Monthly Archives: March 2024

Links 3/31/24

Posted on March 31, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Accelerated brain age in young to early middle-aged adults after mild to moderate COVID-19 infection The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines How scientists traced a … Continue reading →

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Links 3/30/24

Posted on March 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Scientists found an amazingly well-preserved village from 3,000 years ago (gift link) Northern Lights slash a surprising amount of winter energy bills. Here’s why. He Closed the Gap Between Humans and Apes Awaiting a decision on … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on March 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: It’s Not Just Grief, It’s Also Guilt Very Slowly, the Reallocation of Tech Workers to Productive Uses Is Occurring The State of COVID in D.C.*: MOAR DECLINE How Should the Media Cover Republicans?

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Links 3/29/24

Posted on March 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud DR Congo mpox outbreak expands, becomes deadlier (clade 1. Ugh) Nature enthusiast, 10, makes rare find: a pink grasshopper (gift link) Degree-Off Why Is the Sea So … Continue reading →

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Links 3/28/24

Posted on March 28, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: An intranasal combination vaccine induces systemic and mucosal immunity against COVID-19 and influenza Avian flu detected for first time in US livestock How Long Should a Species Stay on Life Support? Crows Are the New Pigeons … Continue reading →

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How Should the Media Cover Republicans?

Posted on March 28, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Not adjucated rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump, but Republicans–and I don’t mean the small minority of ‘Never Trumpers’, but actual Republicans? In light of former Republican National Committee Ronna McDaniel’s hiring and unhiring by NBC, Josh Marshall gets at … Continue reading →

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Links 3/27/24

Posted on March 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Four years on: the career costs for scientists battling long COVID Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion More Studies by Columbia Cancer Researchers Are Retracted The Keys to a Long Life Are … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.*: MOAR DECLINE

Posted on March 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available Biobot D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. Another good week: With a decrease from 260 copies/ml to 206 copies/ml, we’re still twice as high than the mid-June … Continue reading →

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Links 3/26/24

Posted on March 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Biden to sign executive order aimed at advancing study of women’s health STEM’s Empire: STEM rules everything around me Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem: The case for teaching coders to speak French CDC continues to receive … Continue reading →

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Very Slowly, the Reallocation of Tech Workers to Productive Uses Is Occurring

Posted on March 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted that we have a resource–a human resource–allocation problem that goes far beyond the question of ‘AI–Yes or no?’: I haven’t figured out a pithy way to put this, but we need … Continue reading →

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