To Students Taking Exams Right Now:

A tiger bursting to freedom after being rescued from a poacher’s snare in the Russian Far East.

google's search suggestion feature helps us to articulate a question that we've all been wondering about but have never been able to put into words: "Can bacteria make smarter?"

a photo of a rhondrophyta tetrasporophyte under a microscope from my botany class <3

why do you and others like vaccines so much?

not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies

Reasons to love tardigrades!

They have little eyes.

Neil Druckmann - HBO's The Last of Us Podcast: Episode 5

i learned that there are no skeletons in the wreck of the Titanic or debris field. At depths of 3,000+ feet, seawater is undersaturated with calcium carbonate. Once animals ate the flesh of Titanic's passengers and crew, their bones dissolved (x)

The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again)

Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110–130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike “consistent with the value” of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna’s manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

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