TBH I can’t think of the word “Ovaltine” without hearing it in Cloris Leachman’s voice

The two rows of squares are moving to the right at the same speed; however, the top row appears to be moving to the right, while the bottom one appears to be moving to the left. 上下の正方形の列は等速度で右に動いていますが、上の列は右に、下の列は左に動いているように見えます。

Happy 60th Birthday to Stephen Malkmus (Photo by Robbie Augspurger)

We need to talk about the anti-science movement open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.

Take Tylenol With me Baby

“You have an inalienable right to white-hot, unthinking resentment and fury. Anyone who challenges your fury with observable evidence from the real world is your enemy, and should be an additional target for rage.” The heart of MAGA, but more and more, the core belief across the political spectrum.

Coding element of a gene

Carl warned us

We already have created artificial entities that act in the world - corporations. Making sure these are aligned to our shared values is the first step towards ensuring their products will be.

Wishing a happy release day to Carolyn Enger, a thoughtful, skillful pianist adept at spinning new & recent works into programs expressing themes of civic engagement and social concern. American Ethos, out today on Métier, is her second album for which I've had the privilege of writing liner notes.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Pavement Superchunk The Magnetic Fields Belle & Sebastian Yo La Tengo American Analog Set The Mountain Goats Unrest Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

This is almost unspeakably lovely

heck yes

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

🚨 Embrace of health misinformation is killing conservatives. The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA www.nature.com/articles/s41... "...growing ideological divides in health behaviours are leaving conservative Americans increasingly vulnerable to preventable health risks."

Looks like a Calabi-Yau surface

I always thought Box Elder was in MO

Maybe it would look better if the rim was gold-plated

I felt this way on Friday after running afoul of Labcorp’s new AI-based search. After 10 minutes of fruitless searching I still don’t know if a spot urine sodium is available (let alone what the test order code is)….

This hit me so hard this week.

Well said 👉 "We are vulnerable to misinformation because of who we are, what we want, the society we live in, and the technologies we choose." A framework for understanding the complexity of #misinformation use: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

To trigger lightning, researchers fire a small rocket with a thin, grounded metal wire into a charged thundercloud. The wire initiates a lightning strike on command. www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-...

How health influencers online are misleading the public www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... Me: “I call it science-ploitation. They will talk about stem-cells, and the microbiome and precision medicine in order to sell products, even though there is no good evidence to support their claims.”

Scientists Rethink How Much Lifespan Is in Our Control www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... New study "found that lifespan is about 50% heritable." Key: Ya ain't gonna extreme diet, supplement, infra-red light your way to longevity. Ignore longevity influencer BS! Basic healthy lifestyle... enjoy.

🚨 Great piece debunking the idea of full-body MRIs. Bottom line: NO evidence of benefits and LOTS of possible harm (cost, anxiety, iatrogenic injury, overdiagnosis, etc.). Everyone thinking of paying ($$$) for this procedure should read the below paragraph...👇 See: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Modern technology could learn from older stuff that does what it's supposed to and doesn't bother you. My toilet just works and never sends me emails like "Good news! Flush® is now Floosh®"

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What did greasy Joan do with the pot?

Yup.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Happy Tuesday Dorchester

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Neato.

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

A towering delight—all floors.

I’m so excited by this!

"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."

The Metaverse.

This is amazing.

FALSE: "V02 max is the single greatest predictor of your lifespan."

Covid, 5 years on: "The mRNA vaccines prevented millions of deaths. [...] Masks worked. And as with every pandemic in recent history, subsequent reviews have found that the advice to go early and hard with containment was correct." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Breaking: The U.S. dispatches health insurance claim denial ship to Greenland.

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Un Américain de 23 ans a été tué en mars 2025 par un agent du département américain de la sécurité intérieure, dans un incident passé jusqu’ici inaperçu

On the huge randomized GRAIL trial Front page NYT today "The study’s goal was to show a 20 percent reduction in advanced cancers among those who got the test. That did not happen." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/h...