Links for you. Science:
Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria
Trampoline mirror may push laser pulse through fabric of the Universe
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’
Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair
The silenced: meet the climate whistleblowers muzzled by Trump
Other:
SORRY, THIS WILL GO NOWHERE
Hey DC. Remember when F Street had a plaza down the middle?
Someone Should Do Something
The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments
Derailed: My Public Transit Odyssey across Massachusetts (more failure in American governance)
As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump’s press conference: Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence
One in 7 adults in New Orleans have a warrant out for their arrest, new data shows
Trump Said This Wall Can’t Be Climbed. Professional Climbers Say He’s Full of Sh*t
Pushed out: She’d lived on this historically black D.C. block for 40 years. Now the city she knew was vanishing, and so was her place in it.
Raise your hand if you knew that Park Ave used to have a walkable linear park down the middle and we took it away for extra car lanes.
Bernie Sanders wants to put credit reporting companies like Equifax out of business (excellent idea)
Mayor Bowser Seeks to Create 36,000 New Housing Units in Washington, D.C. (should be at least double that, but still better than what’s currently happening)
How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
In Plain Sight
Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable
Why prescription drugs cost so much more in America
Herd Immunity: Can the social contract be protected from a measles outbreak?
Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
House Democrats have turned Congress into a subequal branch of government
En Ef Fail
Roy Cohn Is How We Got Trump
mikethemadbiologist
Roy Cohn Is How We Got Trump
No, Hillary is how we got Trump. I cannot imagine Trump defeating any other US politician in 2016.
Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
This review suggests readers may discover an above-average book, Hopefully my library will acquire a copy.
Herd Immunity: Can the social contract be protected from a measles outbreak?
Nice history lesson.
My history books say the Brits were playing with biowar even then, and Washington had no choice at all.
Why prescription drugs cost so much more in America
Much better than I expected from a Financial site. The author included a few of Big Pharma’s lies, but even those weren’t given much respect.
In Plain Sight
A related story: Bolton’s WH-bashing private debut met with elated applause by impeachment-hungry #Resistance media
Just because most citizens don’t want a war with Iran doesn’t mean the warmongers have given up. (Yes, the RT site is turning more and more into clickbait, but they still have some things worth reading.)
As a foreign reporter …. I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence
Moron is just too kind a word for Trump. But we always have to keep in mind the Big Brass Democrats prefer him to Sanders, and maybe even Warren.
Someone Should Do Something
SORRY, THIS WILL GO NOWHERE
Trump is disgusting. Is Pelosi (and his other enablers) any better?
Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair
After all the earlier hype, we learn towards the end of the article they haven’t even done a proper study of reliability. Nor has the scientist published in a Journal. I’m curious why his tests cost “several thousand dollars” for each hair, yet firms on the internet advertise hair-based paternity tests for under a hundred bucks.
Trampoline mirror may push laser pulse through fabric of the Universe
I don’t get it. If there is enough power to tear apart space and time, how are the matter particles in the plasma supposed to survive? Definitely over my head.
Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria
The introduction (the only part I understood) tells why this research is of interest. Phage therapy may become an alternative to antibiotics, and if that is to happen we need to understand how the little suckers operate. What makes them tick.
Hilary was fine and would have been a great president. The NYT is why we got Trump. (Trump put on really great shows for the rural, white, fairly affluent deplorables, who loved them and got off their butts and voted.) But the NYT’s Clinton Derangement Syndrome was the problem. All they could talk about was emails. And print M. Dowd hit piece after hit piece. It was really stupid.)