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Yes, it’s really disappointing to see Monash doing that - not a mention of mouse or mice.

I feel like lots of people hate on Ryanair because of experiences from years ago. For me, both the booking experience and the actual flights are far better than they used to be. Le…

Does anyone know why casein phosphopeptide (Recaldent) hasn't had more success? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9294493/ You can buy the Japanese gum with Recaldent online, but I e…

I think my Mother would have disagreed with you about Welsh. She remembered the Welsh not: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not

From Wikipedia: In a review article published in 2010, after Wakefield was disciplined by the General Medical Council, regular columnist Phil Hammond, who contributes to the "Medic…

I had visions of the customer at a teller machine, trying to withdraw $81 trillion in cash

I found Modafinil really helped. Had to persuade my consultant to prescribe it 'off-label', it's approved for narcolepsy.

Original betting book https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/inline-images/gen...

Ewan Birney opened a betting book at a meeting of the Human Genome Project in 2000. For a dollar a bet, he asked the world’s top geneticists to predict how many genes a human has. …

I wish you success, however... In my current team we all sit down about every six months and agree how we should communicate, giving our own preferences. After a few weeks, it's ba…

Does that apply in the case of war, which was intended by ‘strategic’? I’m reminded of Australia’s supply of iron to Japan before WWII. Which earned future prime minister Robert Me…

As I understand it, Britain will no longer be able to produce steel from iron ore, only from scrap. Which doesn’t sound good strategically.

I’m not sure that’s the case. I worked for Irish subsidiary of a financial software company. Management openly said the main reason we were there was for the tax benefit. We cut st…

(Aside). To expand slightly, what robertsdionne is highlighting is the changing usage of this expression. In its original sense, e.g an issue is so important that it is impossible …

And of course Gemstone is itself a Smalltalk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemStone/S