Mark Fitzgerald

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

;-)

For decades, scientists believed that plastics were some of the safest materials around. Now, a new study shows just how flawed that assumption was. A range of studies have found links between microplastic exposure and various health problems.

Burette Updated Burette is a macOS desktop app and Quick Look extension for molecular previews: Mol* 3D, xyzrender SVG, and RDKit grids. There is a review of Burette here it can...

Snow puff! Photo from my collection, 1960.

By Haruka Kawakami

This is so so bad. This is an excellent and needed article from the NYT. What many people would like is for them to connect the dots in a full court press. This is an emergency

$4,700 more. That’s how much extra Trump’s tariffs and Trump’s war have cost the average American family. Republicans promised lower prices on day ONE. It's been 600+ days.

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Casper the friendly ghost is excited to see you for Halloween barn tonight! 👻

Evening of doodling

driving home from walgreens, i saw someone's blowup dracula had blown into the road and it was just lying face down on a four lane street and all i can think of is this innocent dracula getting mowed down by an SUV and i'm going to think about it all day. i should have saved it

".. UnitedHealth and Humana increased the maximum amount an individual would need to pay for medical services in 2027 by 11 per cent and 8 per cent respectively. .. They also both raised the costs for prescription drug coverage by about 30 per cent .." $UNH $HUM

I'm pretty sure that God does not approve.

I am afraid of older drivers in the Mass. suburbs.

Our #decolonisingchemistry project goes on to explore what happened next in the history of perfumery. We incorporate these stories as background reading material into our practical course, and hope this empowers our students to see the diverse, global history of chemical science. @york.ac.uk

The history of perfumery has been incorporated into the curriculum @chemistryatyork.bsky.social as part of our #DecolonisingChemistry project. The story includes the 'first ever' chemist - a woman in Mesopotamia in ca. 1200 BC, developing practical techniques still used in the modern chemistry lab.

Trump is claiming that the US is running low on Tomahawk missiles because "Biden gave them all to Ukraine." The US has never given any Tomahawk missles to Ukraine. Not even one. Not ever.

What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?

Some gorgeous foliage in the cemetery today:

Maine is glorious, even on dank days. (Photo by a friend who is foliage hunting up north)

We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.

Nailed it. 🔨

⚡️US senators call Trump’s Russian diesel decision ‘a total betrayal of Ukraine.’ Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren condemned Trump’s decision to allow global purchases of Russian diesel for six months.

Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

Waves pummeled south-facing beaches in Southern California, flooding communities as Tropical Storm Rachel approaches the West Coast. In Long Beach, waves breached a bulkhead, flooding homes and nearby streets, according to the Long Beach Post and videos.

Can an oral small molecule provide renal and cardiovascular benefits just like the injectable GLP1 meds? The answer is probably so! New blog post today about Achieve 4 and it's CV trial that was presented at EASD. They also looked at it's renal benefits. So shout-out to #NephJC as well.

Today, a Russian strike on Pryluky 🇺🇦 killed at least 19 people, incl. 5 children. Same day, in Moscow, ex-🇩🇪 Chancellor Gerhard Schröder told staff of the Russian hypermarket chain whose board he just joined: "I'm very happy to be here... and to meet you, my wonderful colleagues." Moral bankruptcy

In Opinion After this summer’s rogue A.I. attacks, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, “has emerged as a leading skeptic of the danger this technology poses,” Stephen Witt writes. “As his biographer, I understand why he dismisses the risk. I also worry that he’s not seeing the whole picture.”

Not cool.

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

We appear to have broken the planet. #ElNino #climatechange #climate

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

This took a few days to write because how do you put medical history into words? There will be a time within my lifetime that bariatric surgery will become rare because of days like last week. Obesity, even morbid obesity can be treated with pharmacology now thanks to new GLP1 meds

GOLDMAN: “.. market breadth has recently plunged.” $SPX

It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….

Because it's buried at the bottom of the article and CNN is presenting it in a misleading way: before people worry, the "unknown" part is how the worker was exposed, the pathogen is good old fashioned Y. pestis which we understand extremely well and can treat just fine if caught early

Oh yeah that’s the good stuff

Happy World Animal Day! 💚 “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." — Mahatma Gandhi #rescueanimals #animalsanctuary

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/46OMl6v