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I actually dig the patinated look of my dented and scratched old MBP and my current MBA. My plastic Dells from work always look terrible after a few trips living in my backpack and…

She was at the land border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego. Still not an excuse for her uncontested deportation to take two weeks though.

Thanks! I wasn't directly involved in that discussion, but I imagine anyone can do it. It is a requirement for some grants and for some research funders. Edit: if you need to know …

Our organization (the American Federation for Aging Research) is hosting a webinar with Jay Olshansky (author of the paper) and Andrew Scott, a leading economist in longevity to di…

I think I would be more likely to use this if it were a subscription model despite usually hating subscriptions. Looking for a job is a time bound process and I want to know that I…

Here's a great and kind of terrifying story on CLEAR: https://onezero.medium.com/clear-conquered-u-s-airports-now-...

Interesting product but it's a shame that Chromebooks typically just turn into e-waste after 2-3 years due to lack of support from Google. They're cheap but terrible for the enviro…

The Aeropress shouldn't be as much of a problem, right? It's rigid plastic and contains far fewer polymers and is less prone to breakdown I believe.

I am not a PE expert but I will try to explain using the mortgage analogy. This is drastically simplified. The shoehorned part of the analogy is that a bank won't exactly lend as d…

The invisible ink screen effect (blurs the message/photo until you touch it) in iMessage is essential if you're in a long distance relationship or away from your partner and still …

Most Americans are using gasoline produced from crude drilled by Americans, Canadians, workers in Saudi Arabia, and Mexicans, that has been refined by Americans, in America, and su…

The implied gun ownership rate given by the firearm suicide rate in Hungary, for example, is rather high. It is also surprisingly high in Austria. Neither are like the US of course…

To be fair, I went to a Yankees game for $30 last week and had okay seats. Food and drinks are expensive Yankee Stadium, but you can bring snacks in, so it's actually pretty afford…

The article you reference is specifically on very young mice, and does not attempt to prove that this happens in adult brains of mice or humans.

But USPS is underfunded and according to the source below they made $13.9B from marketing mail in 2020. As long as USPS is underfunded it is a necessary evil. https://qz.com/emails…

After considering the risks I put some of my money into Gemini as GUSD yielding around 8%. After paying the taxes on that you're at least close to inflation. I chose Gemini because…

The Chemistry Department specifically has horrible infrastructure and a huge part of the problem is that construction is very difficult. NYC isn't a college town like Cambridge or …

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Most universities I'm familiar with spend 100% of their tuition on operations and some amount over that from endowment income. While they do have endowments, those are restricted a…

It's like looking at the Wright Flyer and saying that it is neat proof of concept, but that affordable transatlantic flight will simply never be possible. Prescient at that point i…

Oil prices literally went negative last year when speculators did exactly that.

Look for Oeko-Tex certifications too. My wife is in textiles and is impressed with their processes. A lot of "organic" sheets are not carefully sourced and are not actually organic…

Big fast SUVs aren't as fun as a Boxster, but the Range Rover Supercharged (as an example) is very fun to drive for a large SUV. Same with the Cayenne Turbo. With adaptive dampenin…

The truth is that I suffered for depression for all of high school too. But either way, I credit the program I was in with saving my life essentially. Also, very few people were wi…