21 November 2024

A new antibiotic, darobactin, might be useful to fight drug-resistant E coli and the annoying Acinetobacter baumannii.  It's only moderately effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, however, so there is room for improvement.

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Wow, look at the excess cardiopulmonary arrest deaths in King County, Washington, with strong temporal association with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign launch. Why was this promoted for so long?
Peter McCullough has another paper out showing a strong connection between the vaccine and deaths.

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Wow. Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025. Wonder what compelled them to offer this now? Seems strange for them to be so magnanimous all of a sudden.

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“If you can have a bunch of small ‘yous’ running around and actually making the decisions that you would have made—that, I think, is ultimately the future,” Park says.
Uncanny valley.  Maybe this is how the Singularity starts.

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Neurons in a frontal region called the anterior cingulate cortex were connected to an intermediate brainstem area in the pons, which was then connected to the medulla just below
This was actually discovered around 2013 by another group.

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Don't get sick in Eugene. Their hospital system has really declined. Lots of reasons for it, but it got worse during the coronavirus epidemic. This should be one of Tina Kotek's priorities, instead of stockpiling mifepristone.

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Portland's property values are declining. Wait until Trump's inauguration in January 2025. How many businesses will just give up.  This must aggravate Portland residents – pay high taxes and you can't even enjoy the city.  Oh, but others can. Here's a new open air fentanyl market.

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