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Wed. 02/24 - How Childhood Illness Can Shape Future Immune Response


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How the flu you had as a kid could shape your immune response to future flu viruses. A bunch of videos have been going viral showing snow not melting when held up against a flame, but it’s not a conspiracy. It’s science. And the first song produced using the audio recorded on Mars.

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The immune effects of childhood viruses are even more complicated than we thought (Popular Science)
  • How Childhood Infections Could Shape Pandemics (UPMC)
  • TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to 'Prove' the Snow is Fake (Gizmodo)
  • Snow that doesn't melt! Is it a government conspiracy?! (Hint: no.) (The Bad Astronomer, YouTube)
  • No, the snow isn't government-generated. This is what a snowball does when you take a lighter to it. (Politifact)
  • The episode about the LA musician who helped design the Perseverance microphones (Kottke Ride Home)
  • Hello, Mars (Foxannemusic, Soundcloud)
  • 'Hello, Mars' music video (VideoFromSpace, YouTube) 
  • Foxanne: It's real (I knew it) (Foxanne, Bandcamp)
  • Pass n' Puff Football (Indiegogo) 
  • Renegades: Born in the USA (Spotify)
  • Buy this ranch and Area 51 will be your next-door neighbor (Boing Boing)
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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