Links for you. Science:

How often do unexpected scientific discoveries occur? More often than you might think
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 provides low-level cross-protection against common cold coronaviruses in mouse and non-human primate animal models
Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
Tanzania confirms second Marburg virus case
Trump executive order declaring only ‘two sexes’ gets the biology wrong, scientists say

Other:

Federal return-to-office directive will hurt productivity, survey respondents say
Well What Are You Going To Do About It
The Old Rules Are For Losers
Johnson aide advised against Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’. The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.
RETURN TO McARDLE.
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
Matchbooks Are Striking Up a Comeback in D.C. Restaurants
Nobody is Interested in Your Crypto Philosophizing
Former Navy SEAL Said to Be Interim Head of FEMA. Cameron Hamilton does not appear to have experience coordinating responses to large-scale disasters, like the wildfires in California.
Plutot Trump que le Wokisme
What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America
Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
We Can Stop Pretending Like Donald Trump Had Never Heard of Project 2025 Now, Right?
The inauguration of a multi-billion dollar grift
Executive Action Reaction: Day 3 (“You might think our peripatetic president would therefore understand that some of the million-plus federal employees might also find it easier to work from home on occasion.”)
Trump wants beautiful architecture. His legacy will be data centers.
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
What a pardon of 2 D.C. cops says about Trump and the U.S. violence to come (if D.C. were a state, Trump wouldn’t have been able to pardon them)
Out With The Old
Jan. 6 rioter whose case was tossed after Trump pardon arrested on pending weapons charges
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
Democrats are Surrounded by Low Hanging Fruit: Get To It
Congestion Relief Zone is Also a CRASH Relief Zone: Data. Congestion pricing critics will have one less reason to say the toll isn’t working
How to Stop Trump in One Stupid Chart
Senate Democrats block GOP’s ‘born-alive’ abortion bill