Ted Wong

Beyond the Thermometer: 5 Heat Metrics That Drive Better Decision-Making Land surface temperature, air temperature, heat index, wet bulb globe temperature and thermal comfort indices can be used for different purposes when measuring heat.

How hot is it? Important but complicated question.

Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America (Gift Article) People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.

Well, here’s one apt-looking scenario

We're Not Adapting to Climate Change Fast Enough. Behavioral Science Could Help. Adaptation is too small, slow and scattered to address the enormity of the climate crisis. But behavioral science could help spur action on a larger scale.

Saving the world means changing behaviors

Couldn’t bring myself to be pithy today

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A few things everyone should be reminding everyone about measles:
* It can KILL
* It ERASES immunity that you have previously built against other diseases
* You can catch it from breathing air contaminated by someone who was standing there HOURS EARLIER
* IT IS PREVENTABLE

Repubs call it govt SPENDING, a seemingly neutral term that actually erases its purpose. Dems should be calling it INVESTING.

New coronavirus discovered in Chinese bats sparks alarm The virus binds to humans in a similar way to the virus that causes COVID-19.

mRNA vaccines SAVED THE WORLD last time. So very insane that the right is demonizing mRNA vaccines, because there will definitely be more times! Bird flu, bat flu, something else completely new.

So, whenever the Dems or whoever steps up and acts like a true opposition party, they'll have to have a strategy for welcoming disillusioned former Trump supporters without triggering all the massive cognitive dissonance. No talk of leopards eating faces, for example. No schadenfreude. Will be hard.

They Are a Minority Get your mind right.

Important takeaway from this essay: there will be lots of Trump supporters who will be harmed and maybe disillusioned by all the Trump/Musk chaos and destruction. We have to come up with ways to reach out to them and bring them into the tent. WHY ARE THERE NO OPPOSITION-PARTY PRESS CONFERENCES?

What bewilders me is the hostility toward fundamental scientific research. I mean, cancer cures?!

Was this research partly supported by NIH funding? Yes! A federal research grant to study chemicals in malaria parasites made possible this work to find a cure for human brain cancer.

Nah, the mystery is just MacGuffin. The real stories are whether camaraderie transcends the class difference between the detective and the sergeant, what corrupt power structure the crime lays bare, and whether the detective still has a spouse to go home to after all the stakeouts and ill temper.

A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto Among the ways being discussed to force faster delivery of two presidential planes are relaxing security clearances for Boeing workers and even purchasing a temporary luxury plane and retrofitting it.

Trump is telling Elon Musk, no slouch at cheaping out safety, to tell Boeing, industry leader in nickel-and-dimeing safety, to shortcut safety regs and get him his planes goddammit. Because the current AF1 is so shabby.

Maybe 18th century presidents could get away with deciding everything without the professional expertise of the country’s labor lawyers and environmental scientists, and that’s why those folks don’t appear in the Constitution. But times and the actual atmosphere have changed!

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Jupiter and moons through my small backyard telescope and an iPhone

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.

It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Euclid 'dark universe' telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image) "This first strong gravitational lens discovered by Euclid has unique characteristics."

The Einstein ring is all over my feed today, and I find it -- and all the #astrophotography I see ALL THE TIME -- so soothing. Thank you, space-pic posters! It's like, Trump can't sign an EO invalidating gravitational lensing. Elon Musk can't steal the images from people's backyard telescopes.

Penn stands to lose $250M from NIH indirect research funding cut under Trump NIH grant recipients receive additional funding to cover "indirect costs," such as building maintenance and administrative expenses.

Insane and irresponsible that Pennsylvania isn't in on the NIH lawsuit. To our Republican Attorney General, loyalty to Elon Musk is more important than the billions of dollars in economic activity NIH funding drives in the state. Oh, and lives saved through science.

They were once ostensibly the party of small government. They are now the party of LET'S NEVER CURE CANCER.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

The U.S. has had probably the best university system in the world since the late 1940s; government investments (state and federal) drove that success.

That may have changed overnight. 🧵🧪

Can you imagine if Kamala had won? We’d be heaping such praise on her for NOT vaporizing US foreign aid, eviscerating scientific research, handing over fedgov IT to nazi techbros. The lovefest that could have been!

is it woke to want to end cancer?