Monthly Archives: June 2023

Links 6/12/23

Posted on June 12, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Metformin reduces SARS-CoV-2 in a Phase 3 Randomized Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial What Wildfire Smoke, Gas Stoves and Covid Tell Us About Our Air Sequence variants affecting voice pitch in humans Could fused neurons explain COVID-19’s … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts About That Indictment

Posted on June 12, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Bed, bath, and beyond a reasonable doubt In no particular order: Upon further reflection, I’m concerned that Judge Aileen “Loose” Cannon is the judge, not so much because she is a partisan hack (though she is), but because she is … Continue reading →

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Links 6/11/23

Posted on June 11, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Winters in the Northeast could see a 109% increase in extreme precipitation, new report finds ‘The fire equivalent of an ice age’: Humanity enters a new era of fire How air conditioners will have to change … Continue reading →

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That Seems Like a Lot

Posted on June 11, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Before the Pride parade, I walked up 15th, which turned out to be a pre-parade staging area. Observed on 15th Street NW, between R and S, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Links 6/10/23

Posted on June 10, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Canadian wildfires and climate change: What the scientific literature tells us about current and future climate impacts Twenty years ago, it was common to have dozens of “Code Red” bad air days per summer Did a … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on June 10, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: Learned Credulousness Not “Everyone” Has Been Infected with COVID (Some) People Have to Like This Crap Oddly Enough, When Republicans Constantly Demonize People, Those People Take It Seriously Feeling a Bit Gaslit Right Now

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Links 6/9/23

Posted on June 9, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Splenda (Sucralose) Isn’t Giving You Cancer. Why recent headlines about sweeteners are extremely misleading Birds With a Taste for Flesh Threaten Whale Calves. In Argentina, kelp gulls are attacking the backs of southern right whales, imperiling … Continue reading →

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Feeling a Bit Gaslit Right Now

Posted on June 9, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

With the Smoke Cloud of Doom parked over the nation’s capital, we are now getting advice from officials to wear N95 masks–outside. Needless to say, given the non-trivial risk of long COVID, even for the fully vaccinated*, one should be … Continue reading →

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Links 6/8/23

Posted on June 8, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Neutralising immunity to omicron sublineages BQ.1.1, XBB, and XBB.1.5 in healthy adults is boosted by bivalent BA.1-containing mRNA vaccination and previous Omicron infection ‘Shocking’ levels of pangolin deaths from electric fences Update on Pediatric Intracranial Infections … Continue reading →

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Oddly Enough, When Republicans Constantly Demonize People, Those People Take It Seriously

Posted on June 8, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

From the Great State of Florida (boldface mine): Florida Republicans passed a bill criminalizing the transport of undocumented people into Florida, requiring hospitals to ask about immigration status on intake forms, invalidating out of state driver’s licenses or other forms … Continue reading →

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