Links for you. Science:

Bird flu cases are going undetected, new study suggests. It’s a problem for all of us.
Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing. Coding was a preserve of elites, until BASIC hit the streets.
How Olympians – and the rest of us – stay balanced and upright. The vestibular system and cerebellum help us defy gravity in spectacular and mundane ways.
Gen X and millennials at higher cancer risk than older generations. Cancer rates for 17 of the 34 most common cancers are increasing in progressively younger generations, a large new study shows.
The future of paper could come from gene-edited trees
A surprising byproduct of wildfires: Contaminated drinking water (gift link)

Other:

The Coming Trump-Harris Double Standard: If past is prologue, journalists will try to prove their toughness by normalizing Trump and abnormalizing Harris.
A Growing Number of Jerusalem’s Security Guards Are Palestinian. Here’s Why That’s a Hopeful Development
Is This What Happened, Paper of Record
The Dude Abides—and He Supports Kamala Harris for President
The press corps is Trump’s ‘affirmative action program’: As a consequence, the public can’t see his impotence.
How Israel’s Army Sowed the Seeds of Its October 7 Disaster
Why Shawn Fain and the UAW Are Such Big Fans of Andy Beshear
JD Vance And The Second Faceplant Of The Reformicons
Dysfunctional Los Angeles City Politics Threatens Housing Progress
Harris is outmanning Trump
Israel Is Losing Its 50-year War Against the Ultranationalist Kingdom of Judea
Kamala Harris Needs to Put Arrogant Plutocratic Donors in Their Place
What Progressive Foundations Should Be Funding
I’m a Cat Lady, and I Vote
The Left’s Fragile Foundations: Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?
Bitcoin Goes All In With Trump
Initiative to bring ranked-choice voting to D.C. cleared for November ballot. Known as Initiative 83, it would also allow registered independents to vote in primary elections.
Childless Cat Ladies Claw JD Vance: We ‘Don’t Exist To Fulfill Your Baby-Making Fantasies’
With Vance’s elevation, Pennsylvania voters reexamine Trump’s views on women
Why Kamala Harris Has A Chance To Make History As A Policymaker
Harris hires Obama campaign veterans to join 2024 effort, replacing Biden loyalists
Will rodent birth control get rid of rats? A Jamaica Plain pilot program is exploring the idea.
The summer when geek culture took over Hollywood: “Blade Runner,” “Conan the Barbarian,” “Tron” and “E.T.” all came out over the same eight weeks in 1982. This is how they changed the world.
‘That’s not a normal quote’: Trump buried over ‘horror show’ rally attack
Kamala Harris has MAGA world freaking out about demons and the apocalypse
‘Reckting’: ‘Super slurry’ Trump caught ‘glitching heavily’ at swing state rally