Monthly Archives: August 2024

Links 8/18/24

Posted on August 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: High Rates of Miscarriage and Stillbirth among Pregnant Women with Clade I Mpox (Monkeypox) Are Confirmed during 2023–2024 DR Congo Outbreak in South Kivu Province (small sample size, but the odds of this being rare are … Continue reading →

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Links 8/17/24

Posted on August 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Is oral history more durable than written history? Why the “stories” told by Indigenous cultures just might provide a better record of the earth’s past. These cities will be too hot for the Olympics by 2050 … Continue reading →

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Links 8/16/24

Posted on August 16, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Long COVID science, research and policy The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better. Measles: What goes around, comes around Conservation emojis (gift link) Over a billion birds die after striking … Continue reading →

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Sen. McConnell, Tell Us When You Get to the Bad Part

Posted on August 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

MITCH HAZ A SAD (but how can you tell akshually?) Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is, oddly enough, very worried about the consequences of a Harris-Walz victory (boldface mine): The day after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s … Continue reading →

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Links 8/15/24

Posted on August 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports. Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These microscopic animals fight off infection using genes ‘stolen’ from bacteria. Compounds made by bdelloid rotifers … Continue reading →

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Links 8/14/24

Posted on August 14, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Transoceanic pathogen transfer in the age of sail and steam Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here’s what that means Beer and salt among Roman ‘mega-industries’ CompactTree: A lightweight header-only C++ library for ultra-large … Continue reading →

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The Perception of Time in the Trump Era

Posted on August 14, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the most annoying things about having a narcissist in your life–and as long as we have Trump running for office, we all have a narcissist in our lives–is they screw up how you perceive events, whether you like … Continue reading →

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Links 8/13/24

Posted on August 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Bite-sized Threats of Ticks Variant type 2 poliovirus isolated from sewage samples in Gaza Maui wildfires scorched a 150-year-old banyan tree. Now, it’s healing. Inside the maths that drives AI. Loss functions measure algorithmic errors in … Continue reading →

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The Takeaway from the Musk-Trump Interview: Vance Would Be President

Posted on August 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Given Trump’s constant slurring of words, if Trump is elected, the best case scenario is Vance is the de facto president. The worst case scenario–and one I think is extremely likely–is a majority of the cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment … Continue reading →

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Links 8/12/24

Posted on August 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Childhood vaccinations will have prevented more than 500 million illnesses and 1 million deaths in US since 1994, CDC report says (paper here) Federal infrastructure funding is fueling a push to remove dams and restore river … Continue reading →

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