EVIDENCE-based healthcare: why it's important to do research: Wong CX, et al. Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation: The DECAF Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. Published online November 09, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.21056 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Climate-fighting efforts have ‘barely moved the needle,’ UN report finds. www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

Rivara FP, Richmond TS, Hargarten S, et al. Toward a Safer World by 2040: The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms. JAMA. Published online November 03, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.18076 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

France's last North American territories at risk from sea-level changes. www.theguardian.com/environment/... Explain to these people that planetary warming is a hoax!

19,000 new COVID cases in October world-wide: probably an undercount, since surveillance has been "relaxed". www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Our little county in our Brave Little State steps up for its Jamaican migrant workers. www.addisonindependent.com/2025/11/06/f... Apple harvesters returned home to help with storm recovery. The orchard owners established a fund for relief. An extension of worker benefits started by my father-in-law!

Check it out: Sampri Aet al. Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: ... Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025;9(12):837-847. doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00247-0

"Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000." www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

A new global order? How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action www.nature.com/articles/d41... Wonder when the realization will hit that the rest of the world CAN and WILL do it without the USA?

The essential question from Charlie Hebdo: What will the Earth look like in 2100? charliehebdo.fr/2025/11/ecol... And, of course, what do we WANT it to look like?

"Accountability Court!" What do you do with repeat offenders who repeatedly ignore court orders? Our Brave Little State is starting an experimental program called Accountability Court to address these sort of criminals: www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2... Or else we can elect them, I guess.

Is there a “universal temperature curve” that affects how organisms respond to changes in temperature? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... These guys think so.

Desperately seeking E.T.: Enthusiasts project hopes onto Comet 3i-Atlas. charliehebdo.fr/2025/10/scie...

2025 Lancet report on Health and Climate Change. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Free download, registration required.

Bad, bad news: Coffee and deforestation. Nonprofit group maps coffee-driven deforestation in Brazil  www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

Changing biomass of mammals on Earth: 1860–2020: Changing proportions: much less biomass for wild critters, more for humans and their pets and livestock. media.springernature.com/full/springe...

Another hurricane/tornado/earthquake/wildfire...to stay or leave? When disaster makes your whole community relocate. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Amid a whooping cough outbreak, Louisiana officials waited to warn the public www.npr.org/transcripts/... Right! Because if there is no information, then there is no problem!

Even AI bots get “brain rot” when trained on social media site! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Marthe Gautier, 96, Dies; Had Key Role in Down Syndrome Breakthrough: "...[A] male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the cause of that genetic condition." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/h... Some people do all the hard work; other people get the credit?

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

Also from CUL Special Collections: Medieval Medicine. Dove feces, fox lungs, salted owl, eel grease...just a few of the examples of Medieval medicine in the special collections of Cambridge University. Read about it here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi... Being grateful for how far we have come!

Though we be but little, we are fierce! www.addisonindependent.com/2025/10/30/a... "Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark has filed 32 lawsuits against the Trump administration since the president’s inauguration in January. They share a common theme": the Constitution and laws of the country.

For years Roland has worked tirelessly to inform BBC listeners about societally-relevant science. This is exactly the WRONG time, BBC, to be letting him go! 😠

apnews.com/article/clim... EV production vs long-term use. Still much better than internal combustion engines.

Immigration Reform, Trump style. apnews.com/live/donald-...

National Academies on-line workshop. "explore how innovations in science, technology, and policy could be applied to better promote healthful foods and diets and "scientific basis of ...processing, additives, and sensory response, which often directly or indirectly impact everyday food choices."

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea... Looking at the "precipice" in the rearview mirror!

BBC's simple guide to climate change www.bbc.com/news/article...

message from northern neighbors? envisioned by Late Show with Stephen Colbert youtu.be/fGJzR5W7t7c

Hurricane Melissa: A case study in a changing "hurricane era"? www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Why is this hurricane unlike all the others?

The Brave Little State steps up to the plate (the DINNER plate): www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2... VT allocates funds to make up for loss of federal SNAP benefits for a short time (in the hopes that the feds will be able to re-assemble their fecal production).

Katy Tur: "When the weatherman takes the Lord's name in vain..." youtu.be/VmD-udH5w1w Here's a guy you gotta figure knows something about powerful storms.

and the inmates have taken over the asylum. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/h...

New overview: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Sullivan HK, Sinaiko AD, Fox K, Armstrong JC, Clapp MA, Cohen JL. Stillbirths in the United States. JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.17392 Probably going to be more important as states try to hold medical personnel "accountable" for fetal losses.

AI vs Live Human Diabetes Prevention Program. Similar results for both: about 32% success rate. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Faint praise: AI intervention is "non-inferior" to human-led program.

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." Is it time to retire or replace the Turing Test for artificial intelligence? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The headline is a little timid (IMHO), but the issues are real. Exploring the drawbacks of trusting some AI search results www.npr.org/transcripts/...

What does the US-UK AI deal mean for your data? aje.io/g72d7o

Did a South Korean study really claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer? (Hint: NO!!!!) aje.io/jyc4gl

Imagining life in a MUCH warmer world. Not a pretty picture. aje.io/38e23h

A review of the MAHA report: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "While the MAHA Commission’s goal of reducing chronic diseases is vital, its proposals are weak and unproven." "Focus on Marginal Issues Rather Than Key Risk Factors."

Just released: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Another thing to be concerned about? AI models are usually black boxes, but sometimes knowing HOW decisions are made is as (or more?) important than knowing what the decision is.

Another serious danger from climate change (cue Hurricane Melissa!). Threats from climate disasters to US facilities that produce our legal drugs! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Thanks to Louise Penny, we now know that Donald Trump is FINE (lesbonsmots.ca/louise-penny...).

Disinformation is very much a major issue in Canada, just like the United States cc @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Why doesn't the internet work? : It's Been a Minute www.npr.org/transcripts/...

CBC investigates quality of health information about cancer and autism on the Internet, www.cbc.ca/news/marketp... Guess what? They are full of errors and misinformation.

Want to stay healthy in the coming flu season? Watch out for germy kids. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...