PhD/molecular biology = I might actually know something about DNA/Proteins
Lipids, Sugars, not so much
Liberal, but very unhappy with most bigshot liberals who appear to do mostly clickbait
Like to do dayhikes in the White Mountains of NH
Jew from Brooklyn
| Simple Math is good | Don't be innumerate |
supposedly #mastodon is about choice and freedom and so forth
me personally, my choice is that I want to block any one whose avatar is animated , eg
https://vis.social/@pantasy@pantsfree.cc
of course, people with animated avatars are free to make fun of me, or block me, or both
Not a bot
needs to be stored close to "room temp"
so what about shipping: if it arrives here in Boston in teh winter and sits on my doorstep for 4 hours at -10oF, is it ok ?
fascinating #dataviz #graphic from @reuters story about Tesla cutting prices
Note how the price cuts are very diff in diff countries
well, I find it fascinating
Tesla Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TSLA.O" target="_blank">(TSLA.O)</a> has slashed prices globally on its electric vehicles by as much as 20%, extending an aggressive discounting effort and challenging rivals after <a href="/business/autos-transportation/teslas-quarterly-deliveries-miss-estimates-2023-01-02/">missing Wall Street delivery estimates for 2022</a>.
For #romanroadsfriday a section of the 'Via delle Gallie' in Donnas, Val d’Aosta, Italy. The wheel ruts are still visible. The arch was carved into the rock.
The road that was built under Augustus. It began at Mediolanum, present-day Milan, and passed through Augusta Eporedia, Ivrea, where it divided into two branches at Augusta Praetoria, Aosta.
One branch led to Lugdunum, Lyon in France, the other to Octodurus, Martigny in Switzerland.
Inevitably, a vinyl cultist will tell me, "But what about $20,000 turntables? Beat that!"
Okay... have you ever heard open reel tape that goes to 30 IPS?
For that kind of money, get yourself a Studer A80VU.
That is, if you're one of those crazy folks who drops 5 figures on music equipment.
The 1976 board game Newsdesk (aka Reporter) came with a plastic Telex
The players take the position as reporters from a newspaper. Four news stories are missing on each newspaper front page and it is up to the players to get them. The game board, which is divided into 10x16 squares, shows a map of the world. Each player has four reporters that he can move around the world searching for news stories. Central in the game mechanics is a telex, which tells the players where to go finding stories. The player rolls the die and then turns the telex as many messages back or forth as the die roll shows. The telex will now show one or two messages from one or two cities, for example: "Jalta - Crime". The player then rolls the die once more and tries to get one of his reporters to Jalta. If he succeeds in this then he might draw a news card and if the card has a news report of the same category as the message on the telex (i.e, crime), then he might place this card on one of the blank spaces on his front page. Winner is the player who first fills up all the blank spaces on his front page.
It’s wild out there - yes it’s #FearsomeThursday
#hiddengems @NHM_London
When folks talk about the biggest, deadliest, scariest animals they go for the mammals, sometimes sharks but rarely invertebrates..
Personally I think Scolopendra gigantea (centipede) should get more credit though - excellent predators that can even take down bats 🤓👊
Highly venomous creatures who modified their front legs to make fangs called toxicognaths to both hold and kill their prey 😎
Nina Willburger
Chris Trottier
Blake Eskin
Dr Erica McAlister
Helen Branswell
Jane Johnson (books)
John Paczkowski