This is awesome! My husband suffered from treatment resistant depression, along with PTSD. I say “suffered” because he’s been on ketamine treatment for a couple months now, and if has helped A LOT. I’m so happy this treatment is on the way to being more accessible for people who need it.
Milk companies used to pick up and drop off refillable glass milk bottles. We could reduce plastic use if soda companies did something similar with vending machines.
It would be really cool if there were national container size standards like mason jar sizes. Maybe grocery stores or recycling centers could “buy back” empty jars to be cleaned and reused. We’ve got to do something because we’ve collectively been sitting on our hands for the last 40+ years that plastic waste has been a known issue.
We “got” to evacuate during a wildfire. Fortunately our property survived. It was not the happiest experience. One of my closest friends let us shelter at her and her dude’s apartment. I don’t know how they got through it because I’m pretty stinky. Anyways the relevant bit is that we almost had to leave the cats. The skittish one got out at our friend’s place. I still have nightmares about that. He wasn’t too hard to get back in, but shit, I almost had an aneurysm the stress that little turd gave me. Oh yeah, then he pissed in the back seat on the way home.
That is nice and could contribute in certain locations. Manually de-seaweeding significant reef areas would require more than some volunteers though. Maybe the govs could pay people to do it professionally? It will probably run much cheaper to maintain natural reefs than dealing with the damages from storms.
I had some dumb thought about the beavers wanting to get in on some of that surf-board stealing action that the otters are into, leading to an adorable rivalry. It could make a good cartoon.
In his book "Humankind," Rutger Bregman has a lot of examples of humans doing this sort of spontaneous selfless assistance to help someone in need. He makes the point that there's no need for organization, and people will instantly volunteer and even risk their own lives. Because of this innate feature he has a much more rosey opinion of humanity which the rest of the book reinforces.
If you want an uplifting look at humanity I highly recommend it, especially if you've read "Sapiens" because it's depressing and Yuval Noah Harari has a blurb explaining how Humankind is better.
Some complex things need organization, like raising a barn, but the underlying message that in general people will help each other out when in need is absolutely true.
Unfortunately it only takes a few bad actors to discourage our innate desire to help others.
Do you really think it’s going to make much of a difference whether the ambient temperature is 37C or 0C when the hydrogen needs to be stored at -252C?
To be fair, the ambient temperature being 37°C versus 0°C already makes a significant difference in terms of e.g. the air density and the amount of lift the wings get, how easy or hard it is to start up the engines, whether ice is a problem, etc.
If the 15% difference in delta also translates to a 15% cost/efficiency difference, then that can absolutely make the difference in whether the technology is economically viable to apply at scale compared to its alternatives.
Absolutely it is big news! If you know what your future holds you can plan for it. This means getting your affairs in order, taking that trip across Europe you’ve always wanted to do now instead of when you were planning at 65 (when you might be disabled from Parkinson).
On the scientific front, early detection would also let researchers learn how the disease progresses and could unlock new treatments to slow or stop the disease in earlier stages that we can’t do right now because we detect the disease too late.
Parkinsons can be controlled decently through early intervention, at least compared to Alzheimer's. It could be the difference between 10 additional years with some quality of life or not.
Haha yup, sorta. They did use the bacteria originally discovered on skin (Mycobacterium smegmatis) but apparently it’s more common to find it in soil. Really valuable finding tho! Here’s a link to the primary source.
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