Monthly Archives: September 2024

Links 9/22/24

Posted on September 22, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: It’s never ‘just’ a concussion. Your brain is injured. The hidden value of vultures: Researchers believe a massive die-off of the birds led to over 100,000 additional human deaths per year in India. A rumble echoed … Continue reading →

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Links 9/21/24

Posted on September 21, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn. US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu. (according to some reporting, it appears this person might have directly infected another … Continue reading →

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Links 9/20/24

Posted on September 20, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Bees learn how to play soccer Our ears are complex wonders. Our earlobes? They’re extra. Where the ‘ruber’ meets the road: Using the genome of the Red Diamond Rattlesnake to unravel the evolutionary processes driving venom … Continue reading →

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Links 9/19/24

Posted on September 19, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Oropouche cases in the Americas near 10,000 In Australia, COVID-19 deaths may have stopped decreasing More than half of Brazil is racked by drought. Blame deforestation. Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in … Continue reading →

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JD Vance Meet JD Vance

Posted on September 19, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the things about being an online shitposter is there’s a record of what you once thought (boldface mine): A week after President Barack Obama won reelection in November 2012, JD Vance, then a law student at Yale, wrote … Continue reading →

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Links 9/18/24

Posted on September 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: US confirms first human bird flu case with no known animal exposure Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants First case of bird flu not directly linked to sick animals is found in Missouri GPT-fabricated … Continue reading →

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More Police, or Just Better Deployed Police? The D.C. Auditor Has an Opinion

Posted on September 18, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, some asshole with a blog noted: As Joe Friday notes, on the criminal justice side of things, D.C. has seen a precipitous drop in murders this year (down thirty percent), and all of that happened before Congressional … Continue reading →

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Links 9/17/24

Posted on September 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

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 … Continue reading →

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To Defeat Gish Gallopers, You Must Attack the Galloper

Posted on September 17, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve said this so many times on this blog, but to defeat the torrent of bullshit spewed by Gish Gallopers, you must attack the person doing said spewing, not their remarks. This, of course, is a post about Donald Trump. … Continue reading →

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Links 9/16/24

Posted on September 16, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Silicon Valley’s new wedding perk: A bio-engineered hangover cure Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows Fast-spreading mpox variant detected in Congo’s densely populated capital Mpox is coming back deadlier … Continue reading →

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