Stuart MacGregor

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

08.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 520    🔁 73    💬 13    📌 6

Chart showing defence spending as a % of GDP: 2023 Ukraine 36.70% Saudi Arabia 7.10% Russia 5.90% Israel 5.30% Poland 3.80% United States 3.40% South Korea 2.80% India 2.40% United Kingdom 2.30% Taiwan 2.20% France 2.10% Australia 1.90% China 1.70% Italy 1.60% Germany 1.50% Spain 1.50% Netherlands 1.50% Canada 1.30% Japan 1.20% Brazil 1.10%

The debate about defence ignores that Australia is already a spends a huge amount on defence and the military. As @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writes lifting spending to 3% of GDP would be more than Sth Korea! #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

30.04.2025 01:10 — 👍 88    🔁 41    💬 9    📌 3

Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score in Screening for Prostate Cancer | NEJM The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing. Screening with an assay of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has a high rate for false positive results. Genomewide association studies have identified...

A high polygenic risk score (PRS) for screening prostate cancer was superior to a PSA test or MRI for detecting clinically significant disease (Gleason ≥7). A big step forward for supporting utility of PRS @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

09.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 177    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 3

A photo of Nietzsche with his prominent moustache. Below this is a rhyme: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Had one distinctive Fietzsche His top lip was home to A magnificent furry Crietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

04.12.2024 11:06 — 👍 731    🔁 192    💬 23    📌 14

Opinion | Should Human Life Be Optimized? Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence are changing what’s possible for those undergoing I.V.F. Are we ready for the future of fertility?

The New York Times recently had an article on IVF and embryo selection which I think buries a few important ledes about these products ...

03.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 50    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 8

End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

01.02.2025 00:58 — 👍 33147    🔁 12265    💬 489    📌 585

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

20.01.2025 13:48 — 👍 2019    🔁 607    💬 33    📌 37

Stuart's songs of 2024 Playlist · Stuart · 20 items

Stuart's songs of 2024
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31.12.2024 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Imagine if just $500 could fuel your electric car … for the next 20 years Four good quality solar panels – costing around $500 – would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore.

Four good quality #solar panels - costing around $500 - would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore

16.12.2024 10:18 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Preprint used UK biobank data to show that when testing both common and rare variants, the appropriate genone-wide significance threshold is 5*10^-9.

11.12.2024 05:57 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Seems my real age is 40

22.11.2024 06:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025

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