Links for you. Science:
They Were Some of Earth’s Last Stable Glaciers. Now, They’re Melting.
Changes at NIH give political appointees greater power to fund or block research
Bathroom doomscrolling may increase your risk of hemorrhoids
The Biological Rulebook Was Just Rewritten—by Ants
Is NIH under a Multi-Year funding policy or not?
Tylenol has entered the chat: RFK Jr. wants to link it to autism, even though the best evidence says otherwise.
Other:
Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer
Now What
Will Democrats blink once again in a shutdown standoff?
Maybe They’ll Listen To Someone Who Matters
Trump-voting farmers beg for government handout
Trump’s long weekend of humiliation
A City Filled With Paid Liars
The Bleak Fantasy Of Donald Trump’s Death
I’ve Seen States Collapse; Now I See It Happening Here
Republicans who confirmed RFK Jr. now worried he might be a nut job
Try as they might, Republicans can’t silence Epstein’s victims
All The President’s Horses
There Are Different Types Of Narcissists. Any Of Them Sound Familiar?
How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
The Billionaires looking to Silence Rep Thomas Massie for His Epstein Activism Made Their Money in Very Interesting Ways
Poll-Driven Party Can’t Read Polls
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one. Not these Americans.
When you can afford to be made to look ridiculous
Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes
Historians Found a 600-Year-Old Document Declaring the Shroud of Turin a Fraud
Why do so many Republicans think Trump is more liberal than he is?
Stock buybacks are stock swindles
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The worst possible antitrust outcome
Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Under Trump administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests (this means it will be harder to learn in the future who did what)
A notional design studio.
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
mikethemadbiologist
The big danger of vaccines is the car ride to and from the clinic. I remember working it out for COVID, and it only took a three mile drive to hit the break even point.