By: Revanche

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).

Just a little link love

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