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wapo.stThe most important things to do to stay healthy while travelingAn infectious-diseases doctor shares essential tips to prepare for any health issues while traveling in another country.

18h

Oh great an article about how to stay healthy when traveling… with zero mentions of wearing a mask. Public health is a joke.

Still doesn’t feel real 😭

nytimes.comA Reporter Who Saw Covid Coming Has DiedHelen Branswell recognized the threat of the pandemic ahead of the vast majority of journalists and even medical experts. She was 69.

A huge loss for science and health reporting. Thank you for all your critical work @helenbranswell.bsky.social!

NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns repping Novavax! As a science communicator I really appreciate KAT’s consistency in advocating for COVID vaccines, years after the start of the pandemic. For him it’s personal, he lost his mother to COVID.

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency due to the measles outbreak. This was avoidable.

governor.ny.govGovernor Hochul Declares State Disaster Emergency in Response to Ongoing Measles OutbreakGovernor Hochul issued an Executive Order declaring a State Disaster Emergency in response to the growing number of measles cases across rural areas of New York and neighboring states.

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Chicago rn

Mayor Zohran Mamdani held hands Curtis Sliwa as they got their flu shots 😂

Who is this team??? #LGY

Now that Man City have been found guilty of cheating… congrats Ted Lasso, you are now a Premier League champion!

The bald eagle struggling is so on point 😭

Happy to report the UN has fantastic indoor air quality! But I did get questioned by multiple security guards about why I was wearing a mask. I told them we were attending meetings about preventing pandemics 🤷🏻‍♂️

Joining global advocates for clean air at the UN today! ✊

There were a few of us wearing high quality masks including one of the lead organizers, Dr. Bronwyn King!

Just casually bumping into @who.int Director General @drtedros.who.int at the UN. No more pandemics!

Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge.

New pin unlocked 📌 Happy Climate and UNGA week y’all!

nytimes.comWhite House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

20 Sept

Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.

15 Sept

Ok fine, Zohran did not fix everything

15 Sept

It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.

thecooldown.comUS electric co-ops call EPA gas plant rule 'untenable' as data center demand surgesA fight over how to power the AI boom is spilling into federal climate policy as electric cooperative executives urged the government to scrap an EPA rule.

15 Sept

Background on the lobbying:

14 Sept

Trump curse strikes again

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Giants and Jets both win on opening weekend. Zohran really is a miracle worker!

nytimes.comE.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

14 Sept

UN: Climate change will reach at least 1.8 C, a point where there are no good outcomes Trump: Great time to repeal limits on power plant pollution!

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14 Sept

Giants and Jets both win on opening weekend. Zohran really is a miracle worker!

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12 Sept

BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ruled that the Trump admin broke the law when it ordered a 50% cut in FEMA employees — including thousands of on-call workers who respond to disasters.

washingtonpost.comFederal judge rules Trump plan to cut FEMA by 50 percent was unlawfulThe judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.

We’re cooked

It’s valid to be skeptical of the CDC, given the leadership there. But most outbreak data comes from state health departments. You can easily double check any aggregated national data the CDC publishes by comparing for with state level data for consistency.

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The CDC has declared the cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce over. Nearly 13,000 cases in 21 states have been linked to Taylor Farms lettuce. 570 people have been hospitalized and two have died.

Source: www.cdc.gov/cyclosporias...

cdc.govCyclospora Outbreak Linked to Iceberg LettuceInformation on the multistate outbreak of <em>Cyclospora</em> in the United States that recently ended.

Here’s the chart for Cyclospora cases linked to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce that was processed in Mexico and recalled in July.

The latest best-by date on the recalled lettuce was Aug. 3, meaning that the affected lettuce should not be available in stores or restaurants. But new cases have still mounted in the weeks since, in part because it takes so long to become sick from cyclospora.

The FDA is also investigating four smaller cyclospora outbreaks, the largest of which has 231 cases. They have not yet identified the sources of these outbreaks.

The CDC said that there is no longer a risk of people getting sick with cyclospora from Taylor Farms’ iceberg lettuce, and that fewer than two infections per day occurred in August, on average.

25 years ago. Utter devastation. New York rose up from the ashes, because that’s what New York always does and will always do. But the world changed forever from that point. It isn't enough to talk about peace. We must all work at it.

Video source: ig/maxidny

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This was the US-Aussie mashup I never knew we needed 🇦🇺🇺🇸

Wow. They are doing an indigenous land acknowledgment at an NFL game. Great work, Melbourne!

9to5mac.comThe new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5MacApple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He...

9 Sept

We want clean air and water and a livable climate. Instead we are getting AI to record all of our conversations through a watch.

8 Sept

Zohran Mamdani released 170K documents revealing that post-9/11 asbestos levels remained dangerous for months, despite officials saying the air was safe. As we saw at the start of COVID, officials still treat essential workers as expendable. This is a long-overdue step in the right direction.