Ohhh. Well now… Maybe it's a long Covid, and maybe it's not… But I'm going to have to look that up…!

I LOVE looking things up… So… Thank you! :-)

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Nevertheless, despite six years of this affliction, I don't think I would mix up Linus Pauling and Paul Ehrlich… not least because only one of them was married to Anne Ehrlich... but also because I've read books by both of them, and heard both of them speak.

So true. But it does make it difficult to remember names…

… And possibly to figure out the relevance of tangential comments…

… possibly leading one to be a-Paul'd…?

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.

This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.

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Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification Contact Congress today!

Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

100 years of average January-November temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

One of the things I actually loved about the period of Covid public health safety restrictions… Is how many people, without solicitation, said they preferred society during that time, and hoped that it would be a "launching pad" for beneficial revisions to economic and societal systems.

The Bright Side: Paris region unveils first urban cable car linking isolated suburbs Gondolas floated above the southeastern suburbs of Paris on Saturday as officials inaugurated the first urban cable car in the French capital’s region, a project aimed at cutting travel times and impr...

A story in two parts.
Part 1. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

I'm old enough to remember when they started playing commercials before trailers in theaters. People older than me were offended by it, I didn't think it was a big deal, but I should have listened. We should have held the line. I should have listened.

This Stellantis Brand Is Quietly Preparing Its Most Radical Steering Wheel Yet for Production | Carscoops The Hypersquare steering wheel and steer-by-wire technology are headed for a production car soon, as Peugeot begins early prototype testing

Finally, what we've all been asking for at long last is here: a steering wheel designed by someone who is not a human being, and has never driven a car.

www.carscoops.com/2025/12/this...

Long Covid is hard on name recognition…?

RELEASE THE DAMN EPSTEIN FILES UNREDACTED!

NOW!

US peeps: program the congress switchboard into your phone: (202)224-3121. Congress is failing us; rather than write them off, we must demand more. FFS, we pay their salaries, they should represent us! Call daily, recruit friends. This week’s topic: STOP bowing to the NRA & pass serious gun control

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

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Chris Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Chris Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects —…

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]

Chris Grinter manages one of the world’s major insect collections at the California Academy of Sciences, helping lead CalATBI’s effort to document every species in California before they vanish.

Almost without exception, billionaires start out with two traits:

Start up money

Immoral ruthlessness.

Almost without exception, billionaires start out with two traits:

Start up money

Immoral ruthlessness.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein induces microglia senescence-mediated cognitive impairment via Glycolysis - Molecular Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a surge in neurocognitive dysfunction, with long-term implications for global health systems and socioeconomic stability. Despite growing clinical recognition of...

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠

For those who are concerned about their Noggin's 🔥☠️

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Part 2

www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/15...

Some big water agencies in farming areas get water for free. Critics say that needs to end The federal government is providing water to some large agricultural districts for free. In a new study, researchers urge the Trump administration to start charging more for water.

The federal government provides water to some large agricultural districts at little or no charge. In a new study, researchers argue the government should end this “free or nearly free water.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Lawless, criminal behavior

My mask stays on from the jetway until we hit cruising altitude. I might take it off for a short time in flight to eat or drink. This helps prevent dry airplane air nose bleeds, too

Cognitive effects Multiple systematic reviews and meta-analyses have concluded that the available evidence does not support an association between statin use and cognitive decline.[77][78][79][80][81] A 2010 meta-review of medical trials involving over 65,000 people concluded that Statins decreased the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and even improved cognitive impairment in some cases.[29][needs update] Additionally, both the Patient-Centered Research into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research (PROSPER) study[82] and the Health Protection Study (HPS) demonstrated that simvastatin and pravastatin did not affect cognition for patients with risk factors for, or a history of, vascular diseases.[41] There are reports of reversible cognitive impairment with statins.[83] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) package insert on statins includes a warning about the potential for non-serious and reversible cognitive side effects with the medication (memory loss, confusion).[84]

I was trying to explain to my brother that statins don't carry a risk of cognitive side effects, when he (correctly) pointed out that there was a box label suggesting that they do.

What's the backstory here? Why do they have that warning?

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed? Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?: Despite billions in investment and backing from the federal government, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say Get our bre...

Carbon capture was spruiked as a way of limiting our emissions – but has Australia been greenwashed?: Despite billions in investment and backing from the federal government, carbon capture and storage technology ‘should be in no way treated as a climate solution’, critics say Get our bre...

Does wearing a face mask stop you catching flu? Experts give verdict Wearing a mask is inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as lockdowns

A tonne of mask articles out on UK media this morning.

Must be bad there.

And likely reflects North Americas near future.

This is the best mask article in the bunch. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...