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A lifters guide to Cholesterol: Myths & Misconceptions.
Link. It can be very hard to get CrossFitters and lifters to start statins. You can hit them over the head with this dense article.
“COVID-19, rhinovirus, adenovirus and pneumonia to his initial diagnosis of asthma”
Link. Relatively new multi-virus panels have changed how we understand infection. The 3yo is improving on a vent.
“Omicron has appreciably compromised the ability of two doses of vaccine to slow transmission. But that third dose ratchets it back up there. In other words, the booster shots work to significantly reduce the chances of being infected by Omicron!”
Link. No doubt about huge benefits for hospitalization and death, but good to see reduced transmission too.
“Democrats operate on the basis of reasonably factual premises and usually accept the authority of science, law and history, while Republicans uninhibitedly push whatever’s most convenient for their goals and incendiary for their base.”
Link. Radically different.
A DeFi crash course for normies: Crypto markets since 2017.
Link. Obligatory read. Sigh.
“S. economy apparently can’t sustainably produce as much as we expected.”
Link. Great retirement v
“browser plugin that blocks people who use Twitter’s NFT integration.”
Link. Thank you.
“browser plugin that blocks people who use Twitter’s NFT integration.”
Link. Thank you.
“Trump campaign was behind the effort to create the fake electoral slates”
Link. Giuliani.
Free course: “Differential Equations in 10 Hours or Fewer with the Wolfram Language”
Link. Kids these days.
“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”
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“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”
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Monterey memory leak: “rapid gusher in the Finder’s Find command”
Link. Come on Apple. Fix this.
Google will end our free Google Apps, must pay by May 1.
Link. “Google will suspend your automatic Workspace subscription/accounts if you do not enter billing details before July 1, 2022.” I don’t THINK I received emails on this, but maybe I deleted them. Wow. What a friggin mess for us.
*Hey, whatever happened to Opera?”, you now have your answer: cryptocurrency grift.”
Link. What’s wrong with a clean death?
1Password: “Unless they’re factoring the value of the individual passwords, $6B makes no fucking sense.”
Link. I want Apple to do a better job at replacing them.
Add your COVID-19 vaccine to Apple Health and Wallet.
Link. Some health systems will get data into Health, but don’t support Wallet QR code.
Google Scholar Library adds read later.
Link. Scholar is last remnant of Google before the fall.
“Take a good look at the Universe around us. It will never be this rich — or this easy to access — ever again.”
Link. See, you are not alone. The universe is also dying.
“emergence of our species—Homo sapiens—between 350,000 and 200,000 years ago,”
Link. But 50kya something dramatic changed.
Base Rate Fallacy: why “vaccinated” may get more “infections”.
Link. Who gets PCR tests and who gets exposed.
Discovering Paxlovid: “hands-down all-time champion example of accelerated drug development”
Link. How medicinal chemists work.
“Detainees at an Arkansas jail who had Covid-19 were unknowingly treated by the detention center’s doctor with ivermectin.”
Link. American prisons are so bad.
America’s surge in violence: “the short-term solutions around high violence are mainly punitive”
Link. More policing. A frank article.
What does Safe Mode do to an M1 Mac?
Link. Not fsck. “the next reboot skips validation of the SSV.” Bug?
“The notion that Russia might actually invade Ukraine is frankly ridiculous.”
Link. Bold statement.
Omicron: “amount of viral RNA is highest three to six days after diagnosis or symptom onset.”
Link. I was very positive on day 5, less so day 7. Isolation value may become impractical.
The Industrialization of Space: “39 other companies in eleven different countries whose vehicles are scheduled to make their maiden flights this year.”
Link. Suddenly everything.
“The Party’s promise to overtake the US economy and make China the world’s dominant power will probably never come to pass.”
Link. Why have Xi’s peers allowed another Mao? Fear of the whirlwind.
“Impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, decreased oligodendrocytes and myelin loss in subcortical white matter were evident at 1 week, and persisted until at least 7 weeks, following mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice.”
Link. Charming.
“assess their priors and make Bayesian inferences, thereby ensuring they overcome their innate psychological biases—simple stuff, but important nonetheless,” said CDC director Rochelle Walensky”
Link. Onion.
Shame of pharma CEOs (and many others)
Link. Lowe unloads. He often defends pharma (correctly) but not on this.
NATO “defense of the democratic institutions of member states, not just their territory.”
Link. Responding to Putin’s GOP.
Musk is worse than an asshole and a bully.
Link. Thug.
iPhone 13 models don’t support Noise Cancellation.
Link. Hardware bug Apple decided not to address?
“Stasi’s files were opened to the public, and anyone could apply to see if their nearest and dearest had been passing along information. Many decided not to”
Link. Choosing ignorance – the good and the bad.
mRNA win has legions of parents.
Link. No way to be fair given Nobel rules.
Riemann Hypothesis, Explained.
Link. Sometimes YouTube is worth it.