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A history of the US Military's role in bioweapons and Lyme Disease is discussed in this episode with Kris Newby and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Bitten Book on the potential origins of Lyme outbreak: https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...

While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover from: Newby had joined the ranks of the 400,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year.

As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.

In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from tours of biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Burgdorfer. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.

A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.

Swamp Boy article on an extreme case of undiagnosed Bartonella aka Cat Scratch Fever (a common Lyme co-infection)

Linters are my best friend. It also helps to use strongly typed languages like Typescript and Java

I am amazed at the, apparently almost exclusive, use of formed composites for the entire skin of the aircraft. This was an aircraft skin design no no for a long time because of the susceptibility of graphite filled epoxy composites to failure under shock and/or point loading even though the specific strength/rigidity was better than any metal. I wonder what the composition of the composites used now are comprised of. Anyone know?

This new book, Bitten, describes some of the mystery surrounding the origins of the disease in the US in the 1960s. https://www.amazon.com/Bitten-History-Disease-Biological-Wea...

This article was written in 2004. Starting In 2005 FedEx got in a bunch of misclassification lawsuits over using 1099 contractors, today they have lost over $453 Million to these settlements. http://www.talentwave.com/fedex-worker-misclassification-cas...

As a co-founder of BlueCrew, I think the one of the biggest flaws of traditional staffing agencies is considering a person a "Warm Body". I believe everyone fits in a job somewhere, Our goal is to help connect these perfect employer-employee relationships.