Links for you. Science:
Legionella Found in Dozens of Locations in Manhattan Federal Building
Deciphering the gastrointestinal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae
Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk
A decavalent composite mRNA vaccine against both influenza and COVID-19
Loss of bats to lethal fungus linked to 1,300 child deaths in US, study says
Brazil’s ban on X: how scientists are coping with the cutoff
Other:
Gaffes and Zingers
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris after presidential debate
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
Community Based Network
Passing the Torch?
Kozmo-politan
I Believe Trump When He Says Kicking Immigrants Out Will Be A ‘Bloody Story’
The Chinchilla Expert
Trump’s real Project 2025 was written for him in Moscow by Vladimir Putin’s men
He Worked for a Law Firm Consulting on an Anti-Trans Supreme Court Case. Then We Asked About These Racist Posts
D.C. Police Searching for Man Who Sodomized Himself with a Cucumber (?!?)
Turnout matters, but Trump’s barely working to get out the vote
Bowser‘s ‘Bait and Switch’ on a Key Homelessness Program Leaves Advocates, Councilmembers Fuming
JD Vance’s anti-Haitian bigotry could cost Republicans the Senate
Trump and Vance Are Preparing For a Bloodbath: What their racist lie about immigrants eating pets is supposed to accomplish.
Better Fact Checking
You Want My Debate Takeaway? Harris Pitched A No-Hitter And They’re Eating The Dogs In Springfield
Trump finally admits it: He has no plan to replace Obamacare
Kamala Harris Directly Confronted The Trump Menace In Our Midst
Let’s Relive The Best And Worst Moments Of The Harris-Trump Presidential Debate
What’s become of The Times & Co.?
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
Donald Trump Had a Really, Really Bad Debate
Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where’s everyone who questioned Biden’s age and fitness?
Rank and Vile: The right’s troubled vision of masculinity
What’s really happening in Springfield?
mikethemadbiologist
Re: Mars settlement, gonna have to disagree with that guy.
If he had argued that it will never be economically viable then he’d at least have a defensible position. Instead he went with settlement being physically impossible. History has not been kind to people loudly proclaiming various things to be impossible, and this will be no different.
Something I still do not comprehend is why these naysayers are so vehemently opposed to spending money on Martian settlement research. These are topics like controlled environment agriculture; advanced recycling, waste processing and nutrient recovery; methods for alternative (coal-free) steel and concrete; improvements to energy generation (mostly PV) and storage, and many more. It’s not like we’re going to ship pallets of cash to Mars or mindwipe the researchers; the money gets spent here and the knowledge gets published and/or turned into companies.
Mr. Burneko asks, “I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever.” To that I say “Isn’t it obvious? Mars is made of rock. Rock stops radiation. Build hab under rock, problem solved.”
If that sounds flippant, well, consider the tone of the article and the author’s absolute certainty that the lack of a magnetosphere is an automatic death sentence. We should be talking about power storage, ISRU control systems and long-term seed line maintenance because those are much tougher problems which nevertheless are making progress. That progress will have benefits here on Earth too.