Thinkalot

In this global economy, everything is connected.

Marine iguanas: the incredible shrinking lizards of the Galápagos | Natural History Museum Growth is usually thought of as a one-way process.

Marine iguanas: the incredible shrinking lizards of the Galápagos | Natural History Museum share.google/Kqmhg1N4xB98...

The incredible shrinking iguana...biology is so cool

😵‍💫 THIS IS WHAT DICTATORS DO 😵‍💫

A handsome bird, for sure with some punk hairstyle

Cartoon: The four stages of reading the news Denial, anger, depression, resistance

Unlikely. More likely: #China is already starting to unload US Treasury bonds, and will do so at a faster rate before the US dollar devalues to the level of the Indian rupee 😂

Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills Erica Kahn, who lives in Massachusetts, wasn't insured when she had a close encounter with the flying mammal at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

There are many interesting things about this story and one incredible one.

Here is an example of a person who got a raw deal because of her own actions, and she didn’t cast about to blame someone else.

She took full responsibility for it.

It is another indictment of US healthcare, however.

Amazing disease outbreak detective story 👇

Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.

Since Roe, Idaho has lost 35% of its OB/GYN practicing physicians in the state (net new entrants).

35%.

That poses a tremendous threat to reproductive healthcare for women. These laws legislating women’s bodies, primarily in red states, will serve no purpose other than to punish women.

It seems clear that he never really cared about what really drives health disparities

"I knew that if we were in Canada, this is a boy who would easily be treatable . . . and yet we just had to sit there and watch him die."

Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Reversing the rise of liver cancer Imagine a future where the global incident cases of liver cancer almost doubles, rising from 870 000 cases in 2022 to over 1·5 million in 2050. This scenario, and all the attendant harms to health and...

🩺 Liver cancer cases could double by 2050

A new @thelancet.com Commission warns of 1.5M annual liver cancer cases by 2050 but says 60% are preventable through better HBV vaccination & alcohol reduction.

Prevention is possible. Action is urgent.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm 🧪

And still USA funds Netanyahu....our government is complicit in this genocide

#birds

Data?? Remember "alternative truth"
These guys (in power) want to dupe us all the time.

Straight up plagiarising the Onion

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting.

Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months.

Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.

When you’re so innocent of crimes that you threaten to put Beyoncé on trial instead

What an ignorant jackass.

Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.

Inside the collapse of the #FDA.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Let’s remember they called research on sickle cell DEI and cancelled it.

Tom Lehrer 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

One of his very best.

Thank you, Tom Lehrer. RIP 😔

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died. He once declared: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Here’s one of my favorite Lehrer tunes

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

RIP, Tom Lehrer. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs

Rest in peace to Tom Lehrer, man…

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

RIP Tom Lehrer, age 97.

How great was Tom Lehrer? In 2020, he moved his entire catalog into the public domain because he felt he'd made more than enough money off of it.

Enjoy every Tom Lehrer album:

tomlehrersongs.com

This was the week that comedy pushed back South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump.

www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n...

Comedy with barbs towards this unjust, corrupt government is one thing that makes me laugh.
Thank you, Colbert. Thank you, South Park. Keep on, keeping on.