Woah, that's nice. I had to wear a corset, at some point, I wonder what I would have thought of this doll. We often forget how little representative were toys a few decades ago, it wasn't a problem until you looked for a playmobil with glasses but the only one was this weird one from the end of the drawer and half a body missing.

The Houston Zoo is a nice zoo. They do a lot of work on animal rehabilitation and preservation. At one point their Lion was an animal that had once been some lady’s pet and was declawed. Should they have have sent him back into the wild?

The tortoises are actually getting a new exhibit next month. They’re my favorites so I’ve really been looking forward to seeing it.

Gatekeeping? A doll? The doll doesn't actually have scoliosis, you know that, right? It's representing something. In your mind, is this a good, effective representation? In the original commenter's opinion, it's not. They have reasonable reasons why they think that. If you disagree, feel free to make a counter point about why it is good representation. But gatekeeping this is not.

giving hope to Rupert Murdoch

https://www.boe.es/biblioteca_juridica/codigos/codigo.php?id=204_Codigo_de_Proteccion_y_Bienestar_Animal&modo=2

Mr my biological clock goes up to 111

The issue isn't that we can't do both, but that blocking CO2 into concrete will do next to nothing if we keep our habbits, since the quantity that's blocked is really small compared to what is released, and it costs a lot to do that (in ressources, not money).

We can't look at that and think of it as a solution right now. Maybe later once we stop putting out as much CO2.

We keep hearing lately about all sorts of promising discoveries against cancers. The future is looking good! In a sea of negative news, this is a drop of positivity! Yeey!

Plants already exist that pull carbon out of the air. They're highly efficient and cost almost nothing

Why not both?

As a scoliosis patient I would not have wanted this doll. It would have constantly reminded me of my pain... I never got the "disability representation". If I play or watch movies I want an escape - not a constant reminder.

Uhhh.. disability porn?

Hardly a boy. He's several times as old as us

We've heard this story a million times by now haven't we? Will this be the one? Will it flop like the others? Find out in the next episode of 'Scams from the 21st century'

I was diagnosed with scoliosis last year at age 39. When looking at an x ray from a deca scan, it’s very obvious to see the twists in the spine and the uneven hips…

But when standing up right and wearing clothes, 99.9% of people would never notice it, and would say it’s in my head if I mentioned it.

I can absolutely feel the twist and the effects of it, especially when lying on my side in bed, or lifting weights…

Anyway, having scoliosis doesn’t always mean that you have a very obvious case… and unfortunately for me, because it wasn’t obvious, it didn’t get diagnosed until age 39, when it was far to late to do anything to correct it.

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A lot of zoos house animals that are being rehabilitated or any be released into the wild too!

The New York aquarium takes in exotic animals found from people either surrendering their animals, animal farm seizures, or just people chucking exotic pets into the ocean off Cony Island and being found/discovered

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What next? Ken doll with flat feet?

What's the largest sources of CO2? Cow farts and concrete?

There was just an article in the NYT about an apartment building in NYC that just installed a device that captures the carbon emissions from it's furnace, which then gets shipped out to a concrete company.

I'd assume the NYT wouldn't have run a story like that unless they verified the efficacy of the device. Not to mention it was installed to avoid fines from the city due to the building's emissions, so there's no point in doing that unless you can show to the regulatory body in the city that you are, in fact, reducing emissions.

You are gatekeeping scoliosis

You never saw A League of Their Own with Tom Hanks? It's a classic

Title 9 is an ncaa rule that basically says schools have to have an equal number of women's and men's sports teams. So to legally kick women off the baseball team regardless of how good they are schools just added softball and put them there.