Monthly Archives: October 2026

Links 10/31/26

Posted on October 31, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Ohio’s Kroger gets $3 million ‘MAHA’ grant. Critics call it taxpayer-funded marketing. The efficiency of information gain by natural selection A New Kind of Chemistry The phantom lighthouse: new research explains one of Australia’s strangest illusions … Continue reading →

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Links 10/30/26

Posted on October 30, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Senate candidate El-Sayed wants to ‘grill’ RFK Jr., calls him the ‘most incompetent HHS secretary ever’ No. I was not paid to critique the Anxious Generation. I came to the conclusion that the science featured in … Continue reading →

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A Bad Week for D.C.’s Crime Stats

Posted on October 30, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

As of 9am Friday, there were four homicides in D.C. this week. To date this year, D.C. has reported a total of 83* homicides this year. Last year, during the same time period, we had 114 homicides, and in the … Continue reading →

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Links 10/29/26

Posted on October 29, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: When Texas Bat “Cities” Look Like Thunderstorms Emergence and local dissemination of NDM-14-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST147: a phylodynamic and epidemiological investigation Health Research Agency Director Goes on Administrative Leave Expanding threat of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and … Continue reading →

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The NY Times Could Use This Word Every Day to Describe Trump’s Speech

Posted on October 29, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Yet they do not. Which is a choice. On Tuesday, the NY Times ran a story about HHS Secretary Kennedy’s bigoted remarks about Arabs with the following headline: What’s notable is they didn’t use a phrase like ‘bigotry-tinged’, they just, … Continue reading →

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Links 10/28/26

Posted on October 28, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: A duty to act Identification and genetic characterization of megabase-scale plasmids of Enterobacteriaceae Multilevel HierCC typing scheme for global genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance surveillance of Campylobacter jejuni Death and chemotaxis: Bacterial chemotaxis enables collective escape … Continue reading →

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Links 10/27/26

Posted on October 27, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: HHS says it wants better evidence on vaccine injuries. It’s building a system that will produce the opposite. (impeach HHS Secretary Kennedy. Impeach him now) RFK Jr.’s “Control Group”: In July 2021, while speaking to a … Continue reading →

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The National Guard Occupation Is Not Harmless

Posted on October 27, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Recently, the colonial government of the District of Columbia released a report on school truancy in D.C. While many of the issue raised in the report will be familiar to people anywhere in the U.S. who have thought about this … Continue reading →

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Links 10/26/26

Posted on October 26, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Trump admin cuts to satellites will set back US weather forecasting by a decade, experts say CDC denies approval for high-volume measles test, citing ‘other priorities’ What to Know About Shamonda Virus Following the First Reported … Continue reading →

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On COVID Conspiracies and Mink Farms

Posted on October 26, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

We’re potentially doing the same old same old in Utah. But I’m getting ahead of myself. A key feature of the various COVID lab leaks (note the plural) hypotheses and other related COVID conspiracies is they are much more exciting … Continue reading →

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