Anybody have a summary for those of us without a subscription?

Empires are crumbling
We feel delusions cracking
Solstice fires beckon

Was it anything more than a museum piece showcasing 1970s technology?

Masks aren't all about Covid, either. The last five years have taught me that I'm more comfortable wearing the *right* mask whenever my nose is irritated by allergens, cold, or low humidity.

Speaking of which, ARTFUL SENTENCES by Virginia Tufte is back in print (it was quite hard to find for a couple of years). More technical than entertaining, it covers elements of eloquent sentence construction which I've never seen elsewhere.

I hope the #scicomm community will be VERY careful with the headlines on this study. I'm pretty sure a huge number of people will see this as "Paxlovid causes rebound which causes mortality, ergo it's the treatment that kills people."

It's been a while since I've seen the K&R book in such mint condition. It's still my favorite C reference.

Yes, instantly. That's where one wears corduroy pants and a jean jacket and goes to see an oddly tinted COLOR TV, then visit an Orange Julius kiosk (no such thing as a food court yet).

Takeaway: Any discussion of an “allowable” use of someone else’s work is about potential defenses in court. It *does not* prevent you from needing lawyer $$ to fight a lawsuit from a major studio. Make this a risk-aware decision. Also, again, I’m not a lawyer, so take this all with salt 🤷

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I've seen this and had no idea of the remarkable behavior I was looking at!

There are two times when a lab attempted to kill me. One was a centrifuge with old, defective glassware. The other was an ancient high voltage power supply.

If anyone is wondering, neither attempt was successful.

I saw - and in the end left because of - the change towards commercialization of research. The managers lost the long-term thinking that let commercialization happen organically rather than by design. Near the end my boss simply told me to work on product development. That's not research.