The coverage of Male contraceptives is a prime example of inadequate science journalism. As you correctly show, the hype hasn’t matched the outcomes.

Medical systems usually have multiple, redundancies and are robust. Despite all that, failure happens. As a tech person, I’m sure you’ve had to deal with automated systems “shitting the bed” despite engineering controls/backups.

I’m sure they did, but if the liquid level or temperature sensors fail, none of those responses would be triggered. (I’ve encountered those issues several times over the years.)

This is the result of poor planning. Cryo storage uses liquid nitrogen vapor as a refrigerant. As the price has dropped, more places switched from manual.to automatic top-off devices.

This is the result of poor planning. Cryo storage uses liquid nitrogen vapor as a refrigerant. As the price has dropped, more places switched from manual.to automatic top-off devices. The automatic devices are convenient but are more prone to failure. Over the years, I’ve experienced multiple failures of automatic…

With any other car yes, but not in this case. The rear windshield on Chevy Cobalt (from which the G5 was derived) had a tendency to pop out or shatter.if the doors were closed forcefully.

Biochemist here, I worked for a seafood market/catering company, and I always “pithed” the lobsters as you described. Using the word brain, always triggers my inner pendant, it’s a damn super and sub-esophogeal ganglion!

That’s the correct takeaway.

Drama aside, can we discuss how much bullshit is contained within that Instagram caption? The use of psuedo science in products for women is astonishing. It isn’t Jade vagina eggs level, but still..

Yup. It’s the first book I really struggled to finish in nearly a decade. As a scientist, I was appalled by his stereotyping and poor background research. Prose that’s simultaneously complex and imprecise, didn’t help either.

That’s exactly what I thought. Perhaps we could organize hardcore gay porn to be left on his grave site everyday for the foreseeable future.

This is very true. Also, being able to see your body helps with proprioception. Also, rock on for taking ballet! It’s way than people think it is.

That’s brilliant. Although in that war there were almost no casualties. Her bullshit is going to (indirectly) rack up a body count.

It needs to be family leave not maternity leave, especially as many of us have aging Boomer parents.

The book sounds interesting, and I particularly like how she parses sexism and misogyny. That being said, this is factually incorrect:

There are a great many things that “tech” is either terrible at or won’t work because the underlying rationale (business model) is faulty. Easy money and and overinflated stock market are contributing factors driving needless techification.

It won’t be a different price, but you’ll only get 80% of what an man would get in his bag.

Heaven forbid! What’s next voting rights and the ability to own property? Madness I say, madness!

I know right? Heinlein was a super Libertarian, and yet he promoted that idea. You’d think that somebody in Congress would’ve followed up on that idea...

IBID. Military service should automatically grant citizenship (w/ an honorable discharge of course). It still blows my mind that it isn’t a thing already.