Ah, thanks for the clarification. Both schools are merely "things I drive past going to the airport."

If I'm envisioning the location of this bridge properly, it's adjacent to the school. I-75/85 is basically the east side border of their campus. They don't think of it as public infrastructure, they think of it as the boundary.

It's not every art student who gets to say their project brought in a bomb squad! (I'd say that's normally the domain of freshman chemistry students.)

I whitelist specific sites that I believe deserve my revenue. For example, webcomics, if the artist asks me nicely. Or I pay the website that offers a premium, ad-free experience the fee they want me to pay to justify their content creation or my bandwith usage (I pay for digital FM premium just to shut the ads up, since they are all audio.)

The point is that it's MY choice to pay for the reduced advertising experience, thanks to AdBlock.

If they can devise a process to artificially create the effective compounds, they can patent that. But that only works when there is an identifiable effective compound.

There's Tamiflu, which can lessen flu symptoms. So there's that.

No, I think it's perfectly fine to require a company to have to prove that their product does what they say it does, or at the least, require that they provide refunds when it doesn't. If I buy a PS4, I expect it to play PS4 games, and if it doesn't, I have 30 days to return it. If I buy a case of beer that says variety pack but it turns out to only contain brown ale, the store is going to let me return it.

Many of these supplement companies do have a money back guarantee, but they make it such a hassle to return the product that most people chalk it up as a loss. I don't mind them being allowed to make whatever claims they want about efficacy as long as they're required to take it back when it doesn't work.

And in that case, they deserve to get actual St John's Wort and not rice powder with carrot coloring.

HPV can also cause oral cancer. The odds of transmission in any other vector besides oral sex are low, since it requires skin to skin contact, but unless you're as celibate as a nun and never plan to kiss anyone either, it's probably not a bad idea.

For that matter, the HPV shot is not recommended for adults, since most of us have probably already been exposed (unless, again, you're a nun.) It's only recommended for pre-adolescents, under the likely true assumption that the majority of them will NOT be celibate. No one says that you, presumably an adult, has to get the HPV shot.

Correction: Full time, already tenured professors who have been teaching for a few decades might hit close to six figures. Tenure-track, or just-tenured professors are usually in the 50K-60K range. Still better than the adjuncts, but still not as much, adjusted for inflation, as my father made processing medical records in the '80s. (Source: I'm married to a tenured professor. I sure wish he was making close to six figures....)

Seems like Harvard Apparatus uses bone marrow stem cells and not cartilage cells to seed the scaffolding. Extracting stem cells from bone marrow is incredibly time consuming and expensive. Cartilage, on the other hand, can be nicked off someone's ear.

No, they are. It's a 3D printed trachea. They 3D print the plastic scaffolding, and then they 3D print some incubated cells on top of the scaffolding, which they then incubate some more until it's ready to implant. They have a whole paragraph devoted to the "bio ink" made from cartilage cells.

To me the most fascinating tidbit was that they build the parts for the incubator itself with the MakerBot, saving many thousands of dollars.

I'm still using my Kindle Fire original for much the same reason. The 7" size is not too much bigger than trade paperback size, and it's small enough to tuck into my purse. Amazon keeps my book appetite easily stuffed, too, and it's honestly a good deal for authors who publish via Amazon. A friend of mine who is a novelist said she cleared $40K in three months after the release of her last book. And the royalty checks keep coming regularly, unlike all her traditionally published books where she's lucky to get a check once a year.

These days it's the opposite for me. Many hotels I stay in have removed their wired connections, and wireless is the only option.

Very few people know subnetting inside and out unless they're an old school network admin and have been dealing with it for decades.