Dear Christians: If you think Creation is good, and life on Earth is good, you should then certainly be for climate action and against the fossil fuel industry, which is threatening all life on Earth and driving a mass extinction. Join the fight - on the side of good.

a library patron came to the desk and said 'I'm getting more into jazz, can you grab me a handful of jazz CDs?' and after making sure he was down to get weird i ran to the stacks and grabbed these. best kind of library work right here

It is not widely known that every morning, intelligence agencies brief Joe Biden with detailed satellite pictures of the Israeli destruction of Gaza, down to bodies of children in the streets. Day after day, Biden sees what few others see, yet still knuckles under to Netanyahu.…

H5N1 bird flu found at 3 more dairy farms, including 1 in Texas, 1 in New Mexico and the 1st outbreak in South Dakota.

The U.S. total is now 24.

NEW: Texas surgeon accused of secretly manipulating government database to make patients unable to receive new livers.

Some patients were found to have impossible criteria in their file, requiring donors to be toddlers weighing 300 pounds.

Patients at Memorial Hermann in…

kinda doubt many people will be swayed by this, but then again, plenty of idiots get their health advice from tiktok and nowhere else, so anything is possible

Study highlights global rise in drug-resistant priority pathogens

The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant and difficult-to-treat gram-negative priority pathogens is rising in most regions of the world.

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Avian flu virus detected in South Dakota dairy herd

Today's announcement raises the number of affected states to eight.

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Approved in Japan, this self-amplifying Covid vaccine that uses much lower doses of mRNA, with less side-effects and potential longer duration of efficacy, is a better template than current mRNA shots
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“While addiction and drug policy experts have repeatedly refuted the idea that touching fentanyl alone can cause an overdose, like a stubborn weed, the lie keeps coming back” ⁦Claire Zagorski, MSc, LP⁩ & ⁦Ryan Marino, MD⁩ salon.com/2024/04/04/tou…

To CDC

Id love to read this article by Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH in NEJM but alas it is out of reach to all but the wealthiest institutions

When the CDC Director writes an important article, I would hope it would be in a format that is made available to all tax payers.…

North Carolina reports its 1st outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cows.

Movement of cattle from affected herds in 6 other states has been suspended.

I wrote about how some people have a higher intolerance of uncertainty, and how being uncomfortable with the unknown is connected to anxiety

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On #WorldHealthDay , world leaders should commit to not bombing hospitals & healthcare workers

Not a big ask

I want to be supportive of World Health Organization (WHO) (they've done a lot of good work on tobacco/alcohol/drugs historically), but their position on vaping is inexplicable & deeply irresponsible; unscientific scaremongering, preferencing smoked tobacco, & abandoning harm reduction pragmatism.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds 160-year-old abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest salon.com/2024/04/09/ari…

“You don’t have two hours that pass in Khartoum without hearing gunshots. You don’t have a single day or night that passes without hearing the sound of bombs.”

Our emergency coordinator, Joel Ghazi, breaks down the dire situation in Sudan👇

I went out to see my friend the Ash Meadows milkvetch (Astragalus phoenix) on Sunday. It's doing quite well this year, very floriferous. A marked contrast to how dismal this species looked during the drought. This plant is listed as threatened and is in a precarious state.

H5N1 bird flu found at 3 more dairy farms in Michigan and New Mexico, raising the total to 20