John Timmer

As an ex-biologist, I feel fairly confident in saying there's no obvious way to do that ever.

Judge in the case that rejects the admin's moratorium on wind power permitting drops this beauty: "Whatever level of explanation is required when deviating from longstanding agency practice, this is not it."

Also accuses admin's lawyers of "tilting at windmills".

Coverage tomorrow.

If Nuzzi is a post-truth antivaxxer, she should say so.

If she isn’t, she should say so.

But you don’t get to work hard to elevate RFK Jr and then just gloss over what he has done.

Certainly not in your memoir that is purportedly about what you learned from the whole ideal.

"The party is the state" coming from the people who somehow think they're anti-communists.

Shorter @mattyglesias.bsky.social here: I'm going to weaponize my lack of understanding of a complex topic to enable me to misinterpret the motives of everyone who does understand it and try to make them all look bad.

I liked it because it didn't require much thought, meaning you could be doing useful work and thinking about why you were doing the work at the same time.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

Cutting sections on a cryotome.

I'd like to think that I grew up at a time where, if you said something that made it clear you were a complete dipshit, there'd be consequences of some sort, like people no longer allowing you to occupy positions of consequence.

If that ever was the case, it's over now.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

In any case, part of growing up involves recognizing the things about your role models that either aren't good or a good fit for you, and choosing your own path. Which makes the whole mannosphere thing a failure to grow up (along with everything else).

Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

We're now living in a world where the Centers for Disease Control are making it more difficult to control disease.

The number of agencies that will need top-to-bottom reform when Trump leaves office is going to be a massive challenge to overcome for whoever follows him.

So far at least, attempts to use the legal system to do that have fallen flat. But people are going to keep trying, so I'm intrigued when I see novel approaches like this.

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates - Inside Climate News The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.

Interesting attempt to make someone pay for the externalities that are being spread across society.

If we renamed Puerto Rico "Trumplandia", he'd make it a state tomorrow.

The most recent two Republican administrations made torture and now war crimes/murder official policy. And, as an American citizen, these actions have been done it in my name.

I'm old enough to remember sitting in a 1970s station wagon as my mother took her place in a line of cars waiting to buy rationed gasoline.

That era ended for very good reasons.

At a time where most outlets are delicately avoiding naming things like racism, war crimes, and unconstitutional actions, huge props to Ars' @bethmariem.bsky.social for calling it like it actually is.

The blatant racism really needs to be front page news everywhere tomorrow.

This, to me, sounds right. In my experience, if you know the material, 90+% of the time you have no problems finishing within the allotted time. Having more time only helps in those edge cases where the exams are poorly structured.

Having more time won't help those who don't know the material.

Maybe they should just realistically show people driving around frustrated for 45 minutes while searching for a parking spot.

Waiting for all the gamergate folks who supposedly cared about ethics in journalism to notice the whole Nuzzi fiasco.

The deck here may be Axios' finest work to date.

Every major newspaper should give the blatant racism front page treatment tomorrow. But they won't.

Probably says a lot about my musical tastes, but I think The Kink's Father Christmas is my favorite secular, and I love Oh Come all Ye Faithful in part because of Bad Religion's cover of it.

They're in the title game because... Berkeley beat SMU, which illustrates your point nicely.

Nobody should be putting Mullin on TV precisely because they know he's going to say stupid, inflammatory shit like this. But he keeps getting trotted out because someone thinks that stupid inflammatory shit makes for great TV.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Are these put in place by enzymes encoded in the viral genome?

This isn't making sense to me. Aren't those sugars placed there by enzymes made by the cells the viruses are infecting? And shouldn't similar sugar combinations be widespread on other cells in the body?

Why would these things block viruses and not end up plastered all over our cells?

While US courts have not taken up the issue of whether all the "gifts" Trump has received are bribes, it look like the Swiss legal system might weigh in.