I'm all itchy lately.

[conuly]

Again.

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To Restore Remote Palmyra Atoll, Getting Rid of Rats Was Just the First Step

In rare show of solidarity, 14 key nations commit to protect oceans

Experimental flu vaccine could last for years, early results show

The Skeletons at the Lake

Engineers are using mice, ants and virtual reality to study crowd behaviour so infrastructure can cope with attacks and other disasters

Photography Has Gotten Climate Change Wrong From the Start

Nation sees Christmas tree shortage, local tree farms prepare (Fuck.)

Passive-aggressive gifts that kids will love and their parents will hate

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Exposed the Absurdities of New York’s Parole System

Cytokine Storm (This is pretty dense with technical terms, and it's 2am. I'll tackle it when I wake up.)

Face shields no match for sneeze vortex rings ("Sneeze Vortex Ring" sounds like a Demon Stalkers anti-piracy riddle that needs a cipher wheel to decode.)

US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead

The Secret Internet of TERFs

Comments

[greghousesgf]

The passive aggressive gifts article cracked me up (but then I don't have kids) but it also made me remember my niece getting this toy violin on the Xmas she was four that sounded NOTHING like a violin. It made this horrendous shrieking and she LOVED it and played it ALL DAY.

[bibliofile]

I'd promised my brother that I'd buy his kids a drum set to be delivered after my SO and I had moved to another hemisphere.

SO and I didn't leave town, but a couple years later there were TWO drum kits in the house. Neither one was from me.

[bibliofile]

Augh, TERFs/FARTs. Hardly surprising, though, that extremists become only more extreme in isolation.

[conuly]

Yup :(