A California quail on an ocotillo branch.

A California quail on an ocotillo at Borrego Palm Canyon (Sicco Rood).

Aaliyahs Are You That Somebody? blasting out of an SUV in my NYC neighborhood. All I could hear was the crazy baseline and the baby. What the HELL is that song? It was everywhere that summer.

Digital illustration of a rhinoceros beetle with gold legs and a delft blue pattern shell

Bug I saw in a dream once
#art

I was stranded there over a long weekend for work with no car. I had the single best triple A baseball experience of my life there. Walked from my Holiday inn, sold out game, cheap with great beer.

Multiple Myeloma. 4-generations of pharma-driven drug discovery.

The piano keyboard reflected in Thelonious Monk's sunglasses

Your weekend wisdom from Thelonious Monk:

“A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.”

“Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.”

There are two different places you can live in America, one is a place where lemons cost a little more than you think they should, and the other is a place where people are handing you lemons trying to get rid of the giant pile of lemons

Life (2017) Nagai Kazumasa Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Life (2017)
Nagai Kazumasa
Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Literally nobody understands this. It’s like a riddle of the sphinx

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare.

Landa then sued the gov.

It's just the beginning.

www.propublica.org/article/benj...

This is intense, and difficult. Cesar Chavez was a hero to my parents. They were not farmworkers but they admired him and what he stood for.

A Statement from Dolores Huerta March 18, 2026

"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..."

Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters

Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm

I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

This is another one of those moments where I point out that I pitched the Washington Post on an editorial about family caregiving, an issue that affects 1 out of 4 American adults, and never got any response. Newsworthiness is in the eye of the beholder!

A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Frontiers | Editorial: Exploring bereavement and public health: the role of family and friend caregivers in community well-being [Please update social media impact numbers before final publication].The circle of bereavement after the deaths of family and friends broadly influences soci...

How many times during your #publichealth course work did you learn health impacts of #bereavement? For me, that number was 0. Working w #caregivers & formers, I missed understanding that went beyond #grief. Check out special topic of @frontiersmedia.bsky.social
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

This is just terrific. Do yourself a favor and read:

Got me through the 1990s.
Your turn: Post a banger not in English.

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jGs...)

We used to think that the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was dependent on weight loss.
Now we know so many health benefits have little to do with that!
Today's report: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MACPAC table showing how much rebates reduce Medicaid prescription drug costs.

New MACPAC data show the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program reducing gross Medicaid drug costs by 54.9% in FY 2024. Earlier Congressional Budget Office research found that Medicaid gets the lowest net prices of other federal programs/agencies even the VA: www.macpac.gov/publication/...

So it's a power move to make lots of typos and spelling mistakes? I am just figuring this out.

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed New documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday reinforce that long after his criminal convictions, many prominent professors continued to communicate with him.

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...

A female Snowy Owl, with black colouring sits in a field with a few blades of grass to her left poking through the grass.

This image is a bit different than my usual "style," if that's even a thing. Much more minimalistic given the Snowy Owl sitting out in the field. Not sure how well this image translates to a smaller screen (phone, thumbnail, etc.) but thought I'd share it nonetheless. #wildlife #birds #owls

Good for her.

How HHS is implementing Trump AI mandates, in numbers

I take a look at the AI tools the nation's health agency is using for everything from controversial audits to helping the agency cope with layoffs & executive orders.

Full charts in the story @statnews.com:

www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/n...

As plenty of others have noted, one striking thing the Epstein files reveal is just an extraordinary level of moral rot among elites, even if you assume most of his eager friendly correspondents were not directly involved in his crimes.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Selective silencing of the CDC:
~50% of surveillance databases have halted updates
—87% of these were vaccine related
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
editorial www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

In Oregon the #1 way you tell spruce from Doug Fir is: is it soft?
Doug Fir = yes
Spruce= ouch, no