'Allowing community members to leverage their noncompliance with our rules to extract concessions from the University is...unfair. It denies the rest of us—those upholding our collective norms—the equal standing we ought to enjoy to have our voices heard.' thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

The Case Against Negotiation. Outstanding piece by Harvard University professor of government, Eric M. Nelson. He offers prudential and moral objections to this practice, an ongoing demand by some student activists and their faculty supporters . The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

However beautiful auroras look to the eye, the thing you need to realize is that you’re witnessing a planet-sized particle accelerator where the target is the Earth’s atmosphere, the Earth’s magnetic field guides the beams, the detectors are your eyes, & the accelerated source…

The top 10 photos from last night’s solar storm & aurora borealis around the world.

1. Netherlands (Albert Dros)

'We are the intifada!' at the UC San Diego encampment.
Students being indoctrinated into supporting terror and violence.
During the second intifada ~700 Israeli civilians were killed in terrorist attacks - suicide bombings - some carried out by children & teenagers.

This 'sword' was found in the encampment
truly a symbol of peace and non-violence

Regardless of your views re Israel-Hamas war, imagine if you are parent of a child in a school with such stuff around, what would you expect university administration to do?

That is the decision making we are confronted with, little to do with free speech.

Good explanation of what you saw last night...for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious...

Don't breathe unfiltered air in public bathrooms

Especially hospitals

#WearARespirator

The overburdened wastewater infrastructure in Tijuana, Mexico frequently results in raw sewage being released into the Tijuana River and off the coast of Southern California, contaminating waterways and threatening public health.

Senator Alex Padilla, Rep. Juan Vargas,…

Did you see our letter, concerned about Orwellian tactics by World Health Organization (WHO) to control and obfuscate scientific language?
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Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. Schools and healthcare settings for starters. Thanks for staying on this. ♥️

Now that the world realizes many respiratory viruses are airborne and can be inhaled...what next? My view is the biggest quick impact is to ramp up filtration in all schools (including pre-school) and measure the massive impact it has on reducing the spread of disease. Why not?

How about protecting kids from airborne viruses in schools?

The World Health Organization (WHO) airborne saga :

Ep.1, March 2020: 'COVID-19 is not airborne'

Ep.2 May 2020: Let's improve the ventilation system at our headquarters (one never knows)

Ep.3 March 2021: Roadmap to indoor ventilation

Ep.4 March 2024: COVID-19 is airborne, let's clarify the terminology

Letter in The Lancet regarding the WHO's attempt to change terminology around airborne transmission is now up. Proud to be associated with the amazing Trisha Greenhalgh, Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉 and Julia M Wright AIRBORNE @juliamwright.bsky.social !

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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Babies have the highest SARS2 ICU admission rate among all age ranges.

They should be protected from infection by those around them and those around pregnant people & parents.

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THEY KNEW

WHO gets ventilation

Davos gets ventilation

Governments get ventilation

Private schools for rich peoples' kids get ventilation

The rich get COVID therapies and ventilation

We get told we can't have ventilation because...equity

Honestly we're the suckers

#COVIDIsAirborne