Monthly Archives: March 2026

The Worst People

No one should feel sorry for former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem because, if anyone deserves this, she does: A new report claims that former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s alleged boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski, dumped her after she was fired … Continue reading

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Links 3/16/26

Links for you. Science: Despite U.S. pull out from WHO, reps were (virtually) at the table for big flu confab White House stalls release of approved US science budgets Finally! An Ancient Fish That Understood Life’s Terrors The Mournful Ballad … Continue reading

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Links 3/15/26

Links for you. Science: What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain. Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2. Grievance Is All You Need. Understanding attacks on NIH, CDC … Continue reading

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Links 3/14/26

Links for you. Science: As measles cases climb, these 9 diseases threaten comebacks NIH Director Bhattacharya signals an end to the affirmative action program for ESI COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know How LLMs Actually Generate Text The … Continue reading

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Links 3/13/26

Links for you. Science: How Trump’s FDA is breaking his promise to America’s patients (et tu, Murdoch?) What Makary’s Plan For Expanding OTC Drug Access Could Mean For Safety 3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological … Continue reading

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Narcissistic Denial as Policy Planning Process

Observed at 16th and P Streets NW, Dupont Circle, D.C. While I think there’s a tendency ‘overpsychologize’ politicians’ actions, but Trump’s narcissism is just so damn predictive. In our ongoing ‘excursion’* in Iran, we are seeing another example of textbook … Continue reading

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Links 3/12/26

Links for you. Science: Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like. Breakthrough Discovery Targets Virus Infecting 95% of the World’s Population Virus Evolution: Scaling up efforts to target … Continue reading

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Links 3/11/26

Links for you. Science: The U.S. Military Is Reviving Microbes from 40,000-Year-Old Ice RFK Jr. is winning MAHA’s vaccine war South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Single vaccine could protect against … Continue reading

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DOGE Is (Was?) an Insider Threat

Nobody could have predicted this (boldface mine): According to the disclosure, the former DOGE software engineer, who worked at the Social Security Administration last year before starting a job at a government contractor in October, allegedly told several co-workers that … Continue reading

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Links 3/10/26

Links for you. Science: New approach roughly predicts when Alzheimer’s symptoms begin The GLP-1 dream is over. What now, for patients who’ve relied on it for weight loss? Chromosome Testing Will Take Sports Back To The Dark Ages Galápagos park … Continue reading

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