Monthly Archives: March 2023

Links 3/20/23

Posted on March 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice Wash Your Hands and Pray You Don’t Get Sick Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent A cross-sectional, multicenter survey of the … Continue reading →

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Some (Possible) Good(-ish) News about Long COVID and Omicron

Posted on March 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Long COVID appears to be less frequent after Omicron infection, but there are a bunch of caveats. Saturday, the Washington Post, in collaboration with Epic Systems, a medical electronic records company, reported that, for those whose first COVID infection is … Continue reading →

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Links 3/19/23

Posted on March 19, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Excess cardiovascular mortality across multiple COVID-19 waves in the United States from March 2020 to March 2022 Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors Fed up and burnt out: ‘quiet quitting’ hits academia (even as administrators have … Continue reading →

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Plato Lives

Posted on March 19, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

I found this while reading an excellent article about the PLATO computing system, first developed in the 1960s: Things were a little different back then, including the choice of spokesmen…

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Links 3/18/23

Posted on March 18, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: You can move, but you can’t hide: identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad Immunity of heterologous and homologous boosted or convalescent individuals against Omicron BA.1, BA.2 and BA.4/5 variants Frequent emergence of resistance mutations following … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on March 18, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: It’s Like Über, but for Deposit Insurance 31 Percent in the U.S. Still Mask Indoors Outside of Their Homes Brown M&Ms and the SVB Bailout Some Context for Crime in D.C. Cities Are DOOOOMED!!

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Links 3/17/23

Posted on March 17, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest Efficacy of Cetylpyridinium Chloride mouthwash against SARS-CoV-2: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials One-Year Adverse Outcomes Among US Adults With Post–COVID-19 … Continue reading →

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Cities Are DOOOOMED!!

Posted on March 17, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

That’s what the NY Times would have us believe anyway*. Yes, cities right now are suffering some revenue shortfalls–though why the NYT led with D.C., when D.C. will be immune to declines in income tax revenues due to people working … Continue reading →

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Links 3/16/23

Posted on March 16, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Use of Whole-Genome Sequencing to Estimate the Contribution of Immune Evasion and Waning Immunity on Decreasing COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness SARS-CoV-2 Can Integrate Into the Genome, Cause Positive Tests Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of … Continue reading →

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Some Context for Crime in D.C.

Posted on March 16, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

The context is 67 percent of those arrested aren’t prosecuted (boldface mine): In fiscal year 2022, which ended in September, the USAO received 15,315 arrests from police working in D.C. and declined to prosecute 10,261, or 67 percent of them. … Continue reading →

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