6 dialogues to begin reading Plato 1. Apology Socrates defends himself before an Athenian jury. 2. Crito Socrates explains why he will not escape from prison. 3. Meno Socrates asks whether virtue can be taught. 4. Republic Plato examines justice in the city and in the human soul. 5. Symposium A group of Athenians give speeches on the nature of love. 6. Phaedo Socrates discusses death and the immortality of the soul on the day of his execution. tolle lege

CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us President Trump said nothing bad can happen. Bad things have already happened, and more are coming. Full Op-Ed by @jakescottMD: 📷: Wellcome / Wikimedia Commons

Houston’s population growth continues to drive housing demand while the region remains more affordable than many major U.S. metros. Partnership research shows the metro added 126,720 residents from July 2024 to July 2025, supported by continued housing development across the region. 🏘️Read more:

Good morning, Houston! We’re looking at sunny to partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon thunderstorms across the area and a high temp of 92 degrees. Go out and make today count. Have a great Tuesday.

Yes, Trump's push to split up the MMR vaccine could do real harm. So I want to tell you some things. I want to tell you what happened when an MMR vaccine was withdrawn for safety reasons in Japan. I want to tell you what scientists say will happen if measles vaccination rates drop. But mostly I want to tell you about a father making a mumps vaccine we still use today from virus taken from his daughter's throat. I want to tell you about Maurice Hilleman. Here's the piece.

The bad news: Our nation’s health system is collapsing and MAHA pseudoscience has erased decades of progress and triumphs in American biomedicine The good news: The @astros are in first place in the AL West

@PeterHotez @ElsevierConnect That will be super-useful, since younger colleagues will have never seen these (also include skin symptoms that may present differently in children with darker skin). I've met a girl with fullblown CRS, blind, deaf, CP. Anti-vaccine activists are criminals in my opinion.

Given DHHS/MAHA’s determination to halt vaccine access and bring back ancient childhood diseases such as congenital rubella syndrome (pictured here), together with a colleague I’m working with @ElsevierConnect to go back to the old pediatric literature and republish classic descriptions of these illnesses. More to follow on our forthcoming book

The Hofstadter book looked at periods of anti-intellectualism in America, some of the years during Jacksonian Democracy between 1830-60, the KKK and anti-evolution in the 1920s, McCarthy era late 1940s to 50s. It’s safe to say we are in one of those periods. Today’s White House antivaccine anti-science EO = anti-intellectualism’s best representation

That’s false: the scientific community has investigated every single fake assertion from Kennedy and the antivaccine activists: 1) starting in 1998 with their false assertion about MMR, 2) then Kennedy wrote that ridiculous article in Rolling Stone in 2005 also retracted, 3) then Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey paraded around in green t shirts saying we have to “green” our vaccine ecosystem and separate vaccines, all BS, 4) then it was aluminum also debunked. Meanwhile DHHS refuses to acknowledge the role of several hundred autism genes and also refuses to investigate actual known environmental toxins that interact with autism genes like valproate. This is all to benefit the corrupt wellness influencer industry, it’s all about their filthy lucre