Our bubble baby at the NIH Clinical Center playground, back when I was working there. NIH was a bubble in its on way too, of course.

My hometown highway exit the last time I was there, seven years ago. And in a few short months I’ll be back for another visit!

What used to South Cape May on the Jersey Shore is now mostly under the sea as the beach slowly eroded. Unlike that city’s wooden Victorian houses, this WW2 bunker is too heavy to drift away — but the sand around it is not.

🍿 Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) was fun, and I’ll pat myself on the back for being only 3 years late to this party.

Now, instead of jumping straight to the sequel we’ll check out the director’s 2008 live-action debut which I’ve never heard of before but my oh my does it look promising.

You can recognize avarice in any community, and the carps at the US National Arboretum are no different. It is no accident that the one fish with its mouth wide open and ready to eat is also the largest one in the pond.

I don’t often leave online reviews and when I do it’s usually to commend. Not this time.

I might have cooled off by the time I got back home, but then I noticed that the worst auto repair shop in DC has left me a surprise.

Always great to see a treatment mature from the lab to clinical trials to a write-up in The Atlantic. This is about post-transplant cyclophosphamide, initially developed at Hopkins for haploidentical (“half-matched”) stem cell transplants, now used even for full matches as it works so well in preventing graft versus host disease. Cheap as chips too, if you can get it (but of course low price and short supply are closely related).

As a long-time subscriber to the FT and a fan of Janan Ganesh I was glad to see that they both got head-nods from kottke.org (and before that, Robin Sloan). Yes, it is well worth the price.