News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May.
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“Tourism boycotts do come up over one issue or another, but in my 37 years in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off,” Amir Eylon, President and CEO of Longwoods International, told Forbes. “This is one that’s being felt and it’s not going away quickly.”
Just in time for Jayanta's Scientific Freedom Lecture Series at NIH featuring a lab-leak proponent, more evidence against the lab-leak hypothesis.
"investigators could find no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was shaped by selection in a laboratory"
what an incredible thing @wtevs.bsky.social has going with Basketball Feelings
Yesterday I spent more time helping patients figure out how to pay for their medications than discussing their actual medical concerns. This is how the souls of physicians die. Not all at once, but one paper cut at a time.
#medsky
Fuck off DJT. 🇨🇦 is & will continue to be a sovereign nation. Full stop.
It is entirely okay to acknowledge that war and trauma in our world affect our wellbeing at work.
Pretending these realities do not touch people’s lives can feel invalidating, disconnected, and tone deaf.
We do not need to have all the answers to make space for humanity.
Back to banning books.
Those afraid of libraries are the ones who should be using them.
“It's the most significant order banning books in the history of Canada. There's never been anything like this.”
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This is such a critical point, and it’s something I’ve tried to highlight in my reporting.
The right-wing groups and operatives who politicized COVID have also been pushing anti-trans shit. Moms for Liberty is a classic example.
It’s helped create new GOP voters/activists.
Women's History Every Day
DR. ALICE HAMILTON
1869–1970
- Mother of Occupational Medicine
- Early proponent of public health
- Described lead toxicity
"Yes, I am the first woman on the Harvard faculty—but not the first one who should have been appointed!"
Normally when someone is this deluded, you'd ask them to name the president to see how far they're really gone
But in addition, this sort of sub-study is a giant waste of time and the fact that it got into Nature Medicine by showing some barely-significant p-values and a Cohen's d of 0.03 is a sign of just how meaningless getting into Nature Medicine really is.
Yes!! Sign this. Long overdue. Thanks @brucefanjoy.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
Currently at UNHQ:
UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous:
“There are not many wars [in recent history] that were started by women, but it’s women and girls who suffered as a result and had to show resilience. It is women who are last to really recover.”
today is the three-year anniversary of the covid infection that turned into long covid. it has completely rewritten the course of my life. it has brought me untold levels of physical suffering. it has devastated my mental health.
and i am one of the lucky ones! my long covid is comparatively mild, i had a financial buffer (now dwindled), i have access to healthcare, i have found a few drugs that have improved my functionality, i have so many privileges that others do not. and yet. i am miserable, limited, furious.
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OMG. I think he grabbed a Sharpie by accident instead of his brow pencil….
This is 9 yrs old and still not old. Remarkably and sadly true.
Don’t people get that kids should be supported to express themselves however they want to regardless of the binary ideology that some of the adults try to enforce? Most of the teens I see are happy doing what they want and they don’t care if “boys” wear nail polish or “girls” wear flannel shirts.
“Some scientists are saying that you can take bleach and inject it right into the economy. You can also hit it with a tremendous ultraviolet or very powerful light. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Being devoutly Catholic in my early 20s and living through the church hiding and covering the crimes of numerous priests. This made me leave the formal church and then I reassessed all of my beliefs when living in Boston in 2002 (See “Spotlight”) Reset completely to happily agnostic ever since.
This is the story, ICYMI.
Frankly, I see this as an opportunity for the Cabinet to fuck w Trump. Tell him the shoes must have some kind of innate powers, because they make people’s feet shrink/grow so that they don’t fit. Or, everyone show up barefoot & say the shoes all disappeared at once.
That’s what you get for bowing to a totalitarian. I hope they get blisters.
While women's job gains were 3x the rate of men in 2025, it has not translated into greater pay. Occupational segregation: women disproportionately hold the lowest-paying jobs and are driven to those careers and out of male-dominated careers and then are paid less. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/k...
If Ontario has money to build Ford Island then we have money to provide non-verbal students who elope with 1:1 Educational Assistant support to keep them safe.
#OntEd
The Night Watcher
Matthew Wong
2018
