Link. Sad that Club 90 has passed.
Daily Archives: November 23, 2017
How to manage a massive bee swarm
Link. First, find the queen
Hits Flynn will talk
Link. Trump pardon … or else.
Describing cellular construction as home building
Link. “Tools are materials; materials are tools”. Alien
Matriarch of Sapelo Island, Georgia. Obit.
Link. Africa in America.
“private equity firms, which are buying up dermatology practices around the country, and installing crews of lesser-trained practitioners”
Link. Caveat emptor.
“Minnesota is seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M”
Link. Cancer. This could be a big trial.
Win XP Wallpaper: Sonoma, California
Link. Popular spot for photographers.
“Planes must slide to a halt before reaching the end of a 1,312-foot runway flanked by cliffs to avoid plunging into the ocean below.”
Link. Interesting airports
Bystanders give men CPR more than women
Link. Fear of touching stranger’s breasts.
Murderer Hafiz Saeed free to campaign in Pakistan.
Link. $10 million American bounty.
Recommitting to Resistance: “secure the support of the racists, misogynists and homophobes.”
Link. I am thankful for the Resistance.
How many calories does menstruation use?
I couldn’t find a scholarly article on this. Which is weird. Maybe research is old.
Women’s magazines estimate around 200-300 calories, they typically source a physician known to the journalist.
At the high end that is 3,600 calories a year, roughly a 1lb yearly weight gain if not menstruating and nothing else changes.
“Owning a dog was associated with a 20 percent lower risk of all-cause death”
Link. Correlation. Huge effect, doubt causal that large.
Worm sperm causes oocytes to dump damaged proteins
Link. Research now funded by Calico, Google immortality initiative.
CJD prions found in skin
Link. Will change surgical practice and probably diagnosis.
Net neutrality: “government agencies are not free to abruptly reverse longstanding rules on which many have relied without a good reason”
Link. Thin reed indeed
Progress of sorts – integrating my simplenote memory extensions with gDrive
Link. Convoluted kludge, but adaptable and knowledge portable
Why does earth life use 20 codons in triplets?
Link. “horizontal gene transfer will work only if the codes in both partners exchanging genes are identical.”