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The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
erictopol.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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3 years ago @ahandvanish.bsky.social, @lisamccorkell.bsky.social, @julialmv.bsky.social and I published a review on #LongCovid. Since then it has been downloaded nearly 2 million times and is #4 of >500,000 papers published since by @altmetric.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and ...
www.nature.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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The first sleep AI foundation model for predicting diseases was published today @naturemedicine.bsky.social
by @jameszou.bsky.social and colleagues
nature.com/articles/s41...
With Notebook LM, I made this infographic that tells the rich story pretty well
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Jim Hansen and others precit a temperature rise of 1.7C in 2027

This is broadly in line with UK Met Office projections that point to anything up to 2C in any single year between now and 2030

And a 70% chance of the 5-year average being 1.5C or more

jimehansen.substack.com/p/global-tem...
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest
jimehansen.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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approaching a rapidly strengthening tornado in central Minnesota on 7/8/2020
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Celebrate the season with global flavors! 🎄🌍

Our Food for Life instructors shared 13 festive, plant-based recipes inspired by traditions from Argentina, Poland, Thailand, the UK, the UAE & more.

Explore the full holiday roundup → www.pcrm.org/news/13-fest...
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this view into category 5 hurricane #Melissa's eye just before landfall today... what a shot!
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.
October 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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FIP is when an individual cat experiences a mutation of a common feline coronavirus. Until relatively recently the prognosis was pretty horrible but there is a HIGHLY effective treatment available now: www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-...
I adopted a two pack of ginger kittens. The vet suspects one has FIP (a covid) and watching for now. Does anyone have experience getting their cat diagnosed with FIP and / or treatment? Shes definitely a survivor!
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Every square inch of the forest floor is a work of art. ✨
October 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#paleoctober2025 day 6 : Ichthyotitan severnensis !

Triassic ichthyosaurs are quite something, having in their ranks some of the biggest marine vertebrates of all time. Althought this one is only known from partial jaw remains, it's estimated to be nearly 25m long.
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Evidence keeps accumulating for the environmental toxin exposure link to Parkinson's disease, beyond pesticides. Today on trichloroethylene (TCE), used in dry cleaning
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
October 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Nitric oxide from vegetable nitrates, from greens, for instance, not only improves oxygen efficiency, but also oxygen delivery by vasodilation of blood vessels—that is, by opening up our arteries so there’s more blood flow. bit.ly/3joxk0V
#Leafygreens #Vegetables #Plantbased
September 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Evidence-based tips on getting better sleep: the primacy of circadian rhythm
new feature
@nature.com
nature.com/articles/d41...
September 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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My @CNN segment today on this remarkable report of the longest living human

video.snapstream.net/Play/6kulXiA...
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Having higher levels of C-reactive protein in our blood may increase our risk of dying prematurely by 42 percent. Those with the highest levels of (IL-6), interleukin-6, another marker of inflammation, may increase premature death risk 49 percent. see.nf/plantshift
#Longevity #Healthspan
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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The revolution in the approach to Alzheimer’s disease for emerging prevention and new treatments, a 3-part series
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM