Links for you. Science:
The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
Pot-laced poop getting Aspen dogs high
Washington, D.C., flash flood: How and why the area was deluged by a month’s worth of rain in an hour Monday
Bacteriophages benefit from generalized transduction
Not a Human, but a Dancer: What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves
Other:
Study finds that air pollution may offset health benefits of walkable cities
They’re Fed Up With America’s Racism. So They’re Moving to Africa.
‘Mad’ Magazine Told the Truth About War, Advertising, and the Media
Eric Swalwell is what happens when SGA kids grow up
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords
Amazon Workers Plan Prime Day Strike at Minnesota Warehouse
Jeffrey Epstein’s Arrest Forces Us To Ask: Which Dirtbag Lawyers In This Case Will Face Their Own Music?
With 16 Months to go, Negative Partisanship Predicts the 2020 Presidential Election
Family-sized housing remains out of reach for many in D.C., report says
The Slow Death of Hollywood
A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular
Martin Wolf v. Trumponomics Whiffs Due to Fealty to Orthodoxy
New report card gives Metrobus service in the District a failing grade
Twitter Needs a Pause Button
The Jeffrey Epstein Case Was Cold, Until a Miami Herald Reporter Got Accusers to Talk
How Jeffrey Epstein Made His Money: Four Wild Theories (mine is here)
America’s Political System Is Rigged Against the Left (and Always Has Been)
Trump labor secretary who cut Epstein deal plans to slash funds for sex trafficking victims
New Polling on Impeachment Shows One Way Forward for Democrats
New Jeffrey Epstein accuser: He raped me when I was 15
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*** The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer ***
Fascinating story.
*** Pot-laced poop getting Aspen dogs high ***
Ugh!, especially this:
“His working theory is that these dogs are eating human feces that have enough THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in it to carry over for a second high. And they are finding these piles of pot-laced poop on trails and in campgrounds.”
*** Bacteriophages benefit from generalized transduction ***
These have been known for ages, so I assume there isn’t any feasible way for Big Pharma to make giga-bucks from them.
*** Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials to Use Weak Passwords ***
I’m darned cynical, but this is even worse than I’d imagined.
*** Jeffrey Epstein’s Arrest Forces Us To Ask: Which Dirtbag Lawyers In This Case Will Face Their Own Music? ***
Excellent read, and the site gets a bookmark for at least a while.
*** How Jeffrey Epstein Made His Money: Four Wild Theories (mine is here) ***
I’ve no problem with saying “all five of the above” until proven otherwise.