Links for you. Science:

AI-Optimized Catheter Design Could Prevent Urinary Tract Infections without Drugs
Should You Get a Measles Booster Shot? Here’s What Experts Say
The Whale Who Went AWOL
Can Animals Evolve Fast Enough to Keep Up with Climate Change?
COVID levels are up to 19 times higher than reported, WHO says as it warns of the potential dangers of repeat reinfection: ‘We don’t know everything about this virus’
On the ecology of Acinetobacter baumannii – jet stream rider and opportunist by nature

Other:

Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again. (I’m increasingly convinced that, in the pre-vaccine era, a small, but non-trivial, percentage of people suffered temporary cognitive damage from COVID infection; the other issues absolutely matter, but COVID can really mess up your brain, including visuoconstructional impairment)
Proposed Anti-Book Ban Bills Presented in Massachusetts
British Library starts restoring services online after hack
‘His dream’s been weaponized into his nightmare’: how Martin Luther King Jr’s words have been co-opted
Fast-food giants overwork teenagers, driving America’s child labor crisis
Conservatives Sure Have an Interesting Way of Observing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday
House Republicans and Anti-Labor Dems Vote to Repeal Pro-Worker NRLB Rule
How the best chance to win the Ukraine war was lost
Fake crypto CEO that fronted $1.3 billion rug-pull exposed as jobbing actor who got paid $5,000 with a suit thrown in
After Harvard and Penn resignations, who wants to be a college president?
Ministers prioritised driving in England partly due to conspiracy theories
U.S. health care isn’t ready for a surge of seniors with disabilities
Virginia Health Officials Investigating Possible Measles Exposure At Local Airports
Chicago has a new tourist destination: The ‘Rat Hole’
Bitcoin ETFs Are Here for Real
A new AI predicts when we’ll die. It says even more about how we live.
Trump Isn’t Close to Having a Majority
Billionaire Bill Ackman Backs Dean Phillips to Challenge Biden (this is probably why: Ackman is so petty)
The last remnants of the Republican Party died in Iowa
WHY DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THE APPEAL OF TRUMP, LIBS????
Congress is about to do something amazing: agree to invest in kids
Nota Bene
The under-prescribing of Paxlovid may be our biggest covid policy failure (it’s Leana Wen, but she’s not wrong)
Full Employment Is Good for Society (gift link)
Republicans: The Party of Magical Thinking
Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: ‘A bunch of dead robots out here’