This is actually age adjusted! It seems like people do start getting cancer less after a certain age...

I'm so sorry to hear about this. Going to the adult cancer ward as a 40 year old, I was always the youngest person in the room. Age is the primary risk factor, but of course cancer affects people of all ages and is particularly tragic in the young.

But to the plural point, "a disease" like "a fish" indicates one thing, not a group! To cite a previous tweet here, if you referred to "heart disease" as "a disease" that would sound silly.

Right, makes sense to be very worried about new phenomena. Indicates something that we can have an effect over.

Also "Heart disease" indicates a set of problems that affect the heart while "cancer" (to me) indicates an individual disease. Maybe we should call it "neoplastic disease". You can say that someone has "a viral disease" or even "a virus" but you don't say they "a disease" that is called "virus."

This is helpful! Thanks. Actually, I'd love your insight going deeper on this. Cancer seems like a very weird word to me because cancer is a population of individual cells. An oncologist friend once told me it was "a collective noun."

Do you have thoughts here?

There's an effect here with breast cancer being caught early, but they've done the analysis and it seems like it's also becoming more prevalent in younger people.

Colon cancer is DEFINITELY more prevalent in younger people...not just diagnosis but deaths are also up.

Cancer has historically been a disease of aging, but it has become more common in people under 50 in recent decades. Scientists are working to understand why the disease, especially breast and colorectal cancer, is striking more young people — and how it affects them differently.

Oncologists...how are we feeling about this framing?

Quibbles:

1. Cancer /is/ primarily a disease of aging.
2. A little surprised to see cancer referred to as "a disease" when it is many diseases.
3. Most cancers are becoming less common in young people with colon and breast being big exceptions.

CNN headline “OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast — it’s buying influence” which is a headline that reflects chatGPTs rhetorical ruts of escalating comparisons and weird em dashes.

Ok, actually this headline is hilarious.

They’re just neutrons!! Neutrons all the way down.

5 Minutes

NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

T MINUS ONE HOUR www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

Small victory here but at least Trump will be remembered as the worst president.

It is definitely a sign that it is progressing!

Shingles update, we have moved into the itchy stage. Good news, I am not at all compelled to itch because, when I do, it feels like there are sewing needles sticking out of my fingernails.

A watercolor color image of a dark eyed junco in a huge pair of barrel legged jeans with a studded belt and chain. Text on an orange field reads "Dark Eyed JNCO"

The last 5 years have convinced me that aliens visiting Earth wouldn’t be a big news story 2 months later.

Carl couldn’t have ever been this tired.

“I did say all of that in no uncertain terms but I didn’t say it in /certain/ terms.”

Carl: “We dont need to live in a world full of demons anymore”

Vance: “OH YES WE DO!!”

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

My hypothesis is evolving.

I am the most Canadian American.

This is fascinating. I would love to see this plotted against “absolute amount of social media consumption” or even “absolute number of pieces of organically generated content”

I understand the “nowness” of our focus though!

Very obvious that Trump only imagines himself to be a leader a part of America in a fight against the rest of America. This is his only political ability.

Jesus what a time capsule…

Ahhh!!! Thank you!!!

Anyone remember what episode of “The Show” has “Fun Fun Winter”?

Not the JoCo version but the Ze version. Seems ungoogleable!!

i am begging science journalists to read YouTube video by Sage the Bad Naturalist

This video is so good!! You will learn so much and also you should hype it (if you know what that means)

youtu.be/MSYQf-iRiz4?...