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Washington Post [no paywall] “This month, the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and nine other medical organizations released a comprehensive revision to their 2018 guidance on how to manage high cholesterol, one of the leading causes of heart disease. These new recommendations — which will affect medical care for millions of Americans by …
The Pudding: Mapping 100,000 moments of human happiness.
Ruo-Ning Li, Dunigan Folk, Abhay Singh, Lyle Ungar, Elizabeth Dunn, Is a random human peer better than a highly supportive chatbot in reducing loneliness over time?, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 125, 2026, 104911, ISSN 0022-1031, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2026.104911. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103126000417) Abstract: AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in social life, offering accessible companionship. While brief interactions have …
EWG: “Thousands of everyday food products potentially could contain substances that carry unknown health risks, a new EWG analysis finds. Although Congress intended for most food chemicals to be rigorously reviewed before being introduced into the market, the reality of food chemical review is far different. A flood of unregulated and potentially unsafe substances have …
I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 [Elizabeth Ginexi, Formerly an NIH Program Official for 22 years]- “For decades, the National Institutes of Health published between 650 and 850 Notices of Funding Opportunities each year. These announcements tell the research community which diseases need study, which populations …
Project Salt Box: [March 11, 2026], “ICE ERO released a request for proposals (RFP) on SAM.gov requesting contractor support to “conduct safety and wellness checks of an estimated 100,000 unaccompanied alien children (UAC) across the US.” Labeled as the “Safety Verification Initiative,” this RFP is the latest development in a year’s long campaign by ICE …
Pew Report – “Nearly four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a majority of Americans continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Now, with a patchwork of differing state laws in effect, perceptions of abortion access vary by where people live. A 60% majority of U.S. adults …
Harvard Business Review: “A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout…AI promises to act as an amplifier that will drive efficiency and make work easier, but workers that are using these AI tools report that they are intensifying rather than simplifying work. This …
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 7 – This article is the seventh in a series focused on how the second Trump presidency unleashed a causal chain that has rapidly morphed into an extensive continued attack against civil liberties, commerce, government funded …
Card Catalog: A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings. Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS: “We are living through a strange moment in the history of knowledge. More information is available to more people than at any point in human history, and yet …
Ars Technica: “A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal judge Wednesday that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such ample authority over the country’s vaccine policies that he is “unreviewable.” His unfettered powers even allow Kennedy the freedom to recommend, if he chose to do so, that people ditch vaccines and …
Quartz – The topline number — 63,000 private-sector payroll jobs added in February, for the best showing since July 2025 — “appears, at first, to be good news. But glancing even just a few lines down the report changes the story and brings something alarming into view, with the ADP table showing that professional and …
