30 April 2026

Researchers in S Korea have developed a drug, KDS12025, that if given early on after a stroke, can inhibit formation of hydrogen peroxide, which triggers neuronal death. This might be able to preserve movement after stroke. In mice, it "reduced collagen accumulation, prevented the formation of the glial barrier, preserved neuronal function, and restored motor performance". Sounds promising.

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Verifying your age in a privacy preserving manner. I like this idea. Let's say you need to verify your age to a website, but don't want to reveal your identity. Suppose the government has a service where after you do through a verification process, such as at ID.me, it generates a Selective Disclosure JSON code. You send the encrypted identifier to the website, and the website sends the identifier to the government site, and gets back only the part that says

["rZEHHTVlchLBWEOX4jYZXg","age_over_18",true]
["9Y833-G9mjCz39Wmd2JdgQ","age_over_21",true]

Then they know that you are over 18 or over 21, and age verification is achieved, without the website knowing your identity. It's going to take a neutral third party. This code can have an expiration time, so it can't be re-used and must be regenerated each time. I think this could work.

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Nice Rubik Cube solver. Only takes 21 moves – "God's number" or something like that.

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I'm seeing so many of these postings now:
A lot of folks in the tech world are getting tired and becoming strangely philosophical. Never saw this during the dotcom era when there was joy and energy everywhere. Now, there's a lack of it.

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These days, a college education at some schools is so dumbed-down that if it takes you 4 years to get a degree, you're slacking and wasting precious time. Schools are worried about reputational damage? Should have thought of that earlier, before implementing diversity policy. Colleges that are, in effect, like community colleges, will experience this. Real universities, places of advanced learning and research, will not be affected.

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Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China. Well, he's burned his bridges, for sure.

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Copper theft leaves Seattle’s Taproot Theatre scrambling to survive. Bet those theater folks voted for Democrat Katie Wilson, though. Can't have nice things anymore.

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Ray Kurzweil thinks we'll achieve age-reversal in a few years. I don't think so. Wishful thinking. Ray is 78.

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Portland City Council spends time on the really important matters – whether restaurants should be able to serve foie gras.

And Mayor Keith Wilson offers a paltry $100,000 so that grocery stores return to the bad neighborhoods they fled.

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