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For the last three years, I have been doing social media on the side while my primary focus was on doing my best as a biomedical engineering BS/MS student. I’ve gotten some very cool opportunities in relation to my studies including working at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as well as West Pharmaceutical Services. At GSK, I served as part of the automation team in small molecule drug discovery where we utilized automated platforms to conduct high throughput experimentation (I will explain this in another post for the nerds like me out there if any of you are interested).

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! In spring 2020, Aileen Mercedes Cannon was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a district judge in the Southern District of Florida. She was relatively young, not even 40, as well as somewhat inexperienced to serve as a trial-court judge, with only four jury trials under her belt.

On Tuesday, right after the heat blast broke, I flew to Boston, straight into another heat blast. (Because why go on vacation when I can work at my volunteer job?) I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview Cliff Mass, Seattle’s beloved weatherman gone to the dogs, to hear his take. Mass has the rather mundane title of professor of atmospheric sciences at UW and literally wrote the book on Pacific Northwest weather.

A general truism of astroturf front groups that shill for one or another (nefarious) special interest is that their name is typically the exact opposite of the agenda they are pursuing. The laughably awful group of self-righteous, thin-skinned Karens who assemble under the absurd moniker “Mom’s For Liberty” is really a coordinated effort of pseudo-moral grandstanding to impose censorship in public schools, because someone has to stop the evil ideas spread by Charlotte’s Web.

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Clota played an important role in Celtic mythology and was seen as a powerful water deity. She was believed to preside over rivers, wells and springs, and was said to be the source of healing, renewal and fertility. The waters believed to be under her control were seen as being instrumental in bringing health and prosperity to those who drank from them or bathed in them. Clota was thought to be a compassionate and kind deity and was believed to be able to heal diseases and illnesses.

Comedian Grayson Morris, who sometimes teaches clown, was kind enough to pass along these thoughts about clowning… ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Grayson Morris Subject: Re: is there somewhere someone could learn more about the principles of clowning? This inspired me to want to read about principles of clowning and a google search provided some interesting & diverse answers. Yes, I think like any art form, to understand it, you must go to school for it & no list of principles will suffice.

Finding spiritual strength and the ability to stay calm amid chaos. Dispatches from Cristina Moon, a social change strategist and Zen priest in Hawaiʻi. By Cristina Moon · Over 2,000 subscribersLet me read it first“Cristina offers a very welcome and much needed dose of serenity and perspective in today's mad, mad world.” “Beautiful and deep insights” “Zen priest, Cristina Moon writes from her heart and brings forth the timeless lineage of the Bodhisattva.

Today, Co‐op City is neither the purgatory nor the heaven that its critics and champions predicted. It is a functioning community. Only New York—a city of 8 million snobs, skeptics, and desperate survivors—could have swallowed a new town of this size within its limits without a ripple. Anywhere else in the world, there would be a steady stream of visitors to see how a community of 45,000‐going‐on‐60,000 takes shape.