Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Repost and call your radio station youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Rasmussen’s polio class is in session, along with an excellent review of the public health activities of Jesus. You’d think a Christian pediatric cardiologist wouldn’t be evil, but you’d be thinking wrong. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/jesus-woul...

Can I pause paying my taxes this year? I’m clearly not getting what I paid for. Do healthcare workers get an execution risk discount? www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Wasn’t sure if I was going to #SundayFishSketch today because I’m tired and angry, but this felt right

“All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump—3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”

🙂

1 in 25 people in Michigan are able to give you COVID today, assuming you didn’t give it to them last week.

The Grid and the Scam.

Great thread on the science of tear gas.

Not a fan of this sort of thing but I couldn’t resist.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... retweet the link: doi.org/10.1093/eurh...

I’m sure forms submitted here are ignored but maybe when the shit show is over this paper trail may be useful. I wonder if they have to keep them for awhile www.ice.gov/about-ice/opr

Fabulous! 😍

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

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We've gone through this before. We need to learn instead of letting history repeat itself.

This is tragic. I’m so glad to see Ob/cards posts on #cardiosky. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

Ugh

Yay Detroit!

Isostatic rebound from the end of the Ice Age will cause Lake Superior waters to rise by 9.2" and 4.8" per century at Duluth and Marquette, respectively, with falls of 11.4"/century at the NE end of the lake. A repeat of Duluth's costly Jun 21 storm (archive.is/G0eTK) will be costlier in the future.

Michigan is getting slammed with flu and covid right now. This is a good week to get vaccinated, these infections will be circulating for about as long as a fresh vaccine will provide decent immunity. Dust off your N95 if you are sharing air. Fire up your HEPA. Keep your sick snotty nose kid home.

It really shouldn’t be on patients to ask caregivers to wear a mask. Hospitals need to get serious about infection control and require a n95 when a worker is spitting distance from a patient. I love low CO2 in healthcare, that has improved. We can do better. You don’t need to get flu.

If I had any art skills I’d add a bowl of Michigan grown great northern white beans. Talk about job security for physicians! Between meningococcal meningitis and beef tallow clogged coronary arteries, emergency physicians are going to be busy.

A "bold move' ABC Australia? FFS. It's a kidnapping for a climate-killing liquid that has been dropping in price for years

A great organization!

3 studies: 1) January’s infernos in Los Angeles killed >440 once you factor in the smoke (official toll: 30). 2) Wildfire smoke kills 40,000 Americans a year, which could increase to 71,000 by 2050. 3) Canada’s wildfires in 2023 significantly worsened childhood asthma across the border in Vermont.

I’m not seeing a lot of press about Smith’s deposition. I read about 1/2 of it. Smith is competent. MAGA tried but comes out looking silly and dirty. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

‘We own it’: Community-owned grocery store opens in Flint, Mich., marking the end of a longtime food desert

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Excellent blog post on clean indoor air!

Ahhhh. I feel so much better.

I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.

Anyone interested in being the next polar bear biologist for Nunavut? Starting at $143,000/year including northern living allowance is not shabby though cost of living is truly insano up there. There is an opportunity for some work from home. www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/wild...

Yay!!! Great job Stevens.

I have a lot of respect for Dr Houry. Congress, not so much. time.com/7338714/dr-d....

NYT has a good opinion piece on the moral injury the felon is inflicting on us. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

I just tuned into acip meeting and am now hitting my head on the floor. Yeast antibodies in inflammatory bowel? Are they serious? www.ntd.com/live-now-cdc...

A preprint by real life experts (who should be on ACIP) that models how many kids will die as a result of RFK vaccine panel’s dumb plans. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today is World AIDS Day. “An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988. #WAD2025

Once again, Rasmussen’s wit shines.

I got my flu shot today. I’m hearing about flu b cases but nothing in Mi wastewater yet. I always wait until November since I want early spring coverage.

The music is interesting. I love that they are not capitulating. In fact, I’d say they are setting a great example.

Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams

Interesting slide deck from the guy who is on this week’s Volts. ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

One of the best Volts podcasts ever. www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-.... Except of course Roberts not appreciating the joy of a Corsi Rosenthal box. Yay ASHRAE 241!

1% increase in firearms associated with 8% higher gun homicide rate in pregnancy. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...