Link. Autologous BMT required, but still.
Daily Archives: January 18, 2021
The modified MOG-epitope mRNA treatment “was capable of blocking all clinical signs of EAE in mice”
Link. Treating mouse model of MS by inducing immune tolerance to mRNA produced antigen. Early days, etc etc.
“he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.”
Link. Hah hah. Caligula of course.
“since the emergence of the new coronavirus, some scientists have revisited a theory that a pandemic in 1890, which killed about one million people worldwide, may have been caused by OC-43, one of the four common cold coronaviruses.”
Link. For today’s population that would be 5 million, and the population in 1890 skewed much younger. So today maybe 6-9 million dead from OC-43 were it to appear today. Now it causes a runny nose.
Trump denialists posted fake Fed climate docs to a denialist site.
Link. Last days of the idiocracy.
“wild pig, outlined and filled in with mulberry-hued pigment, dates back at least 45,500 years, according to a study published on Wednesday in Science Advances. It was discovered deep inside a cave called Leang Tedongnge in December 2017”
Link. A good day for a grad student.
“Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, the Mitre Corporation and the Mayo Clinic — announced on Thursday morning that they were developing technology standards to enable consumers to obtain and share their immunization records through hea
Link. Where’s Apple?
M1 Mac startup mode.
Link. Diagnostics seems a bit obscure.
Mac Intel – startup modes reference.
Link. I didn’t know Internet Diagnostics vs Diagnostics.
China has too much talent.
Link. So does the world. We have a glut of talent. Also an ocean of money looking for opprtunity.
1776 report: slavery not an issue because of things.
Link. Do they even mention native peoples? History by Charlie Kirk.
The genius Biden plan: “the obvious plan for combating Covid-19, full of ideas many others have thought of and strategies it is appalling we haven’t yet tried”
Link. We can do this.
Zwift sort-of has some Apple Watch integration … maybe
Link. It doesn’t work so far on my iPhone, but in theory there’s something. (I think their instructions have confused Zwift.app with Zwift Companion.)
TidBITS reviews Signal
Link. Best summary anywhere.
M1 Mac Fast User Switching bug with screensaver lockout.
Link. I had something similar with Mojave on my 2015 Air but bug was fixed in last point update.
Charles Stross imagines Mars after Musk – with COVID-70.
Link. Fun! Charles knows the tech context is unimaginable that far out, but it’s a neat bit of world building.
“using extra solar peak capacity for BTC-mining could make solar a better financial proposition for a utility”
Link. Weird idea but I get it. There are lots of other ways to use the “excess capacity” buffer though.
“It’s not clear whether 3.5 percent unemployment will be the exact level America will achieve again. What is clear is that many policymakers want to test what the economy is capable of, rather than guessing at a magic figure in advance.”
Link. I remember advocating for this in the 90s. If only I were Emperor.
Loathsome Gazelka and MN GOP make national news after COVID death.
Link. “Afterward, Republicans alerted their own caucus about the virus outbreak, but not Democrats. They instructed Republican staff members not to go to the Capitol for a special session of the Legislature on Nov. 12 — but did not inform Democrats … Mr. Gazelka’s mother-in-law died in December after contracting Covid-19.”
COVID-19 twin studies: substantial variation
Link. “identical twins differ by an average of 5.2 early and naturally occurring developmental mutations”. Intriguingly similar to variation in schizophrenia between identical twins.
Nordic ski program to roadless Alaskan communities: “… other coaches and I went for an 11 p.m. walk in dim sunlight and got charged by a polar bear.”
Link. Pre-industrial humans lived there. Almost every paragraph in this article surprised me.