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I will refer you to my ER physician friends, who have stories of people attempting to use adhesives of all varieties in the most absurd ways. People will apparently attempt to put …

Last night some neighbors set off some illegal fireworks a few blocks from our house. My husband was out on a walk when the paramedics arrived because one of them had burned off ha…

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/ Churning out the blog posts isn't a bad idea if it's true. Repetition isn't inherently bad.

Amen to childhood leukemia rates improving being awe-inspiring. I had a friend I rode the bus with around 2001 who was diagnosed with leukemia and didn't make it. They let us know …

It's misleading because a single murder in this case is not statistically significant, but phrasing it using probabilistic terminology (i.e. percentages) obscures that fact and imp…

It would be good (especially with the replication crisis), but historically to earn a PhD, especially at a top-tier institution, the criteria is conducting original research that p…

This is an excellent point! People often forget that something uncommon out of a much larger pool is still larger than anything that comes from a smaller pool (base rate neglect). …

I think many people in the Bay Area also see careers as a game.

I think this was meant in jest, but Florida is not that wide on the peninsula. You can drive from Clearwater to Cocoa Beach (the entire width from west to east) in about 2.5-3 hour…

The funny part of this is, you just described not only travel, but all of life prior to about 2003ish (at least in the United States). This is when, in my social circles, we transi…

On the one hand, this seems nuts. On the other hand, the mechanism compared to all the other things biology can and has done doesn't seem that crazy. Create egg, remove nucleus of …

+1 to the other comments recommending Zulip over Mattermost. The threading model is fantastic. Also, for a non-profit teaching coding note that they regularly have interns under th…

I would recommend trying it anyway. The really poor reviews are from 5-8 years ago when it was legitimately difficult to use. They recently rolled out an overhaul that's significan…

What I would love to see happen from a safety perspective and which I think might happen (but zero timeline on when) is that a human driving a car will be relegated to something pe…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Exactly what "late-comers" do you mean here? Epic was founded in 1979.

And this reminds me of a wonderful parody blog post - https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

Related (and hilarious): https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatc... > What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is when you’re debugging a kernel …

YouTube was also one of the easiest ways to share family videos back then (the files were too large to be emailed, Google Photos didn't exist yet, pretty sure Facebook could share …

Warning - some of these can be reasonably graphic. I came across this which is live footage of a hammerhead shark being caught and killed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHEsOPIr…

That might also be because you're not in the office every day, people use those days to talk more (scarcity bias). I'm in-office 5 days per week and because we don't have this scar…

Currency in the real world has many, many backups. For example, if I forgot the PIN number to a very old bank account that I later find a long lost relative recently put hundreds o…