I like: rock climbing, classical piano, speed chess, engineering, military history, hiking, the flyers, whisk(e)y, horror movies, snowstorms and good people.
Michaelangelo would look at solid blocks of marble and see the beautiful statues locked within, just like how I look at a potato and see the french fries it could be instead.
Thread by @PalliThordarson: 1/25 Part 1 - Why does soap work so well on the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? Because it ibled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. A two part thread about soap, viruses a… https://t.co/qYvI6pJY3x
'If you’ve got a death, then that person probably became ill about 3 weeks ago. That means you probably had about 100 cases 3 weeks ago. In that subsequent 3 weeks, that number could well 2x, then 2x, then 2x again. So you’re currently looking at 500 cases, maybe 1000.' -NYTimes
"More than 22,000 investors bought $TSLA for the first time on millennial-favored Silicon Valley stock trading app Robinhood in the past three days." - from CNBC. I can see at least four different scary things in that statement.
Free mobile games filled with ads for other free mobile games that are filled with ads for other free mobile games. And the only people seeing the ads are people too cheap to buy the original game in the first place. But I guess there must be ROI there somehow...
TULSA treatment for prostate cancer looks incredibly promising. 80% of subjects in a year long study had clinically significant cancer totally eliminated, and without terrible side effects of traditional treatment methods.
"The culture that we boast so much about is nothing but a thin lacquer which chips apart the moment we come in contact with something cruel like real war."
Our dog's hips were so bad he could barely climb stairs. Now he can stand on his hind legs. I think we basically have him dog physical therapy since he needs to stand up in order to eat scraps from the baby's high chair.