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Wisconsin gets new, less gerrymandered election maps

Wisconsin has historically been the site of some awful gerrymandering; while the state as a whole tilts Democratic, the state legislative districts were constructed to give Republicans a supermajority. That changed after the statewide election of a state Supreme Court justice that tipped the court balance liberal. Now the state district lines have been redrawn, the legislature is forecast to be ”up for grabs”, and the Republicans are crying bloody murder. Chalk it up as a win for democracy!

Meditation and the gut biome

A study of Tibetan monks shows that those practicing meditation had a changed gut biome that included markers associated with a lowered risk of depression and anxiety.

The fact that our physical and mental health is so dependent on a host of foreign organisms living in our intestines never fails to boggle my mind.