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...

THE LONGEVITY SCAM www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... "Patients arrive at my office convinced that the right peptides, cold plunges, or lab tests can meaningfully extend their lives. They’re almost certainly headed for disappointment—if not harm." Ignore hype. Focus on science-informed basics.

A key point: development is *constructive*. The full information about the final product is not contained in the genome. The developing organism accretes information as it builds itself.

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

And I thought I was the only one, or that there was a new resource hidden somewhere that I wasn't savvy enough to discover. When I moved to Boston in 1991 I relied on the Globe's Thursday pull-out culture section. Everything was there...

No more kings

No more kingd

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

First as tragedy, then as farce: Willis C. Hawley and Reed Smoot in 1929, right before the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (Wikipedia photo)

Yes, I had to try it myself...

Spring is springing, despite the freezing cold temp this morning!

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

Espace pour les jambes est une bien belle chose

Robert Reich is always right.

Poolside reading: an impressively violent story of revenge and retribution, narrated from the point of view of the various animals observing the humans in their acts of rage and folly

Warm sunny day # 2

Morning coffee in a warmer clime after a morning swim

I did it. It’s easy.

I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉

“Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have immortal longings in me tonight…” Happy 98th birthday to Leontyne Price! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrp...

Braving the storm (?) for Beethoven, Ravel & Stravinsky at Symphony Hall. Nathalie Stutzmann conducting; Veronika Eberle debuts in the Beethoven violin voncerto (with the wonderful Jörg Widmann cadenzas)

Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government. Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it. But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics. None of this is about waste and fraud.

I shouldn’t laugh at this but I somehow needed to.

Out now from @pentatonemusic.bsky.social : "Don't Look Down" with Sandbox Percussion - a piece for piano and percussion quartet blending bike pumps, beer bottles, prepared piano and drums with traditional instruments. Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL... Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...

Things in the sink.

Dog park pals

He will always be THE Doctor to me

I stayed in and made cream of potato and leek soup.

my brain: hey walk into the kitchen me: ok now what my brain: idk lol

i feel borderline cringey referring to it so often but it genuinely just pops into my head as relevant to some new horror every week

En ce 10 janvier, je souhaite une bonne fête à tous les Guillaume qui viendraient à lire ce message.

Covid symptoms.

Can somebody get the Kids Write Jokes account over here? We'll be all set then.