Links for you. Science:
The Decimal Point Is 150 Years Older Than Previously Thought, Medieval Manuscript Reveals
Why help? In a cooperative woodpecker, close genetic bonds are only part of the story
Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain, Including Significant Drops in IQ Score
Prospective Memory Assessment before and after Covid-19
The Butterfly Redemption
A lone orca killed a great white in less than two minutes. Scientists say it could signal an ecological shift
Other:
Scenes from the Israel-Hamas War: A Dismal Miscellany (excellent)
What Can the US Do To Bring the Israel-Hamas War to An End? (excellent; gift link)
Biden Has a Vision for Israel’s Future. Netanyahu Doesn’t (gift link)
Biden and Netanyahu Both Hope the Other Is Out of Power Soon
Is Paxlovid Still Worth It? (paywalled unfortunately)
24% Of Homes On The Market in DC Are Priced Above $1 Million
Trayon White Has Racked Up Nearly $80,000 in Outstanding Fines and Debts Related to Campaign Funds
Why Is Trump Trying to Make Ukraine Lose?
A pandemic that won’t go away – as COVID enters its 5th year, NZ needs a realistic strategy
DC Circuit tosses enhancement used in hundreds of Jan. 6 felony cases
Hunter Biden Had Just The Tiniest Bit Of Fun With Matt Gaetz
Mitt Romney says what other Republicans won’t: He’s not voting Trump
It’s The 70th Anniversary Of The Castle Bravo Nuclear Test
Hunter Biden absolutely owned Republicans in his testimony
The U.S. Has Enabled Netanyahu Long Enough
The $25B Kroger-Albertsons Merger Is Going to Fail
New York Times Launches Leak Investigation Over Report on Its Israel-Gaza Coverage
Tim Burke’s Indictment Is A Political Choice Disguised As A Legal Act
CVS and Walgreens Will Begin Selling Abortion Pills This Month (gift link)
AI Is Taking the Drinking Water in Goodyear, Arizona
It’s The Impunity, Stupid
Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion? How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste. (gift link)
A Public Option for Credit Card Shopping: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at pay-to-play credit card comparison websites that collude with big banks to block competition.
Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds (report here)
Affirmative Action: A Primer, & A Finger Exercise. In which I hoist my Woke Freak Flag, for the edification of the public…
Inside the Massive Repair Shops Where Subway Cars Go for a Makeover (gift link)
mikethemadbiologist
Once, again, you link to Naked Capitalism, despite the fact that they are fervently transphobic. Would you link to the site if it was racist or misogynist?
Five articles arguing that Israel should lose the war. Lovely.
You’ve lost me as a reader.