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The Old Man and the Presidency He had won. Barely.

The Old Man and the Presidency
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Remembering Atul Butte with Marina Sirota, Chirag Patel and Mike Snyder The 15th Season Is Here

Remembering Atul Butte with Marina Sirota, Chirag Patel and Mike Snyder
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Journal Entry Fourteen Sixty Four Dash O Five Six Setting: A narrow path winding up into golden hills above San Jose speckled with late-summer scrub.

Journal Entry Fourteen Sixty Four Dash O Five Six
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Tracking GMOs in the Gene Editing Era: Frédéric Debode on the Science of GMO Detection In this episode of Mendelspod, Theral speaks with Frédéric Debode, Scientific Director at CRA-W in Wallonia, Belgium, about the evolving landscape of GMO detection in the age of gene editing.

Tracking GMOs in the Gene Editing Era: Frédéric Debode on the Science of GMO Detection
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Opinion | Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party

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The Church of Assumption Because they said we must be paired—two by two, like scared animals before the great ark of resplendent joy—but I stood alone at the threshold,not sorrowing, unconvinced.

a new poem!
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I Am Here Out under the summer stars,

I Am Here. Where Are You?
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Haunted by Each Other? A back patio at dusk. Aaron:You keep saying conservatives use logic as well as progressives. But I don’t see it. Conservatives are the continual capitulation to raw desire. Trump wants to make Ame...

Haunted by Each Other?
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The Grammar of RNA: Gavin Knott on Gene Editing and Structural Biology in the Age of AI In this episode of Mendelspod, we plunge into the shape-shifting world of RNA with Dr. Gavin Knott, associate professor at Monash University and alum of Jennifer Doudna’s lab. Knott is part of a new g...

🎧 Great episode of @mendelspod.bsky.social with Gavin Knott, molecular biologist at @monashuniversity.bsky.social & former postdoc in the Jennifer Doudna lab. @theraltimpson.bsky.social and Gavin discuss the “shapeshifting paradox” of RNA— & how structural biology is being upended by AI.

Because I Could Not Stop for Her, Jane Austen Kindly Stopped for Me The carriage was waiting when I arrived—black, elegant, without ostentation. Excuse the excessively showy pun right out the gate.

Because I Could Not Stop for Her, Jane Austen Kindly Stopped for Me

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On the Wine Trail Asking What's a Social Construction? The hills of Santa Ynez rolled in steep, gold-dusted waves around the two middle-aged men, one with a well kept beard, the other with a well kept abdomen.

On social constructions and golden keys . . .

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Dave's Journal: May 15, 2025 The wind came up today while I was out planting tomatoes.

Dave's Journal: May 15, 2025
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just dropped a 🔥 new episode of mendelspod.

christian schafmeister is building a third kind of drug called spiroligomers: fused-ring molecules.

- bind tough targets like MYC
- resist proteases

this could be a new modality. a whole new field.

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Of Symbols and Skin "The beautiful is that which pleases universally without a concept."

Of Symbols and Skin

Is sex always inherently objectifying?

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Pam Bondi sounds like Parker Posie satirizing Pam Bondi.

Song of Shipwreck Plopped pleasantly and finally in the back garden, must I go inside when my neighbor chooses this time to trim his weeds? He doesn’t have many, and soon he’s around the far side of his house.

Song of Shipwreck

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A Rationalist and an Empiricist Walk into a Bar A rationalist and an empiricist walk into a bar. It sounds like a joke, but tonight, it’s a battleground.

A Rationalist and an Empiricist Walk into a Bar
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The Veil of Perception Hello, Five O'Clockers!It’s been a couple of weeks—thanks for your patience. I imagine you’ve all missed me terribly. (Haha.) Life has thrown some weightier matters my way recently, including the pass...

The Veil of Perception

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A Chat with AI about Its Own Ethics Theral: Last night it was revealed in an ongoing lawsuit that Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been using the book pirating site LibGen to train its AI.

A Chat with AI about Its Own Ethics
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Poached Fish Noodle Soup An Improvised Classic

My favorite way to cook fish.

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Plaid and Pink The restaurant was as noisy as a wasp nest, dimly lit, but there was a je ne sais quoi about the whole place.

How do we know when we don't need affirmative action?

#DEI

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Watch President Trump's speech or continuing with a philosophical paper by Charles Taylor?

On the one hand, the argument to witness history. I will not be a passive enabler of the United States failing its grand vision.

On the other . . . hopefully the AP is invited to cover this event.

The Goddamn Truth The rain hadn’t let up all evening, turning the streets of Pittsburgh into mirrors of neon and shadows.

Two Kinds of People

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Breaking the ‘Undruggable’ Barrier with AI and Synthetic Biology: Eswar Iyer, CEO of Aikium For decades, drug developers have struggled with so-called "undruggable" proteins—those regions of the proteome that evade traditional small molecules and antibodies.

Breaking the ‘Undruggable’ Barrier with AI and Synthetic Biology: Eswar Iyer, CEO of Aikium
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A Rationalist and an Empiricist Walk into a Bar A rationalist and an empiricist walk into a bar. It sounds like a joke, but tonight, it’s a battleground.

A Rationalist and an Empiricist Walk into a Bar
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Happy birthday, @ayannamonte.bsky.social!

Let's be clear. Trump and the new Republicans are cancelling Democrats right and left for their beliefs. Political Correctness has shifted.

"They're not cutting a branch. They're cutting the whole tree." Laura Hercher Defends DEI in Genomic Research and Medicine Today Theral talks with Laura Hercher, Director of Research for Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College, about the growing political assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in s...

"What you're cutting is cancer funding. What you're cutting is Alzheimer's research. What you're cutting is funding for sick kids," Hercher warns, pushing back against the rhetoric that frames these cuts as mere "overhead reductions."

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What is the Difference between Sex and Gender? I have a friend who doesn't believe in gender, but he believes in sex.

What is the Difference Between Sex and Gender?
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