Robert Mueller died last Friday at age 81. Garrett Graff has been writing about "America's straightest arrow" for the past two decades, first when Mueller was FBI director and then special counsel. Here's his tribute for Doomsday Scenario.

https://flip.it/_sjC-y

#RobertMueller #USPolitics #RIP #InMemoriam

Researchers have done some interesting work exploring how well tardigrades can survive in Martian regolith simulants - and found a simple trick can improve its livability.

https://spacebotany.uk/blog/what-water-bears-tell-us-about-growing-plants-on-mars/

#tardigrades #astrobotany #SpacePlants

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

This blogpost's sources are completely challenging my pre-existing assumptions about the methodological argument for using reverse-coded items on a survey. I might have to let the evidence totally change one of my scientific practices despite my intuitive feeling of what's "right." NEAT!

https://yannicmeier.de/2026/03/03/why-reversed-items-can-be-problematic-in-survey-research/

The journalists who spent time and energy learning Banksy’s identity, then published the details, suck.

They suck.

They could have spent that time and energy exposing corrupt billionaires and politicians.

They could have minded their business and let us continue to enjoy the fun of not knowing.

Those journalists are conscience free, romance free.

They suck.

#Banksy

Still no power though I hear that they have restored power on the north side of Higgins Lake so hopefully they will work their way around to us tonight.

Watched a huge branch fall near the driveway. It hit the power pole, but amazingly the lines all stayed up. The pole and lines shook for quite some time.

Heard from some people heading south that there were a lot of linemen heading north on I-75. So help is here and more is coming.

#michigan #IceStorm