Interesting Links for 03-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs

(tags:UK weight medication )

2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)

(tags:weight age rats )

3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous

(tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )

4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

(tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )

5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months

(tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )

6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs

(tags:dogs genetics behaviour )

7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released

(tags:horror Disney mice )

Comments

[bens_dad]

1. If it really is that common, since it has been suggested to help with many conditions, it should be factored in to most medical trials.

[andrewducker]

That's an excellent point!

[calimac]

3) I do find some (not all) of the banned statements to be offensive, but from the pre-Trump US free-speech tradition I support the right to say them. I can't pass judgment on Germany's way of dealing with its particularly noxious past.

4) Linked from that I found this "every sperm is sacred" squib, which I thought funnier in its grim way. At least the RFK in the article is promoting a variety of fictional depictions; he doesn't seem under the impression that dragons are real.

[threemeninaboat]

6) John and I are SCREAMING, "LOCOMOTOR HYPERACTIVITY!" Suzerain's current activity is 3X the expected amount for her breed and age. We are exhausted. Fortunately she's adorable.
It's so funny that we went from the breed that moves the least Montmorency: walked from the bed to the couch, to the breed that moved the most: Suzerain regularly clocks 80k a week in walks alone.

[andrewducker]

That's going to keep the pair of you very fit!