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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Via our friends at TheLandCle.org in Cleveland, a story about how "Trash Fish" and his lake monster are helping clean up Lake Erie.
Couldn't help thinking: Just the kind of saga Rob Reiner would have loved.
More from Deb Fallows here: www.ourtownsfoundation.org/plastic-mons...
Couldn't help thinking: Just the kind of saga Rob Reiner would have loved.
More from Deb Fallows here: www.ourtownsfoundation.org/plastic-mons...
Plastic monster launched into Lake Erie to boost awareness of microplastics, pollution - Our Towns
This story delights us at Our Towns as an example that pulls together several of our pet passions: citizen engagement, local volunteer participation,
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December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Via our friends at TheLandCle.org in Cleveland, a story about how "Trash Fish" and his lake monster are helping clean up Lake Erie.
Couldn't help thinking: Just the kind of saga Rob Reiner would have loved.
More from Deb Fallows here: www.ourtownsfoundation.org/plastic-mons...
Couldn't help thinking: Just the kind of saga Rob Reiner would have loved.
More from Deb Fallows here: www.ourtownsfoundation.org/plastic-mons...
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A Dark-eyed Junco about to bite into a Bittersweet berry.
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A Dark-eyed Junco about to bite into a Bittersweet berry.
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Read more about the first recorded strike in history on this link:
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The First Recorded Strike in History
By Jenny Cromwell In year 29 of the reign of Rameses III, the workmen of the village of Deir el-Medina – state workers who were responsible for the construction of the royal tombs – went on strike.…
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December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Read more about the first recorded strike in history on this link:
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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I remember when the Internet was fun.
As an aside, I just noticed that if you google a font, google displays the entire results page in that font.
Which is neat.
Which is neat.
I refuse to surrender classical antiquity or Times New Roman font to the fascists.
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I remember when the Internet was fun.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
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I see it as the world trying to claw its collective eyes out in grief and horror over Trump.
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I see it as the world trying to claw its collective eyes out in grief and horror over Trump.
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More evidence of the hellscape war-ravaged Bay Area we keep hearing about. Yummy.
Go Oakland 💪
Go Oakland 💪
For the second year in a row, Bay Area city is named best food city in the US
The travel magazine also ranked San Francisco as No. 5 on the 2025 list.
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
More evidence of the hellscape war-ravaged Bay Area we keep hearing about. Yummy.
Go Oakland 💪
Go Oakland 💪
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Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
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Yes, indeed, I will be running the annual gift guide again this year!
Authors, artists, makers of all kinds, don't miss the chance to be featured on @scalzi.com blog The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide Starts Monday!
Every year as the holiday season begins we’ve run a gift guide for the holidays, and over the years it’s been quite successful: Lots of people have found out about excellent books and crafts a…
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November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yes, indeed, I will be running the annual gift guide again this year!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my amazing followers! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my amazing followers! 🦃
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
Can someone show the White House Press Corpse a montage of the reporters who covered previous administrations, the ones who weren't complete cowards?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
― Edward R. Murrow
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
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We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.
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Cosign.
bailing out SVB (beyond the usual $250k per account) was such a bad move, in terms of policy and politics. People–supposedly guys good with money–that irresponsible shouldn't get made whole.
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Cosign.
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.