Interesting. I recently noticed new decorative lights outside a public building nearby. Instead of static white lights, these are red-ish, and slowly dim in and out in a sequence. This might be a way to reduce the impact on wildlife.

Twitter/X is such a cesspool. The end of nitter is an occasion to completely stop using Twitter, and instead go to the fediverse, subscribe to a newspaper.

I had to start using Google Messages recently because Signal dropped SMS support. It sounds like it’s time to switch SMS app yet again. Sigh.

That’s promising but also very, very early development. It’s too early for the hype and such headlines. This treatment still have to succeed in preclinical trials, then multiple clinical trials.

The research is still in its early days and the next step will be pre-clinical animal trials.

It’d be great if proven effective, but most treatment as this stage of development fail because they’re either ineffective in human trials, or have bad side effects. A small minority succeeds and improve patients life.

I always take several years for new storage technology to go from the lab to public computing devices, if it even makes it out of the lab.

It’s safe to bet that 3/4 of new tech advances of that sort have serious limitation that are deal-breakers. And the rest takes at least 5-10 years to become mature and cheap enough so that it’s accessible to average folks.

it suffers from a chicken-and-egg problem: Airlines don’t want to buy SAF because it can be several times more expensive than standard aviation fuel

Only because we refuse to tax carbon, and increasingly subsidize fossil fuels.

Clean alternatives will be much more competitive once carbon is properly taxed, and we stop subsidizing polluting industries.

Or the opposite. One could say it’s filtering out the vaccine which they falsely claim people are shedding.

Took me a second to understand.

That’s promising. If this reduces the R value by 30%, then generalizing this may have a compounding effect and could reduce an epidemy’s overall size by more than 30%.

I wonder how this affects bee survival rate.

If some producers don’t pay attention to bee welfare, they probably care about survival rate.

Let’s have plastic producers demonstrate their product can be recycled cheaply at scale before selling it. And the logical next step is require all plastic sold to be at least 50% recycled to ensure recycling is commercially viable and actually done at scale.

We shouldn’t be producing mountains of plastic waste then let society struggle for 40 years to find a way to recycle all of it (burning isn’t recycling). It should be the other way around, producers should demonstrate recycling first and use recycled plastic in their production.

The industry isn’t only aiming for society to keep depending on plastic, they’re planning for an increase in plastic production. That obviously mean an increase in plastic wastes.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/664906/plastics-production-volume-forecast-worldwide/

Yay. I hope it can apply to other types of cancer.

This was made possible by people who donated their body to science, and their family who supported their decision.

If one day you suffer from the loss of a close relative, and have to make a painful decision about the remains, consider that such study are possible because people who recently lost a family member allowed it.

I guess it would be more difficult to get approval than the average treatment if it’s the first of its kind.

Also I’m not an expert in the field, and there are probably many factors that makes speculation difficult, such as funding, and does-it-work-in-humans, and funding.

Crossing fingers, hoping that clinical trials get funding and are successful.

That’s be life changing for many people.

In many places there’s enough vacancy to do that with either exiting appartements, or with empty office space waiting to be converted.

The answer to why it hasn’t happen probably is complicated: lack of political will, ideology, the cost of building/buying appartements then maintaining and managing them so they don’t turn into a shithole, NYMBY, etc

For once, it’s not crime.

Good point on observational studies being of limited use.

People who eat nuts may be less likely to eat chips or processed food in general. So an observational study probably wouldn’t tell whether the nuts themselves have positive effects or not. But it’s probably not a bad thing unless you’re allergic.

My takeaway is: Make sure your tetanus vaccine is current. Use disinfectant even for tiniest cut/wound. Hope prevention is enough, but know how to recognize infection symptoms.