Yeah. Again, bad paraphrase. What Deaux wrote was

To make aluminum, you need a smelter, bauxite, and electricity. To make it cheaply, you need cheap bauxite, cheap electricity, and enough steady demand to run the smelter 7x24. The United States doesn’t have cheap bauxite or cheap electricity, so even trying to run a smelter 7x24 is a bad idea.

I’m afraid there’s some pretty bad paraphrasing going on, both here and in the headline at Bloomberg. (The reporter writes the article; the copy editor or section editor writes the headline.) Joe Deaux at Bloomberg says:

In March, the Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Aid Access requesting that the charity stop selling Mifepristone and Misoprostol, which the FDA refers to as “misbranded and unapproved new drugs,” even though the drugs are legal in the U.S. and can be found at abortion provider clinics.

And The Root has Get Your Mind Right: A Guide to ‘New Age’ Therapies for Mental Wellness.

Naturally, I had to dig in to understand how melodies and rhythms, the universal language of black folk, can actually help heal our blues.

People say a lot of things. But when they get their hands on a weapon, things change.

Between the hedgehog salmonella and the international crackdown on French-kissing cows, it’s almost as if we shouldn’t be kissing wildlife at all.

Another time-of-day effect: Ars Technica: Kate Shaw Yoshida - If you want parole, have your case heard right after lunch.

Yep. The ramen is just a scaffold to hold the goop in place until it hardens around it.

Why, it’s almost enough to make a fella wonder if the critics might be disingenuously arguing in bad faith.

Bally.

Yeoman service. How did this task come to you? Drew the short straw? Not at the meeting when assignments were handed out? Refused to pick up the big boss’s dry cleaning?

Regulatory issues. Soy leghemoglobin is arguably a colorant, which means it’s subjected to a different regulatory regime than stuff made of older ingredients. See Why the ‘Bloody’ Impossible Burger Faces Another FDA Hurdle.

Wikipedia: Thomas Midgley Jr.: “On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without…

. . . for thirty years.

The data is from a self-reported questionnaire in the UK: UK Biobank. Various respondents might have taken “cup” to mean any of the ~4 fluid ounce tasse, 150 ml metric cup, 6 floz coffee cup, 8 floz US standard cup, whatever-fits-in-my-mug, or something else entirely. . . . This rather obviates the “pinpoint” thing.

That’s not the case. The trick to the Impossible Foods meat simulant is use of soy leghemoglobin, either soy derived or from a genetically modified yeast. It’s a genuinely novel ingredient.

Oddly enough, this exact scenario—durian thought to be a gas leak forces evacuation of Australian university—also happened last April in Melbourne.

Molten silver will zorch bones into charcoal, and silver-gilt isn’t much of a thing these days because it tarnishes too fast. But you can gild with something more chemical resistant—aluminum, gold, or platinum—or just go the bejeweled route, as documented at Paul Koudounaris’ Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and…