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I did some more research, and it looks like tires are the 2nd largest part of the pie in terms of single origin. The largest is textiles which are 35%.

The AirGradient uses the D1 wemos as the microcontroller & network connectivity. There are D1 ethernet shields that have PoE that would make it pretty easy to slap on top of the d1…

I've read that the majority of microplastics come from tire wear (national geographic quoted 28% of the total), and because there's no good alternative to wheel tires, it's unlikel…

Do you know what happens to explosives on sunk ships generally? Are they usually left at the bottom of the ocean, and could they have the potential to detonate?

Still better than electrical resistive heating (space heaters) which has a COP of 1. Even when it's super cold outside, heat pumps with a HPSF around 10 would still have a COP arou…

Sadly most popular window a/c units don't have true heat pump abilities. Usually the heating portion of window units use resistive heating.

Why would it be the fault of hospitals? They have no incentive to construct more ICUs. A large percentage of covid patients entering the ICU for ventilation will die, and you can't…

Nurses working in the ICU during the beginning of the pandemic would use the same mask for an entire week without losing efficacy. If the masks didn't work, we would have seen a hu…

you can reuse n95s, nurses do it all the time. let them sit near a sunny window, off-smells will dissipate in a day. each mask is good for around 8 hours of continuous usage, but i…

walmart has them otc

also could have used a worm drive gearbox, they also have high torque, and possibly a rotary encoder for sensing position.

Once we figure out how to repair the tooth enamel properly, there will be no need for fluoride in dental care. We're still relying on epoxies & other glues.

With such a small amount in tap water, it seems like it would be hard to conduct a controlled study.

Yes, it seemed like it worked in hamsters, but as we well know, most drugs that work in mice don't work in humans. Besides, we already have many anti-inflammatory drugs that can re…

Dr. Pierre Kory was one of the main dudes promoting ivermectin -- he references the meta-analysis study on ivermectin that was later redacted. Of course when this interview was rel…

Many things are effective against covid-19 in-vitro. When it was administered in hamsters, there was no effect on viral load. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.21.392…

Has anyone done analysis on microplastics to figure out what percentage are from vulcanized rubber? It's probably a high percentage, but would be nice to have an actual scientific …

It's still lower than the peak of 3300 (7-day average) during the winter season, and that's when we had 250k cases daily. We're almost at 150k daily cases, but with only 1k daily d…

There's an in-vitro study that shows efficacy with common nasal spray ingredients (carrageenan & xylitol): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.19.225854v1.... Also, the…

> We clearly don't, though. As a citizen you can be entirely unvaccinated and live a completely normal life. This is only because the majority of the populace is vaccinated against…

Are there any vaccines in history that have caused something unexpected 10 years from injection?

It's not easy to get acquired by a FANG, but if you're okay with acqui-hire terms of most companies, you'll eventually get acquisition requests if the startup gets a little bit of …

Most weed have low amounts of CBD, so not sure if your anecdotal story would fit here.

Seems safe enough to test on humans even if it's not effective. Did the paper mention the dosage required? There must be test subjects out in the wild that regularly consume high q…

Microplastics don't only come from plastics that touch your food. When you turn on your kitchen faucet to make chicken broth, plastic is coming from your faucet. If you eat fish or…