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Gates on climate.
Link. Much better than expected. My understanding is Gates leans GOP, so interesting politically as well.
Cardinal Pell trial – what NYT can’t write about.
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Australia joins the global nuthouse: the case that cannot be named.
Link. Add to the encryption restrictions. Will Canada be next?
Old doctor pet peeve – disease descriptions were better in Osler’s day.
Link. “We should have textbooks that describe a disease or disorder with 3-8 case histories that span a reasonable spectrum of presentations”
Dinosaurs rule: “The combined mass of those 23 billion chickens is greater than that of all the other birds on Earth.”
Link. T Rex redeemed.
Coyote becoming dog.
Link. Another 10-20 generations of this and they’d be living in our caves.
Suicide falling everywhere but America.
Link. It’s the guns. At VHA gun locks are free, but nobody dares say veterans should sell their guns.
Aerobic exercise extends telomeres.
Link. My daughter says I behave like a child. So it’s working.
“50 to 55 million people living in rural communities that no longer have much to offer them economically.”
Link. Mill towns were good places for families — until newsprint died. I’d guess half must migrate, rest tourism, retirement.
Medicare-for-all: Dem options.
Link. The GOP chose this path.
“U.S. task force has tracked down and eliminated more than thirty-nine thousand MANPADS”
Link. Anti-aircraft missiles. Don’t forget drones.
State of macOS malware protection.
Link. Fair to poor.
“He was set to get a review from his manager the next week, and had been hearing only positive things. Instead, two days later, he signed his separation papers.”
Link. Musk makes Jobs look good.
“he’s free of shame because he has no conscience, nor any self-awareness. So while his behavior certainly suggests he feels increasing fear and isolation, he would be the last one to know it.”
Link. Seems plausible — he can’t sense his own despair.
LifeFlix imports old DV tapes.
Link. The real problem is VHS.
Remember Apple Connect?
Link. Bye.
CrossFit MD “army”.
Link. The article is a pretty fair description of CrossFit 2018 – quite civilized now. Glassman is kind of kooky it’s true. I’m in the doctor Fb group, mostly sane.
“if you put 100 schizophrenic people in an M.R.I. scanner, you might be looking at 100 different genetic conditions,”
Link. Autism same. Brain models not yet useful.
Field Tested Cycling Gifts-Part 2
Link. Butt saver.
“Home BP monitors measure BP primarily using the oscillometric technique, in which BP is estimated using an algorithm applied to the envelope of oscillometric waveforms”
Link. Dang! I had no idea. Different from auscultation.
China harvested organs from political prisoners on substantial scale.
Link. China leadership has lied about this.
In the crust “Other microbes have lived in stasis for millions of years and could be brought back to life in the lab”
Link. New enzymes.
Qualified Opportunity Zones: bounty for billionaires.
Link. Trumps in it with both feet. Feel the MAGA.
How the IRS Was Gutted.
Link. GOP.
“They’re waiting [Trump] out. I mean, this guy would be, he should hear the way these guys talk about him behind his back”
Link. Departing Dem Senator speaking of GOP colleagues. Allegedly all are puzzled by Graham’s collapse.
Time’s Person of the Year Honors Jamal Khashoggi and the Guardians of the Truth
Link. At the other end of the scale – Trump and mbs.
GOP attacks Google for not being stupid
Link. So much better than attacking them for being evil.
The Shoulder – podcast notes
Link. I need to read this 100 times.
Sleep Apnea Review (podcast)
Link. She’s a rebel. Excellent discussion, great guest.
“Democrats, the analysis found, ran particularly well this year among white working-class women who are not evangelicals,”
Link. This is what it’s all about for 2020. Laser focus there. Who will they vote for?
Tracking Leakers With Watermarked Screens
Link. Cool
Old reroviruses in our DNA mess up the immune system, and are important for oncology immunotherapy.
Link. Feels like progress.
Pelosi on Trump: “As if manhood could ever be associated with him,”
Link. That meeting went well.
“Egyptian officials are angry over the exceedingly difficult and high income requirements needed to purchase a iPhone in the country.”
Link. I’m mad about the iPhone 8 pricing. Grrr.
GOP voters trying to turn America into Hungary.
Link. Voting for white nationalist authoritarian state.
Equifax Breach report
Link. Nobody gets to be CEO for having good security.
DHS searches leave user data on random USB drives.
Link. 29,000 last year. The worst agency of the worst presidency.
Trumponomics inspires old form of corruption: buying tariff exemptions.
Link. At least some things are predictable. MAGA.
Teenagers and Lightning Cable Mortality.
Link. Same here. Emily and my cables last forever. Kids, not so much — and they do pay for them. Better after 18. Some kind of marker….
Population Mountains – visualizing the mega cities.
Link. Would be wonderful overlay for Google Earth/maps.
2018 iPhone Sales: “Apple co-opted its Genius Bar Displays in classic locations, Apple TV demos, and Today at Apple Forum Displays to promote iPhone XS and XR deals.”
Link. Desperate.
ScanSnap 64-bit Software update shafts customers
Link. We can hate Fujitsu now.
Gas Station Ads often have mute button
Link. Ill try
Malaria – “measures can dramatically cut death rates; in one pilot project in Zambia, they dropped by 96 percent.”
Link. Rectal form of IV drug. Thank you Pharma, some sins forgiven.
“it will take about 30,000 years for the two spacecraft to come out the far side of the Oort cloud and definitively leave the solar system.”
Link. I hope something marks that year.
Diet and weight loss: the emerging consensus.
Link. If a low card diet fails try low fat diet. And so on.
“the new antitrust movement has only begun to fight.”
Link. Hipsters unite. The enemy is immensely powerful.
“Ryan proved as much a practitioner of post-truth politics as Donald Trump”
Link. Krugman was right when most were wrong.
Rats abandon the USS Trump.
Link. The waters will be deep, dark, cold.