Links for you. Science:
Rationalizing risk aversion in science: Why incentives to work hard clash with incentives to take risks
Will bird flu be the next pandemic? Vaccines are prepped, just in case.
How the World’s Oldest Humpback Whale Has Survived Is a Mystery
Mpox never stopped spreading in Africa. Now it’s an international public health emergency. Again.
I Am the Walrus but This Fossil Was Not. Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses.
Jay Lichter Illuminates Stunning Colors and Textures in Macro Photos of Elusive Slime Molds
Other:
With Tim Walz, There Is TOO Such a Thing as a Free Lunch
Justice Department preparing rental market collusion lawsuit. The Biden administration has focused on reining in housing costs as a key part of its economic agenda. (more details on the D.C. suit here)
Corey Lewandowski Returns To Advise Trump, Immediately Screws Up
Citigroup Calls Time on Popular ‘Trump Trade’ in Bond Market
How ex-liberal power couple Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a shocking political U-turn. They once hosted Kamala Harris and handed out food at Glide. Now they donate to MAGA candidates and live inside a four-gated mansion in Nevada. (I’m becoming increasingly convinced that COVID infections broke more brains than we realize. Also, tax these assholes so we don’t have to worry about them)
The New Three-Legged Stool Of GOP Politics Is Weird
Sports Betting Is Legal, and Sportswriting Might Never Recover (gift link)
The Case for Publishing the Hacked Trump Documents (my take here)
Study: Pedestrian deaths surged along with COVID-19. Why?
Sounds Like A Job For Merrick Garland
Trump Has Opened the Pathway to Reform
This Georgia Republican Defied Trump. Now He’s Fighting a Defamation Suit.
Democrats Are Missing Out on a Big Opportunity on Abortion Rights
Matt Yglesias Is Wrong About Lina Khan’s Record
Inside Conservative Activist Leonard Leo’s Long Campaign To Gut Planned Parenthood
J.D. Vance Apparently Thinks Amazon Funded the Black Lives Matter Movement
4 takeaways from Harris’ economic plan to uplift Americans
Trump blends falsehoods and exaggerations at rambling NJ press conference (et tu, AP?)
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes explains the inextricable links between the Trump campaign and Project 2025
Shame! Shame! Shame! What New Yorkers Have Just Lost: Vibrant Sidewalk Life and Social Hubs
Harris Gonna Code Switch
Trump’s rash of bizarre claims and wild tangents is no laughing matter: Most Republican officials, and many in the media, ignore or downplay Donald Trump’s peculiar state of mind, but normalizing his unhinged musings is dangerous.
JD Vance is a bad nerd
The Media’s Double Standard Favors Donald Trump, Not Kamala Harris: Conservative complaints about bias miss the point.
Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned
The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods
mikethemadbiologist
That pedestrian death article was interesting, especially since there was a Canadian study, using national health care data, that showed not getting the COVID vaccine was correlated with a much higher risk of hospital admission for a traffic accident. Did the people who did have to get out and drive simply decide to value their own lives and the lives of others less?