Puma’s Secret Garden: Study Reveals Sly Strategy of Nurturing Nature To Lure Prey SciTech Daily
What color were Neandertals? John Hawks
Easter After-Action Report
Easter is God reminding us of this one life-changing thing FOX. Clickbait. My gawd.
Surprise Bitcoin Easter Egg Fuels Wild Satoshi Nakamoto Identity Theory Forbes
What Is an Easter Egg? 27 Examples of Hidden Treats in Software, Websites, Games, and Movies Make Use of
Climate
Spontaneous dark formation of OH radicals at the interface of aqueous atmospheric droplets PNAS. “The ubiquity of aqueous aerosols and cloud droplets and their possibly strong OH-producing capability suggests that we have to rethink atmospheric multiphase oxidation chemistry.” We know nothing. Perhaps we have an atmospheric scientist in the readership?
#COVID19
The Risks of Even Mild COVID-19: 1 in 4 Showing Cognitive Deficits After Mild Case, Brazilian Study Finds BrainFacts.org. Handy diagrams.
COVID-19 delirium and encephalopathy: Pathophysiology assumed in the first 3 years of the ongoing pandemic Brain Disorders. A “narrative review.” From the Discussion: “The close correlation between COVID-19 and neurodegenerative diseases highlights the potential role of COVID-19 in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases. The neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are sustained by the chronic inflammatory reactions that flood the brain with proinflammatory factors, damaging neural cells and leading to brain ischemia. Oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, cytokine storm, and immune response are the main inducers of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion, neuroinflammation, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction can contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases.”
Great metaphor…
“You probably already have everything in your pantry”
What the recipe thinks you have in your pantry:
– a whole bone-in half ham
– red currant jelly
– English mustard powder
– 2-liter bottle of Sprite
– juniper berries plucked from the garden— Eric Kim (@ericjoonho) April 8, 2023
… for “personal risk assessment” in the complete absence of data, and no mitigations.
Hospital Infection Control is at it again:
Bonnie, good job.
Symptoms of Long COVID Differ for People of Different Racial and Ethnic Groups NIH. Income?
China?
China’s financial sector rocked by expansion of anti-corruption drive FT
Xi Jinping’s inner circle is getting ‘even tighter’ with powerful new chief of staff South China Morning Post
Japan, China meet to discuss maritime concerns as Beijing simulates attack on Taiwan Channel News Asia
Japan government weighs A.I. adoption as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits Prime Minister Fumio Kishida CNBC
Tokyo ramen shop bans customers from using their phones while eating CNN
India
Some Indian states make masks mandatory as COVID-19 cases rise Anadolu Agency
As tiger count grows, India’s Indigenous demand land rights AP
Syraqistan
Israel’s Mossad denies role in protests against judicial overhaul Anadolu Agency. Oh.
Hamas calls for financial donations via Bitcoin Anadolu Agency
European Disunion
France denies military presence in Ukraine Politico. The deck: “Leaked documents imply French soldiers are on the ground.”
Dear Old Blighty
NHS WORKERS BETRAYED: ‘Cover up’ Allegations As Most NHS Trusts Say No Staff Died of Covid on Their Watch Byline Times. Not plausible.
New Not-So-Cold War
Journalist Pavel Zarubin’s interview with Vladimir Putin, 25 March 2023 (abbreviated transcript) Gilbert Doctorow. Missed this. Still germane.
Ukraine May Run Out of Air Defenses by May, Leaked Pentagon Documents Warn WSJ
Europe Has Pledged a Million Shells for Ukraine in a Year. Can It Deliver? NYT
Norway Has Sent To Ukraine All-In-One Breaching Vehicles, Custom-Made For Breaking Through Russian Defenses Forbes
Ukraine likely to face bloody Crimea fight, satellite images show Al Jazeera
Ukraine Broadens State Of Emergency, Calls Up Military Reservists RFE
US officials searching for source of intelligence leak suspect an American is responsible South China Morning Post. I expect the press to start baying for the death penalty at any time.
South of the Border
Brazil workers’ movement steps up land invasions under Lula government FT
B-a-a-a-d Banks
Options trading surges as investors brace themselves for US regional bank volatility FT
Banking Survival Guide: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To Thriving Despite Bank Failures Forbes. Personal risk assessment is key!
The Supremes
This Very Strange Painting Immortalizes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s Freebie Luxury Vacations With a Republican Donor Artnet. The donor is Harlan Crow. Unmentioned in the headline is Leonard Leo, also in the painting. Musical interlude.
Republican Funhouse
Expelled Tennessee lawmakers both seeking seats again AP
Report: Florida officials cut key data from vaccine study AP
Not all Republicans feel ‘Ukraine fatigue,’ as GOP splits over continued aid Iowa Capitol Dispatch
Fox News Settles Defamation Case With Venezuelan Businessman NYT. On voting machines. There’s been a lot of serious work done on voting machines by Democrats, in the wake of Ohio 2024, for example. There’s also a lot of good academic work. AFAIK, the Trump campaign and its entourage relied on none of that, and went with its own cray cray lawyers and activists. So they not only couldn’t make their cases, plural — the real election interference was suppressing the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop, in any case — they completely polluted the discourse, good job. If supporting (inherently hackable) digital voting isn’t a badge of liberal Democrat tribalism, it soon will be. So it goes.
Democrats Déshabillé
To Liberal Democrats, the FBI is just “anyone”:
Personally, I think the FBI should stop badgering Twitter with flagged tweets. Waste of time and money and looks bad.
Is that evidence the FBI is ‘censoring’ Twitter or Twitter is following FBI orders? Nope.
Anyone can badger Twitter if a TOS violation occurs, etc.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 9, 2023
Looks like the good Mehdi’s taking point on Taibbi. Ka-ching.
The Bezzle
Tackling the biggest fraud in US history – pandemic relief Christian Science Monitor. This is America. How else were we going to distribute the money?
Fintech founder parlayed connections for JPMorgan deal before fraud charges FT. When you read “founder,” think “fraudster.”
Police State Watch
What Happens When Your Social Media Photos End Up in the Hands of Police The Marshall Project. Cops make quota?
Abortion
Health secretary slams abortion pill ruling as ‘not America’ AP
Healthcare
Private Equity and Its Hospitals Washington Monthly
Regular old pneumonia treatment just got better. Inside Medicine (NL).
Our Famously Free Press
Twitter removes NPR’s ‘state-affiliated’ designation, replaces it with ‘government funded’ label FOX
Zeitgest Watch
Can We No Longer Believe Anything We See? DYNUZ
Imperial Collapse Watch
Navy’s future HALO ‘hypersonic’ missile might not actually be hypersonic Defense Scoop
I may have found the most expensive McDonald’s ‘value’ meals in the country – here’s the proof The U.S. Sun (Re Silc).
Class Warfare
America Is Back in the Factory Business WSJ
As Tech Jobs Disappear, Silicon Valley Veterans Reset Their Careers WSJ
Delaware decision shows how private equity preys on vulnerable CEOs FT
Plant Fungus Infects Human in First Reported Case of Its Kind Science Alert. From the original: “The pathogen[ic fungus] enters the human body through damaged skin and the respiratory tract [oh] and can causes infection mostly in immunocompromised individuals [so that’s good news, then].”
The Money-Saving Power of Your Library Card WSJ
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
