Supposedly just listening to this Mozart piece (K.448) enhances your working memory. I would get distracted by the music and forget what I was supposed to be doing.
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Ancient DNA origins explain why the Finnish and Hungarian languages are so different. I always wondered about that, especially the Finnish language being so unlike that of their German neighbors.
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PERS is in trouble. Too much money in illiquid private equity. All locked up in real estate, hedge funds, commodities. Who's in charge anyway?
To make ends meet, they’ve also sold a swath of private equity investments – $4.5 billion worth in recent years – at a discount to their reported value. Officials won’t say exactly what those discounts were. Most of their dealings with the funds are exempt from disclosure under the state’s public records law.
Ouch. This is not good fiduciary duty. Update (22 July 2025): more here.
Look at how Oregon employment compares with other states. Not favorably. What do you notice about the leadership in the highly employed states?
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This is Oregon collegiate education. What a joke. Can't pay off your student loan? Gee, I wonder why, college grad.
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Telomir-1 fully reversed epigenetic silencing of the STAT1 tumor suppressor gene in aggressive prostate cancer cells, outperforming Paclitaxel and Rapamycin. For prostate cancer, they usually use docetaxel and rapamycin isn't standard therapy. But still, targeted therapy being better than a taxane is remarkable. Maybe I should get me some TELO stock. It sure shot up last Friday.
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Chinese scientists figure out how to do photosynthesis without plants. Turn methanol into sucrose. The title suggests it's CO2 to sugar, but you gotta turn the CO2 into methanol first. Boy, the Chinese are sure solving a lot of life's problems lately. Is it for real, though?
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What do you think? 90% of all the scientists that ever lived are alive today. Were things better when it was harder to be a scientist? Maybe it's like being an artist today – we have so many, and the standards are much lower. That's why we see so much crappy art.