Well worth reading, @naomioreskes.bsky.social's "A case study in conflicts of interest", in Science (free): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... As usual, nicotine conflicts of interest are especially well-documented, but the concerns apply more broadly, especially as public university funding down.

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Today the high tide in my hood is a 6.1 but because of El Niño and a tiny bit of storm, the actual high is going to be an 8. Yesterday I had a call with our assemblymembers staff and raised this. He said, “we are working on getting prop 4 money.” The anger is rising as fast as the tide around here.

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A hill I will die on is that Halloween is the best american holiday because it’s the only truly community-oriented one. Trunk or treat is bad because Halloween is our culture’s main way to teach children to meet their neighbors.

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Probably well. She double majored in Econ and IR from Boston U.

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The direction runs the other way: about minus twelve. At Ohalo II, people were grinding wild wheat and barley 23,000 years ago — at least 12,000 years before those cereals were domesticated. Milling didn't follow farming; farming followed millennia of milling wild grass.

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