #GreenSky www.volts.wtf/p/whats-up-w...

Street art in Las Cruces, NM, USA.

I second this. It's often overlooked. Few will mention it spontaneously; you have to ask directly. 🧠

Domestic violence can cause #BrainInjury! Concussion remains downplayed as life altering; domestic violence moreso. When showing up in ERs, victims deserve to receive objective tests for the full picture. On Psych Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/conc... #DomesticViolence #TBI #MedSky #blog

Domestic Violence Can Cause Brain Injurywww.psychologytoday.com Concussion remains downplayed as a life-altering brain injury, and domestic violence even moreso. The injured deserve to be diagnosed with objective tests.

Coryphantha robistispina, in Doña Ana County, NM, USA. These are rare, Federally protected. 🌵📷🌿🌷

𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘪, Graham's Nipple Cactus, Graham pincushion cactus (es: cabeza de viejo, choyita). This is on the south side of Picacho Peak near Las Cruces, NM, USA. 📷🌷🌿🌵

Currently, 8.8% of the energy used in the USA comes from renewable energy. It would be enlightening to redo this to show how much work is done by each energy source. You can do more work with one BTU from electricity than with a BTU from fossil fuels. #greensky cleantechnica.com/2024/07/03/h...

How Energy Sources Have Changed Throughout U.S. History - CleanTechnicacleantechnica.com Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! In 2023, 94 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) was consumed in the United States, a 1% decrease from 202...

A dilemma in governance is that the best way to avoid tyranny is to have a power-sharing arrangement, but sometimes the folks you share power with will use that power to do things you don't like. Safeguards against the tyranny of the majority can be exploited to create tyranny of the minority.

If only a Founder made this exact point, in the Federalist Papers, to explain separation of powers. Oh wait that's exactly what Madison wrote. "It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government." constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

Funastrum cynanchoides, fringed twinevine. The green pointy stick next to it is from a different plant, an Ephedra. Location: Tortugas Mountain, Las Cruces, NM, USA.

James Wilson, in Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy, outlines the nettlesome properties of complex systems. See Alt text. #philsky

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”Battery-electric buses reached 36% of new city bus sales in 2023 in the EU, overtaking diesel as the main bus fuel type for the first time. At this growth rate, 100% of new EU city buses could already be zero-emission (ZE) by 2027.” #Transport 🚍 www.transportenvironment.org/articles/bat...

Battery-electric is now the most popular for new city buses in the EUwww.transportenvironment.org But until regulation catches up with the momentum for zero-emission buses, European busmakers risk being blindsided by soaring demand and emerging foreign…

Leucophyllum frutescens, Texas Sage 📷 🌿 🌷

Portulaca today. These are from a color mix.

Temporal Association between COVID-19 Infection and Subsequent New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Dan Shan, Congxiyu Wang, Trevor Crawford, Carol Holland :: SSRN 🩺 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Temporal Association between COVID-19 Infection and Subsequent New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysispapers.ssrn.com Background: The relationship between COVID-19 infection and the increased likelihood of older adults developing new-onset dementia (NOD) remains elusive. This r

Tigress and Sunny. I know I cut off a little of Sunny's chin. But with that particular cat, you only get one shot. 📷 🐱

Helianthus petiolaris, prairie sunflower 📷🌷🌿

Eagle Man, by Michael Naranjo. This is a statue outside the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, NM, USA.