Links for you. Science:
WashU COVID-19 nasal vaccine technology licensed to Ocugen
How to Hunt Like an Octopus
What We Know About Monkeypox
SARS-CoV-2 disrupts host epigenetic regulation via histone mimicry
Fossils Reveal Pterosaur Relatives Before They Evolved Wings
Big COVID-19 waves may be coming, new Omicron strains suggest. Emerging subvariants have hit on a combination of mutations that makes them more immune evasive than ever
Other:
Pandemic Nihilism, Social Murder, and the Banality of Evil
What’s worst for everyone. When I say it’s a death cult, I mean it
It Isn’t Misinformation If It’s Phrased as a Series of Completely Unhinged Rhetorical Questions
Biden’s Operation Warp Speed revival stumbles out of the gate. The administration’s plans to create a new accelerator for Covid vaccines and treatments has hit a wall. (but the pandemic is over, so…)
Being a Professor is a Job
Will Anyone Ever Buy or Sell a Home Again? High interest rates! Just what this bonkers housing market needed.
Supreme Court Justice Jackson rips into ridiculous concept of ‘race-neutral’ redistricting
Of Course They Support Walker
The United States of Confederate America
It Shouldn’t Take a ‘Scandal’ to Convince People Not to Make Herschel Walker a United States Senator
The Irony of Brett Favre
Stacked Supreme Court Whets its Knife for the Last Shred of the Voting Rights Act
Rising cases of variants BQ.1 and XBB could make COVID drugs all but useless, study finds
The Paramilitary that was Ready to Die for Trump Goes on Trial
John Yarmuth ‘waxes philosophical’ (and warns not to eat the Jell-O)
I Have Worn Out the “You Can’t Be Serious” Button on My Keyboard
Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
Diabetes 2
Most Americans don’t plan to get a flu shot this season — lots of them say they’ll mask to avoid germs instead (or they’re using supposed masking as an excuse to not get a shot…)
Atrios: Proved Fucking Right!
TikTok Politics and the Era of Embodied Memes
Herschel Walker’s Son Is No Hero
Art Deco Lettering of Cincinnati
Local Restaurant Owners And Workers Grapple With Phasing Out Tipped Minimum Wage If I-82 Passes
mikethemadbiologist
CDC: Record Number Of Children Hospitalized With Weakened Immune Systems
There are two implications…Care to respond?