maybe my favorite thing on the internet:
neal.fun/deep-sea/
Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate.
"[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.”
#GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as big of a disconnect between the scale of a crisis& scale of media coverage in my life-both because the scale of the suffering in #Sudan is so high& because coverage is abominably low”
@tomperriello.bsky.social former US special envoy
niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-...
In Feb 2025, I returned to Syria and walked back into Branch 251 — the cell where Assad’s intelligence first detained me in 2011.
I found new prisoners sitting on the same floor.
My new piece on why the new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system:
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.
This essay would be so great in an intro english class; then have them take a different zingy tiny poem and write (on paper, in class, how we do now) an essay that's in their own voice, not an "I am writing a paper I might be chat-gpt" voice, about the journey of their own reactions to the poem.
Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.
