Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it. We knew about this, but it's nice to get confirmation about it, that it is possible to keep the gray squish working well.
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A breakthrough in the Internet of Things. It is possible to harness energy from the environment. No this isn't just solar power. It's power from other sources "including vibrations from equipment, machinery, and even entire buildings, or from temperature differences between pipes, radiators, valves, and their surrounding environments". Cool.
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Things are happening at the NIH. I can certainly see how people who are grant-dependent are anxious. But in the past, a lot of research funding was going to dubious causes, so I'm glad there's a bit of sanity now in the process. Everyone had to put some kind of DEI spin in their applications. Now, those things will come back to bite them.
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Some detective work in the French Alps links amyotropic lateral sclerosis to the consumption of the false morel mushroom (Gyromitra gigas). That's amazing. The books mainly focus on the nausea and vomiting, but not so much the neurotoxicity. Certainly not ALS. Well, I don't eat those mushrooms anyway. Interesting that a mushroom with such neurotoxicity would look like a brain.
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How to sleep sitting up. Apparently that's how Tibetan monks sleep, and supposedly the quality of sleep improves. I am not yet convinced of that. I tried this, and I ended up more at a 45° angle. Does that count?
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Stupid. Washington Democrats will give early release and free rent money for murderers and child rapists, provided they didn't kill more than two victims. Because you know, more than two murder victims is really unacceptable. What are they smoking there?
Doom Loop. Oregon is the 12th unfriendliest state to start a business. This is why the state will continue to go downhill. Just like the federal government, we are now seeing how much of the economy was just propped up by injected money. Taxing people will go only so far. And everybody seems to weep for the fired government worker. Yet government policies led to private sector layoffs, and I don't recall any sympathy for those folks.
Oregon lawmakers want the state to go back to having metrics to evaluate student performance. What for? So that they can be ignored? We already have standardized tests. Why re-invent the wheel?
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