Putin & Xi Jinping Bodyguards acknowledging each other makes for insanely good viewing.

Fight to the death - who wins out of the two?

State placed migrant children in hotels with registered sex offenders, Globe investigation finds bostonglobe.com/2024/05/17/met… (via Deirdre Fernandes Stephanie Ebbert)

How to kill the ‘zombie’ cells that make you age nature.com/articles/d4158…

In 1934, an aspiring writer asked Ernest Hemingway what books he should read.

He responded with a list of 16 classic works.

They're Great Books. I suggest you read them.

Or, at least, read this thread about them:

“We have to figure out how [H5N1 is] transmitting, how it’s evolving, and stop the transmission so we don’t get to a position where we have to think about how we do a broader response for this in humans,' Dr. Nahid Bhadelia tells The Boston Globe's Adam Piore.
bostonglobe.com/2024/05/08/met…

“If I were a betting person,” she said. “I would guess that there are already other farm workers who may have been infected.”

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia worries federal officials aren’t doing enough to prevent a mutation from getting a foothold in humans.
The Boston Globe Adam Piore

Details of the first documented human case of H5N1 bird flu in the dairy cattle pervasive outbreak
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… NEJM
It's possible/likely that other people have been infected but are not being diagnosed npr.org/sections/healt…

Why did a state social worker pose as a teen in three Boston schools and a treatment center? And how could nobody notice for so long?

bostonglobe.com/2024/05/01/mag… (by Patricia Wen)

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic traced back to a human virus that got into pigs decades ago & evolved more slowly in them, eventually differing enough from human H1s to be able to trigger a pandemic.
Would be good to know how fast #H5N1 #birdflu is evolving in cows.

This is not good.

“In many ways adults have taken over children’s lives. And I think the cost of that is that it takes away from children’s own opportunities to figure things out for themselves.”

In this week’s episode, how to help children thrive.

hiddenbrain.org/podcast/parent…

Loved this piece from Adam Piore on how overprotective parenting could contribute to a rise in teen mental health troubles. As always, Adam manages to get across his huge depth of research through the most readable, interesting writing: bostonglobe.com/2024/04/22/met…

Thea James is a legend - and also one of the kindest, most genuine people you will ever meet. Thanks Adam Piore for capturing the impact she is making Boston Medical Center and for health equity across the nation. The Boston Globe

I found a guy who goes around the US asking 70 to 100-year-olds their:

• Biggest Regrets
• Biggest Lessons
• Advice to their younger self

Oddly enough, most of their answers are the same…

Here are my top 8:

nypost.com/2024/04/09/lif…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/…

The research shows that you probably have less effect on your kids than you think—with one big exception: Your love will make them happy.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Suppressing stressful experiences doesn’t build resilience. It drains resolve.

Stifling unpleasant thoughts and emotions saps energy, limits support, and raises the risk of rebound later.

The best way to cope with distress isn't to ignore it. It's to acknowledge it.

'Exposure to low concentrations of air pollution has a greater impact on human health than previously appreciated.'
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Science Magazine Torben Sigsgaard

Adam Piore Just finished reading 'The New Kings of NY'. Truly outstanding. What I found most interesting was that all of the characters were compelling. Also striking that I didn't find any of them to be particularly unlikeable (in fact, Kent Swig esp seemed like a good guy).