22 June 2025

What day are you most likely to die? It's your birthday.

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No need for iridium. Japanese scientist found out how to hydrolyze with manganese instead. Should be a lot less expensive.

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Hospitals are using AI to predict and avoid chaos in the ED. Sounds a bit creepy to me, and something tells me this isn't going to be broadly applicable to many hospitals. 

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EVs are supposed to save the world. What happened?  In a word, greed. EVs aren't going to work until they fix the battery charging problem. 

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Ever wondered why browser useragents all start with "Mozilla"?  Here's why.

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It looks like Southern Oregon University is going the way of Marylhurst University. More fallout from the elimination of the subsidized economy.

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The Portland Tribune is just a shell now. I was never sure what it tried to be. Another vehicle to carry advertising, I guess. It never broke any hard-hitting news. Mainly event announcements, restaurant reviews, and the occasional crime stories, etc. We have other news sites for this.

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Republican counties have a higher fertility rate than Democrat counties. No surprise there. Heh.

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