A day that began in Hillwood gardens in DC ended at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. These two were happy to pose.
A day that began in Hillwood gardens in DC ended at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. These two were happy to pose.
It isn’t every day that a podcast goes from my Testing to the Regular playlist, so I have to mark the moment. “Reason is Fun” by Lulie Tanett and David Deutsch is, well, fun and thought-provoking throughout, even if (because?) I often disagree with either or both of the hosts.
Incidentally, this is the first time in nine (!?) years that Overcast’s Suggestions for you section had something that was both new and noteworthy. There were a few more that look promising, so either the algorithm has changed or it has finally learned my tastes.
In a scene right out of The Wire, a man was shot while watching a soccer game in Adams Morgan, right next to our kids' old elementary school. In fact, had we not moved a few months ago, it would have been their current ES — this happened not 500 feet from our old back yard, as the crow files.
So anyway, if you cut the police budget, crime goes up. Who knew? (And yes, this continues to annoy.)
“A fixer-upper in Georgetown is on sale for $50,000. It’s a wall."
The perfect headline for the perfect DC story. Washington real estate, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaking of crumbling architecture, Abandoned America has some breathtaking photos from abandoned US hospitals, most of them unnamed and with undisclosed locations to prevent vandalism. But the only one I ever visited, the Athens Lunatic Asylum, was easy to recognize.
Incidentally, this blog's Open Graph image was shot in the Asylum.
This room-temperature superconductor news has potential to be either really big, or just another footnote in the history of physics, but either way the number of hits I got about it from different sources was interesting:
RSS wins! Again.
Two things keep me logging back in to Twitter X: DMs from people who should know better, and all of my colleagues who insist using it. But how else was I supposed to learn of this petition for ABIM to eliminate their “maintenance of certification” grift?
🧟 Beware of the zombie trials:
More than one-quarter of a subset of manuscripts describing randomized clinical trials submitted to the journal Anaesthesia between 2017 and 2020 seemed to be faked or fatally flawed when their raw data could be examined, editor John Carlisle reported. He called these ‘zombies’. But when their raw data could not be obtained, Carlisle could label only 1% as zombies.
Good thing that science is a strong link problem, because too many of the links are just sawdust and dreams. (via Derek Lowe)