Links for you. Science:

Project NextGen is ignoring new COVID-19 antivirals when we need them most (I would prefer prioritizing intranasal vaccines, but we shouldn’t neglect antivirals)
Cybersecurity of Genomic Data (NIST)
Colon cancer is rising in young Americans. It’s not clear why.
Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials
Chimpanzees and Bonobos May Remember Faces for More Than 20 Years
On Which Side Your Bread Is Buttered: Academic freedom and the future of U.S. research quality

Other:

Disqualifying Trump From The Ballot Is Required. A truly independent judiciary would just do it; ours only will with the right encouragement
The Supreme Court Did This to Itself
The Year That A.I. Came for Culture: The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage. (what if the LLM developers don’t care if they build a mediocre product?)
Why won’t the NYT tell readers Elise Stefanik supports antisemites and spreads antisemitic lies?
Glenn and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Washington fought off the pandemic, but can the city get over the gall of a billionaire sports mogul and a governor moving D.C. teams across the Potomac?
Stop Fooling Yourselves, Trump Voters Are Very Bad People: They Don’t Want A Good World, They Want A Total Nightmare
Overturning Roe Has Been a Horror Show
NYC parks set for dramatic reductions in staffing, cleaning under Mayor Adams’ budget cuts
The Colorado Ruling Calls the Originalists’ Bluff
Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
Searching for the perfect republic: Eric Foner on the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump
Keith Richards at 80
The Gaza war inches toward the day before ‘the day after’
The Colorado Court’s Ruling Banning Trump From the Ballot Is Sharp as Hell
Crime is down. No, really.
The Colorado Ruling Is a Rebuke for the Ages
The lives upended by Florida’s school book wars
Wait, What? Biden’s Ahead?
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records
You’re Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk
The Colorado Supreme Court Got It Right: Critics of the court’s ruling are breezily dismissing the notion there should be any legal accountability for Trump’s actions on January 6.
Struggling to find teachers close to home, some Texas schools are looking overseas for help
North Dakota Is Simply Too Busy to Comply With the Voting Rights Act