Monthly Archives: November 2020

Links 11/20/20

Posted on November 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: 8 Stories of People Who Recovered From Covid—and Still Deal With the Consequences The Batteries of the Future Are Weightless and Invisible How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons A nest filled with hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Some Friday Schadenfreude: the Voter Suppression Edition

Posted on November 20, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

In the midst of…[gestures wildly at everything], we shouldn’t deny ourselves the pleasures of schadenfreude. As you might have guessed, this is a post about Donald Trump. We go to the state of Georgia (boldface mine): In an interview with … Continue reading →

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Links 11/19/20

Posted on November 19, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Digging the Rabbit Hole, COVID-19 Edition: Anti-Vaccine Themes and the Discourse Around COVID-19 Cytokine storms play a limited role in moderate-to-severe COVID-19 Key senator raises doubts about 2024 human lunar return Did This Building Grow a … Continue reading →

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Will There Ever Be Specifics in Political Journalism or Reverse Cletus Safaris?

Posted on November 19, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the undercovered ‘results’ of the 2020 election is the victory celebration phenomenon: in many metro areas, people were ecstatic, as if we had just destroyed the Death Star or won a war. Despite that reaction, there are no … Continue reading →

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Links 11/18/20

Posted on November 18, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Covid-19 vaccines shouldn’t get emergency-use authorization. Public trust in vaccines is already in decline. The FDA should proceed with caution. (dunno) From Coronavirus to a Cancer Vaccine? Giant squid that washed ashore in South Africa is … Continue reading →

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It’s 2020, and Democrats Still Don’t Understand Their Voters

Posted on November 18, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

I realize left-ish Twitter has moved on to arguing about why Biden shouldn’t sign one executive order–abolishing government-held student loan debt–that would reward part of his political coalition (it’s Democrats, though, so that’s to be expected. But I’m old enough … Continue reading →

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Links 11/17/20

Posted on November 17, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: A Newly Discovered Tick Germ Is Sickening Dogs in the U.S., Vets Say Largest-to-Date COVID Mortality Study Released Hiding in Plain Sight: Mumbai’s Tide Pools and the City Beyond the Shore The CDC chief lost his … Continue reading →

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“Defund the Police” Isn’t a Crisis, It’s an Opportunity

Posted on November 17, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

One that the left is frittering away. At some point, I’ll have to write some posts about what the the left has done wrong in advancing its agenda. If you don’t believe the left hasn’t made any mistakes, then, other … Continue reading →

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Links 11/16/20

Posted on November 16, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Ötzi, the Man in the Ice Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread (headline aside, it’s important to remember that many of these trials are not assessing asymptomatic shedding of virus) Can a … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID-19 in D.C.: We Need to Rollback

Posted on November 16, 2020 by mikethemadbiologist

Two weeks ago, I said D.C. would break the phase 1 threshold of 15 new daily positives/100,000 in one week. Well, I was wrong: it took eight days. And it was obvious, as there is no concrete plan to lower … Continue reading →

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