this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

We're getting extremely close to the day when America spends more money to build data centers than office buildings

Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending

Maybe not the most beautiful experiment in biology but certainly top ten.

What are your nominees?
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A powerful message to opposition leaders, dissidents, cooperators, operatives and allies in Iran, Russia, and around the globe. After you are done risking your life to help us, we will sell you out and screw you over. Because the current govt will use you and discard you.

My local numbers at wastewaterSCAN. For context, in two weeks we’ve gone from one of our lowest points ever to near the peak of last year’s winter wave.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Epilogue to the war: Afghanistan reports the lowest well-being in recorded history Analyses reveal that after the War in Afghanistan, Afghans reported the lowest subjective well-being in recorded history.

🧨📉 Afghanistan reports the lowest wellbeing ever recorded

After the US withdrawal and Taliban return, Afghans' life satisfaction in 2022 dropped to 1.28 on a 0–10 scale – the lowest global score in 75+ years of data.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

#SciComm #Wellbeing #Afghanistan 🧪

Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.

Russia is in real trouble. Western sanctions have cut daily seaborne oil exports from 4 mn barrels per day in January 2025 to 3 mn now. The US in Jan. '25 sanctioned 183 ships and this is mostly that. This month's UK and EU sanctions are only now coming online. Putin's money machine is hurting...

Wow! What a way to surrender your scientific advantage just so that #MAHA can keep needles away from children. #NIH #NASA #NSF

New Study Finds It Is Impossible To Lose Weight, No One Has Ever Done It, And Those Who Are Trying Should Give Up

New Study Finds It Is Impossible To Lose Weight, No One Has Ever Done It, And Those Who Are Trying Should Give Up
theonion.com/new-stu...

Did you know that Down syndrome is named after a man who, in the heart of the Victorian era, dared to see humanity where many saw only labels? #threads

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

Unmelted cheese melt

Repulsive Philly cheesesteak that looks like insoles

Weird deflated hot dog

Cheesy chips that are just.... Fries with loose slices of cheese on top

This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen

They're going to be teaching this tariff episode in public policy schools for generations, and it's not as an example of precise planning and implementation.

I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing

if you eat a whole bottle of flintstones vitamins you can push your car with your feet

During WWII the US deployed a Naval ship whose sole purpose was to make, store, and provide ice cream to troops actively deployed to heavy combat areas. Now you can't even have 9 ball

A 6-inch sub roll with grill marks. Chocolate and creme drip from the sides, behind a halved Cadbury egg. In the right corner is an image of a foil-wrapped Cadbury Creme Egg

Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.

The Social Security database is a list of every American in the whole country. Yes, it has "alleged criminals" because it has everyone.

Glad all the pain DOGE has caused was worth it www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans.

It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

I invented a game. It’s called 4 x 3.

It’s like connections except that there are three words in each category, there are four categories, and one word is in all four categories.

Easy mode is when you know the special word. Hard is when you don’t.

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

Hedonic eating is controlled by dopamine neurons that oppose GLP-1R satiety Hedonic eating is defined as food consumption driven by palatability without physiological need. However, neural control of palatable food intake is poorly understood. We discovered that hedonic eatin...

New @science.org
Hedonic eating (eating for pleasure, not need) is mediated by dopamine neurons (in the brain ventral segmental area, VTA) and they are antagonized by GLP-1 drugs, such as semaglutide, leading to weight loss
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

File this under media literacy: most tech demos are fake