Link. New tech means lots of great new drugs. Awesome science.
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Pediatric Hepatitis: “public health measures implemented over the past two years may have left fewer children exposed to common adenoviruses. That, in turn, might have made them more susceptible now,”
Link. I like this theory. Is rare. We might be seeing 2y worth of cases compressed into months.
“reminiscent of AOL’s disastrous takeover of Time Warner”
Link. Musk is nuts.
Mental Health Apps often sell user information.
Link. NYT said same recently. Only VA (gov) apps are definitely trustworthy.
Canon Camera Museum
Link. Canon Camera History from our first camera to the latest one. (Via @mjtsai)
Why we lost the human Lyme vaccine. 2019.
Link. Might COVID make many Americans more vaccine savvy?
“During breaks in the shelling, they would find damaged or destroyed Russian vehicles and smelt down plates with gold wiring. One plate would get them 15,000 rubles, or about $200, back home.”
Link. Russia is a failed state.
“improvement in American schooling during the 1990s and early 2000s was a cause for celebration”
Link. Stop funding schools by local taxation.
“Until Apple updates Activity Monitor to give reasonable figures for M1 chips, don’t use or trust its CPU % or energy values: they’re nonsense.”
Link.
“Between 1501 and 1650, prices of everyday goods across Europe rose six-fold before leveling off and remaining more or less stable on a new level for the next hundred years.”
Link. The Price Revolution.
“there is no precedent for highly ethnically and religiously diverse democracies that actually treat all of their members as equals”
Link. Egypt was stable and static for a long time (by human standards).
Bloodworm fang assembler: “the protein catalyzes a reaction to create melanin and recruits copper ions. Then, it links melanin into polymers, assembles itself and melanin into a structure and uses the copper to seal the whole thing together”
Link. Mostly two amino acids. Evolution is terrifying.
Ive “revoked engineers’ access to the design wing if they talked too loudly or mentioned costs”
Link. Apple is scary place. Ives was hardware, Cook services, but software had no champion. App score scams and Aperture’s failure are today’s problems.
Tsai review of Apple Watch SE – the first review I can trust.
Link. He likes it well enough but lots of flakiness. Confirmed my decision not to buy.
When America pushed back against the the Thiels, the Musks, and the Murdochs.
Link. Democracy worked that time. Imperfect but better than the alternative.
Special needs weight and fitness training.
Link. This is a great mission and org. Joined it with one of my guys but wasn’t for him at the time.
“Care Courts, would be to create a new branch within the civil court system where those suffering from the most severe mental illnesses could be brought before a judge”
Link. Addressing homelessness.
“Reporters like politics. Most readers care about governance.”
Link. This.
Using a Synology NAS.
Link. Retro. Great advice still.
Explainer: Thunderbolt
Link. It’s not as fast as it says it is.
Tucker Carlson: “Inside the network, he answers solely to the Murdochs themselves”
Link. Tucker says what Lachlan and Rupert believe. They are both white nationalists and they both want rich white men to rule instead of a messy democracy.
“Many of Beijing’s residents have a measure of disdain for Shanghai”
Link. Decadent. Beijing will support Xi.
Crypto scam fuel hate movement.
Link. Sadly they got into the scheme at the right time.
“most things we could and should be doing for Americans in need — like extending the expanded child tax credit — can’t be done in the face of 50 Republican senators, plus Joe Manchin”
Link. College debt relief is only on table because of Manchin.
“Although the Late Devonian was a dangerous time to be prey, it was also a place of mental peace — a time before self-awareness and embarrassment.”
Link.
“Nabiullina “understands very well she can’t just leave. Otherwise, it will end very badly for her,” one of these people said.”
Link. Putin regime starts to crack. No mention of recent “suicides” but doubt they are forgotten.
103 Bits of Advice — from age 70.
Link. Most advice is by people too young to know.
“central role of CEMIP in OA synovial membrane development and underscored that targeting CEMIP could be a new therapeutic approach”
Link. We have no clue why some people get “osteoarthritis” early and some get so little.
“PFAS exposure can contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease”
Link. Lots wonder why so much fatty liver now.
“In the 1850s, 1890s, 1920s, and then again in the modern era, wealthy people had come around to the idea that society worked best if a few wealthy men ran everything.”
Link. Rupert. Donald. Elon. Larry (Ellison). Not sure about Bezos or Gates.
“job prospects for recent college graduates began to weaken around 2005, then suffered a significant blow during the Great Recession and had not fully recovered a decade later.”
Link. Working for $16/hr and healthcare.
The new weight loss pills: “incretins, which are naturally occurring hormones that slow stomach emptying, regulate insulin and decrease appetite.”
Link. Bariatric surgery will fade away — when price falls. Maybe 5-8 years.
Apple … “made a terrible design choice with the Studio Display”
Link. Too clever.
“Carlson … will speak this summer at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit, a gathering traditionally used to launch presidential campaigns.”
Link. After Trump anyone can be president.
“most soul-sucking April of the last 10 years was back in 2013, when the mercury never once hit 60º and it was legitimately cold for half the month.”
Link. April is getting worse.
“for predicting some dog behaviors, breed is essentially useless, and for most, not very good”
Link. Novelty response, anxiety, don’t travel with breed. “One thing pit bulls did score high on was human sociability”
“officers were 12% more likely to stop a car occupied by a person of color during the day”
Link. A clever way to differentiate racism from differential arrest rates not necessarily directly related to racism.
Bike Helmet Ratings by Virginia Tech
Link. How have I not seen this before?!
A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan.
Link. Beautiful.
iOS “Autocorrect draws on four sources”
Link. Make a typo 3 times and it’s memorized. Text Replacement can enhance autocorrect.
“Twitter’s ex-CEO Dick Costolo seemed to respond obliquely to Musk, writing “Bullying is not leadership.”
Link. World’s biggest asshole.
“One thing makes it easier for Musk to walk away before any of this becomes a problem: The market partly anticipates it already.”
Link. The Atlantic, WaPo, and NYT should take Twitter private each with 1/3 ownership.
Learning a city by walking.
Link. I’m a cyclist but I agree with his take.
“action is equivalent to a 5-foot-10 human leaping a third of a mile from their partner after sex”
Link. Beats being dinner.
“people who met the minimal duration of exercise recommended by many public health organizations—about the equivalent of two-and-a-half hours of brisk walking per week—had a 25% lower risk of depression”
Link. VHA should pay for gym memberships.
“Journalists at Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a state-owned newspaper, had invented the quote on the grounds that Russian intelligence was able to read Ms. Albright’s mind.”
Link. Remember all those Soviet ESP studies? Big in the 70s. Also, Pussy Riot pushed Putin’s buttons.
“while the duration of the second doesn’t change, the duration of a minute occasionally does”
Link. Great time primer. Optical clocks: “A clock just one centimeter higher than another ran faster.”
“The gammacoronaviruses and deltacoronaviruses, meanwhile, derive from ancestors in pigs and bird species, although there’s one of them that shows up infecting beluga whales, of all things.”
Link. Whales.
Bike Touring 1896.
Link. “There was a time when many a hotel had a regulation that no one in a bicycle costume was permitted to enter the dining room, but such inns are fast getting behind the times.”
America: “little effort so far at think tanks, professional military institutions and universities to build and contemplate the dire scenarios that have become increasingly plausible”
Link. Universities seem stunned.