Leon Robertson
@profleonaz
Retired Yale Research Scientist
Lovely birds. Egrets at our pond in NC piedmont this morning. I have never seen more than one here before. When I sailed near the Thimble Islands in CT there were flocks of them.
Covid is raising its ugly head again. Caution is in order. From your local epidemiologist.
New York Times calls the Spokane fire a "natural disaster". I don't think so. The increase in fires, floods, and drought is a human-made disaster, largely caused by burning fossil fuels.
Congressionally unauthorized billions for an ego trip. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...
Encouraging trend in this New York Times graph, but why would anybody, much less 50 million people, watch these grifters?
A sort of declaration of independence by the Federal Reserve. The rants from the dictator are bound to follow. From The American Prospect:
Idiots delight. NY Times maps of antivax laws introduced. Most were not passed, but they contributed to doubters' ignorance. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
To the New York Times science editor: The Iliad and the Odyssey are fiction. Why is this on the science page?
I long for the days when the New York Times Book Review section mainly reviewed books. Today's leading pieces online:
Huge number of comments on the doom of science proposal to OMB. Will they be read and taken seriously is the crucial question. From Your Local Epidemiologist substack:
So the 251st can be more violent than the 250th? New York Times Headlines.
Make Americans Poor Again. The dictator's bitcoin scam lost money for more than a million people while he profited. New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
From your local epidemiologist. If you have neighbors without AC, or health conditions that may make them unaware that it is not working, check on them to see that they are safe.
Consequences of the new US dictatorship. NYT headlines in sequence.