2ď¸âŁ8ď¸âŁ Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) đşđ¸ A pioneer in bacterial genetics, she and her husband discovered transduction gene transfer and the lambda phage. Only her husband went on to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1958. #womeninSTEMwww.jax.org/news-and-ins...
"No one complains of the flexibility and strength of female gymnastsâit is merely amazing. A powerful triple axel on the ice is perfectly feminine when done in a skirt. But a powerful punch? A cheetah-fast sprint? Variation is suddenly of deep concern." www.scientificamerican.com/article/spor...
Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms
This is good. Please call your US reps and ask them to co-sponsor/support. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Long Covid Research Moonshot Act would fund $10 billion to fight the illness.
Thought going for a skate in the park would wake me up and make doing the rest of my MATLAB coding today easier, but instead my brain became convinced that it should now get the entire day off to play outside đđ§ đź
As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they donât mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)
OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
Why weren't these HCWs tested sooner? The pandemic threat is real. "It is not clear if any of these people were actually infected with H5N1; they were not tested...when they were ill. But the fact that they became ill after caring for this patient raises the specter of person-to-person spread..."
