Monthly Archives: July 2022

Links 7/21/22

Links for you. Science: They Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes: The Ocean Was Glowing. Maternal morbidity and fetal outcomes among pregnant women at 22 weeks’ gestation or less with complications in two Texas hospitals after legislation on abortion New COVID Vaccines … Continue reading

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Let’s Not Fall Into the Same Abortion Trap

I’m worried that the focus on all of the pregnancy care problems Republican abortion bans have created, along with other care having nothing to do with pregnancy–and which are real and serious problems–ultimately will give Republicans an out. Yes, the … Continue reading

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Links 7/20/22

Links for you. Science: Why Woodpeckers Don’t Mind Hitting Trees With Their Faces How do you move 250 elephants to their new home? Very carefully Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against COVID-19 in … Continue reading

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It’s Possible for Democrats to Manufacture Issues

Over the weekend, Dante Atkins had a very good thread about how Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman is running circles around Republican and health fraudster Mehmed Oz in Pennsylvania by slamming Oz for not being a ‘real’ Pennsylvanian (Fetterman’s campaign … Continue reading

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Links 7/19/22

Links for you. Science: Retraction with honor It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat CRISPR in the Classroom ‘Evolution Gone Crazy’: What Makes Sea Dragons So Strange BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Vote Harder

Before the Vote Harders accuse me of saying voting doesn’t matter, of course it does. As a native and current resident of the mainland colony of the District of Columbia, which lacks voting Congressional representation–and who has lived and voted … Continue reading

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Links 7/18/22

Links for you. Science: Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Doses Among Immunocompetent Adults During Periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 Sublineages Predominated — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–June 2022 Drug-Resistant Infections in Hospitals Soared … Continue reading

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Very Sensible People Should Make Lists of What They Don’t Like About the Left and the Right

And then stare at them for a very long time. We are currently witnessing the Sensibles and the Centrists creating false equivalencies between the left (construed in the most convenient way for said Sensibles and Centrists) and the right. Here’s … Continue reading

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Links 7/17/22

Links for you. Science: The Coolest Space Picture I’ve Ever Seen. Seen through the James Webb Space Telescope, the Carina Nebula is positively bursting with stuff. The years and billions spent on the James Webb telescope? Worth it. Pathogenic fungus … Continue reading

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Links 7/16/22

Links for you. Science: As the BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of coronavirus reinfection grows High-quality pan-genome of Escherichia coli generated by excluding confounding and highly similar strains reveals an association between unique gene clusters and genomic islands Dog poo … Continue reading

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