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Smell and taste scientist, EIC of Chemical Senses, repatriated Virginian, possessor of countless useless facts. Opinions belong to my friend who lives in another state…you’ll probably never meet them even though they are definitely real.

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You should have sent yours across the country…

03.08.2025 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thankfully, ours moved herself from old apartment to new apartment back in June (no gap in the leases helped there).

Ok, she did conscript a couple friends to help, but the key thing was no parental involvement.

03.08.2025 13:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes
YouTube video by Redeemed Zoomer All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes

Extremely into this YouTube channel. 13m views! youtu.be/tzLS4O7YaUg?...

31.07.2025 23:29 — 👍 99    🔁 11    💬 14    📌 1

You prompted me to look. Mine dropped today, too. NIH grants staff are firing on all cylinders, for sure.

30.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

30.07.2025 06:45 — 👍 5749    🔁 2085    💬 61    📌 140
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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.

27.07.2025 23:05 — 👍 6290    🔁 2345    💬 27    📌 56

The lighter shirt on the right

25.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Already did

19.07.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The yellow tape!

18.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not that facts will get in the way of conspiracy theories, but yet another clear demonstration (in this huge study) that childhood vaccines are NOT associated with autism, ADHD, or nearly 50 other diseases is good to see.

16.07.2025 13:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It is not. High fructose corn syrup instead of sucrose, which then required some other formula adjustments. But if you buy “Mexican Coke” (comes in glass bottles and is in a lot more grocery stores nowadays), that is pretty close to original.

Well, not the really original with cocaine in it.

13.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Years ago (mid ‘80s), I repeatedly won a contest where I had to tell the difference between Pepsi, original Coke, New Coke, and Coke Classic (the prize was one of their remaining cases of original Coke). It was all about looking at the color and bubble size of the foam on top.

13.07.2025 23:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@joshadhd.com the SFB Tool does not seem to be capturing data from our division (Virginia Cavaliers), so ADP can’t be sorted for undrafted only, draft boards under My Team give errors, etc. Not sure if it is a trivial fix, but if it is, it would be much appreciated. Otherwise, no worries. Thanks!

08.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

26.06.2025 12:35 — 👍 11383    🔁 4056    💬 146    📌 161

The most important question…when will it be available for preorder?

23.06.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kids think they’re autistic because of social contagion, says mum who wants hers to catch measles Children are catching autism from other kids, according to a mother who took her own offspring to a measles party.  Karen Hoyland, 35, who believes both vaccines and having friends cause autism, activ...

“It’s a difficult balance. On the one hand, I want Finley to catch measles. On the other, I don’t want him getting peer pressured into a life of correcting my grammar.”

“On the third hand, I’m his mother and that makes me an expert in human biology.”

21.06.2025 09:23 — 👍 152    🔁 37    💬 7    📌 0
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How Trump Is Changing Higher Education: The View from UT-San Antonio Around the country, university students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities, and fears for international students’ safety.

As federal money disappears, these young scientists are anxious about their futures — and that of public health in general.

“It took years to be where we are now. and in a hundred days everything was destroyed.”

20.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 85    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 3

Michael Caine on Jaws 4: "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

20.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 150    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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We Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team Our 24th most-read article of 2024. - - -Dear valued faculty, In light of the recent budget cuts, the university administration thought it would b...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

17.06.2025 18:48 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

And yes, I think “corporate” is very much the university model nowadays, at least for medical schools/health systems

17.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is pretty typical. I had nearly a year because I maintained a courtesy appointment (so I could remain on a dissertation committee). But fairly rapid termination seems common.

17.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Our updated preprint is live:
A Brain Reward Circuit Inhibited by Next-Generation Weight Loss Drugs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed humanized mouse models to test oral small-molecule GLP-1RAs, including one likely to hit the market in early 2026.🧪

16.06.2025 19:19 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Wait…is that Donald Sutherland and Gavin MacLeod?

Always with them negative waves, Moriarty.

14.06.2025 23:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Woman (photographed from the back) holding a No Kings protest sign that says “So bad the even the introverts are here.”

Woman (photographed from the back) holding a No Kings protest sign that says “So bad the even the introverts are here.”

True

14.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is not a lot of snob-worthy options there, but the Eagle Rare (upper right) is probably your best bet imo

03.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

03.06.2025 11:08 — 👍 22362    🔁 3767    💬 1    📌 1

JAPAN’S OSAKA UNIVERSITY TO ACCEPT 100 US RESEARCHERS – NIKKEI

28.05.2025 23:30 — 👍 245    🔁 50    💬 2    📌 30

It’s more than I thought:

www.cars.com/articles/wha...

28.05.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also Kia (same company as Hyundai) and Rivian, I think.

28.05.2025 22:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn’t V2L fantastic (I know this wasn’t your main point, which was a good one)? Refrigerator, internet, a space heater, a few lights, keeping the phones and computer charged…easy peasy!

28.05.2025 22:44 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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