Links for you. Science:

The surprising thing sharks can teach us about life. In her new memoir, marine biologist Jasmin Graham chronicles her work in creating opportunities for women of color in shark sciences.
UNH scientists track clues to mysterious illness sickening pet dogs
California’s Central Valley was once a watery landscape of lakes and marshes. Then we sucked it dry.
Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side That We Don’t Talk About
As advances in training, technology and technique continue, how close are we to setting records that are impossible to break?
They Did the Math: Hebrew University’s Great Mathematicians Are Leaving Israel

Other:

Strict mask, vaccine rules could have saved as many as 250K lives, says new study
From rising star to potential liability: how JD Vance’s fortunes have turned
I Was a Kamala Harris Skeptic. Here’s How I Got Coconut-Pilled. (gift link)
Siri Show Me The Opposite Of Crony Corruption
Have We Entered A New Era Of One-Term Presidents? Lessons from 2020, 2024, and The Gilded Age.
In a growing trend, some Boston students are getting paid to attend summer classes
All Hail The Anti-Tradwife
Flooding, bacteria, hostility: So much for Walden Pond’s tranquility
Grimes’ mother says Elon Musk is ‘withholding’ the couple’s 3 children from family trip. Sandy Garossino, the grandmother of three of Elon Musk’s children, said she published a series of posts on X because had no other way to reach him.
‘These numbers are insane’: MSNBC panel stunned by massive sign-up of Harris volunteers
Elon Musk shares AI-faked video of Kamala Harris on X without disclaimer
How ‘girl dad’ Flavor Flav became hype man for the US women’s water polo team
TikTok’s Chinese owner built search tool for users’ views on abortion, gun control, DOJ claims
Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates. Data shows overall resistance to masks, but lower Paxlovid prescription and vaccination rates for people of color
Pennsylvania presidential election results could again take days to count. Republicans in the state Senate refused to change the law and allow mail-in votes to be counted ahead of Election Day, despite widespread calls for change.
What the Biden/Harris switch has taught us (or me anyway). Some humbling lessons about candidates, parties, and campaigns
Usha Vance told friends Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him. The potential second lady found Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 “deeply disturbing,” a friend said. But ambition and devotion to her husband ultimately drove her to a place in the former president’s campaign.
CrowdSuck: How did software designed to protect customers from paralyzing system disruptions instead cause what may be the most destructive software glitch in recorded history? A 2018 antitrust case holds some clues.
Crypto fanatics flock to Trump, hoping to ‘make bitcoin great again’
Trump promises Christians he will install dictatorship so they won’t have to vote again
Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance
The Awl Archive is Gone
The lawyer who fights for people’s right to grow ‘weeds’: She used to enforce local weed ordinances. Now she helps native plant enthusiasts combat them.
The Library Is Not Just a Place
JD Vance talked about ‘childless’ women. There are 46 million of them, and even more childless men.
How Trump and Vance went from a ‘threat to democracy’ to ‘weird’