A child in New York has died of measles. Nobody had died from measles there for more than 30 years. Until today. All of this was preventable. Every measles case, every hospitalization, and every death.
@boedudley.bsky.social
A US study followed 1,019 adults still living with Long COVID a year after infection. Within 3 years, about half 50.1% had lasting symptom improvement and 27% fully recovered. But for those with symptoms affecting multiple body systems, fewer than 1 in 5 improved. Recovery varies greatly.
Long Covid Recovery Varies Sharply by Symptoms, Study Finds
People whose long Covid affects multiple body systems are far less likely to improve than overall recovery estimates suggest, with fewer than one in five experiencing sustained improvement within thre...
bloomberg.com
FEDWATCH: “.. Anthropic’s compute bill has nearly quintupled in a year, and its financing costs are climbing as free partner money gives way to paid leases. Building frontier AI is getting more expensive on both fronts.”
#Poetry #Painting #Halloween It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
Trump says we're building more factories than at any time in our history. In reality, factory construction is down over 30% from its 2024 peak, and it's still falling.
Death Valley National Park experienced its first major superbloom in a decade this year, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers. Original post
Symptomatic improvement in people with #LongCovid over time www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... @annalsofim.bsky.social
Fact: 1.5°C was passed back in February or March of this year. This graphic shows the monthly global temperature anomalies above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline for every month from January, 1980 through October, 2026, along with a quadratic (accelerating) trendline.
Big oil's profits have tripled with the Iran War. The windfall thus far is nearly $100 billion.
"Measles cases are accelerating in the US, ...and more parents are opting for earlier vaccination – especially with the second dose of ...(MMR) vaccine, which can be given as soon as four weeks after the first." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
Families in the US are opting for earlier measles vaccinations amid outbreak
Parents are opting for a second shot of MMR vaccine sooner, which aligns with guidance in Germany, the UK and France
theguardian.com
New paper! Do you remember the heatwaves in Europe this summer, when temperatures reached close to 40 °C even on the Baltic coast? Our new paper shows that 40 °C extremes should not be considered implausible in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway and Finland. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Colleges are trying to transform an admissions process that has often been daunting, secretive and stressful into an experience that's open, easier — and downright friendly. n.pr/4itkVZx
With students scarce, college admissions offices get friendlier, less intimidating
Colleges are trying to transform an admissions process that has often been daunting, secretive and stressful into an experience that's open, easier — and downright friendly.
n.pr
Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to fully recover from his stroke. The acronym BE FAST can help you remember the symptoms of stroke and what to do when it happens: Call 911 quickly. n.pr/4iprBb6
Do you know signs of a stroke? BE FAST are the words to remember
Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to fully recover from his stroke. The acronym BE FAST can help you remember the symptoms of stroke and what to do when it happens: Call 911 quickly.
n.pr
Nirvana releases their “MTV Unplugged in New York" 32 years ago today. “.. When we shot it, this wasn’t meant to be the last thing they did,” said producer Alex Coletti. “It was meant to be another thing in a long and wonderful career. .. It was only in hindsight that it became what it became.” 🙏🏼
‘Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week, a reality check from a company that itself is testing AI server chips in orbit.’ www.theinformation.com/newsletters/...
Google Energy Chief: Space Data Centers Cost Up to 100 Times More Than Those on Earth
Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week, a reality check from a company that itself is testing AI server chips in...
theinformation.com
Voyager to be almost 1 light day from home this month
FEDWATCH: “.. The AI bubble has been deflating since June, but the unwind may not be over yet. Relative to the S&P Equal Weight ex-AI index, there is still room for further mean reversion.”
Mycelium, the root network of mushrooms, can be grown into packaging in just days using farm waste. It is compostable at home and breaks down in weeks, while foam takes centuries.
A person with bird flu is hospitalized in Washington state “with severe illness”. The person contracted it from a dairy, and risk to the public is low unless you are interacting with infected animals.
Second positive avian influenza test reported in Yakima County
A second Yakima County resident has tested positive for avian influenza, also known as bird flu, according to the Yakima Health District.
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Caroline Still Anderson was born into a prominent Black family in Philadelphia on this day 178 years ago: Nov. 1, 1848. She attended Oberlin College and, after graduating from Howard University College of Medicine, became one of the nation’s first Black female physicians. Image: Public domain.
PIPER: “.. Trees don’t grow to the sky, neither do the highest-beta Tech stocks. The Tech beta-bubble has burst. Factors are the cleanest way to observe underlying market dynamics IMO.” [Kantrowitz]
‘Analysts at Bank of America said they spotted a "bubble-like" pattern in stocks that also appeared leading up to the burst of the dot-com bubble: an explosive rally in defensive sectors.‘ www.businessinsider.com/stock-market...
No question about this; the real question is how can it recover and, if so, how long will that take? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/c...
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (Gift Article)
The system that has driven life-altering discoveries and helped make the United States a superpower is now under intense strain.
nytimes.com
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid was known as the "Queen of the Curve" for her futuristic, swooping building designs. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker #Architecture Prize (the highest honor in the field) in 2004. She was born #OTD in 1950.
An extraordinary order: DOJ “shall not threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local elections officials orworkers to demand that they halt processing the ballots of anyregistered voter solelyon the basis that the ballot” is someone DOJ says may not be a citizen www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
