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A great video for the start of the school year, from one of my favorite NPs! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sUYQHE/
#health #school #flu
#NYTconnections The second syllable of each of my first four choices - Showboat, Friendship, Witchcraft, Hunky-dory - referred to forms of transportation on water. 🙄
Sometimes being uprooted lets you grow something bigger. 🌱
On April 1st, the three of us were laid off from our dream jobs as science communicators for the federal government.
But science communication is still alive and thriving. It’s just growing underground.
Follow us for more updates to come!
The big Two-Five-Oh for the midnight ride of Paul Revere!
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"There’s a lot out there to leak... But in almost all cases, your safety and physical and mental health should come first..."
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A weekend hackathon in Amsterdam aimed at finding fast-and-cheap battlefield solutions for Ukraine drew more than 100 young programmers and engineers, with many saying Europe's rearmament plans were prompting them to consider careers in defense reut.rs/41TAEKo
Write a poem in iambic pentameter about an incidental appendectomy during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy Upon the table, draped in sterile white, She sleeps beneath the glow of silvered light. The surgeon's hands, precise, with skill refined, Prepare to free the gallstone's cruel bind. With scope in hand, through ports so deftly placed, He peers within, where bile has turned disgraced. Yet lo! A sight unplanned now meets his gaze-An appendix ripe, inflamed in silent blaze. No cry of pain foretold its grim decay, No symptom spoke, yet there it doomed to stay. A moment's pause-a choice now must be made, To leave or cut, let chance or skill persuade. With steady hands, he takes the fated thread, A simple snip; the threat of harm is shed. Two foes removed, though one was not foreseen, And she will wake, unknowing what has been. So fate unfolds beneath the scalpel's art, Where chance and skill play each a fleeting part.
ChatGPT has its uses
What could possibly go wrong? (Asking as the spouse of a computer science geek.)
Incredibly NOT The Onion: The “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education & research centers, and the National Zoo www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...
#MedSky
#Science
The March 18th issue of #Reuters Health Rounds newsletter reported the results. Scroll down to the second item, "Shorter-course radiation safe in prostate cancer."
An experimental birth control pill for men works by interfering with vitamin A signaling necessary for sperm production. Fertility returns when treatment stops. (From Reuters Health Rounds newsletter - subscribe for free: reut.rs/3Jjw7rN.)
#MedSky
"Over the weekend, agents of the government entered a legal resident’s home without a warrant and arrested him, and then flew him a thousand miles away without notifying his family or lawyers about his whereabouts for a day. If you read about it in any other country, you would know what to call it."
The administration has cut off funds to pro-democracy media outlets in places such as Cuba, Iran and Ukraine, and it is cutting off the editorial independence of Voice of America.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Why penalize all the Tesla owners who bought their electric car to benefit the environment?
A new documentary tells how a previous owner of a major newspaper reacted to pressure from a U.S. president.
With the Jewish holiday of Purim coming up, it's time to post my old list of gluten-free hamantaschen recipes.
From before I was full-time at Reuters: web.archive.org/web/20140412...
"The decision stands in contrast to Kennedy’s repeated promises to make HHS an agency whose processes and data are so accessible that public records requests would not even be necessary."
