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Rarely submit to HN, but I regularly enjoy content created by lots of interesting-but-virtually-unknown people and today seemed like the day to try to do my part to help at least o…

Entertaining dive into hands-on-wrench, nitty-gritty tangible reality where this guy seems to have gone a bit out of his head over some flat washers. He starts out with a pair of c…

At least one decades-old study that had purported to show that the herbicide glyphosate posed no health (esp cancer) risk to humans was retracted in late 2025 ( https://www.nytimes…

Someone who writes up a listicle about dealing with foolish people is more likely than not a fool themselves.

Context, also from arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/covid-anti-viral-drug...

And the MP in question (Caroline Dinenage) just so happens to reportedly be the spouse of "Major General John Mark Lancaster" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lancaster,_Baron_…

Oatmeal (if unsweetened/unflavored) has about the same GI as orange juice or cake made from some Betty Crocker boxed cake mixes and is just slightly lower-GI than the American form…

From TA: Jerath said the differences aren’t about technical skill, but about listening to patients and choosing appropriate care. Previous studies point to differences in the way t…

The goal is to compel the use of biometrics and personal, always-on and always-online, devices (e.g. phones) that double as personal tracking devices. To perform even mundane funct…

From TA: Historically, vultures were widespread in India. But between the 1990s and early 2000s their numbers plummeted by more than 90%, from around 40m. The cause was diclofenac,…

Sidebar recs are there, but YouTube injected a plea to turn watch history back on, an oversized block with the header "Recommendations not quite right?", followed by "When you turn…

Yes. This just began today, even though I've had watch history off for a long time, such a long time that I don't recall turning it off. Out of curiosity, I briefly turned watch hi…

I've re-read the comment to which you're replying a couple of times to make sure I didn't missing something myself. AFAICT, they weren't questioning the existence of people who can…

Stephanie Chin and her husband should tag themselves as well. The AirTags (two apiece, as with their child) can be hung from strings worn around their necks or on bands around thei…

And easily physically removable batteries, which used to be the norm and are still available for some devices (like the Nokia C30). It isn't mere coincidence that device manufactur…

Her deep involvement in the WEF (multiple roles, one as head of a WEF "Future of Work" project and another as a member of a media/entertainment/etc. WEF steering committee) is star…

Anyone interested in Fusus, which appears to be aggregating and orchestrating sharing of live surveillance cam video feeds, may also be interested in Flock (nationwide coordination…

CO2, whether from fossil fuel combustion or respiration (e.g. part of your and my exhaled breath, day and night) becomes plant tissue. Land plants, algae in the oceans, the herbivo…

The first episode of a new season of Tim Hunkin's fantastic Secret Life of Components series is debuting on YouTube this Thursday, March 30th!

In addition to concerns relating to carbon dioxide levels, when I contemplate the push for ever-more-tightly-sealed homes and particularly smaller homes with lower ratios of intern…

Driving through a park is already prohibited. The initiative is describing paved roadways. In Oxford, the ability to drive on particular existing streets (streets, not parkland) is…