Monthly Archives: November 2025

Links 11/30/25

Posted on November 30, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear. (paper here) With an absent CDC and mismatched ‘subclade K’ flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty DNA Reveals German Family Has … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on November 30, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: Treating Customers Like Criminals: The San Francisco Safeway Edition What Does “The Builder’s Remedy” Mean for “Abundance?” Can Democrats Control Their Own Internal Security Forces? Two Guardsmen Shot in D.C., Near Farragut West Metro … Continue reading →

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Links 11/29/25

Posted on November 29, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: ByHeart’s ‘bizarre’ response to infant botulism outbreak worries food safety experts As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research Strain of bird flu virus never before reported in people is behind first human case … Continue reading →

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Links 11/28/25

Posted on November 28, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry Drop Whatever You’re Doing Right This Instant, There’s Big Spider Web News A Surprise Flu Variant Threw Off the Vaccine. Get Ready for a Brutal … Continue reading →

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Links 11/27/25

Posted on November 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: ‘Functionally extinct’: After 10,000 years on the Florida coast, two key corals are dead Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power Studies show Joro spiders are easy to kill and virtually harmless … Continue reading →

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Two Guardsmen Shot in D.C., Near Farragut West Metro

Posted on November 27, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Yesterday afternoon, two guardsmen were shot at 17th and I NW (according to the Washington Post, the shooting was about 30 years south on I from the intersection). The shooter is an Afghan national admitted into the U.S. in 2021 … Continue reading →

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Links 11/26/25

Posted on November 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state Species that save us Archaeologists Crack Century-old Mystery: What Were Clay Cornets Used for 6,000 Years Ago? What James Watson got wrong … Continue reading →

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Can Democrats Control Their Own Internal Security Forces?

Posted on November 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

In a very good piece about the problems NYC Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani will face regarding policing, this stuck out (boldface mine): Referring to Tisch as the “mother of the DAS,” Fox Cahn questioned why Mamdani would choose to retain … Continue reading →

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Links 11/25/25

Posted on November 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic The Scientists Who Popularized Carbon Capture Have a Warning About … Continue reading →

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What Does “The Builder’s Remedy” Mean for “Abundance?”

Posted on November 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

A few months back, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson released a book in which they described the Abundance Agenda, which Klein summarizes as: Abundance is the argument that a lot of what is wrong in our society is that we … Continue reading →

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