India Hook-Barnard

Photo of turntable with DECCA album playing. with cover of Merry Christmas -Bing Crosby nearby.

Photo of turntable with DECCA album playing. with album cover of Merry Christmas -Bing Crosby, and Season’s Greetings from Perry Como next to it.

Now Playing:
Merry Christmas
Bing Cosby (1955)
—via my Grandma
#Vinyl #FromGrandma

Photo of turntable with RCA album playing, with Seasons Greetings from Perry Como album cover next to it. (also a small frog carved from green malachite, which I got in Nairobi)

Now Playing:
Seasons Greetings from Perry Como
(1959)
—via my Grandma
#Vinyl #FromGrandma

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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Why Trump’s cuts to scientific research are a big win for China China is attracting American scientific talent, especially in STEM fields, partly due to funding cuts and immigration restrictions under President Donald Trump.

wapo.st/4nMwRGt

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Now Playing:
THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL (2025)
Taylor Swift
#Vinyl #Swiftie

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

Congrats to Mary Brunkow from @isbscience.org on winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Brunkow was honored with collaborators Ramsdell and Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking work on immune system regulation.

A proud moment for science and Seattle!

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Love this! #Vinyl great for Sunday listening
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Stevie Wonder

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

Now playing:
the sensational ray charles (1965)
Ray Charles
#Vinyl

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

My quote of the day

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.

My quote of the day

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Now Playing:
The Beatles
White album (1978)

#Vinyl from the #Vault aka the #Basement this one is from my Aunt

NOW PLAYING:
Santana
Santana III (1971)
#Vinyl

turntable playing Led Zeppelin III next to the album cover (and a little green malachite frog I got in Nairobi at the World Bioeconomy Summit)

From my Mom (re pic of sweet baby james):
“With my first pay check from my job at Ponza Pizzeria I bought that album and Led Zeppelin III”

So, NOW PLAYING:
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin III
Immigrant Song
#Vinyl

Beatles white album in foreground, hands flipping through vertical albums in background

Stack of albums on wood countertop

Finally took another batch of albums to be cleaned! Mix of records from my parents (eg, James Taylor, Neil Diamond) and grandparents (Andy Williams, Ray Charles) and a few of mine (Aerosmith and G’N’R)
Many thanks to Original Vinyl on Fillmore ! maps.app.goo.gl/gLHynk8DMCHg...
#Vinyl

Photo of turntable and album cover

NOW PLAYING:
James Taylor
sweet baby james (1970)
#Vinyl

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

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RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Statement from Alan Garber about ruling affirming "core principles of American higher education."

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard.

Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education."

And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories?

Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

The bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act is a necessary step to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading.

It is time to pass this bill and make it clear to the American people that their elected officials put them first.