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My dentist has been on me for years that flossing is important for your health for more than just teeth. He explained to me recently the role it plays in toughening up your gums (e…

I tried Multiple's service out in an early beta preview, and was impressed with the flexibility of the initial product. Customer service and support was very good as well. The curr…

Fortunately I passed the stone in about 5 days. That's the best possible outcome as painful as that can be. I started the lemon juice about 3 days into the event and I do think it …

I got my first and so far only (fingers crossed!) kidney stone five years ago. At that time I started drinking lemon juice with hot water to start each day before consuming anythin…

For some additional information, the concerns that Boeing and Airbus have are around radar altimeters. These devices are used especially during landing scenarios, especially automa…

For solid data points and analysis on how the US economy is performing I follow: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ The blog is authored by Bill McBride who correctly called the 2…

An interesting part of the history of the 737 is that when it launched it originally had a serious rudder design flaw that contributed to several fatal crashes where a lot of folks…

Having two distinct routers and physical devices just isolates each network that much more. A single device is still exactly that at some point, and in such cases there is always t…

There was a good study and results that just came out about this in the past couple of weeks and it backs up that airline crew have higher cancer rates: https://www.nytimes.com/201…

What's interesting that if the basic point is true (that modern human brains emerged only 100,000 - 35,000 years ago) then its amazing (and scary) how quickly things have moved fro…

Actually, this is the case in some Asian countries as well including parts of Japan and Indonesia.

My mother unfortunately passed away from this horrible disease many years ago when I was not yet 10 years old. Even more unfortunate is that life expectancy once one is diagnosed w…

Reasonable points, but just because technologies have failed in the past is not predictive of what will come in the future. It's often times hard for us to observe progress in tech…

In this particular case the launch was from Vandenberg in California and they do not yet have permit clearances to land the first stage back on land here. However, as others have s…

I completely agree with the author here, far too much weight has been placed on the smartphone as the control device and UI for everything. This problem has even spread to Sonos wh…

BART does not currently run 24/7 primarily because they have to perform maintenance on the system, some of which requires that trains are not running. This is especially the case f…

There absolutely is precedence for this. The US shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 And the Russians shot down a Korean airliner…