Jerry Cangelosi

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.

Note to self: Remove “proficient in vegetative electron microscopy” from cv.

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article) Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Are you pro-life? Then read this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.

“Building for joy”
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RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval (Gift Article) Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Here we go….
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
-Stephen Jay Gould
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It’s probably a mistake to try to separate “infectious” and “genetic”.

4 feet is equivalent to a modest storm surge in Florida, where the terrain is more vulnerable than here. And note that this is projected for a magnitude 9 quake, which is at the high end of the expectations. I agree though that we need to do MUCH more to prepare for it.

Yes and no. A tsunami from a mag 9 earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone would inundate areas near the strait of Juan de fuca, but would only be about 4 feet in Seattle. Not trivial for sure, and you’re right about other faults under the Sound itself.

wsg.washington.edu/could-a-tsun...

I live in this region. It's a good article but the headline overstates it. There is a huge risk of a devastating earthquake. But the actual portion of Washington state that is vulnerable to tsunamis is relatively small and not densely populated.

It’s bit out of date, from 2018, but this is a good graphical summary of the U.S. federal workforce. At ~0.6% of total population, it is much smaller than at its peak during WWII. Over 70% of them work in defense or security agencies.