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A great video for the start of the school year, from one of my favorite NPs! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sUYQHE/

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#NYTconnections The second syllable of each of my first four choices - Showboat, Friendship, Witchcraft, Hunky-dory - referred to forms of transportation on water. 🙄

Sometimes being uprooted lets you grow something bigger. 🌱

On April 1st, the three of us were laid off from our dream jobs as science communicators for the federal government.

But science communication is still alive and thriving. It’s just growing underground.

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Paul Revere’s Ride Listen, my children, and you shall hear

The big Two-Five-Oh for the midnight ride of Paul Revere!

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How to leak to a journalist Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

"There’s a lot out there to leak... But in almost all cases, your safety and physical and mental health should come first..."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...

Europe's defence challenge energises young techies at hackathon A weekend hackathon in Amsterdam aimed at finding fast-and-cheap battlefield solutions for Ukraine drew more than 100 young programmers and engineers, with many saying Europe's rearmament plans were prompting them to consider careers in defence.

A weekend hackathon in Amsterdam aimed at finding fast-and-cheap battlefield solutions for Ukraine drew more than 100 young programmers and engineers, with many saying Europe's rearmament plans were prompting them to consider careers in defense reut.rs/41TAEKo

Write a poem in iambic pentameter about an incidental appendectomy during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy Upon the table, draped in sterile white, She sleeps beneath the glow of silvered light. The surgeon's hands, precise, with skill refined, Prepare to free the gallstone's cruel bind. With scope in hand, through ports so deftly placed, He peers within, where bile has turned disgraced. Yet lo! A sight unplanned now meets his gaze-An appendix ripe, inflamed in silent blaze. No cry of pain foretold its grim decay, No symptom spoke, yet there it doomed to stay. A moment's pause-a choice now must be made, To leave or cut, let chance or skill persuade. With steady hands, he takes the fated thread, A simple snip; the threat of harm is shed. Two foes removed, though one was not foreseen, And she will wake, unknowing what has been. So fate unfolds beneath the scalpel's art, Where chance and skill play each a fleeting part.

ChatGPT has its uses

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

What could possibly go wrong? (Asking as the spouse of a computer science geek.)

Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

Incredibly NOT The Onion: The “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History” order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education & research centers, and the National Zoo www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

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Health Rounds: Older adults may be less vulnerable in a bird flu pandemic To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here.

The March 18th issue of #Reuters Health Rounds newsletter reported the results. Scroll down to the second item, "Shorter-course radiation safe in prostate cancer."

Health Rounds: Birth control pill for men moves closer to reality (To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here)

An experimental birth control pill for men works by interfering with vitamin A signaling necessary for sperm production. Fertility returns when treatment stops. (From Reuters Health Rounds newsletter - subscribe for free: reut.rs/3Jjw7rN.)

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Was that the cost under this program? paxlovid.iassist.com

Is that the cost under this program? paxlovid.iassist.com

The Disappearances Have Begun Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"Over the weekend, agents of the government entered a legal resident’s home without a warrant and arrested him, and then flew him a thousand miles away without notifying his family or lawyers about his whereabouts for a day. If you read about it in any other country, you would know what to call it."

Opinion | Trump is fast dismantling the free press. We all have to stop him. It’s part of a broader crackdown on the civil liberties of those who disagree with the president.

The administration has cut off funds to pro-democracy media outlets in places such as Cuba, Iran and Ukraine, and it is cutting off the editorial independence of Voice of America.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Why penalize all the Tesla owners who bought their electric car to benefit the environment?

Opinion | Documenting the courage of Katharine Graham A new film shows how, again and again, she empowered The Post to do journalism that changed the world.

A new documentary tells how a previous owner of a major newspaper reacted to pressure from a U.S. president.

The Gluten-Free Hamantashen Recipe List, 2010 The Jewish holiday of Purim starts this coming Saturday night. This year it's much easier to find gluten-free recipes for hamantashen, the traditional

With the Jewish holiday of Purim coming up, it's time to post my old list of gluten-free hamantaschen recipes.

The Gluten-Free Hamantashen Recipe List, 2010 The Jewish holiday of Purim starts this coming Saturday night. This year it's much easier to find gluten-free recipes for hamantashen, the traditional

From before I was full-time at Reuters: web.archive.org/web/20140412...

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment on HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

"The decision stands in contrast to Kennedy’s repeated promises to make HHS an agency whose processes and data are so accessible that public records requests would not even be necessary."

Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next? Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

I have been very worried about this.

Health Rounds: Vaccine keeps advanced kidney cancer from recurring Patients with advanced kidney cancer who received an experimental vaccine after their tumors were removed were still cancer-free years later in a small early-stage trial, researchers reported in Nature.

Here is a lay-person explanation:
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

These countries could lose the most, if U.S. stops aid A deep dive into U.S. aid assistance and which countries have received the most of it.

Why does USAID matter?