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Gene Variant that Protects Against Alzheimer’s Identified

Authored by Kenny Walter, Digital Reporter, R&D Magazine

Scientists have identified a gene variant that, if reduced, may decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers from Brigham Young University (BYU) have discovered a rare genetic variant that provides a protective effect for high-risk individuals, including elderly people who carry known genetic risk for Alzheimer’s but never acquire the disease.

Read more: https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/11/gene-variant-protects-against-alzheimers-identified

What are your rights at a protest?

Animation by KAPWA Studioworks

Citizen activism is as American as apple pie. Whether you call it a protest, a parade, a tea party, a town hall, a march, a sit-in, a patriotic rally, a picket line, a free speech event, or a nonviolent demonstration, your right to stand up peacefully for what you believe in is protected by the US Constitution. Read the  First Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

To learn how to turn protest into powerful change, watch this TED-Ed Lesson.

Ready to exercise your constitutionally protected right to protest? Before you go, know your rights. Below, read an excerpt from the American Civil Liberties Union guidelines for protestors. [For a pdf of the full ACLU ‘Know Your Rights’ guidelines for protestors, click here.]

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can you please explain how not using facebook, or shopping off amazon means i still give them money or the same amount of money? legit question. i don't understand those tweets.

What Brandon is saying here is that because these mega-corporations all use public infrastructure to run the logistics of their operations whilst avoiding paying taxes, it is the American taxpayer that is subsidizing the profits they enjoy by avoiding said taxes. This is true whether you shop with them or not.

You can take this even further with companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart who pay their workers such meager salaries that they need to go on public assistance and even encourage them to do so. This means that state funds are going towards subsidizing Amazon and Wal-Mart’s worker exploitation all in the name of increasing their profits. 

Artwork by Tomasz Alen Kopera, Animation by George RedHawk