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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
Gift article 🎁
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Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country (Gift Article)
The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Gift article 🎁
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Very important findings.
For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.
For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.
People who got the 2024-2025 Covid booster had a 44% lower symptomatic infection rate and more than a 50% lower rate of death and hospitalization than those who did not receive the booster, and did not experience a higher rate of adverse outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Evidence, Opinion, and Uncertainty About COVID-19 Vaccines
This issue of JAMA Internal Medicine includes a Research Letter by Du and colleagues1 reporting findings that once again demonstrate that vaccination with a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster with an updated ...
jamanetwork.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Very important findings.
For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.
For a society increasingly absorbed in sports gambling, betting your health and life on vaccines is a very smart bet.
Fresh Air reprises three interviews with Susan Stamberg, two by Terry Gross and one with Bill Siemering
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg : Fresh Air
As longtime co-host of All Things Considered, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national news program in the U.S. People weren't used to hearing women's voices on the radio. "We were imitating ...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Fresh Air reprises three interviews with Susan Stamberg, two by Terry Gross and one with Bill Siemering
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean’s Deepest Secrets (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by @onthemedia.bsky.social @brookegladstone.bsky.social with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz, @susanbenesch.bsky.social
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommended.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommended.
Sticks and Stones | On the Media | WNYC Studios
A look back at our country's radical and inconsistent free speech tradition.
www.wnycstudios.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by @onthemedia.bsky.social @brookegladstone.bsky.social with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz, @susanbenesch.bsky.social
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommended.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
Highly recommended.
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20 September 1820: Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick visits Lyme Regis, noting in his journal: 'After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning'. This is the earliest known reference to Mary Anning junior now taking the lead in the family fossil business run by her mother (who was also Mary Anning).
![Extract from Sedgwick's journal: '20. [September] After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning - walk to the Charmouth Cliffs'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vcl75pfg74dsskrzvynq5rez/bafkreiheq4dy5z7cfwgsuvxv6x4i4xs23cdgohci4jixj5elabzl7q6vaa@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
20 September 1820: Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick visits Lyme Regis, noting in his journal: 'After breakfast purchase fossils of Miss Anning'. This is the earliest known reference to Mary Anning junior now taking the lead in the family fossil business run by her mother (who was also Mary Anning).
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Russian MiG jets stayed in Estonian airspace for over 20 minutes without flight plans, with transponders off, and made no contact with air traffic control, according to Estonia’s Ministry of Defence.
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Russian MiG jets stayed in Estonian airspace for over 20 minutes without flight plans, with transponders off, and made no contact with air traffic control, according to Estonia’s Ministry of Defence.
Looking forward to more and deeper reporting from the raid on the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions battery factory in Ellabel, GA, and related situations.
Gift 🎁 article.
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Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia
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September 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Looking forward to more and deeper reporting from the raid on the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions battery factory in Ellabel, GA, and related situations.
Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
Gift 🎁 article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
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🌋 On Aug 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with cataclysmic force. The blast was heard 3,000+ miles away, unleashed tsunamis over 30m high, and darkened skies worldwide. Global temperatures dropped, and vivid sunsets inspired artists for years.
#OTD #Krakatoa #VolcanoHistory
September 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
🌋 On Aug 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with cataclysmic force. The blast was heard 3,000+ miles away, unleashed tsunamis over 30m high, and darkened skies worldwide. Global temperatures dropped, and vivid sunsets inspired artists for years.
#OTD #Krakatoa #VolcanoHistory
War on Science
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RFK, Jr., Demanded a Vaccine Study Be Retracted—The Journal Said No
In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted...
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September 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
War on Science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
Perspective on Covid-19
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Perspective on Covid-19
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On Aug 17, 1959, a Mw 7.2 #earthquake struck near Hebgen Lake, Montana, just west of Yellowstone. Fault scarps up to 6.1 meters offset, shaking lasted 30 - 40 s, and seiches surged across Hebgen Lake for 12 h. Aftershocks up to Mw 6.3 followed. (1/3) 🧪⚒ #geology
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August 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
On Aug 17, 1959, a Mw 7.2 #earthquake struck near Hebgen Lake, Montana, just west of Yellowstone. Fault scarps up to 6.1 meters offset, shaking lasted 30 - 40 s, and seiches surged across Hebgen Lake for 12 h. Aftershocks up to Mw 6.3 followed. (1/3) 🧪⚒ #geology
wereintherockies.com/1959-hebgen-...
wereintherockies.com/1959-hebgen-...
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Things you might not know about chronic, low-level lead exposure and heart disease, including the lead-estrogen hypothesis
"In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure"
Learn from @blanphear.bsky.social
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"In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure"
Learn from @blanphear.bsky.social
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Chronic Lead Exposure, a Risk Factor for Heart Disease
Plus: My Recommendations for Reducing Risk of Heart Disease
erictopol.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Things you might not know about chronic, low-level lead exposure and heart disease, including the lead-estrogen hypothesis
"In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure"
Learn from @blanphear.bsky.social
erictopol.substack.com/p/is-chronic...
"In 2019, a total of 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributed to lead exposure"
Learn from @blanphear.bsky.social
erictopol.substack.com/p/is-chronic...
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Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
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August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Carbon emissions are good, mRNA vaccines are bad. How to be wrong about everything.
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This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.
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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Coastal Geology and people.
Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...
Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...
An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.
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July 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Coastal Geology and people.
Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...
Gift article 🎁 Highly recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/c...
Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations on FY 2026 Science agency budgets
Bill passes 19-10 and is off to the full Senate for consideration. The bill currently keeps NSF's budget flat at $9 billion.
Senate Appropriations Committee is resuming consideration of the bill that contains the FY 2026 budgets for agencies like NASA, NOAA and NSF. Watch the markup here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
@nature.com has a good summary of what's happened so far: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com has a good summary of what's happened so far: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations on FY 2026 Science agency budgets
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She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained.
This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE
This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE
July 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained.
This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE
This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE
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I still think about that engineering student in my classroom who, after a class on Nazi medicine, science, and technology in a survey class, had this stunned look on his face, and asked me why this wasn’t mandated for everyone who went through programs like his.
Students WANT what we teach.
Students WANT what we teach.
“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I still think about that engineering student in my classroom who, after a class on Nazi medicine, science, and technology in a survey class, had this stunned look on his face, and asked me why this wasn’t mandated for everyone who went through programs like his.
Students WANT what we teach.
Students WANT what we teach.
The Zagami Martian meteorite on auction yesterday:
"NWA 16788 is an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma and characterized by a course-grained texture composed primarily of pyroxene, maskelynite, and olivine."
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"NWA 16788 is an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma and characterized by a course-grained texture composed primarily of pyroxene, maskelynite, and olivine."
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
Martian Meteorite — NWA 16788 | Natural History, Including The Juvenile Ceratosaurus, and the Largest Piece of Mars on Earth | Science | Sotheby's
<p>NWA 16788 — The Largest Piece of Mars on Earth</p><p><em>Martian – shergottite (olivine microgabbro)</em></p><p><em>Agadez Region (Kefkaf), Niger</em></p><p><br></p><p>374.7 x 279.4 x 152.4 mm...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Zagami Martian meteorite on auction yesterday:
"NWA 16788 is an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma and characterized by a course-grained texture composed primarily of pyroxene, maskelynite, and olivine."
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
"NWA 16788 is an olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, formed from the slow cooling of Martian magma and characterized by a course-grained texture composed primarily of pyroxene, maskelynite, and olivine."
www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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July is what experts call “flash flood month.”
Here's Why There's So Much Flash Flooding in the U.S. Right Now (Gift Article)
July’s hot temperatures and moist air are the perfect ingredients for rain.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
July is what experts call “flash flood month.”