Virginia passes law to prevent schools from telling Trump’s lies about January 6th rioters
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Virginia passes law to prevent schools from telling Trump’s lies about January 6th rioters
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As for taste and texture, homogenization has more impact than pasteurization. Later this morning I will purchase some locally made 1% milk that is pasteurized for safety but not homogenized; the label says "Shake, Shake, Shake."
The treatment is designed to reduce harmful microbes. And there are dairy products DESIGNED to be safe ways to get probiotics, like yogurt.
I have no desire to meet harmful bacteria. And raw milk fans' understanding of pasteurization is deeply wrong: pasteurized milk is NOT sterile, it is somewhat probiotic.
The Surgeon General nominee "wants to meet the cow" from which her raw milk came.
Collage of three charts about U.S. job growth by presidential administration. Top left: bar chart titled “Annual change, non-farm employment” (from Wikipedia) showing average yearly job growth for presidents from Franklin Roosevelt through Joe Biden. Most Democratic administrations show higher growth rates than Republican ones. Top right: chart titled “Job Growth Is Greater Under Democratic Presidents” (source: Joint Economic Committee, Bureau of Labor Statistics) showing total job gains since 1981: Reagan ~16.1 million, George H. W. Bush ~2.6 million, Clinton ~22.9 million, George W. Bush ~1.4 million, Obama ~11.6 million, Trump –2.7 million, Biden ~16.2 million so far. Bottom left: New York Times chart of monthly job changes since 2023 showing fluctuations with a recent monthly loss of about 92,000 jobs in February. Caption text on the right summarizes: for nearly a century, by job growth and most major macroeconomic measures, the U.S. economy has generally performed better when a Democrat occupies the White House.
Has been pretty vindicating that the people on Twitter we used to argue with about COVID actually got their chance to run things and they each turned out to be every bit the incompetent fuckwit that we knew they’d be
people that hate cats are so funny to me because the things they complain about also are complaints autistic people hear about themselves “unfriendly” “unapproachable” “mean” etc
meanwhile the cats and the autistics are just minding our business and not seeking validation from someone
The Economist model estimates the peak was nearly 4,000 excess deaths in the US per day in late December 2020, and nearly as high for much of January 2021.
I don't think ANY of the GBD crowd has admitted to having been horribly wrong about the pandemic.
Some great Google search tips for better research
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it's ALMOST like maybe there are good reasons to be encouraging electrification or something!
and maybe there are many of those reasons!
I didn't think when I wrote
"Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand"
it would be so prescient but, well...
Screenshot of a New York Times article titled “Is This Treadmill Walking Trend Good for Your Fitness?” with the subheading “Here’s what to know about the 12-3-30 workout.” On the right side of the screen is my reader comment, which explains that adjusting the slope of a treadmill is a useful way to vary workout intensity because speed changes tend to force shifts between different gaits (walking, jogging, running), each with distinct biomechanics optimized for specific speeds. Incline changes, by contrast, allow smoother adjustment of effort while staying within the comfortable walking range. The comment notes that I learned this principle in graduate school from Duke Professors Steven Vogel and Stephen Wainwright, leaders in comparative biomechanics.
Some writers and researchers have turned up in the Files simply because somebody in Epstein's circle emailed one of their articles, so I checked whether any of my publications were there. Seems like none have; I guess his crowd doesn't care about Computational Biology & Genomics analytical tools.
Many reputations have been besmirched by the Epstein Files.
Tina Brown's reputation has been enhanced: she was one of the very few prominent voices trying to tell the world how awful he was before most of us even knew his name.
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Alan Beattie in the Financial Times: "The competing economic superpower offers are now as follows. From the US you get forced into trade deals promising a future of burning fossil fuels whose price is subject to wildly destructive US adventurism. From China you get reliably cheap EVs and green tech to generate renewables."
More fun with the eclipse. This is an image of the moon before the eclipse (8:50 PM PST) and one at mid-eclipse. Both used the same imaging equipment. The first was taken with a 1/8000s exposure, the second is a stack of 20, 0.8s exposures. You can see some libration (rotation). #astrophotography
I ain't got noembody
Noembody cares for me
Noembody
Noembody
I'm so sad and lonely
Won't some Lewandowski
Come take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad
A small moment of scientific gratification. Many years ago I was part of a team that studied cardiovascular risk in the Old Order Amish. Because of founder effects, some rare variants are much easier to detect in that population than in the general population. Our initial signal sat inside a large linkage block, and referees quite reasonably pushed us hard: “you need to do a better job showing which of the genes in this region is actually responsible.” It took us a couple of years of additional work to satisfy them before the paper was finally accepted in *Science*. The gene we eventually nailed down was **B4GALT1**, where a rare missense variant appears to reduce cardiovascular risk. Importantly, carriers in the Amish population appear to live normal lives, which suggested that the biological perturbation might be tolerated. I recently learned that a biotech company is now developing an RNA-editing therapy intended to mimic that protective variant. It’s still early-stage, and most such programs never reach the clinic—but it’s gratifying to see the idea travel that far down the translational pipeline. Human genetics → biological mechanism → therapeutic hypothesis. Sometimes the path from discovery to possible therapy takes many years, but moments like this remind me why that work is worth doing. The work I was part of: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34855475/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180346888A1/en The Biotech: https://www.investing.com/news/swot-analysis/proqr-therapeutics-swot-analysis-rna-editing-pioneers-stock-faces-clinical-hurdles-93CH-4192412 https://www.proqr.com/press-releases/proqr-announces-initial-pipeline-targets-and-highlights-axiomerr-rna-editing-platform-technology-at-rd-event https://www.proqr.com/science/pipeline
Breaking (via WSJ & NBC News): Trump reportedly considering firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Two major outlets — The Wall Street Journal and NBC News — are reporting that Donald Trump is considering firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following contentious congressional hearings earlier this week. According to Capitol Hill and administration sources cited by both outlets: • Trump has begun asking aides and Republican lawmakers for possible replacements. • The trigger appears to be Noem’s performance during hearings this week, where she faced sharp questioning from both parties. • Trump was reportedly particularly frustrated by her responses about a roughly $220 million DHS advertising campaign encouraging immigrants to self-deport. • One GOP senator told NBC that the hearings were essentially “water boiling over the edge of the pot.” • Louisiana Senator John Kennedy reportedly described Trump as “pissed” about the testimony. At the moment no final decision has been made, but multiple sources told both of these outlets that Trump has been calling Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to discuss his dissatisfaction with Noem’s performance. As of this writing, WSJ and NBC appear to have the scoop, with other outlets likely working their sources now.
Do you publish in peer-reviewed journals? Maintain an ORCID record & include a link to ORCID in your social media profiles. Lets you say these are mine, these by authors with similar names are not mine. Lets others verify your history of publishing research. Mine goes back decades now.
me: starfish
Scientist: not a fish
me: jellyfish
Scientist: not a fish
me: seahorse
Scientist: fish
My time-lapse of Tuesday mornings' lunar eclipse shows the subtle changes in the light refracted by Earth's atmosphere. 14 frames over 65 min cover totality. All frames processed identically and assembled into a video with cross dissolve transitions to smooth it. Details in ALT. #astrophotography
The woke liberal cucks at Anthropic cut us off from using Claude right before we were going to ask it to generate a reason why we're invading Iran.
by Pete Hegseth
A year or so ago I asked a faculty members to stand up an on-the-shelf research protocol that could be implemented on short notice to begin evaluating how military contingency operations are impacting the health & well being of military families. Guess it’s time to break the glass.
Americans are tired of the government wasting their money on Medicaid and schools. They want it spent on security details for Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel's girlfriend.
by J.D. Vance
Well, I'm not a dad but I am an uncle...
Perot as Darth Vader, I like.
Elon Musk is of course Hugo Drax from James Bond: in both the novel and film versions he is an evil rocket manufacturer.
Three-dimensional cube whose surfaces are textured with flowing blue and copper patterns containing scattered molecular diagrams. The repeating structures resemble medicinal chemistry drawings embedded in a glossy, enamel-like surface, giving the impression of drug molecules suspended within a translucent cube.
White background containing several black line-drawn chemical structures of drug molecules arranged across the page, including ring systems, amines, esters, and steroid-like frameworks. One structure is shown as a colored 3-D ball-and-stick model, while the others appear as standard medicinal chemistry skeletal diagrams.
