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Katalin Kariko
Katalin Kariko
The New York Times reports on Katalin “Kati” Kariko, whose work with colleagues on messenger RNA became the foundation for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
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Katalin Kariko
Right?
Right?
His purpose is to create the illusion that a witness is agreeing with the defense. But it’s a pretty transparent tactic, and the illusion is one an observer can see right through.
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Right?
Minutes past and future
Minutes past and future
I have noticed that my university’s website posts not the minutes but the "past minutes" of committee meetings. This phrasing can mean but one thing: that the university plans to post “future minutes,” minutes of meetings that have not yet taken place.
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Minutes past and future
Advice from Gabby Giffords
Advice from Gabby Giffords
Jeffrey Brown: “What do you tell yourself when things are difficult?” Gabby Giffords: “Move ahead.”
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Advice from Gabby Giffords
Recently updated
Recently updated
I worked up the patience to do some searches for “I ain’t do no drugs” and “I ate too many drugs.”
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Recently updated
Another bedroom
Another bedroom
The room layout was the same as always: kitchen, bathroom, “TV room,” living room, bedroom. But now there was another bedroom, dark.
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Another bedroom
Lobbying
Lobbying
No one else was there, but tables and chairs had been set up for an event.
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Lobbying
Drugs, doing, eating
Drugs, doing, eating
Re: the day’s developments in the Derek Chauvin murder trial: “I ain’t do no drugs” is something people say. “I ate too many drugs” is not. See your nearest search engine for confirmation.
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Drugs, doing, eating
“Individual meat loaves”
“Individual meat loaves”
The marmalade cuts the taste of the Prem. The cauliflower and buttered almonds cut the taste of the Prem and marmalade. The french fried onion rings cut the taste of the cauliflower and buttered almonds.
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“Individual meat loaves”
Safari vs. Chrome
Safari vs. Chrome
From MacSparky, a comparison of Mac RAM usage in Safari and Chrome.
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Safari vs. Chrome
COVID-19 in Douglas County
COVID-19 in Douglas County
Forty-six cases from one bar opening. This story is now everywhere, with “rural Illinois” or, at best, Douglas County given as the location. A local news source has identified the bar in question.
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COVID-19 in Douglas County
A painting rediscovered
A painting rediscovered
“Alice Neel painted two neighborhood boys in her studio in the 1960s. Fifty years later, the mystery of what happened to the picture has been solved”: a bittersweet story from The New York Times.
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A painting rediscovered
Simone Weil on force
Simone Weil on force
Force can take the form of a knee on a neck or a vehicle aimed at human beings in uniform. It can be directed against a person or a community. It can be the work of a lone wolf, as we now say, or a larger group, or the state. One need not be a believer to be thinking these thoughts on Good Friday.
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Simone Weil on force
Mary Miller on a billboard
Mary Miller on a billboard
In Effingham, Illinois, the heart of Illinois’s fifteenth congressional district, the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association has rented a billboard to share Representative Mary Miller’s words with the world.
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Mary Miller on a billboard