https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/realestate/what-is-house-burping-luften.html
It may improve your home air quality.
February 18, 2026
The German practice of “lüften” is gaining traction on social media.
If famous artists painted you | twoworlds.co
March 5, 2026How wolves became dogs
March 4, 2026https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
your flexible friend economist
The battle to stop clever people betting
March 4, 2026How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
March 1, 2026How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/how-whatsapp-took-over-the-global-conversation
Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
March 1, 2026Interesting paper on the Aging Brain. Featured in NY Times.
Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10169-4
Disouky, A., Sanborn, M. A., Sabitha, K. R., Mostafa, M. M., Ayala, I. A., Bennett, D. A., Lu, Y., Zhou, Y., Keene, C. D., Weintraub, S., Gefen, T., Mesulam, M., Geula, C., Maienschein-Cline, M., Rehman, J., & Lazarov, O. (2026). Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10169-4
What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM
March 1, 2026LDA resources
February 28, 2026Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/
some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/
RFA – MPI/PI NIH limit
February 28, 2026the answer… from OSP…
The NIH limitation is by council round, rather than submission date. Council rounds can be found on the NIH standard due dates page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/submit/submission-policies/standard-due-dates
Here is the policy info on the limitation:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html
Some additional guidance (including a table to show which deadlines fit into which year) can be found on the OSP website: https://research-support.yale.edu/sponsored-projects/office-of-sponsored-projects/proposals
Calendar Year 2026
| Advisory Council Dates | Application Due Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5/25/25-9/7/25 | Not included in the count |
| May | 9/25/25-1/7/26 | Included in CY 26 count |
| August or October | 1/25/26-5/7/26 | Included in CY 26 count |
Calendar Year 2027
| Advisory Council Dates | Application Due Dates | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5/25/26-9/7/26 | Included in CY 27 count |
| May | 9/25/26-1/7/27 | Included in CY 27 count |
| August or October | 1/25/27-5/7/27 | Included in CY 27 count |
Receipt dates:
9/25/2025-5/7/26 6 max
Receipt dates:
5/25-2026 -5/7/27 6 max
list of wars us has fought in with number of casualties normalized by total us population at the time in comparison to deaths from covid and 1918 flu – Google Search
February 28, 2026https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+wars+us+has+fought+in+with+number+of+casualties+normalized+by+total+us+population+at+the+time+in+comparison+to+deaths+from+covid+and+1918+flu&sca_esv=ff5dab35acd38c25&biw=1318&bih=712&sxsrf=ANbL-n6pHKsOjlgCloXTjQkgQuqLi6LXXg%3A1772298844457&ei=XCKjabjRG6PQ5NoPpsKJgA0&ved=0ahUKEwi477zY1_ySAxUjKFkFHSZhAtAQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=list+of+wars+us+has+fought+in+with+number+of+casualties+normalized+by+total+us+population+at+the+time+in+comparison+to+deaths+from+covid+and+1918+flu&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAilQFsaXN0IG9mIHdhcnMgdXMgaGFzIGZvdWdodCBpbiB3aXRoIG51bWJlciBvZiBjYXN1YWx0aWVzIG5vcm1hbGl6ZWQgYnkgdG90YWwgdXMgcG9wdWxhdGlvbiBhdCB0aGUgdGltZSBpbiBjb21wYXJpc29uIHRvIGRlYXRocyBmcm9tIGNvdmlkIGFuZCAxOTE4IGZsdUgAUABYAHAAeAGQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgCgAgCYAwCSBwCgBwCyBwC4BwDCBwDIBwCACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp QT:{{” The COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic resulted in higher U.S. death tolls than most foreign wars in American history. While COVID-19 surpassed the 1918 flu in raw numbers, the 1918 flu had a higher impact relative to the population at the time.
The following list ranks U.S. wars and pandemics by estimated total deaths, with normalized figures for context based on estimates of U.S. population at the time.
www.statnews.com +1
Comparison of US Deaths: Pandemics vs. Wars
Data based on estimates in
National Archives (.gov) +5
Event Total U.S. Deaths (Approx.)Approx. Pop. at TimeNormalized Impact (Per 100k)
1918 Flu Pandemic675,000~103 Million~655
COVID-19 Pandemic1,100,000+~330 Million~333
Civil War (1861-65)620,000–750,000~31-35 Million~1,700–2,100 World War II (1941-45)405,399~132-140 Million~290–307
World War I (1917-18)116,516~103 Million~113–126
Vietnam War58,220~200 Million~29–32
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