R. Coxeter

My Op Ed in Today's Washington Post: "The long-lasting effects of viruses — and the anti-vaccine movement. For some people, a viral infection can have devastating long-term effects."

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The sun sets over Central Park’s frozen Meer. We’re more than half way through winter and dreaming of more tropical skies.

A New Yorker walks across the Harlem Meer. Never a good idea. Hence the ice ladders punctuating the perimeter.

Big city living. 43 days till the spring equinox and magnolia season’s start in Central Park.

Pretty much how every New Yorker is feeling about this unrelenting winter! Our resident Great Blue Heron dreaming of spring in the Central Park Loch. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birding

Tweet from broadcast journalist Gretchen Carlson: “It would be great to see a similar article advocating that all of the women who've lost their careers for simply coming forward about misbehavior get their jobs back too — instead of yet another propping up a man who actually misbehaved.” Here’s the article she referenced: https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/in-defense-of-bari-weiss-not-firing-peter-attia-at-cbs/

There is no bravery in CBS keeping a deeply problematic wellness guru, as Abrams disappointingly (or ludicrously) suggests. There is no defense. Instead, as Gretchen Carlson states below, it would be far better we advocate for women who’ve been impacted for speaking up in broadcast and beyond.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Every Groundhog’s Day I think of my HS physics teacher who awarded bonus points to anyone who could spell Punxsutawney. And anyone who promised to pursue an engineering career.

For Some Americans, the End of Obamacare Subsidies Means Falling Off a Financial Cliff

The hundreds of reader comments are harrowing. “Insurers, facing rising health care costs and worries that healthier customers would drop coverage in the face of declining subsidies, also increased their prices by more than 25%.”

A Central Park rabbit enjoys a summer salad in the flower garden.

Central Park’s Flopsy & Mopsy from more tropical times — as it’s currently 15 degrees (feels like -4).

Why People Say Rabbit Rabbit on the First Day of the Month Have you ever wondered why so many people say Rabbit! or Rabbit, Rabbit! on the first day of each month?

Rabbit, Rabbit! 🐇 🐇

“For years, I did not fully appreciate what I was witnessing. To me as a kid, my father’s endless chatter was an embarrassing quirk of his personality. And my mother’s welcoming of strangers into our home just seemed, well, normal. Only after decades as a physician and policymaker did I understand that my father and mother had unintentionally but eagerly adopted one of the most powerful health interventions ever discovered: human connection.”

Relatable: “To me as a kid, my father’s endless chatter was an embarrassing quirk…Only after decades as a physician and policymaker did I understand that my father and mother had unintentionally but eagerly adopted one of the most powerful health interventions ever discovered: human connection.”

Essay | My Parents’ Secret for Living Well Into Their 90s: Embracing Strangers I have spent my career studying what makes people live healthier and longer. My mom and dad are proof that the key is staying socially connected.

“I have spent my professional life studying what makes people live healthier and longer. I have analyzed data sets on longevity the world over…But nothing I have read in the scientific literature explains longevity better than the lives of my incorrigibly social parents, Benjamin and Marsha Emanuel”

So much for that. 😶 “Local TV and Broadcast News Among Most Trusted Sources for Health Information.” www.kff.org/covid-19/pol...

"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community"
A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation
"We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily."
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Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

“By hiring Mark Hyman, CBS News will be misinforming its large audience on the subject of health. Hyman is the face of functional medicine, a pipeline that moves disenchanted healthcare providers away from evidence-based care and into the arms of a very lucrative wellness industry.” 😖

Maybe it’s time for the biotech chapter of Billions:

I was dreaming about Acela baristas but I guess this will have to do:

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

“We built palatial forts in the snowdrifts after the plows went through. Lawn sprinklers in summers became portals to different realms and time periods; we ran through the strands of water with towels tied around our necks as capes.” 😔

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

“As social media does its work putting bits and pieces together about each day of unfolding tragedy, more and more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know.”

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Inside a tech company’s secretive plan to destroy millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Hoping for another January snow day.

“Our learning curves are steepest when the skills we’ve leaned on all our lives have been swept out from under us. I’ve had to set my faith in my physical body aside…consigning to the future the skills I must relearn, like how to whisk a bowl of cream to milky soft peaks with prosthetic hands.”

How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook

“Living with a chronic illness, there have always been limitations to understand, boundaries in which I had to operate…And then, after many years of figuring this out, the boundaries changed again.I was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder.”

A white wooden shed and winter trees reflected in the Hudson River

If you nab a seat on the Hudson River side of the train, it’s a cinematic view from Albany onward, including an island with castle ruins near Beacon. Further upstate, around Rochester and Syracuse, beautiful snowy fields and farms.

A bright green plow travels Central Park’s snowy paths

Colorful winter coats dot a snowy Central Park landscape. Snow day tomorrow.

Central Park: Winter Wonderland.

A dad pulls a blue toboggan through falling snow in Central Park

Peak 🛷 in Central Park.

“It would be pretty rich if people whose newsletters are aggregations of other people’s content started complaining about their content being aggregated.”

Too Many Media Newsletters? Now There’s a Media Newsletter for That.

“Even by the navel-gazing standards of media reporting — a subgenre of journalism that, unsurprisingly, is keenly followed by other journalists — this is snake-eating-its-own-tail stuff”