1 December 2023

How do you miss that many?  Japan just found 7,000 islands it didn’t know it had. i can see one or two, but 7000? Were they not paying taxes? Did they not receive government services? So many questions.

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This is why PTSD is so strongBrain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience.  It feels like it just happened.

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In mice, researchers restore lost brain function after stroke. The mice were given a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR5) inhibitor. Sounds promising.

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And in C elegans, it was found that neural transmissions can occur wirelessly. Yes, it's like they have WiFi neural transmissions. How does that work? Neurons release neuropeptides into the milieu, and this drifts away and stimulates another neuron far away. It's unclear how efficient this is.

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Guess which tiny country is grabbing 15% of NVIDIA's chips? Singapore! They're building datacenters, and plan to be a hub for A.I. research, cryptocurrency, online gaming and business digitalization.

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Oregonians need $10,000 more to live like how they did in 2021.  Did you get a pay raise for that much? 
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Who was the worst politician in 2023?  So many contenders. That sicko Eugene teacher is definitely up there.

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What post-COVID recovery? Pioneer Place is an abandoned dystopian shopping mall. Really sad. So many people were expecting a resurgent economic boom as we came out of quarantine. It was going to be glorious, they said. And here's Portland's 10 worst neighborhoods to live in.

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And speaking of medical misconduct, here's a guy who is accused of falsifying stroke research, where it almost became a treatment to give people an agent called 3K3A-APC.  It was supposed to "reduce the brain cell death, bleeding, and inflammation that can follow a stroke" but "the experimental remedy might have actually increased deaths in the first week after treatment". 

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'Didn't really think that through'  Portland Public Schools will cut winter break in half to make up for lost days during strike. Parents aren't happy with the strike outcome. Will the teachers show up the week prior to Christmas?
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