Faye Getz

There is a female arm wearing a Victorian style sleeve in the top left hand corner and a hand in the bottom right hand corner wearing a surgical glove. Each hand is holding a white square with black text on it which reads "New Temporary Exhibition A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery closes Sunday 8th March 2026". The background is dark blue.

Our current temporary exhibition 'A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery' will close at 5pm on Sunday the 8th of March!

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‘No single path to healing’: Brown University remembers 2 students killed in December shooting - The Boston Globe “Our campus is hurting, our community is hurting, and it is right that we have come together to acknowledge that pain,” Patricia Poitevien, Brown’s vice president for campus life, said at the memorial...

"No single path to healing."

Brown University gathers to remember two students killed in December shooting

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/07/m...

26 years ago, I assigned Tim Arango to report on the disparity between falling crime and constancy in domestic violence providencephoenix.com/archive/feat... sadly, that situation persists

Sort of reminds me of at least one academic department in my distant past. It was finally dissolved, so there's hope.

And now the president has proven me correct.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

In fairness, he’s no more racist than the guy who was president before Biden.

Truth.

This sort of racist meme, and talk along those lines, is a staple of GOP discourse. I see it alluded to online and have heard it discussed and sniggered about in otherwise respectable circles. Please don’t imagine it’s some sort of ‘mistake’ or aberration. They own it gladly.

Useful life hack of the day

Most voters agree with him.

It never stops.

Fondly remembering the timt Harvard's STS program had Thiel as an invited lecturer in their "Science & Democracy" series

I don't have enough hands to facepalm myself hard enough to forget I ever saw this headline

Uncle respectfully requests I stop this right now.

Likely, especially if he had studied historical mercury treatments for syphilis.

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

13. Circa convivii autem exitum quidam ebrio ructu totam paropsidem evomebant, alii vero gravi vestigio ne quidem domum ire poterant, sed a crateribus revulsi incumbebant meo lectulo. Erant etiam qui importună

Latin sentence of the day:

"Towards the end of the party, some, with a drunken heaving, were throwing up their whole dessert; while others, unable even to go home due to the sluggishness of their step, torn away from the punch bowls, were lying down on my bed."

Benningh's Satyricon, early 17th c.

Junk science?

I mean who the hell figured this out anyway? Were there clinical trials? Animal testing?

Almost anything one might say about this story is subject to interpretation as double entendre. Scandaloso!

More male skiers’ genitalia in the news.

Truth.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

No kidding.

‘Aroused controversy?’ Sorry darlings. Auntie’s been into the Dubonnet again.

Sigh.

Good for him.

Not content to be merely a viral tradwife, she set out to also be a bacterial one