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		<title>The CDC collects biosurveillance information on Americans from 7,200 healthcare facilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2003, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established a multibillion-dollar national syndromic surveillance system called BioSense: Under the BioSense platform, the CDC collects biosurveillance information on Americans from 7,200 healthcare facilities across fifty states, Washington, D.C., and Guam. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Human cones can perceive UV light if given the chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Paul Cézanne once said, “Monet is only an eye — but my god, what an eye”: In the 1910s, however, Monet’s vaunted eyes came under threat. He developed cataracts and, painfully, slowly, began going blind. He admitted to friends that he would likely have to quit painting soon, and the thought crushed him: for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The United States used to have a plague vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States does not have a vaccine for plague, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War), for reasons that are complicated: Russia’s vaccine, called Live Plague Vaccine, or LPV, is understood to have been created from an attenuated, or weakened, strain of plague. “For the past almost eight decades of usage,” writes Russian vaccine expert [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education: “It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Biological war can begin with an accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biological war can begin with an accident, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War): A large-scale attack with a biological weapon can set off a pandemic, but so can a lab leak. “The risk of a pandemic from a lab escape is not hypothetical,” Andy Weber tells us. He’s one of a small number of U.S. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>She was hospitalized Tuesday with symptoms of severe pneumonia in Shelekhov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve been reading about biowarfare, you really don’t want to see that nearly 200 people are under observation after an Irkutsk lab worker died from plague: Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Gain-of-function research quickly became normalized within government-funded science</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the anthrax scare in 2001, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War), gain-of-function research quickly became normalized within government-funded science: Agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded this kind of experimental research with gusto, not just in labs across America, but also in BSL-3 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The idea is to put yourself into a state that’s both physically and mentally exhausting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If mental fatigue limits physical performance, then athletes can be trained to become resilient to it: “The idea is to put yourself into a state that’s both physically and mentally exhausting, by combining cognitive and physical training,” Ring said. In practice, this means 15 to 20 minutes of cognitive exercises before or after a long [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A biodefense industrial complex emerged</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if what had happened on 9/11 wasn’t terrorizing enough, Annie Jacobsen explains (in Biological War), just days later, a biological weapons attack unfurled across the East Coast and in the state of Florida: Envelopes laced with weaponized anthrax bacteria were sent through the U.S. mail to two U.S. senators and the offices of several [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inmates were given a slice of bread and three gills of water</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/10/inmates-were-given-a-slice-of-bread-and-three-gills-of-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The American prison experiment, C.J. Ciaramella mentions, “Inmates were given a slice of bread and three gills of water (about one and a half cups) a day.” That “about” caught my eye, because the gill isn’t a metric measure; it’s from the same customary system as the ounce and cup — and the barrel [&#8230;]]]></description>
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