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Bennett
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"AVs almost by definition lower the friction and costs associated with driving ... And we already know, from the last century-plus of experience in the US, what happens when we make driving easier: We will get more of it. And more concrete and asphalt infrastructure to accommodate it." #UrbanTruth
Caring for a creature taken from such a situation is not for the faint of heart, but beagles are sweet and trusting (which is part of why they're used in research!) and there will be many of them looking for a new home. Looks like the rescue org is taking adoption applications here: bdrr.org/adopt
something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...
Driverless cars could save thousands of lives. They might also break our cities.
Just in: The breeder has agreed to transfer 1000 dogs (which does NOT seem to mean all of them? There are closer to 2k) to a rescue org.
www.wkow.com/news/top-sto...
Craig Venter, a key figure in sequencing the human genome, has died at the age of 79.
Venter's company, Celera Genomics, attempted to use faster, cheaper methods to sequence human genetic code before the government-funded Human Genome Project was completed.
www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...
Also gonna leave this here—it starts to get at the many issues of consent, lack of consent, and power involved in the sequencing of the human genome and the subsequent uses of that sequencing:
www.npr.org/2024/07/15/1...
Bennett
you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.
This thread is excellent 10/10 recommend
DANE COUNTY, Wis. (WKOW) — Ridglan Farms appears to be selling nearly 1,000 of its beagles to a rescue group which seeks to offer them a new life.
Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper.
www.npr.org
The Human Genome Project was a massive undertaking that took more than a decade and billions of dollars to complete. For it, scientists collected DNA samples from anonymous volunteers who were told th...
Comment from several ESSGN doctoral candidates now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com. What should be best practices in social science and behavioral genetics?
Mar Hicks
Mar Hicks
By: Vincent J. Straub, Nadia V. Harerimana, Lyydia I. A. AlajääsköAll views expressed are those of the authors. In our recent Nature Human Behaviour Comment, “Early career researcher-led best pract…
this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance.
if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.
1/ No, the New York Times was *not* wrong about birth rates..
There has been some pushback on a recent @upshot.nytimes.com article on US birth rate trends that I think is *mostly* unfair.
The original article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u... #demography
Verona, WI has a prominent road named Nine Mound Rd. Suddenly curious about its origins, I went to some old plat maps (1873) showing 9 burial mounds in what is now the campus of Epic.
Even better, Lidar maps still reveal some of these mounds very clearly.
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William B. Fuckley
"[such] brutal tactics hadn’t been used on animal rights activists before, and the action’s organizers didn’t adequately prepare. In that sense, the movement may have underestimated its own growing influence and power to elicit such a response from law enforcement"
🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...
