Monthly Archives: June 2022

Links 6/15/22

Posted on June 15, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

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 … Continue reading →

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It’s Time to Unleash a New Greek Letter

Posted on June 15, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

With multiple reports of reinfection of people who were infected with older Omicron variants now being reinfected with the newer Omicron subvariants, we really need to unleash a new Greek letter (depending on the immunology, perhaps more than one. MOAR … Continue reading →

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Links 6/14/22

Posted on June 14, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: What is Ramsay Hunt syndrome, the condition affecting Justin Bieber? Classifying animals by anatomy might not be best system, study says Number of monkeypox cases grows, but U.S. officials say overall risk is low Farm vehicles … Continue reading →

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Still a Failure to Communicate

Posted on June 14, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

A recent Washington Post article asks, “Have Public Health Officials Just Given Up on Covid-19?” On the one hand, the CDC journal MMWR releases a paper claiming that twenty to thirty percent of those who are infected will have long … Continue reading →

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Links 6/13/22

Posted on June 13, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The effects of contracting Covid‑19 on cognitive failures at work: implications for task performance and turnover intentions (very important) Megalodons vs. Great White Sharks? We Know Which Predator Won. A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been … Continue reading →

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Heartland Values and the Rural Crime Wave

Posted on June 13, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Paul Waldman notes: …some new reporting in the Wall Street Journal is such an important challenge to the way we’ve been thinking about crime, now that it has again become a political issue. As the Journal reports, the increase in … Continue reading →

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Links 6/12/22

Posted on June 12, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Convergent Evolution Has Been Fooling Us: Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong (bad title, good story) As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ Before Chickens Were Nuggets, They … Continue reading →

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White Star

Posted on June 12, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on T Street NW, between 15th and 16th, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Links 6/11/22

Posted on June 11, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Scientists can now grow wood in a lab without cutting a single tree Something you don’t see everyday: a grizzly bear chasing wild horses in Alberta Fences and Electric-Shock Robots: The New Tech of the Caribbean’s … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on June 11, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist links (was busy this week): Good Advice? Ohio House Republicans Believe Certain Laws Won’t Apply to Them NIMBY, in a Nutshell An Unofficial Conservative (and Revisionist) History of COVID in the U.S.

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