Links for you. Science:
How housing density can help keep cities cooler
Durability of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Booster Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Among Health Care Workers with a Vaccine Mandate
Association of Trends in SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and State-Issued Nonpharmaceutical Interventions— United States, August 1, 2020 – March 30, 2021
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for structural change in academia intensify
Incidence, Attributable Mortality, and Healthcare and Out-of-Pocket Costs of Clostridioides difficile Infection in US Medicare Advantage Enrollees
Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants using traveler-based genomic surveillance at four US airports, September 2021- January 2022
Other:
The ugly truth about the right-wing grift machine has been revealed (excellent, must-read)
The Gerontocracy of the Democratic Party Doesn’t Understand That We’re at the Brink
Flight Attendants Fight Back. Sara Nelson, the head of the largest flight attendants’ union, leads her members through turbulent times and mounts a major organizing drive at Delta.
To Fight Inflation, The Fed Declares War On Workers. By leaving the problem of rising prices to the central bank, Democrats are accepting an attack on labor power.
Virginia was primed to teach Black history. Then the nation’s first anti-critical race theory governor took office.
After Bitter Loss, Ousted Centrist Democrat Goes After Party That Backed Him
Why the return to the office isn’t working
This Sentence Is Possibly the Purest Distillation of What Motivates Authoritarian Apparatchiks
The scandal embroiling Washington’s most venerable think tank, explained
Don’t Try To Dig What We All Say
Bullshit Walks
How Did the Florida 2000 Ratf*ck Not Come Up While This Guy Was Testifying?
A Pizzagate in Every City
The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century
So, as a Prominent Leonhardt Critic, let me say that I think this represents a really fundamental institutional/structural problem in the creation of the tentpole, front-page “news analysis” genre.
Strawberry Moon
The Limits of San Francisco Liberalism
The education group putting big money into this D.C. election cycle (easy rule: vote against any candidate DFER endorses)
A $1 million lottery’s winning numbers: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
Profit without honor
Catholic group launches ‘Hide the Pride’ anti-LGBTQ library campaign
Patriot Front member kicked out of mom’s house following arrest: ‘This is not who I raised’
Herschel Walker Says He’s a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son.