Monthly Archives: April 2024

Links 4/18/24

Posted on April 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? Avian flu virus detected in South Dakota dairy herd Susceptibility to Norovirus Might Depend on Blood Type One herbarium’s thorny future: Duke to close century-old ‘gem’ of … Continue reading →

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If Biden Spoke Like This Once, There Would Be Calls to Invoke the 25th Amendment

Posted on April 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

And people wouldn’t be wrong to do so. Adjudicated rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump recently uttered this (it’s unclear how to punctuate this gibberish): It’s where the army weathered it’s brutal winter at Valley Forge where General George Washington … Continue reading →

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Links 4/17/24

Posted on April 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Blood donor study finds 21% incidence of long-term symptoms attributed to COVID-19 Study identifies inflammation and symptom patterns in long COVID These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged They’re young and athletic. … Continue reading →

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Links 4/16/24

Posted on April 16, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Longitudinal dynamics of farmer and livestock nasal and faecal microbiomes and resistomes Efforts to support Palestinian scientists struggle with the realities of war Want an elephant? Botswana’s president says his country has too many. Long-Term Symptoms … Continue reading →

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AI Doesn’t Need ‘to Work’ for It to Be Adopted

Posted on April 16, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

David Roth makes a very good point about how AI (whatever that means) will be implemented–not how it could be implemented, but how it will likely be implemented (boldface mine): At this stage in this increasingly ubiquitous and increasingly janky … Continue reading →

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Links 4/15/24

Posted on April 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Indiana confirms its first chronic wasting disease detection Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making Differential development of antibiotic resistance and virulence between Acinetobacter species Plasma-based antigen persistence in the post-acute phase … Continue reading →

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Nothing Is New Under the Sun: The Louisiana Ten Commandments Edition

Posted on April 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, Louisiana’s House of Representatives passed legislation to require the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms of public K-12 schools, universities, charter schools, and private schools that receive public money. This isn’t the first time Louisiana has done this–they … Continue reading →

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Links 4/14/24

Posted on April 14, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: How Rats Took Over North America. Rat remains from shipwrecks and dig sites show how two rodent species duked it out in eastern North America ‘Groundbreaking’ UTI vaccine could stop infections for nine years (overblown headline, … Continue reading →

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Links 4/13/24

Posted on April 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: It’s Time For God’s Ugliest Little Bugs To Be Represented In The Beautiful Tradition Of Haiku Human Disease due to Mycobacterium bovis Linked to Free-Ranging Deer in Michigan Eclipses for the ancestors. Culture shapes our experience … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on April 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: Resentment: It Matters What You Do with It We Need More Than Just Saving Social Security How a Trump Administration Would Effectively Ban Abortion–Even in Pro-Safe and Legal Abortion States Professional Democrats Suck at … Continue reading →

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