Adrian Bowyer

“while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions”

A Viral Neuraminidase-Specific Sensor for Taste-Based Detection of Influenza Influenza has caused the deadliest pandemics in history, thereby prompting advances in our ability to ensure vigilance at all stages of future outbreaks. Quarantining patients early is crucial when it...

Just published, a study describing a taste-based flu test yes, chewing gum that could tell you if you have influenza. The gum contains a sensor that detects the flu enzyme neuraminidase & releases a compound called thymol that changes taste when the virus is present.
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Ditto. Then I laughed out loud when I realised in retrospect. If it does catch on it'll be one of those few slang expressions the origin of which can be precisely placed.

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

As any fule kno. :)

Come on everyone! If we all pull together as a team we can make this rhyming slang internationally universal.

Jackson Lamb heading to the bog: "Methinks a Donald is in order."

YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH The Floating Hotel That Creates More Energy Than It Uses?!

Always gonna re-post @everythingelectric.bsky.social (Fully Charged) content, especially when its unusual subject matter.
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The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Now, whenever my 2 y.o. grandson gets any piece of cake on any day, he starts to sing

🎶Happy birthday to you...

See also: The UK and Brexit.

So sorry.

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

If so, that's definitely negligent. But I don't think it changes the moral position.

My personal opinion is so, yes. While the Palestinians have great and justified grievances, those do not justify an unprovoked attack on civilians that was an outrage. The Israelis had a proximal casus belli, but the scale of their response was also outrageous.

This is a good game.

I have an English degree and boosted a major publishing house’s share price, and saved a high street retail chain from closure.

If a Mickey Mouse degree lets you create actual Mickey fucking Mouse, it’s probably easily as good “for the economy” as business studies.

The 1,200 Israelis massacred by Hamas was a vile war crime by a de-facto government.

And this genocide is a disgusting and equally criminal over-reaction by the Israeli Government.

A toaster in the form of a loaf of bread.

"God's unforgiving nature means his believers try to stay in his good books through a form of organised grovelling called worship." - Philomena Cunk

I would just like to say that I did once come up with the word "proctalgia" in the middle of a polite conversation when I wanted to say "pain in the arse".

I thought it was a neologism, but later discovered that it is a real (and, I suppose, fairly obvious) medical term.

That's a really good simile.

It's not just people's names, or even just proper nouns. I once had a similar experience with "buddlia".

I could have written a short essay about the plant off the cuff.

But I couldn't remember the bugger's name...

I call this the Christopher Walken effect.

I think that in general human mental links between the multitude of characteristics that an object has and its noun are quite tenuous.

Some years ago I couldn't remember Christopher Walken's name.

I could list films he'd been in. Quote his lines, even.

But I couldn't recall his name.

I could have looked it up, but I decided to wait for it to come back to me.

It took three weeks.

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

Let's make hope normal again.

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I really don't think Qualcomm buying Arduino is a good thing.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

When there's a storm 11 with 20 meter waves and a blizzard in the middle of the night, I always think of the crew of a fishing boat out in it, waiting for the forecast, listening to the gentle, calm waters implied by Sailing By...

Here's me, quarter of a century ago:

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