Monthly Archives: September 2024

Links 9/15/24

Posted on September 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: How a bat disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids Fur farming a ‘viral highway’ that could spark next pandemic, say scientists Early science and colossal stone engineering in Menga, a … Continue reading →

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Links 9/14/24

Posted on September 14, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Petty af Wisc. health officials recall eggs after multistate outbreak of salmonella infections. Wisconsin health officials have initiated a recall of eggs following an outbreak of salmonella infections among 65 people in nine states that originated … Continue reading →

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Links 9/13/24

Posted on September 13, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Just how rare is a rare-colored lobster? Scientists say answer could be under the shell. Over the last year, fishers’ traps, supermarket seafood tanks, and scientists’ laboratories have seen a A wave of oddly-colored lobsters. Legionnaires’ … Continue reading →

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Links 9/12/24

Posted on September 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: An Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Recurrent Breast Cancer ‘My jaw dropped’: Bat loss linked to death of human infants. In places where bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticides, and baby mortality … Continue reading →

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Only a Former Prosecutor Could Have Done What Harris Did

Posted on September 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s pretty clear that many Democrats have been waiting for years for someone to smack Trump around–and not just win a debate on points, but diminish him personally, since that’s how you truly beat a Gish Galloper. I think this … Continue reading →

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Links 9/11/24

Posted on September 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: First narrow-spectrum antibiotic successfully eliminates Fusobacterium nucleatum, a gum disease pathogen HIV: how close are we to a vaccine — or a cure? COVID patients breathe large amounts of virus early on. Northwestern investigators collect samples … Continue reading →

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Will the NY Times Rescind Its Invite to Project 2025’s Kevin Roberts?

Posted on September 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Because it should. On Sept. 5, the New York Times announced that Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation and the impetus behind Project 2025, was one of their speakers at its ‘Climate Week NYC’, which is “an annual event … Continue reading →

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Links 9/10/24

Posted on September 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Fifth of patients at two north of England surgeries have long Covid, study finds Architectural immunity: ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics Study puts understanding of long COVID and vaccination into question (paper here; … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Horse Race Journalism, It’s Super Bowl Journalism

Posted on September 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One thing about political press media criticism I don’t like is referring to it as ‘horse race coverage’ or other similar metaphors. I think that metaphor gets something very wrong and misses why we’re in the trouble we’re in. Instead, … Continue reading →

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Links 9/9/24

Posted on September 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: New Milestone! NCBI Pathogen Detection Reaches 2 Million Isolates Novavax has a good COVID-19 vaccine. How good is it? A very deep dive. Let’s separate the mythology from the data. You just lived through the most … Continue reading →

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