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Pairs well with https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tobacco-psychedelics-psilocybi... !

There's a significant difference in the risk and mechanisms of transmission between these two viruses. The modern effective reproductive number for HIV is less than 1, about 30-50%…

These chemicals are derived from plants where even pedants would classify them as poisons. The genus name Boophone is from the Greek bous = ox, and phontes= killer of, a clear warn…

Just a couple of bros, traveling the countryside in each other's company. History is full of such roommates. Just the other day we were thinking about how recent generations have g…

Americans travel farther distances for many things, even within cities, and it’s not flat like the Netherlands

They exchange gases through pores in the skin--a fairly common process for things with cuticles https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/221/8/jeb177568/... https://en.wikipedia…

The answer is obviously because programmers want to be able to write f”{n} result{‘s’ if n == 1 else ‘’}”

Journalists don't just publish whatever comes into their mailbox--at least, good journalists understand the potential that they are being manipulated. We should be wondering to wha…

For a small/solo team, which is the audience under consideration, they probably want to spend their time on their core product and not reimplementing oauth.

FM radio bands are in fact used for various emergency services, but they are more specialized in usage https://strykerradios.com/ham-radios/ham-radio-emergency-fre... AM radio trav…

The really disturbing part of this whole issue is the way that online platforms perform a form of torture arbitrage between buyers in wealthy countries that have stricter animal cr…

Optimistically, this rule could create tighter feedback loops due to increased community engagement with planners so that databases get updated more quickly and speed limits are pe…

The way to reduce speeds is not to make the road more dangerous but rather to signal the expected speed correctly. The article a sibling commenter linked makes this point: > [...] …

> But the truly interesting aspect lies in how the device employs informational algorithms to make its movements more human-like. When you select its AI mode, a new interface appea…