Neon is just used by the chip fab lasers, but is not consumed, and could be recycled rather than vented, if it was worthwhile to clean up and recycle the neon.

There was chatter about moving to an mRNA version of the flu shot so that the time to create the vaccine would be significantly shortened and improve the likelihood of effectiveness. Any word on that?

Tangential rant incoming.

My grocery store pharmacy that gave me the flu shot this year didn’t charge me & gave me a coupon for like $15 off my next grocery purchase, so I got something out of it, anyway.

Kitchen, yes—it would be a great help, somewhat R2 levels of cute and helpful. Lets hope at some point there will be a distributor for these kinds of items and someone starts selling here...

We need more detail on mortality associated with long COVID before we can make more precise estimates of total COVID mortality. The article mentions cardiac problems in the year after severe infections, but we don’t have a sufficiently long baseline yet - other possible long-term effects haven’t had time to manifest…

Looks like it was designed by LEGO.  I don’t mean that in a derogatory way.

These are the kinds of people Ukraine needs right now

By this metric, I should have practically no brain at this point.

Ha, originally created to document the daily trials and tribulations of batlife, like insuring specialty vehicles and dealing with batnipple chafing during the hot, humid months ;)

Dang. I’d always heard that alcohol consumption could potentially lead to memory loss, but never imagined it might actually shrink the brain. In fact just the other day I was reading about how alcohol consumption might actually shrink the brain, which makes sense since I’d always heard that alcohol consumption could…

Yeah it shrinks your brain, why do they think we drink????? Its a feature, not a bug.

You can also buy super short USB-c, usb-c-lightning, etc. cables with right angle connectors. Super handy! It looks really mall ninja tacticool, but I have strips of velcro every 2" on the back of my magic keyboard case thingy, with accessories on it (usb-c to headphones, usb-c hub w/ ethernet, USB-PD battery). Using…

“They managed to recover 95% of the rat’s genome, though they believe the missing 5% significantly complicates any future attempts to resurrect the species in a process called de-extinction.”

Pfft, that’s no problem at all.  Just splice in some frog DNA and it’ll work out, with no possible complications or…

“Incredibly, all 28 crew members made it home alive.”

That episode of B5 was pretty bad, not TKO bad but still (man did that show have a terrible 1st and last season which is shocking considering how good those middle seasons are).

I grew up in Houston at the same time. It looks like they really nailed being a kid there in the late ‘60s. I remember doing all that stuff—riding unsecured in the back of the truck and properly eating Frito pie (right out of the bag with a scoop of chili and cheese). They even got the truck going by fogging for…

“Have Space Suit, Will Travel”?

That’s one of the best little vignettes in the entire series.. especially the payoff last line.