Morgan Fairchild

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This is a powerful study. More reading linked to greater cortical surface area in cognition, language, and memory regions, while higher TV time showed the opposite effect. As someone who has analyzed over 400 clinical trials on Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and brain aging, this doesn’t surprise me. The developing brain is highly plastic. Active reading forces the brain to build connections, visualize, and integrate information — real cognitive exercise. Passive screen time (especially TV) doesn’t demand the same effort and can crowd out better activities. This early wiring likely influences lifelong brain resilience. Protecting brain development in childhood may be one of the best ways to lower risk of neurodegeneration decades later. Parents: prioritize reading time over passive screens. It’s one of the highest-ROI things you can do for your child’s brain.

Doctor evacuated from Congo feels ‘helpless’ watching colleagues die of Ebola
As Patrick LaRochelle waits in a specialized hospital room in Prague to see whether he has Ebola, his former colleagues in Congo are beginning to die of the deadly disease. @washingtonpost

An owl can eat over 1,000 rodents in a year. If you poison the rodents, you poison the owl. And almost every raptor in the US is already being poisoned. A 2020 Tufts Wildlife Clinic study found that 100% of the red-tailed hawks they tested were positive for anticoagulant rodenticides. Every single bird. A follow-up study of 46 hawks, owls, foxes, and coyotes from a Massachusetts rehab center between 2022 and 2024 found the same thing: 100% had been poisoned. Rat poison works by preventing blood clotting. The rodent doesn't die immediately. It bleeds internally for days, becomes lethargic and easy to catch, and gets eaten by something hungry. The poison moves up the food web in their gut, their liver, their carcass. A single bait box can take out an owl, a hawk, a fox, even a bobcat. The pests you're worried about (mice, rats, voles) are the same pests an owl can take 1,000 of in a year, for free, forever, if you let her. Use snap traps indoors only away from pets. Seal the entry points and lock food away. Put up an owl box. Keep cats inside (they get poisoned eating poisoned rodents too). Rat poison sales need to drop to zero.

The Trump administration has slashed housing accommodations for service animals. This will likely evict thousands of Americans, including veterans with PTSD.

A Spanish multicentre cohort study followed patients for up to 5 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection. At the 1-2 year follow-up, 56% of participants reported at least one persistent symptom. The prevalence was similar in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients, 57.6% vs 53.0%. The key finding comes from the 5 year follow-up. 14.3% of the entire cohort sought medical care for symptoms compatible with a post-COVID condition. Despite this, a formal diagnosis of long COVID was recorded in the medical records of only 3.4% of the whole cohort. The study shows a clear gap between the number of people with persistent symptoms or post-COVID compatible healthcare needs and the number of cases formally documented as long COVID. The healthcare system often fails to recognize these symptoms, link them to prior infection, or code them as long COVID. And this is not a trivial burden for the healthcare system. It may be dispersed across ordinary clinical encounters, without being recognized. An additional 15% of people seeking care years after infection has the potential to create a long-term, difficult-to-absorb burden for the healthcare system. @adamvojtech86 An exceptional performance @szupraha @vlvalek @ZdravkoOnline

Kids who read more tend to have larger brain surface areas in regions for cognition.  Kids who watch more TV show the opposite.

Three brothers. One died in war, one in the White House, and one while trying to become president. None of them lived to see their fiftieth birthday. Yet their names still occupy a central place in American history. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy belonged to one of the most influential families in the United States. Raised with a strong sense of public duty, they pursued different paths but shared the belief that serving their country was a responsibility to be embraced wholeheartedly. The eldest was Joseph. Brilliant, charismatic, and a graduate of Harvard University, he was considered by his father to be the son destined for national politics. When World War II broke out, however, he chose a military career. He became a Navy aviator and flew particularly dangerous missions in Europe. In August 1944, he volunteered for Operation Aphrodite, an experimental project involving bombers packed with explosives. On August 12, his aircraft exploded over the English Channel before he could escape. He was twenty-nine years old. His death deeply affected his younger brothers and helped alter the course of the Kennedy family's future. It was then that attention shifted to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. During the war, he had already demonstrated remarkable courage following the sinking of the PT-109 patrol boat in the Pacific. Despite being injured, he helped save several members of his crew, swimming for hours through open waters. In 1961, at the age of forty-three, he became President of the United States. His administration was marked by defining challenges. He established the Peace Corps, championed the space program that would eventually put a man on the Moon, and led the nation through the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world came dangerously close to nuclear war. In the final years of his presidency, he also began to advocate more forcefully for civil rights reforms, confronting an issue that was deeply dividing the country. But that journey came to an abrupt end. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated during an official visit to Dallas while traveling in a presidential motorcade. He was forty-six years old. After his death, another brother stepped forward to carry part of his political legacy. Robert Kennedy had served as Attorney General of the United States and had led major efforts against organized crime while also working to enforce civil rights laws. Following John's assassination, his public service took on an even more personal dimension. As a senator, he visited impoverished neighborhoods, rural communities, and regions affected by unemployment and discrimination. He listened directly to ordinary people, meeting workers, families, and activists, and bringing their experiences into the national political conversation. In 1968, he decided to run for president. Just a few months later, on April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. On one of the most tense evenings in American history, Robert Kennedy addressed a crowd gathered in Indianapolis, urging calm and dialogue while protests and unrest spread through many cities across the nation. Two months later, after winning the California Democratic primary, he was shot inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He died the following day. He was forty-two years old. Three brothers. Three different paths. Joseph lost his life while serving in the military. John while leading the nation. Robert in the midst of a presidential campaign centered on profound social and political reform. Their stories continue to be remembered not only because of their tragic endings, but also because of the roles they played during some of the most significant moments in twentieth-century American history. Their work remained unfinished, yet their name continues to be associated with public service, political engagement, and civic responsibility.

The idea that Talarico is politically vulnerable because of supposedly ‘woke’ comments he made about gender six years ago but Paxton isn’t politically vulnerable because of this is insane.

Trump’s Missing Ambassadors Are a Sign of a Deeper Problem theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

Trump DOJ prosecutors: 1. Vouched to GJ that case was strong 2. Kicked out grand jurors who disagreed with them. 3. Talked to the jurors off the record (wtf) 4. DID NOT TELL THE DEFENSE THERE WAS A NO BILL 5. Redacted those bits from the transcript

In Norway, reindeer always have the right of way

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"If you want $3 gas, you're going to have to wait 6 years. We will not get back down to that sub-$70 oil level until 2032"

Pope Leo XIV: I hear very troubling accounts of algorithms that can block access to healthcare, employment, and security on the basis of data tainted by prejudice. I've heard the silence of those who have no voice when decisions likely to generate new forms of suffering are made. Nuclear disarmament remains a service to peace. In a similar sense, AI now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turned it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.

BREAKING: The federal government is targeting Anti-AI and data center activists. They are formulating a new threat category: anti-tech violent extremism. Full article in replies.

What happens when you let AI models run a simulated society?

The 'unthinkable' has caught up to Trump as GOP 'revolt' catches fire: Fox analyst rawstory.com/truymp-unthink…

The bottom line? This could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record without urgent international action. More in the IRC’s Flash Alert: rescue.org/press-release/…

First, the outbreak is spreading faster than the response. Second, conflict and displacement are accelerating the risk of regional spread. And third, severe global aid cuts have weakened frontline health systems and outbreak preparedness across eastern DRC.

Right now, there are three warning signs that this Ebola outbreak could be particularly difficult to contain: