Looks like the magic Bose car suspension will be manufactured after all. It only took 21 years.
––– 凄い –––
Cytisinicline may be the first new smoking cessation drug approved in 20 years. Looks like a modified version of varenicline (Chantix). Chantix wasn't as good as it was initially marketed to be. This one has fewer side-effects so maybe people will stick with it better.
––– 凄い –––
Auwe. Hawaii is raising its hotel tax to fight climate change. Gov Josh Green says "people have told him the increase is small enough
people won’t notice." Dems always say this. Hotel tax is already 18.712%. The reasons for the tax are BS. The real reason is that existing hotel tax money is going to pay for their monorail boondoggle, HART, which is a huge money sink. They need $18 million to put more sand back on Waikiki Beach and to trim the grass to prevent future fires. Does it really cost that much? It's not like you have to fly the sand in from somewhere else. And I tink Manolo and da boyz can cut da grass fo' less money, brah. And why do tourists need to pay for hurricane clips? This is a grift tax by another Dem-governed, union-run state.
––– 良くない–––
Metagenomics saved a woman's eyesight. This is using genomics to identify infectious etiologies for disease. Only a few labs can do this testing. The idea is that some organisms can't be individually isolated and cultured, and so would not be suitable for traditional lab identification. So you analyze the genome of a sample of an environment and see what sequences you can identify, then use clinical clues to narrow down the possibilities.
––– 凄い –––
A new study was published using a Markov analysis called cobraa that posits a different pattern of genomic evolution among the races. It suggests that there was a population A from which Neanderthals and Denisovans (essentially Europeans and Asians) branched off early. There was also an early branching off of the Khoisan group, which became the population of Africans populating the southern and eastern part of the continent. The rest of population A became the rest of the Africans (western). But there was a population B that about 300,000 years ago contributed 20% of genes only to the African groups, and not to the other groups. So the lineage splits go way back.
––– 凄い –––
Construction activity in Portland hits a 10-year low. No one wants to invest in building in the city of Portland. Doom loop.
––– 良くない–––