can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan. The US has the largest morbidity gap. Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Flower Vase (Late 1910s) Itaya Hazan MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan

I did not know! Chart from Briefing book, which has a longer analysis of why this is happening. It should be a bigger story! When 2025 numbers all come in, it may be the lowest murder rate since 1900. open.substack.com/pub/briefing... !!

“I didn’t think, ‘I can’t believe that this happened.' I’m very well aware that this can happen.” I wrote about the parents of children with mental illness and substance use disorder, for whom the tragedy of the Reiner family carries a particularly painful resonance. Gift link: wapo.st/4todI0b

Parents who see themselves in the tragedy of Rob and Michele Reiner

Some families see a cycle of drug abuse and mental illness that they know too well and are following the murder case with dread: Could this happen to us?

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“My Mother’s Money” is this month’s Color of Money book Club selection from @michellesingletary.bsky.social I’m so honored! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Column | Managing a parent’s money is the hardest job you never applied for

This book can help you prepare for and manage a role that many of us will be asked to fill at some point in our lives.

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TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

The proper approach journalists should take to any element of power is skepticism that at times tips over into distrust. That’s the job.

A California quail on an ocotillo at Borrego Palm Canyon (Sicco Rood).

Bug I saw in a dream once #art

Multiple Myeloma. 4-generations of pharma-driven drug discovery.

Your weekend wisdom from Thelonious Monk: “A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.” “Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.”

There are two different places you can live in America, one is a place where lemons cost a little more than you think they should, and the other is a place where people are handing you lemons trying to get rid of the giant pile of lemons

Life (2017) Nagai Kazumasa Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare. Landa then sued the gov. It's just the beginning. www.propublica.org/article/benj...

Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...

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This is intense, and difficult. Cesar Chavez was a hero to my parents. They were not farmworkers but they admired him and what he stood for.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..." Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..." Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

A Statement from Dolores Huerta

March 18, 2026

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Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

This is another one of those moments where I point out that I pitched the Washington Post on an editorial about family caregiving, an issue that affects 1 out of 4 American adults, and never got any response. Newsworthiness is in the eye of the beholder!

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5mo ago

If I had sent "specialty coffee drinks are fueling the breakdown of civil society" to any editor with whom I've worked over the previous decade, they would have gently asked if I'd recently suffered a head injury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

How many times during your #publichealth course work did you learn health impacts of #bereavement? For me, that number was 0. Working w #caregivers & formers, I missed understanding that went beyond #grief. Check out special topic of @frontiersmedia.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Frontiers | Editorial: Exploring bereavement and public health: the role of family and friend caregivers in community well-being

[Please update social media impact numbers before final publication].The circle of bereavement after the deaths of family and friends broadly influences soci...

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This is just terrific. Do yourself a favor and read:

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 6mo ago

New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.” When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder. On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

Got me through the 1990s. Your turn: Post a banger not in English. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jGs...)

TARKAN Şımarık (original music video)

YouTube video by Emmanuel Saada

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Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Post a banger that's not in English. (The ultimate banger.)

We used to think that the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was dependent on weight loss. Now we know so many health benefits have little to do with that! Today's report: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New MACPAC data show the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program reducing gross Medicaid drug costs by 54.9% in FY 2024. Earlier Congressional Budget Office research found that Medicaid gets the lowest net prices of other federal programs/agencies even the VA: www.macpac.gov/publication/...

So it's a power move to make lots of typos and spelling mistakes? I am just figuring this out.

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed

New documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday reinforce that long after his criminal convictions, many prominent professors continued to communicate with him.

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This image is a bit different than my usual "style," if that's even a thing. Much more minimalistic given the Snowy Owl sitting out in the field. Not sure how well this image translates to a smaller screen (phone, thumbnail, etc.) but thought I'd share it nonetheless. #wildlife #birds #owls

Good for her.

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 6mo ago

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

How HHS is implementing Trump AI mandates, in numbers I take a look at the AI tools the nation's health agency is using for everything from controversial audits to helping the agency cope with layoffs & executive orders. Full charts in the story @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/n...