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Heather Cox Richardson’s February 6, 2025 Letters from an American Substack essay is worth a read.
RIP, Dr. David Crippen, an amazing polymath whose legacy lives on in the International Critical Care List he started.
Recommended:
• The heavy-handed, indiscriminate, and woefully uninformed attempts at budget cutting by Musk and his seeming puppet Trump continue with the imposition of a 15% “indirect research costs” cap at the NIH. Researchers (like, alas, many others) in the US are under siege by people wielding hammers whose authority is dubious at best. For more details, read Jeremy Faust’s February 8 Substack post here. And/or see Harlan Krumholz’s 5 minute video.
• Writing in the Harvard Gazette, Christina Pazzanese interviews Daniel Poneman on the state of the nuclear industry in the US.
• We’re littering near-earth space just like we junked up the planet. The Washington Post Editorial Board describes the issue well – Space trash is falling from the sky. And that’s not the worst of it.
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Let’s just say it’s not all rosy in Web3’s not-so-meta world; caveat emptor…
Howard Oakley’s Eclectic Light Mac Feed:
Always lots of good Mac OS insights here…