Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Today's news and jokes

@goatnussen_20_fanacc IM CRYING THIS IS AMAZING #landonorris #ln4 #mclarenf1 #f1 ♬ son original - goatnussen_20_fanacc






Cf. slate.com/life/2024/10...

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) October 8, 2024 at 5:38 AM






("There were two similar scams that also involved QR codes in September and August near the Embarcadero and on Beale Street")

















Here's how the NYTimes explains it: "The discovery was originally described in 1993 in two separate papers published in the journal Cell. The first author on Dr. Ambros’s paper was Rosalind Lee, his wife, who celebrated the Nobel committee’s call with him Monday morning. But the papers at first were met with “almost deafening silence,” the Nobel committee wrote, because many scientists believed this process to be unique to roundworms, and not relevant to humans or other more complicated animals." (Eventually, Ruvkun made progress, and then collaborated with Ambros.)





(I was looking up the first story, and couldn't believe there was a second objectionable campaign)











(A 2020 article.)











Looks unbelievably peaceful

























@baileysbarn He will take on a coyote but won’t step in a puddle. #guardiandog #anatolianshephard #quirkydog ♬ original sound - Johnny Sibilly




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