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.

Summers off is a myth. Teachers are in classroom prep and training all through June and July. They might squeeze in the normal two weeks of vacation that other Americans will scatter throughout the year, if they're lucky.

I'm assuming the community colleges would also include the local tech colleges. If that burger flipper goes on to become a plumber or an electrician, they'll probably make more than I do with less than half the schooling.

I was referring to one of Apple's slogans from the 2000s, which was "It just works." Which was the case for Apple during its heydey but as you have pointed out, not any more.

They can still develop hot spots, though. Mine tends to get noticeably hot right below the Z and X keys. I do love the G-series, though. Actually, I just like MSI. Things just work, like they took a cue from Apple.

That's the compromise I made with my gaming laptop. It's gonna get hot, so I just have a good cooler underneath it when I'm on the road.

Usually the funding for the initial building is done by a real estate investment trust. So the "builder" in this case doesn't refer to the construction company, but to the folks that funded them. Neighborhoods with a HOA are supposed to come with some perks, too - community landscapers, a club house with a pool, that sort of thing. Someone still has to run those things long after the construction crew is gone.

These days it's hard to find a new construction home that isn't part of a neighborhood that has a HOA.... unless you build yourself on one of the abandoned PVC farms from 2008. Our house was the show room foreclosed on such a property, and thus we got a new house while escaping the clutches of the HOA that never was.

Georgia Tech is part of the USG system, so they're already included in this grouping if I understand TFA correctly.

Correct, all USG schools have a per semester technology fee. Sounds like they actually found a better use for it than new iPads for the mac labs, at least.

I would like to see that too. They're across the street from my office, funny enough. I wonder if I go knock on the door and ask, if anyone would talk to me?

Now if they could just make this service available to alumni, I'd be set. Heck, I'd pay them. My house isn't that far from campus, and their service clearly can't be any worse than AT&T or Charter.