Bridget McGovern

First, I should admit that I’m a sucker for a lot of holiday standards, from The Grinch and Peanuts to Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman. I adore both White Christmas and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, but there’s also a lot of schmaltzy, badly-written nonsense floating around out there like so much stale, crusty fruitcake this time of year… and when the usual holiday fare starts wearing thin, it’s time to mix things up a bit.

Abstract Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) causes significant disruptions in cellular and subcellular structures within the central nervous system (CNS) following the application of an extremely large force. The corresponding changes in biomechanical properties and cellular functionalities of neuronal and glial cells (i.e. astrocytes, oligodendrocytes) due to bTBI remain largely unexplored.

On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued a National Security Policy Memorandum (“Investment NSPM”), subject “America First Investment Policy,” calling for high-level policy changes to increase scrutiny of inbound and outbound investment involving China and other “foreign adversaries,” revamp how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) implements mitigation for foreign adversary investments, and facilitate (“fast-track”) investments from allied countries subject to...