soil pollution

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image: buddha reflecting © Holly Troy 6.2026
from Whole Hearted Healing Center in Flagstaff, AZ

“Soil pollution is definitely something that the cardiologist should worry about.”
from — Münzel, T., Hahad, O., Daiber, A., & Landrigan, P. J. (2022). Soil and water pollution and human health: what should cardiologists worry about? Cardiovascular Research, 119(2), 440–449. 

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Deja Vu outta Control – more time tripping

Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate is a haunting mind trip through the carnival ride of obsession, fame, and objectification. A fanboy’s lifelong fixation on his one true love, Sharon Tate, brings him face-to-face with the horror and madness that drives a person to murder. Hilarious, twisted, terrifying, and tragic – Gary Lippman shatters cultural compulsion with celebrity by flipping the polarity of innocent infatuation to full-blown alienation and dehumanization. What a freak show!

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socioeconomic status

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image: canadian fire sky in new england © Holly Troy 7.2026

“Among the most interesting revelations in the data is the correlation between a baby’s name and the parents’ socioeconomic status.”
From “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” by Steven D. Levitt

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social vulnerability

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image: smoky sun © Holly Troy 7.2026

“The concept of social vulnerability has achieved great resonance in the arena of risk and security studies, given greater degrees of sophistication reached by measurement tools—such as social barometers—and other demographic indicators.” from — Huong, S. J., & McCoy, R. G. (2025, March 21). Confronting federal censorship of social vulnerability index. NIH National Library of Medicine.

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