Monthly Archives: August 2024

What Should Journalists Do with a Leaked Vetting File?

Posted on August 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, Politico announced that someone had leaked internal Trump campaign documents to them, including what appears to be the campaign’s internal opposition research about J.D. Vance. Initially, the campaign blamed foreign hackers, possibly Iran–which, of course, led to … Continue reading →

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Links 8/11/24

Posted on August 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Journals that published Richard Lynn’s racist ‘research’ articles should retract them 12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world Federal funding for major science agencies is at a … Continue reading →

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Links 8/10/24

Posted on August 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: COVID data quietly disappears while cases rise Hidden flaws behind expert-level accuracy of multimodal GPT-4 vision in medicine Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy The Global Temperature Just Went Bump. We’re just sticking a toe … Continue reading →

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Links 8/9/24

Posted on August 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why (the examples from the article aren’t even the really bad stuff though) Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, … Continue reading →

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Links 8/8/24

Posted on August 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Genome and life-history evolution link bird diversification to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction California COVID surge is surprisingly stronger, longer-lasting than experts had expected How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”? Former geography teacher Tim Walz is … Continue reading →

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Links 8/7/24

Posted on August 7, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Boar’s Head expands recall to include 7 million more pounds of deli meats tied to listeria outbreak Giant, Sparkly Clams Hide the Most Efficient Solar Panels Ever Found The RND efflux pump EefABC is highly conserved … Continue reading →

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Trump Is Dementing and Somehow This Is Not a Campaign Issue

Posted on August 7, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Imagine if Biden fired off a tweet like this: What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy … Continue reading →

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Links 8/6/24

Posted on August 6, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

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 … Continue reading →

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Biden as Sin Eater

Posted on August 6, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

While I have doubts about the point estimates of various polls, it seems clear that Harris is doing much better than Biden was across the board. There is also a sense of excitement that simply wasn’t there for Biden, and … Continue reading →

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Links 8/5/24

Posted on August 5, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence Previously undetected H5N1 avian flu cases in farmworkers revealed in new report (paper here) How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human … Continue reading →

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