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Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world.
It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion about how to control deadly emerging viruses.
it’s so cool how modern media is like, “ah i’m afraid your original IP only scored a 97.5% approval rating from critics and viewers, so we won’t be renewing it for a second season” and meanwhile there’s like 16 different takes on Batman floating around
Thank you President Carter
These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades
“Wait, Wait.. Don’t Tell Me” premiered on about a dozen public radio stations 27 years ago today.
Ann Telnaes deserves praise for sacrificing her job at the disgraced Washington Post in service of journalistic independence
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
The U.S. government already knows how to be ruthless. Never forget that.
This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”
Venus and the Moon looking lovely tonight! (And fainter Saturn nearby)
Current and former Special Agents in Charge from the U.S. Secret Service – Carter Protective Division carry President Carter's remains to the hearse as the motorcade departs from the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, GA.
I’ll watch Arsenal today (in between my binge session of Slow Horses which I’m really late to watching but it’s really good)
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.
It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the [Washington] Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
This whole Dittmann thing has made it clear it's time to be less online. Who wants to spend the next however many years of this oncoming shitshow lavishing attention on the man-baby oligarchs who have hijacked the country? Not moi.
Here’s a simple shot of the Pleiades star cluster we took 2 nights ago—still a work in progress! No flats used, so the gradient is pretty prominent. The night sky always leaves me in awe! 🌌✨
Listening to 2000’s nostalgia playlists with Nokia 3210s on the cover photo. Curated by a 20 year old who is trying to imagine what my 20’s were like
Happy Birthday to Caitlin "Cait" O'Riordan, bass guitar player for the Irish punk/folk band the Pogues and later bass player with Elvis Costello, born on this day in 1965, Lagos, Nigeria
Photo by Bob Gallagher
POV: You're a mouse, and you're about to have a not great day
What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
omw to my piano lesson I can’t wait to tell my teacher, Mr Michael, all about my failed encounters with men and then learn a new chord progression