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The virus that won’t quit: new research reveals how SARS-CoV-2 evolves
Researchers have tracked how the COVID-19 virus mutates long-term, revealing patterns that could help predict the emergence of future variants.
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University of NSW, Australia. SARS-CoV-2 : The Virus that won't quit.
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When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
CNN suggests Susie Wiles might not have known she was on the record 😆
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
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The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise
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2/2 Hals vs. Codde in Reinier Reael's company. Both parties seem to have been satisfied with the results!
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
2/2 Hals vs. Codde in Reinier Reael's company. Both parties seem to have been satisfied with the results!
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Ultra-fashionable young couple in 1634, casually holding hands to be painted by Pieter Codde of Amsterdam, born OTD 1599. One of first full-length couples in art since the Arnolfini's!
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ultra-fashionable young couple in 1634, casually holding hands to be painted by Pieter Codde of Amsterdam, born OTD 1599. One of first full-length couples in art since the Arnolfini's!
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2/2 More music with Pieter Codde and friends, celebrating his birthday.
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
2/2 More music with Pieter Codde and friends, celebrating his birthday.
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Lunch, painted in 1914 by Zinaida Serebriakova, born on this day in 1884. More poignant when you realize that the Revolution would shatter this family only three years later.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lunch, painted in 1914 by Zinaida Serebriakova, born on this day in 1884. More poignant when you realize that the Revolution would shatter this family only three years later.
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2/2 Henri IV receives the Spanish ambassador. Imagined with high degree of romantic fantasy by Ingres, 1817. Love Raphael on the living room wall.
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
2/2 Henri IV receives the Spanish ambassador. Imagined with high degree of romantic fantasy by Ingres, 1817. Love Raphael on the living room wall.
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Born on this day in 1553: Henri IV of France. Always looks like such a cheerful, benevolent fellow. Tolerant, too! Too bad he was assassinated in 1610, the very year of this lovely drawing.
December 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Born on this day in 1553: Henri IV of France. Always looks like such a cheerful, benevolent fellow. Tolerant, too! Too bad he was assassinated in 1610, the very year of this lovely drawing.
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These lions have quite the den, in which they are politely entertaining Daniel in 1624. Fabulous setting for this story by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
These lions have quite the den, in which they are politely entertaining Daniel in 1624. Fabulous setting for this story by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
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Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Salome receiving head of John the Baptist in front of Herod's exceedingly dramatic palace, 1620. By François de Nomé whose day has been today.
December 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: Salome receiving head of John the Baptist in front of Herod's exceedingly dramatic palace, 1620. By François de Nomé whose day has been today.
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2/2 Teaser: whose watch?
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
2/2 Teaser: whose watch?
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2/2 Another fine crab lunch with, of course, the trademark peeled lemon. Because it’s by Willem Claesz Heda, on his birthday.
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
2/2 Another fine crab lunch with, of course, the trademark peeled lemon. Because it’s by Willem Claesz Heda, on his birthday.
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2/2 Wonderful mixtures of the ordinary and the extraordinary on tables of Willem Claesz. Heda of Haarlem.
December 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
2/2 Wonderful mixtures of the ordinary and the extraordinary on tables of Willem Claesz. Heda of Haarlem.
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2/2 Is it highway robbery? Cold winter's day, light is thin, and rather ominous scene threatens in this work by David Teniers the Elder, father of David the Younger whose day is today.
December 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
2/2 Is it highway robbery? Cold winter's day, light is thin, and rather ominous scene threatens in this work by David Teniers the Elder, father of David the Younger whose day is today.
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Cold day! Winter scene with some exciting pig butchering by David Teniers the Younger, whose birthday is today.
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Cold day! Winter scene with some exciting pig butchering by David Teniers the Younger, whose birthday is today.
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Archduke Leopold Wilhelm checking out his favorite masterpieces with some friends, and some dogs. They were always hanging out in his gallery! By David Teniers, born OTD 1610.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm checking out his favorite masterpieces with some friends, and some dogs. They were always hanging out in his gallery! By David Teniers, born OTD 1610.
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2/2 Card game (human) in a tavern. Dog wonders sadly when somebody will remember to feed him. By David Teniers.
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
2/2 Card game (human) in a tavern. Dog wonders sadly when somebody will remember to feed him. By David Teniers.
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Born on this day in 1534, in Mechelen, the celebrated draughtsman, painter & designer Hans Bol. Here looking none too happy about the wild frame around his portrait by Goltzius.
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Born on this day in 1534, in Mechelen, the celebrated draughtsman, painter & designer Hans Bol. Here looking none too happy about the wild frame around his portrait by Goltzius.
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Skating, playing, and a lot of falling on the ice near Amsterdam, as painted by Hans Bol. He was born on this day in 1534.
December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Skating, playing, and a lot of falling on the ice near Amsterdam, as painted by Hans Bol. He was born on this day in 1534.
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2/2 There's been a kermis in the village and many peasants are variously dancing, drunk & possibly dead. But the landscape is still beautiful! Because it's by Hans Bol.
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
2/2 There's been a kermis in the village and many peasants are variously dancing, drunk & possibly dead. But the landscape is still beautiful! Because it's by Hans Bol.
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Flemish Kermis, complete with drunken peasants, dancers, quack doctor, and ballad singers. But no animal torture games! How is that possible, Hans Bol? And happy birthday, while we’re at it.
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Flemish Kermis, complete with drunken peasants, dancers, quack doctor, and ballad singers. But no animal torture games! How is that possible, Hans Bol? And happy birthday, while we’re at it.
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2/2 Hofvijver in The Hague hosting a lively game of goose-torture. Don't let anybody fool you about the gentility of 16th-century elites! By Hans Bol.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
2/2 Hofvijver in The Hague hosting a lively game of goose-torture. Don't let anybody fool you about the gentility of 16th-century elites! By Hans Bol.
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Fun and games of the elite (and their dogs!) in a renaissance castle park, by Hans Bol of Mechelen. He was born on this day in 1534.
December 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Fun and games of the elite (and their dogs!) in a renaissance castle park, by Hans Bol of Mechelen. He was born on this day in 1534.
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Australia has the 2nd highest number of holocaust survivors because we welcomed them & promised safety, peace, and welcome. It's unconscionable to fail to live up to that promise.
And we don't have to qualify it with "what about supporting some other group", we can just live up to our actual values.
And we don't have to qualify it with "what about supporting some other group", we can just live up to our actual values.
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Australia has the 2nd highest number of holocaust survivors because we welcomed them & promised safety, peace, and welcome. It's unconscionable to fail to live up to that promise.
And we don't have to qualify it with "what about supporting some other group", we can just live up to our actual values.
And we don't have to qualify it with "what about supporting some other group", we can just live up to our actual values.