
Stephen Johnson
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1 week ago |
bigthink.com | Stephen Johnson
The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Over glasses of merlot in 2003, the journalist Jonathan Rauch was asked about his religious beliefs. He nearly answered “atheist,” then paused. God never made sense to Rauch. As a child in Hebrew school, he went through the motions but was unable to believe. In his teens, he heard pastors on AM radio rail against gay people like himself, calling them “a stench in the nostril of God.” His atheism hardened.
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1 month ago |
blog.cheapism.com | Stephen Johnson
Cheapism is . We may earn a commission if you buy through links on our site. Grandmas Don't Always Know BestGrandparents often love sharing their tried-and-true financial advice with younger generations. But not all the guidance that worked in Grandma's day is still relevant.
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2 months ago |
bigthink.com | Stephen Johnson
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Imagine lounging in a hammock on a sunny beach, palm trees swaying in the breeze, the bright turquoise of the sea barely dimmed by your sunglasses. You glance up the beach, then down the beach: not a soul in sight. It’s only the first day of your holiday and your whole body feels so relaxed, you could dissolve into the sand and be swept out to sea. You take a lazy sip of your pina colada and take it all in.
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Dec 31, 2024 |
bigthink.com | Stephen Johnson
A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people The Earth is under attack — not by humanity or rampaging aliens, but by the Universe itself. Vast cosmic forces break apart hydrogen atoms and fling their components across the cosmos at nearly the speed of light. Some of these interstellar projectiles smash into the Earth’s atmosphere, allowing sensitive detectors to unravel their secrets.
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Oct 13, 2024 |
biorxiv.org | Stephen Johnson |Michael Beard |Siena M Centofanti |Gustavo Bracho
AbstractSecreted non-structural protein 1 (sNS1) is an important orthoflavivirus pathogenic factor that can induce vascular leakage; a key symptom of severe dengue disease. Given the role of sNS1 in dengue pathogenesis, defining the molecular mechanisms of NS1 secretion may contribute towards development of NS1-targeting antiviral therapies. To this end, we performed a customised membrane-trafficking siRNA screen to identify human host factors involved in NS1 secretion.
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