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Most craft stores carry a glass etchant like Armor Etch [0] as an over the counter product. The MSDS [1] indicates that it's an aqueous solution containing ammonium bifluoride, whi…

This article is about arsenic minerals acting like a sponge that holds and concentrates gold from the surrounding environment that it comes in contact with. It isn't creating new a…

This reminds me of one of my favorite court cases, a rare application of the 3rd amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey A prison tried to break a strike of worke…

Amphetamine (Dexedrine) is schedule II, not schedule I. Doctors cannot generally prescribe schedule I substances like LSD. Pseudoephedrine is a substituted amphetamine so referring…

A US federal court held that typeface designs cannot be copyrighted in Eltra Corp. v. Ringer in 1978. Federal regulations made this explicit in 37 CFR 202.1(e) in 1992. The governm…

Hydrogen sulfide is a severe example: it initially smells strongly of rotten eggs but quickly damages the nose until it is undetectable and further exposure can be lethal. For most…

I enjoy using the CSS named colors for web design because it provides a limited set of options to choose from. It's easier to decide on the best choice from a limited set of option…

I understand your frustration with the current state of psychiatry, but I think that you may be reading too much of it into my comment. I had no intention of shifting any blame fro…

I meant "stimulant" in the context of traditional dopamine reuptake inhibitors and releasing agents like amphetamine and ritalin which are almost incomparable to less controlled or…

In general, it would be difficult to tell with an incomplete patient history whether a psychiatrist prescribing pramipexole for depression was making an irresponsible shot in the d…

I omitted the Xanax entirely from my previous post because the polypharmacy here is such a mess, but I agree that it probably factors into disinhibition. I don't personally attribu…

The article describes its first subject as having been diagnosed with simply "depression", but describes their medication regime as including lithium and lamotrigine which in combi…

This is not obvious to the average person outside of the industry. For example, most people would expect that text typed into a form field without clicking submit is private and ha…

Should they be allowed to record your mouse movements while on their site and sell information about how steady or shaky your hands appear to be to health insurance or car insuranc…

It's only following people who posted their own photos voluntarily in this particular implementation, but consider the next incremental step for this same approach: a website where…

Glasses are already de facto over the counter. Virtually every online source of glasses (including large, domestic businesses) will openly sell glasses with requested specification…

Cyanoacrylate works on PLA, but PLA is notably not amenable to solvent welding or smoothing with household supplies compared to the ease with which ABS/ASA (acetone) or PVB (isopro…

There is a bit of luck in even having any viable materials that work at the required temperature to choose from. For example, humanity hasn't been able to find a single appropriate…

I had the same problem and eventually settled on "medical evaluation" as a mnemonic.

If you don't fill the thermos to the top, we can also add the small temperature impact of Helmholtz resonance from the wind blowing across the lip to make this more complicated. (N…

In America there are subcultures devoted to couponing (hunting for discount promotions) and churning (opening many credit card or bank accounts to collect "new account bonuses").

The detector is a Geiger tube. There are more details on the GitHub page [0], including this note: > Disclaimer: the radioactivity from the bananas doesn't quite make the differenc…

I've read the first two chapters so far and found it to be interesting and accessible. The style is pleasantly warm compared to a lot of modern writing while maintaining scientific…

I recommend adding a tutorial or explanation. I read the homepage, followed the funnel to "Play as Guest", and this immediately started a game with what was presumably another huma…