Link. Kids these days.
Daily Archives: January 20, 2022
“phages can be used in sync with antibiotics to treat otherwise incurable infections”
Link. Very cool case report.
Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed
Link. “only one major step remains: the fuel burn to insert the telescope at L2”
“The (14) men Heydrich invited were senior civil servants and party officials. Most of them were in their 30s, nine of them had law degrees, more than half had Ph.D.s.”
Link. “Only one of 30 copies of his 15-page protocol, marked in red as “secret” on the first page, survived.”
“someone in New York City may have had the Omicron variant as early as Nov. 21, four days before South African scientists first announced cases”
Link.
“immune activation and inflammation within the CNS is the primary driver of neurologic disease in acute COVID-19”
Link. Not unique to COVID, also other viral infections. Relative risk not known.
Fix Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
Link. Worth considering.
“Had older Americans, aged 55 and up, continued to work at their pre-pandemic level, the country would have nearly 2m additional workers today.”
Link. Stocks and real estate state good. Be real nice to your Olds.
“Two-thirds of Nigerian-born Black immigrants age 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher, while about half of immigrants from Cameroon and Kenya have a college degree.”
Link. Special visa program facilitates.
“a top secret U.S. Special Operations unit called Task Force 9 had struck the dam using some of the largest conventional bombs in the U.S. arsenal”
Link. War crime.
In VA population: Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer
Link. VA care eliminates most racial disparities but not this one.
“United States has been underbuilding for so long that it’ll take years to meet demand.”
Link. Private equity making things worse faster. “boomers who own a lot of housing stock are sticking around in their primary homes longer”
“Reagan cut Mr. Carter’s renewable energy research budget by 85 percent. “The Reagan administration fired most of the scientists working on solar energy,”
Link. The GOP has been bad for a long time.
“when Schumer brought up a vote to change the filibuster to a talking filibuster for this bill … Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) joined the Republicans to kill the measure”
Link.