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Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world) archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. i watched american teens tweet The Rape of Nanjing book was a KMT psyop glittering in the dark during TannhauserGate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Brilliant, baller move by Dr. Bagdasarian.

Trump is a performative clown; a dangerous performative clown. 😳👇

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Can't overstate how strange and tense this ACIP meeting has been. (Dr. Jason Goldman, President of the American College of Physicians. Medical organizations were booted from ACIP workgroups in August. Kennedy says these doctors are "biased.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ch...

I know a lot of folks who’ve jumped out of perfectly good airplanes while wearing parachutes. Some of them sustained injuries that nag them in their old age. This has never been reported in people who jumped without chutes, so CHECKMATE!

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Every time these "ACIP members" say anything within the domain of immunology I want to scream. I have yet to hear them correctly explain any aspect of the human immune system.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Senate hearing today, Dr. Monarez testified: Kennedy directed her to commit to approving every recommendation "regardless of the scientific evidence" and also directed her to "dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy, w/o cause" "He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign"

Don’t forget to vote, Minnesotans! Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.

jesus christ

Did you find Anwar Al-Awlaki to be interesting? What context are we missing from Al-Awlaki in your opinion. Be our guest and enlighten us about how Al-Awlaki was misquoted and unfairly maligned. Kirk and Al-Awlaki were both prominent far right Abrahamic Americans who espoused vile bigotry.

I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise. (My solution, despite years of good evals, was to have other faculty observe my class and give me feedback, even when I was senior and tenured.) by @rosehorowitch.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

One really telling thing is that pieces like this reference Kirk’s own words while the ones lionizing him use the words of his admirers.

I love my job as a professor, but increasingly it feels like being a lottery winner in the academic hunger games. The best advice for most people thinking about a PhD is: don't. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Newsom just openly inviting MORE collaboration with fascists. This isn't rhetoric to cool the room, or attempt to prevent an immediate backlash of violence to marginalized people. He'll throw anyone under the bus to be president.

honestly probably the strongest argument for the postmaterialist voter thesis

Populism is a hell of a drug

Arthur Miller had some thoughts on this.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.

At every single second, they worked their hardest to destroy trust, to foment doubt & anger & resentment, to *prevent* solidarity. And those lies mattered. The vaccine skepticism deliberately spread by the right led to 100s of 1000s of preventable deaths. Again: *they caused mass death*.

Thanks for the great review of #ScienceUnderSiege (due out 9/9 in U.S. and Australia, 10/9 in UK), @brianmchugh.bsky.social! climatewithbrian.com/2025/09/01/r...

“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.” -almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

New exciting paper from the team! Horizontal gene transfer from host to cancer discovered in CTVT, a transmissible cancer lineage that has been spreading in dogs for thousands of years 🧬

I'm on Substack Live with @thewarningses.bsky.social this morning at 10 am ET to discuss the decline & fall of public health in America & the future of vaccines (warning: it is bleak). Join on Substack or I’ll post a link later Proud to stand for public health w/ the @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social

Noting here: the windows in Dr. Daskalakis' office were pierced by bullets in the shooting earlier this month.

A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”

It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all

Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.

#CDC Leadership in free fall after multiple resignations Dr. Debra Houry, CDC's chief medical officer Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Director National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Dr. Daniel Jernigan, Director National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

The administration isn’t just taking vaccines away. They aren’t responding to outbreaks. They are not preventing disease. They are enabling it. Essential reading from @amymaxmen.bsky.social. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I keep telling leftists we should be using modern CCP housing policy.

nobody's afraid of the subway. they're afraid of having to witness poverty and having to share a physical space with people of color/queer people/teenagers etc. they don't like being uncomfortable and the thing that makes them most uncomfortable is *us*

"Soft secession" "Uncooperative federalism" This is good.

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.

Soviet spaceflight navigation computers were so cool. This is the Globus INK. Analog orbital gear is peak humanity.

I’m still really angry about this. The 3 MAGA/MAHA dudes—RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary—announced their closed-door decision on a video on X