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Nonfiction in NYT magazine, The Walrus, Globe and Mail. Best Amer Sci Wri. Fiction through Doubleday US, Randomhouse Canada, Albin Michel in France. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/23352/kevin-patterson/

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Israel’s Zones of Denial

30.07.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Salmon berry boat pie, baked 200m off Daajing Giids.

16.07.2025 06:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This

You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

07.07.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can-UK is what he was referring to.

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Why Do Doctors Write? For physicians, curiosity and care spill easily onto the page.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

07.06.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create β€œin-house” publications instead.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of β€œin-house” publications by his agency.

28.05.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5390    πŸ” 2150    πŸ’¬ 1850    πŸ“Œ 773

Reliable sources tell me this book is excellent

28.05.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reality TV can get dark, man.

www.nbc.com/stars-earn-s...

17.05.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graph showing unadjusted proportions of Medicare beneficiaries who remained alive according to month since Medicaid disenrollment.

A graph showing unadjusted proportions of Medicare beneficiaries who remained alive according to month since Medicaid disenrollment.

Dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy, which reduces cost sharing for medications. Loss of drug subsidies after Medicaid disenrollment was associated with increased mortality. Learn more in a Special Article: nej.md/4jS1wRt

#MedSky #PublicHealth

14.05.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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American higher education is collapsing before our eyes | Frederico Menino The once unsinkable ship of US higher education has hit an unthinkable iceberg

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.05.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace.

This is brilliant.

A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

29.04.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The America I loved is gone It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

28.04.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Winnipeg! Put your hands together for PERSIMMON LUMBAGO!!!

27.04.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Math and linguistics have a lot to teach each other.

25.04.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Tick-borne meat allergy may be related to urbanization in mid-Atlantic US

www.cidrap.umn.edu/tick-borne-d...

25.04.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

You Are Not a Failure Until You Start Blaming Others for Your Mistakes.

25.04.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FBI Arrests Sitting Judge as Trump Accelerates Attack on Courts FBI Director Kash Patel proudly announced the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan over an immigration case.

Trump’s FBI Just Arrested a Sitting Judge newrepublic.com/post/194416/... via @newrepublic.com

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Carney confirms Trump spoke to him last month about making Canada a U.S. state Liberal Leader Mark Carney confirmed Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his idea of making Canada a U.S. state during their first bilateral call on March 28.

Quote from Doug buried halfway in that should really be the headline β€œSometimes, I think the cheese slips off the cracker with this guy.” www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue.

#SCOTUS to rule on the constitutionality of the constitution.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

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Stunning: This image unveils new-born stars previously concealed by dense dust, showcasing a portion of the famed Christmas Tree Cluster..

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P.S. Teixeira (Center for Astrophysics)

15.04.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Medicare for all. You’re already spending more per capital on VA/medicaid/medicare than Canada does to care for everyone.

12.04.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From one point of view, it appears to be near an all-time high.

11.04.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forty-five billion. If it costs 100k/yr/person to incarcerate that’s 450,000 person years.

08.04.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a superb book, too. One suited for thoseβ€”and theseβ€”times.

07.04.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Brah’s been hitting the gym!

05.04.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.

#socialcollapse #arsonistsappetiteforchaos #drunkuncle

05.04.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Charlie McCarthy?

02.04.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ikeda oranges, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

ikeda oranges, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

ikeda oranges, painted by royal charles steadman, 1919

01.04.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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