Andrew Wade

Great stuff today:
- using physical exercise to get out of a funk
- the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival
- peanut butter ice cream
- a silly baseball game

Association of 2024–2025 Covid-19 Vaccine with Covid-19 Outcomes in U.S. Veterans | NEJM Amid the declining clinical severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and diminishing public uptake of annual coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, ...

💉 2024–25 Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness

In U.S. veterans, the updated vaccine reduced 6-month risks of Covid-related ED visits (-29%), hospitalisations (-39%), and deaths (-64%) vs flu-only group.

🔗 doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2510226

#SciComm #COVID19 #Vaccines 🧪

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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

And this silly headline: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Great stuff yesterday:
- a professional compliment
- eager volunteers
- an exciting and hopeful Canucks win to start the season
- offered quiche
- being able to support when needed

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Great stuff today:
- the theatre community
- a fun audition, doing some improv
- the Yankees getting taken down a peg by the Canadian team
- seeing that 1 bedroom rental prices in Vancouver have gone down by $500 a month since 2023 (lowest in 41 months)
- feeling appreciated

Great stuff today:
- my dear friend Shelby Lyn Lowe getting nominated for an award!
- watching the new Superman film at a library
- making solid headway into grant reports and applications with upcoming deadlines
- being able to depend on my new laptop
- packing the right amount of food

He did abstain though

Great stuff today:
- a quiet productive day, cozy at home
- reducing a to-do pile to a more manageable size
- a video of a very old mechanical baseball pinball machine
- Greta Thunberg
- the start of free coffees for picking hockey players who score goals

Great stuff today:
- sending out long-overdue replies, making my brainspace more manageable
- the resistance down south
- conquering tasks on my new laptop
- the brave flotilla
- randomly offered free Boston Pizza pizza
- folks putting in the work toward realizing truth and reconciliation

Cohort fertility rates for the United States, by age 40, 45 and 50.

Most graphs of the fertility rate depict the 'period fertility rate', which is based on a single year's data and doesn't necessarily reflect how many children women actually have across their lifetimes.

I've used data from the Human Fertility Database to show the cumulative number instead:

Anyone put up against McDavid and Draisatl gets a bit of a benefit of the doubt.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

Is that lazy? Sure. But it's legally the safe thing for them to do.

If indeed they are being required by law to go through every old ad for seven years and to add a bunch of information tags around who paid for it, for what election was it, etcetera, with penalties if they are incorrect... then yeah, I understand them just deleting the archive instead.

Great stuff today:
- resolving a few month-delayed tasks
- the pretty screen on my new laptop
- a Canadian/BC healthcare system that covers my medication
- smart optimistic folks on podcasts
- being able to bring my laptop to work without worrying that it won't turn on when I arrive

Great stuff today:
- getting my new laptop set up with both SSDs
- how crisp video and images look on this laptop screen
- Toronto Blue Jays besting the Yankees in the standings
- Braeden Cootes
- medical advances vs HIV + Huntington's
- offered turkey+veggies
- chatting with Shelby Lyn Lowe

Hey, Pettersson is in the lineup. :p

Great stuff today:
- putting my new computer to work
- realizing a solution to a problem in setting up the tools I need on the new system
- planning a little trip
- soft serve ice cream and offered quiche (at different times)
- spending most of the day in a shark onesie

Ben affleck struggling to walk himself as Batman.

celebrities out walking the characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

Great stuff today:
- a new bathroom light
- helping to teach some future doctors
- my dentist for making time to do a full surprise root canal instead of rebooking
- the stranger who agreed to come in later for their appointment
- buying and fiddling with a new computer

*hug*

Great stuff today:
- helping to train doctors who are new to Canada
- visiting Gateway Theatre for a quick event
- a tasty sweet apple
- warm messages reaching out to say hi and share in triumphs

Dutch late night TV has its take

And changeling child mythology has been around for a long, long time... (when it's as though ones child has been replaced by a faerie child... aka onset of severe autism)

been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance

Great stuff today:
- Jacqui Rodriguez
- The silliness and casual social chatting that is minigolf
- a full board meeting
- reviving my Lazarus laptop
- finally cleaning something in the house that I've noticed a dozen times

I feel like acetaminophen IS more dangerous than people realise (causing a lot of liver failures and about 500 deaths in the USA each year --- half of those deaths accidental), but yeah, this feels like an unscientific reach.

IS THAT WHAT THEIR RESEARCH BUDGET IS GOING TO