Links 1/10/24

Links for you. Science:

Finally, we know why pee is yellow
Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud
Moving genetics education beyond Mendel can reduce racial prejudice
mRNA vaccines induce durable immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern
SOTP: State-of-the-Pandemic. The pandemic’s 2nd biggest wave of infections and what the JN.1 variant is telling us
Potential pandemic risk of circulating swine H1N2 influenza viruses

Other:

Resistance to Trump Is Not Futile (excellent; gift link)
Where have all the websites gone? (very good; my reading is almost entirely ‘slow web’)
With COVID on the rise, your at-home test may be taking longer to show a positive result
Trump mocks Biden over stutter (Trump is a fucking pig)
MAGA Republicans’ views of American democracy and society and support for political violence in the United States: Findings from a nationwide population-representative survey
Why the First Impeachment Matters: Eight lessons about how a second Trump administration will govern
The prostitute nudging sex workers to file their taxes
How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ — and Opened the COVID-19 Disinformation Floodgates
Can today’s D.C. leaders govern this city?
The First Time Trump “Colluded” with Russia Was To Help Netanyahu
When should you give up on a book? Readers weigh in.
How to Report Post-Dobbs Deaths: The New Yorker reports that a woman has died—so why not call it what it is?
Voters Are the Last Line of Defense Against a Trump Dictatorship (we shouldn’t have to be, but we are)
Trump’s Bonkers Plan to Weaponize an Archaic Law for Mass Deportations
Business Insider staffers alarmed after parent company compels reporting ‘review’ after Bill Ackman complaints
Post Modernism Theories: Does Will Lewis, the Brit who just took over The Washington Post, have the hardest job in media?
The ugly reason Trump apparently wants an economic crash in 2024
We Can’t Afford Weak-Kneed Liberalism In The Trump Era: Sincere objections to disqualifying Trump from the ballot are reasoned backward from misplaced fear
How to Fix the Supreme Court: The time has come to connect popular anger over the conservative supermajority with concrete ideas for reform.
The question of Trump’s corruption should be front and center
Don’t Let the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Become Yet Another Front in the West’s Internal Culture Wars
D.C. is Cutting Badly Needed Funding for Housing and Homelessness Nonprofits
Biden administration to unveil contractor rule that could upend gig economy (BuT tHeRe’s No DiFfErEnCe BeTwEeN bIdEn AnD tRuMp)
Why America hates its children
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue

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