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Making a vaccine isn't a sourdough recipe, but it's easy to crap on other people's hard work that's keeping you alive. People crap on Moderna and Pfizer while forgetting Sanofi, Glaxo, and Merck tried to bring a vaccine to market in 2020: all three failed.

4 Years After an Execution, a Different Man’s DNA Is Found on the Murder Weapon

NY is shutting down a perfectly good nuclear plant

"Dr. Kariko was convinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own medicines, including vaccines. But her career at UPenn was fragile & she migrated from lab to lab & never made more than $60,000/year."

[give her a Nobel Prize and more...]

Nemam Ghafouri, Doctor Who Aided Yazidis in Iraq, Dies at 52

A child born into a poor family is 3 times more likely to get a college degree than a child who has lived in foster care

He Came From Thailand to Care For Family. Then Came a Brutal Attack. i think a lot of asian americans (of all groups) are galvanized cuz this sort of act has been happening for decades. we heard about in the 80s when NYC had a lot of crime

Former Patagonia CEO references the 4 stages of life in the Vedas to explain why she left the company.

Looking forward to future CEO announcements where "left to spend more time with my family" is replaced with "entered forest to commit austerities".

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. makes you physically ill reading the details in this piece.

we are a fallen nation with fallen magistrates who have lost all sense of "ren".

but harris county lawyers would make han feizi proud

A Pakistani-American doctor was fired and is being prosecuted because he gave an opened vaccine to anyone he could find rather than letting it go to waste.

Apparently, it would have been more "equitable" to throw the vaccine out.

This is madness.

Pandemic’s Toll on Housing: Falling Behind, Doubling Up we need to build. developers need to build. the state needs to build. it's atrocious what america does to lower-income ppl. not everyone can/should live in stockton and commute to oakland

It's intriguing to me how, if the values or ideas of religion or the military ever make it to certain rarefied media heights, they always seem to validate the existing worldview. Uncanny really.

India's 'Pickle Queen' Preserves Everything, Including the Past

This is a case study in the truthy claptrap that's now standard in American subscription-driven journalism (as well as parochial American projection).

As we'll see, not only is the headline argument unsubstantiated, it's likely the opposite of true.

John le Carré was particularly angry at reports of Western torture. “I know about interrogation. I’ve done interrogations, and I can tell you this: by extracting information under torture you make a fool of yourself. You obtain information that isn’t true.”

They're missing the third type, "California fridge." It's empty because all your food spoiled in the latest power shutoff.

"Human rights experts say it is troubling that the US talks so strongly about human rights abuses in China, but is willing to engage in deeper...strategic ties with India where similar situations are occurring."

Similar situations?? You're drunk, NYT.

"The West tends to glorify these people as defenders of Hong Kong’s freedoms, but they have done great harm to the city by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland."

The NYT has lost its mind.

Huge Study of Coronavirus Cases in India Offers Some Surprises to Scientists

This NYT article while flawed in several respects has the virtue of at least acknowledging more widely than I have seen in other MSM reporting the Indian heritage of Kamala Harris.

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.”

Read this obituary. This is what SocialJustice used to be all about. This is the milieu from which my politics stem.

There was an honorable, thinking, progressive Left before “Critical Theory” & “Identity” took over.

RIP to Bob, my first boss. Thx again.

Maybe not a coincidence.

Average 'First Leaf' appearance in the contiguous U.S. #dataviz

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The Mask Fiasco To me, this is the seminal failure of this pandemic. Saying that masks are…

@matthewstoller they would have accused of being racist given your china-skepticism