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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Amazon has reached out to The Western Edge with an additional statement. The company acknowledged work continued after a 46-year-old man died at an Oregon distribution center on April 6. Amazon says staff were too focused on life-saving efforts to stop work across the building.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to continue publishing after sale to nonprofit media group Toledo, Ohio-based Block Communications Inc. is selling the Post-Gazette assets to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Banner.

This is a huge win for Pittsburgh. The Post-Gazette was set to shut down on May 3. www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2...

'It’s going to be huge': The 'diabolical' molecule poised to become biotech's next gold rush In the early 1960s, Norwegian physician Kåre Berg, M.D., was trying to identify new blood types when he accidentally discovered a lipoprotein with perplexing properties. | In the early 1960s, Norwegian physician Kåre Berg, M.D., was trying to identify new blood types when he accidentally discovered a lipoprotein with perplexing properties.

Lp(a) is a dastardly, many-headed monster of a molecule that remains shrouded in mystery and seems to do nothing of value in the human body. But this much we do know: if lowering it reduces cardiovascular risk the way data suggest, it could be medicine's next big thing 🧪💊 I loved writing this story!

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

I don't think "purple exists only in our brain" = "we can't see purple" but I'm not a physicist or an expert in scicomm for kids so I'll leave it at that 😊 Mainly just wanted to flag that the age of the intended audience is likely a big driver of the article's framing / style choices

AI model designs new treatment candidate for opioid addiction that cuts cravings in rats While the opioid epidemic is one of the most urgent public health emergencies facing the U.S., new therapeutic approaches for treating the underlying substance use disorder have lagged far behind. | W...

The number of emails I get about AI drug design is truly alarming, but this really stood out to me: scientists used a model to craft a potential new treatment for opioid use disorder, which successfully curbed cravings in addicted rats 💊🧪 my story:

Science News Explores is a publication for children aged 9 and up, and I think this is a fun way to introduce kids to the topic of color perception and the light spectrum. Plenty of time to fill in the details later in their education

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
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A Dept. of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica set new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cited no new science, instead relying on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Listen to former Navy fighter pilot Jack Gelman's story:

Scientists turn pig semen extract into eye drops that kill cancer in mice The human eye is like an immunological fortress, with its ability to exclude unwanted intruders a boon when preventing infection but a burden when trying to deliver vital medicines. | The human eye is...

Scientists have used pig semen--yes, that pig semen--to create eye drops that effectively reached the retina and killed cancer cells in mice with retinoblastoma. Stories like this truly remind us why life is worth living 🧪🐽 my latest:

FDA approves Denali Hunter syndrome drug, breaking streak of rare disease rejections The FDA has

Look at that, the FDA does know how to approve rare disease medicines! A huge win for the Hunter syndrome community here, who for too long have had no options for combatting the pernicious cognitive decline this disease causes in young children 🧪💊 my story:

Harmeet Dhillon tweet signing letter. She tried to cover the content of the letter with a cover page

Flipped and enhanced version of the letter indicating title VI investigation into Ohio state university school of medicine

Harmeet Dhillon, head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, posted a photo of herself signing a document.

The document indicates that she is launching a Title VI investigation into The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

NIH grant cuts hit women, early-career scientists the hardest: analysis Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disproportionately impacted women and early-career researchers, according to a | Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes...

A new analysis confirms what has long been suspected: grant cuts at NIH hit women and early-career researchers the hardest. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social told me, the findings here are unsurprising, but “documenting the damage from current policy is critical” 🧪

Four truths about covid that have become clouded over time In the early days, the virus posed a graver threat to people and the health care system, Trump embraced lockdowns he now blasts, and the benefits of vaccines were oversold.

Terrific piece by @fenitn.bsky.social about the rewriting of #Covid history. I would add this: A brand new virus meant health officials were making policy based on the info they had, not what we know now. Policy changes were evidence of learnings, not failures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

A teen girl's harrowing journey with measles highlights how serious the virus can be for the immunocompromised Makayla Skjerva, a North Dakota 14-year-old, contracted measles after being exposed at school in February. Makayla, who is immunocompromised, fell seriously ill.

This is why it’s important to have a very high measles vaccination rate within a community. This immunocompromised teenager, who was fully vaccinated, ended up on life support after getting measles. abcnews.com/Health/teen-...

black rabbit head mural

minaret above triangular wall with dead vines

witch i green with purple adornments, side of a food cart

electrical door with blue beige psychedelic design

McMenamins to me reads like if Narnia became an entertainment brand in an alt universe or the Masons merged with the original Willy Wonka movie. In a good way. Marvelously old school, eccentric.

Twin Peaks Lucy commission <3

Live Nation Slacks Reveal Employees Joking About ‘Stupid’ Fans A series of private exchanges in the messaging system Slack were revealed as exhibits in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the concert giant.

Ticketing employees at Live Nation called fans “so stupid” for paying inflated charges and boasted that they were “robbing them blind baby,” according to internal messages released in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against the concert giant that includes Ticketmaster.

83 POINTS!

Heat star Bam Adebayo has passed Kobe Bryant for the second-most points in a game in NBA history.

FDA approves leucovorin for ultrarare cerebral folate deficiency subset without clinical trial About five months after U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | About five months after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted leucovorin as “an exci...

After rejecting multiple rare disease therapies that had clinical data, the FDA has approved leucovorin for a super rare kinda-related-to-autism disorder with...no clinical trial whatsoever. In related news, up is now down and down is up

FDA’s Vinay Prasad to depart agency at the end of April Editor's Note: This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. | After a tumultuous tenure marked by recent clashes with the biopharma industry, Vinay Prasad, M.D., will be departing his po...

Yup he’s gone apparently for good this time www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fdas...

Remember when Rep. Greg Gianforte, now the GOP governor of the state, body slammed a reporter into a table?

We probably need to shut down the Montana Republican Party entirely until we can figure out where all this violent rage is coming from.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
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Ok more than sometimes hostile to but I'm trying to be diplomatic here