It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

We've known versions of this since October. Every single person supporting the assault on Gaza has abandoned the hostages while pretending to seek their return.

The elite panic over the protests is really remarkable. Do they really not understand the dangers of escalation?

To supply low-carbon power to a grid via nuclear, solar, wind, or grid batteries, how much material must we dig up to build those power plants?
Answer: far less than for fossil fuels, with nuclear needing the least mining. New Breakthrough report by my team:
thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

“End the war now”

I wrote about the pandemic potential of H5N1 just over a year ago.

Since then we've seen the virus continue to spread through wild and domestic bird populations around the world and it is now transmitting between dairy cattle in the United Staes.
newsroom.co.nz/2023/03/20/is-…

So, *preliminary* molecular clock analyses indicate that the time of the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of the US cattle flu clade was late December.

TMRCA of that clade and the closest relatives in birds, mid-December.

If single intro, likely between those rough dates.

A lot of what is happening on college campuses, to me, is a direct culmination of a generation worth's effort to conflate antisemitism and criticism of Israel, an extension of the Zionist effort a generation before that to equate Judaism and Israeli nationalism. /1

A leaked document shows Health NZ has contracted PwC to help it make millions of dollars of cuts to regional health districts. 🤷‍♂️
newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/24/lea…

What’s going on here? FDA is broadening surveillance of milk for fragments of DNA from DEAD virus as way to find which dairy farms have outbreaks not detected by USDA. When viruses are killed by pasteurization harmless fragments of DNA is always detectable
washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

This isn't good, folks.
I'm not worried about H5N1 transmission to humans (yet) but the Dept. of Agriculture pathetic lack of transparency, how long it took for the genomes to be released, lack of testing asymptomatic cattle......
All detracts from 'confidence'

i think there are two bullshit narratives going on: one that there is zero antisemitism ever expressed at these protests and that's just an establishment lie, and two, that there's some kind of modern day nazi rally going on at columbia and woke SA troopers are after jews

Comments from me and Prof Geddis about how the ministerial criticism of the Waitangi Tribunal is out of line constitutionally.

might fuck around and privately express concern to my aides and advisors

Shane Jones said he was looking forward to reforming the tribunal while David Seymour suggested it could be shut down. Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask reports newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/19/min…

New: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were 'ill-considered', as legal experts say they may have breached the Cabinet Manual.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/19/min…

As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds theguardian.com/environment/20…

Special Report: Three in five New Zealanders say our nation is in decline and our society is broken. How can we restore faith in the future of this country?
newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/18/new…