Good Things Friday (292) and Link Love
September 27, 2024
1. People who haven’t spoken to me in years texted me a happy birthday this year and that’s topsy turvy because the one friend who has never forgotten and always called for my birthday didn’t (but she didn’t forget my birthday, she just didn’t know what day it was where she was 😆 so I’m amused).
I hope this actually gets somewhere. Drivers here act like pedestrians and bicyclists are fair game and I’m stressed every time PiC and Smol Acrobat are bike commuting: Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
NASA’s ‘Hidden Figures’ awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work
This Medieval Man Used a Knife as a Prosthetic Limb
Beth shared this in a comment but it’s worth highlighting: Self-Silencing Is Making Women Sick
An exciting scientific development? CAR-T For Autoimmune Disorders (I’m excited for people who may benefit if this does work well. Not sure I’m in that group, I don’t think either of my chronic things are truly / easily categorized as autoimmune.)
I am not a fan of how this flared up for us: Yes, Kids Experience the First Surge in Hormones Before Puberty
This sort of thing is why I prefer most of my things to remain not-smart, less vulnerability to poorly considered exposures to risk: Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
Our society is absurd. It put to death an innocent man (far from being an isolated case the whole system is geared to disregard your innocence if you’re convicted), this happens, but Anna Delvey and other garbage people scammers get to dance on TV (and the headline is wrong, she didn’t forget, the machine didn’t work): Olympian forgot to scan ham and asparagus at Walmart checkout – she was arrested and lost her job
We were just talking about flawed Alzheimer’s research! How infuriating to read this! Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion
Now this is interesting, actually in humans though of course only the one person right now with lots of variables and it’s still early yet (so many questions: will this work for more people? Under what conditions? For how long? What other conditions could we use this for? Side effects? Rejection?): Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first
This is a really scary indicator of how bad Helene might be: All Waffle Houses in Tallahassee closing as Helene approaches
Happy Birthday Revanche!
CAR-T seems to have so much promise!! It’s very expensive (I guess most cutting edge things are) but could be a game changer for so many.
Agreed about not having smart things – and it’s just one more failure point! (Of course I don’t even want a water line to my fridge…)
Happy belated bday!