@leecoo4

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 Arlington, MA
Joined August 2009
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I think one of the most exciting things in pharma this year (and not talked about enough) is the upcoming launch of RSV vaccines. Here's a comparison of the RSV vaccines in older adults (≥60 yo). Likely to see approvals for GSK and Pfizer next month. $PFE $GSK $MRNA
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Only a matter of time until the boys made @SportsCenter Top 10 – at Newton, MA
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The shift to 'healthspan' as a term is nice, but I still think the whole 'longevity' field is built on a very flawed foundation: prioritizing duration over fullness and health.
Nir Barzilai
@NirBarzilaiMD27 Jun 2023
With others in academia and biotech @LBA_longevity, we wrote a short piece on moving health span from cells to cities! A short thread...
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How do you rank vanilla ice creams and use Haagen Dazs ‘vanilla bean’ rather than their classic ‘vanilla’ ?
Post Food@WaPoFood28 Jun 2023
Service journalism: We ranked 13 vanilla ice creams for all your summer dessert needs. (Remember there is no paywall on The Post through today!) wapo.st/3PvJLeB

Review | What’s the best vanilla ice cream? We tried 13 popular brands.

There's nothing boring about vanilla ice cream when it hits all the right notes. Here are the store-bought brands we liked best.

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The spectacular white-faced ibis with its colorful purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers and ruby-red eyes is sure to brighten your day! Photo at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah courtesy of Leslie Scopes Anderson
A tall, colorful bird with purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers cleans itself with its long beak.

ALT A tall, colorful bird with purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers cleans itself with its long beak.

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It's that time of the year: we're excited to announce the winners of the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards! With their stunning looks and captivating behaviors, birds often enthrall us when they cross our path—take a look! bit.ly/3Jq3VCS

2023 Audubon Photography Awards: Winners and Honorable Mentions

Birds spend their waking hours seeking to survive, thrive, and care for their families. From behind their lenses, the creators of these photos and videos capture those meaningful moments.

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I’ve had NIH (ie federal) collaborators refuse lunch or coffee to void any perception of conflicts…
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The more time I spend with the generations younger than me, the more optimistic I become nytimes.com/2023/06/12/us/mo…
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We're launching the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank – a financial engine for cutting emissions and improving health, equity, and economic security. It’s the first climate bank focused on affordable housing in the US, and we’re depositing $50M. More: mass.gov/ClimateBank
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“Get out there and stream today” - TT & the Rockin TT Band open.spotify.com/track/4kXeB… – at Oklahoma, USA

Mean Old Sun

Turnpike Troubadours · Mean Old Sun · Song · 2023

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People are focused on the possibility that AI will make gigantic moral errors. But it's the everyday choices that make up the fabric of our human lives. If those become a little bit colder, it matters. And because each decision is small, we might not notice it happening.
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"I won't invest in that start-up because if it's successful I'll have to pay capital gains taxes on the profits," said no one, ever. Yet, there's a tax break that does exactly this. Broaden the base, lower the rate. But actually do it. equitablegrowth.org/money-fo…

Money for nothing: The Qualified Small Business Stock capital gains exclusion is a giveaway to...

The history of the Qualified Small Business Stock exclusion and how it became a vehicle for perpetuating income and wealth inequality and options for reform.

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"People sometimes imagine that wildness can survive in small or simplified pieces. It cannot." nybooks.com/online/2023/05/1…

What Is Wildness? | David Quammen

Blood doesn’t flow through our arteries and veins by gravity or magic or the force of our personalities. It is pushed. What pushes it is an elaborately

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Lee Cooper retweeted
Rob Perez@robperez3224 May 2023
The “anti woke” (a term I loathe) movement is such a grift. The real objective is clearly to re-assert the caste system that was the US for centuries. When regulating thought (and one of the most beautiful poems I’ve ever heard) becomes a non-event, facism has officially arrived
Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman23 May 2023
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Birdsong! washingtonpost.com/wellness/…

Why birds and their songs are good for our mental health

Birds are a way to connect with nature, which is associated with better body and brain health, research shows.

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Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted
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An unpublished poem from @ursulakleguin's journal
Mother Eats the Writer but the writer crawls out of Mummy's mouth spitting lava by Ursula K Le Guin

ALT Mother Eats the Writer but the writer crawls out of Mummy's mouth spitting lava by Ursula K Le Guin

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Replying to @matthewherper
IMO this exact point is the scariest thing about enrolling in a gene therapy trial, and I don’t think it’s being communicated to patient communities as a key consideration.
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Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why don’t they get a ton of cancers? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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this meeting could have been a poem
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