Links for you. Science:

Elephants have names for each other, just like humans
DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains – how to increase their number and improve their annotation in NCBI GenBank and related databases
Eat ‘America’s Most Unwanted Fish’ to Save Native Species, Scientists Say
Long-COVID in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analyses
Gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers in Md. produce as much pollution as long car trips
Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging

Other:

Washington Tweaks How It Prices the Future: An updated document from the Office of Management and Budget will make it easier to enact regulations. (Republicans oppose this, BuT ThErE’S No dIfFeReNcE BeTwEeN ThE TwO PaRtIeS)
Talking ourselves into fascism
I’m a media reporter and a diehard Swiftie. I don’t cover Taylor, but here’s how I wish someone would
Woodbury County supervisor’s wife found guilty of 52 counts of voter fraud (it’s always self-projection)
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee get Jan. 6 footage — but trying to blame the FBI could backfire. Whatever, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee — no one actually thinks the FBI was behind January 6
Clarence Thomas Just Made Another Mess for His Colleagues to Clean Up
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor November 2023: With COVID Concerns Lagging, Most People Have Not Gotten Latest Vaccine And Half Say They Are Not Taking Precautions This Holiday Season (because, even though former White House COVID czar Ashish Jha estimated that low single digits of vaccinated people will get long COVID, few people know that)
Worry less about TikTok and Bin Laden — fret more that Mike Johnson shares the terrorist’s view
Ohio Republican will quit the House to lead university despite protests
The Swedish Left Failed the Vulnerable During the Pandemic
Conservatives really don’t want to take no for an answer on abortion bans
West End Residents, Advocates Lament Delayed Opening Of Ward 2 Homeless Shelter
D.C.’s Troubled Crime Lab Is Hiding Information from Its Oversight Board, Prompting a Messy Conflict With Its Members
Videos Show Exact Path of Hamas Tunnels Under Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital: Visual analysis shows 160 meters of Hamas tunnels – complete with rooms, bathrooms and kitchenette, comms, electricity and air conditioning – run under the internal medicine ward and emergency generator building (this doesn’t excuse the bombings in general, water shutoffs etc., but there was a lot of dumb commentary. This is what Hamas does and has done for a long time)
Why Americans Hate a Good Economy. Seven possible explanations for what’s going on (I also noted housing costs, but Desmas doesn’t mention rents, which are also bad)
Biden’s Dilemma: What Does U.S. Want When Four-day Truce Ends in Gaza?
Sexual Violence Evidence Against Hamas Is Mounting, but the Road to Court Is Still Long
Biden Campaign Starts Reminding America Why It Dumped Trump In The First Place
Carrying the pain of loss on October 7, these families are pleading for peace
Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional representation fix it?
This Quiet Blockbuster at the Supreme Court Could Affect All Americans (BuT ThErE’S No dIfFeReNcE BeTwEeN ThE TwO PaRtIeS)
Hamas Is Not ISIS — and the Comparison Itself Is Counterproductive
MAGA conspiracy-theory defense keeps failing in court: Bad news for Donald Trump?
People are debunking the bold claims Elon Musk made in massive advertising lawsuit—in real-time on his own site
Trading Hard Corruption for Soft Corruption: New Jersey’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary, likely the end of the road for twice-indicted Robert Menendez, will be shaped by similarly distasteful machine politics.