Ecological vaccination: A strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats
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Ecological vaccination: A strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world … [gets] destroyed.”—Hannah Arendt, Lying in Politics (1971)
Kate Jarvik Birch (American Artist, born 1977)
"Time for Breakfast", 2024.
Gouache on Paper, 6 × 6 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
A black-and-white montage portrait of pioneering American virologist Charlotte Friend (1921–1987), who discovered the Friend leukemia virus and advanced understanding of retroviruses and cancer. The main image shows her in her laboratory, seated at a compound microscope in a research setting lined with shelves of scientific books and journals. She is a middle-aged woman with short, neatly styled dark hair, wearing round-framed eyeglasses, a pearl necklace, and a white lab coat over a patterned blouse with a floral collar. She smiles warmly and confidently at the camera, one hand resting near the microscope's stage, conveying dedication, intelligence, and approachability. In the lower right corner is a smaller inset close-up portrait of a younger Charlotte Friend, smiling brightly with softer features, short wavy hair, and a simple white blouse, highlighting her earlier career. The composition blends her professional lab environment with a personal archival photo, celebrating her groundbreaking contributions to virology, leukemia research, and women's roles in science during the mid-20th century. The overall mood is one of scholarly achievement, warmth, and historical significance.
Virologist Charlotte Friend (b. #OTD in 1921) proved viruses could cause cancer (1957) & revolutionized virology (& helped define modern retrovirology).
She later pioneered differentiation therapy, showing cancer cells could be "reverted" to health, defining a new path to treat cancer. #WomenInSTEM
US petroleum reserves were actually being refilled at a slightly lower rate by Trump than by Biden
"Trump promised to fill America’s oil reserves ‘right to the top.’ A year later, oil has exceeded $100 and they’re still less than 60% full" (Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/03/09/u...
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
RSV vaccines are recommended as a one-time dose for all adults 75 and older, and for adults 50–74 with increased risk for severe disease (e.g., chronic heart/lung disease, nursing home residents).
A “living drug” was developed as a cancer treatment. Now it is showing promise for conditions, such as lupus and multiple sclerosis, that have long been considered incurable. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
The IRIS Dena, a prized destroyer in the Iranian Navy, had participated in an international naval exercise in India last month. The ship had been making its way back toward Iran from Visakhapatnam, a city in India where the joint exercise ended on Feb. 25. The United States was among the many participants in the drills.
so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...
Iran “has the industrial capacity to produce around 10,000 [drones] per month ..
“.. ‘all Iran has to do is show they can hit a few tankers and concern will take care of the rest, folks just won’t go through,’ McNally said.”
@reuters.com
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A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Via a friend in the know: gpsjam.org A free site with data from airline pilots showing where GPS jamming (a good sign of other types of electronic warfare as well) is occurring in semi-real time.
I have been adamant about this since I was little:
Say no to cloud OSes. They take away your computer's internal power and hand it to a corporation that has no interest in you.
so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries
This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.
defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...
A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"
I agree
Tommi Nordgren (Finnish, born 1974)
The Journey Home, 2014
Oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#catlover
U.S. will owe an additional $700 million in interest each month it delays paying tariff refunds 🚨🚨
Protecting our children from Linux
Conflict escalation causes people to do all sorts of terrible, hateful things that they would ordinarily not consider doing (including, at the extreme, genocidal violence and, potentially, nuclear war).
www.beyondintractability.org/essay/escala...
From my essay, "The plan is to have no plan." May 2020. pressthink.org/2020/05/the-...
In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt’s famous Mississippi bear hunt sparked the creation of the first “teddy bear,” after he refused to shoot an injured black bear, inspiring a wave of animal‑themed compassion and a cultural icon that endures today. #AnimalsHistory
🧵 "The CIA planned to fuel a war between Iran and Iraq to ensure neither Hussein nor Ayatollah Khomeini could gain control of the Strait of Hormuz while keeping the Soviet navy out as protector of the Gulf. But the hostage crisis had added a wrinkle to their plans." 🚩
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Oil surges and Japan stocks plunge on Iran crisis-NA
According to Reuters, just 27% of U.S. adults support the American campaign in Iran, with most expressing opposition or uncertainty.
The 1979 oil crisis, the second major energy shock of the decade, was triggered by the Iranian Revolution, which led to a 7% drop in world oil production by January 1979. #FUCKTRUMP