August 12, 2023

On this day in 1856 Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, is granted a second patent for improvements to the accordion. AccordionRock's cover of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog (see above.)

Mike the Mad Biologist: The Media Are Still Failing to Ask Serious Questions about Long COVID to Policy Makers.

Lawyers, Guns & Money: Metaphorical Florida Man also literal Florida Man.

Zandar Versus The Stupid: Black History Matters.

Attention space nerds! Ice mining...in spaaace!

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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