Mark Schofield

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W… The former cousel to President Nixon provides a stingin…

Loved this book by John Dean who reminds us of the critical function of government and the institutions responsible for making government work for everybody (and what happens when government doesn’t work work right).
www.goodreads.com/book/show/88...

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyran…

Strongly recommend Timothy Snyder’s Road to Unfreedom and On Tyranny.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Good policy decisions are based on evidence. There is no good reason for HHS to take this action.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

RFK Jr.’s Plan to Eliminate Vaccines Think VICP

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RFK Jr.'s wants to eliminate vaccines. Here is how he will do it.

Jen Easterly - Wikipedia

Ms. Easterly has had a distinguished career across multiple administrations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen_Eas...

USDA reorganization will cut agricultural and forest research One of the agency’s largest and most storied research facilities will be closed along with most forest research stations

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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Like orbitals exist?

CNS Researchers Find That a Donkey Skin Secretion Naturally Repels Deer Ticks : College of Natural Sciences : UMass Amherst In their experiments, the researchers determined that the compound is as effective as DEET.

www.umass.edu/natural-scie... Go Science! Go UMass!

You can't help it if you notice symmetry in the world.

Simple Civics You probably took a government or civics class, but many of us still have questions about how it all works. WFYI's Simple Civics is here to help!

I came across this from PBS during Bayh-Dole compliance training. The Bayh-Dole act allows universities the right to develop commercial applications of federally-funded research. One company you might have heard of that was founded because of the Bayh-Dole act? Google!
www.wfyi.org/programs/sim...

Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit Them New explanations from economics research.

"Even when shown pessimistic information about mobility, right-wing respondents do not want to support more redistribution policies, because they see the government as a 'problem' and not as the 'solution.'"

OK, but 233 is a Fibonacci prime...

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Nothing really new here but another account of the imposed demise of American science.

AAMC director on NIH cuts: "Health will suffer" Inside the high-stakes Jenga game between hospital chiefs and HHS.

New from @newsweek.com - I discuss AAMC’s new report on the threats to all of academic medicine. Thanks to Alexis Kayser for the conversation. www.newsweek.com/aamc-directo...

Have you tried Diplomat Blend? Our local market carries it and I’ve been hooked since day one.

I’ll bet Sam Ezersky would allow METALLAOLEFIN but not ALKYLIKENE.

ACETAL? But not ATACTIC? #SpellingBee

You haven’t accounted for all mechanistic steps that increase your sock population.

Opinion | The U.S. Deported This Chinese Scientist, in a Decision That Changed World History

Want America to be first in science? Proceed with caution.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

CMS Open Payments Rules and Database Learn more about the "Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests," also known as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

I believe the Sunshine Act was passed to address this issue and increase transparency into the drug/device company - physician relationship. www.aamc.org/what-we-do/m...

RFK Jr. rolls back Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant people HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he has unilaterally struck the recommendation that healthy children and healthy pregnant people get Covid booster shots.

Kennedy unilaterally strikes healthy kids & healthy pregnant people from the list of people who should get Covid boosters per the #CDC's approved schedule. There's a process for doing this, but it was not followed. "He's overstepped his bounds," one expert told STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏

youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

Amanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025 David Liu joins the show.

Please consider passing around this very informative interview to everyone you know (especially non-scientists). I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research.

www.pbs.org/video/breakt...

The satisfaction of finding that the propane tank on the grill is completely full.

Press release from Senator Welch about the event...

www.welch.senate.gov/hear-from-th...

NPR wants to hear from interracial couples to commemorate Loving Day Loving Day, the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage, is on June 12. NPR wants to hear from people who celebrate this day.

Loving Day, the landmark case that overturned U.S. state laws against interracial marriage, is on June 12. NPR wants to hear from people who celebrate this day.

📣 BREAKING NEWS:

Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.

“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.

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