Monthly Archives: July 2024

Links 7/12/24

Posted on July 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Chad eliminates tropical disease targeted by WHO program This tree has lived for 13,000 years. California’s housing crisis could doom it. Fossils Show Huge Salamanderlike Predator With Sharp Fangs Existed Before The Dinosaurs Antibiotic resistance alters … Continue reading →

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Links 7/11/24

Posted on July 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Exploring and retrieving sequence and metadata for species across the tree of life with NCBI Datasets New study sparks debate about whether H5N1 virus in cows is adapted to better infect humans The National Parkinson’s Project … Continue reading →

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It’s All About Curation

Posted on July 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

For people who actually work with machine learning approaches (not the salesmen, but the people who use them), the post title isn’t news, but this story about Tesla makes an important point that also applies to ‘AI’ (boldface mine): Tesla’s … Continue reading →

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Links 7/10/24

Posted on July 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Research finds humpbacks were happier during pandemic pause Great tits have a surprisingly good memory — and are much smarter than we thought Why Increased Testing Is Critical For The Bird Flu As bird flu spreads … Continue reading →

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“Black Jobs”: Trump Tried to Do a Racism, but His Brain Is Too Broken

Posted on July 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

What has gone missing in the discussion of the last debate is Trump’s incoherence. I don’t mean that he’s a mean, nasty ass bigot, though he is a mean, nasty ass bigot. What I mean is that he can’t state … Continue reading →

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Links 7/9/24

Posted on July 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: ‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infection (paper here) Rewilding plan aims to bring majestic white storks to London Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck Earth’s … Continue reading →

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Some Belated Thoughts on the Biden Debate Fiasco

Posted on July 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

I realize that down this road lies madness, but here we go: Anyone speaking with certainty about what to do is full of it. While this isn’t unprecedented (Reagan in 1984), it is very rare. Add to that, there are … Continue reading →

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Links 7/8/24

Posted on July 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: NIH announces launch of clinical trial for nasal COVID vaccine Trends in Sudden Cardiac Death in Pilots: A Post COVID-19 Challenging Crisis of Global Perspectives (2011-2023) Cold, Flu Virus Can Trigger Long COVID Relapses The Misplaced … Continue reading →

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Now It’s Just Getting Stupid: The Worst “West Wing” Fan Fiction EVAR

Posted on July 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

According to Semafor, two Clinton era Super Brain Geniuses have proposed this procedure if Biden drops out (boldface mine): The proposal is the work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who served in the Obama and Clinton administrations … Continue reading →

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Links 7/7/24

Posted on July 7, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: A covid summer uptick is underway as FLiRT and LB.1 variants ascend. Covid infections are growing in nearly all states — with the sharpest increases in the West. (the subtext to this article is that surveillance … Continue reading →

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