New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15K for an individual and $31K for a family; those are much higher than current Obamacare plans. The individual deductible would be eight times the average for someone with job-based insurance.” 😶

Finally. But why did it take so long? 🤬 What a terrible message to the women who work at this network and the remaining few who watch it.

Central Park Olympic Snow Day

My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects." wapo.st/4qjFtWk

Big city living. 43 days till the spring equinox and magnolia season’s start in Central Park.

Pretty much how every New Yorker is feeling about this unrelenting winter! Our resident Great Blue Heron dreaming of spring in the Central Park Loch. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

There is no bravery in CBS keeping a deeply problematic wellness guru, as Abrams disappointingly (or ludicrously) suggests. There is no defense. Instead, as Gretchen Carlson states below, it would be far better we advocate for women who’ve been impacted for speaking up in broadcast and beyond.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Every Groundhog’s Day I think of my HS physics teacher who awarded bonus points to anyone who could spell Punxsutawney. And anyone who promised to pursue an engineering career.

The hundreds of reader comments are harrowing. “Insurers, facing rising health care costs and worries that healthier customers would drop coverage in the face of declining subsidies, also increased their prices by more than 25%.”

Rabbit, Rabbit! 🐇 🐇

“I have spent my professional life studying what makes people live healthier and longer. I have analyzed data sets on longevity the world over…But nothing I have read in the scientific literature explains longevity better than the lives of my incorrigibly social parents, Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel”

So much for that. 😶 “Local TV and Broadcast News Among Most Trusted Sources for Health Information.” www.kff.org/covid-19/pol...

"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community" A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation "We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“By hiring Mark Hyman, CBS News will be misinforming its large audience on the subject of health. Hyman is the face of functional medicine, a pipeline that moves disenchanted healthcare providers away from evidence-based care and into the arms of a very lucrative wellness industry.” 😖

Maybe it’s time for the biotech chapter of Billions:

I was dreaming about Acela baristas but I guess this will have to do:

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

“As social media does its work putting bits and pieces together about each day of unfolding tragedy, more and more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know.”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Hoping for another January snow day.

“Living with a chronic illness, there have always been limitations to understand, boundaries in which I had to operate…And then, after many years of figuring this out, the boundaries changed again.I was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder.”

Central Park: Winter Wonderland.

Peak 🛷 in Central Park.

“Even by the navel-gazing standards of media reporting — a subgenre of journalism that, unsurprisingly, is keenly followed by other journalists — this is snake-eating-its-own-tail stuff”

“On screens, I can cut and paste, disappear down digital rabbit holes. The typewriter showed me exactly when I wasn’t present. It was humbling. Useful. It made me a better writer — or at least one who is more honest about how often my mind leaves the room.”

Central Park: A snowy day on the edit bench.

Falling for an unexpectedly snowy New York.

When will we be past interview promos like this? “on being a female leader in biotech today” 😑

👑👑👑 = the best traffic congestion on the island of Manhattan

The line in this courageous essay about her child not remembering her broke my heart. I hope she knows what an impact it had on so many people.

“There was so much money that the sector got overbuilt,” said Alexis Borisy, founder of Boston-based Curie.Bio, a biotech venture firm that has raised more than $1 B for early-stage biotechs. “If there was a good idea, there’d be 10 companies all built at the same time to go do it.”

Wish Amtrak would scrub the schmutzy train windows so passengers could take better pictures along the Hudson.

“You may think, as I do, that our society fails to guarantee everyone the level of medical care they should receive.”

Central Park ❄️ wonderland.

New Yorker pre-holiday party dinner plans.

“People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don’t see themselves as storytellers. It’s all the people who are not storytellers who…suddenly now want to be storytellers.”

Midtown Merry. The island of Manhattan holiday light show.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

As with Shakespeare, I always found myself coming out of a Stoppard play feeling more intelligent than when I went in.

“Nuzzi shows no awareness of Kennedy’s role in cracking consensus reality apart through his anti-vaccine conspiracy mongering. She’s fond of portentous factoids, so here’s one: Last week, Kentucky announced the third infant death from pertussis, or whooping cough.”

I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.

“The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to ‘gold standard, evidence-based science’ —a piece of doublespeak so thick that it might unsettle Orwell.”

“I went into a room with dark suits and men with gray hair,” she said. “And I sat down and somebody came and told me that these were seats for the doctors, and the drug reps needed to go to the back of the room.” “Oh, I’m sorry, I’m a doctor,” she said she told them. “I’m one of the surgeons.” 😶

>10% of US heart & lung surgeons are women: Dr. Kharazi recalled how she once told a male surgeon that she planned to ask for operating privileges at his hospital in order to expand her practice. “And he told me, ‘Well, it’s generally not a good idea to go where you’re not invited.’”

Hudson River Run.