The other irony is that it says "let freedom ring" but features a bell that hasn't been rung since 1846 due to the large crack in it.

This is not exactly uncharted ground here. These jurisdictional issues are literally covered in the first week (often the very first day) of the first class of the first year of law school (Civil Procedure).

Google "International Shoe Co. v. Washington" and edify yourself.

Except that's not how it works at all, because a) risk doesn't scale linearly with exposure, b) there's a huge difference between external and internal exposure, and c) you seem to be assuming that all cancer/cancer is can be traced to radiation exposure, which is nowhere close to the truth. In fact, it's a tiny fraction, far behind things like chemical exposure and plain old random genetic mis-transcription.

Heck, even in the hardest hit areas in Japan from the Fukushima disaster, the WHO estimates only a 4% increase in the lifetime risk of hard tumor occurrence for female children (the highest risk group) with significant internal exposure to radioisotopes. And to clarify, that's a 4% increase to the rate, not an additional 4% likelihood of getting cancer.

The same study estimates the highest change would be in the rate of thyroid cancer, an increase of 70%, but even there, the change in the absolute chances lifetime occurrence is only estimated to go from like .5% to .8%. And that's a cancer that's particularly linked to internal exposure, so not particularly germane to the scenario being discussed here.

I'm pretty shocked that this is the first design receiving commercial approval. I recall having heard about this approach for decades and assumed it was deployed years ago. Guess it's a good illustration of the challenges of working in a marine environment.

Yeah, and there are other cancers than can be triggered by transmissible viruses as well. HPV/cervical cancer comes to mind.

But what appears they are saying is novel about these conditions are that the cancer cells themselves are what's jumping from individual to individual.

It would totally be worth it to see Jared and Ivanka's billion dollar land scam get wiped out.

Damn, beat me to it!

Jim Jones actually helped people with things like housing access and racial reconciliation before he went off the deep end into paranoia, self-aggrandizement, and eventual mass murder/suicide.

Trump has always been the exact same asshole he is today.

Hate to break it to you, but those are suicides, either attempted or successful. Just because someone who gets pulled alive from the wreckage isn't willing to admit it doesn't make it any less true.

Cooling in space is entirely by heat radiation. No taking advantage of those helpful convection currents Not really an advantage at all.

OK, I actually support the proposition that this warrants an environmental review. But what about Reflect Orbital's "sunlight on demand" project that actually stands to disrupt plant life, atmospheric temperatures, etc. if actually carried out, not to mention permanently deface the night sky for astronomy?

I taught there as a grad student a couple of decades ago, and the level of academic motivation of the undergrads I encountered was shockingly low even then. Of course, I had done my own undergrad at a school best known for its high level of student suicides, so I suppose it's all a matter of perspective.

Ironically enough, my best, most motivated student by far was the "nepo baby" in the class, the child of a very famous Hollywood star.

In that case, maybe Uber drivers aren't actually taxi drivers after all. In all seriousness, though, you must not be in the U.S. Loads of taxi drivers here are drunk and/or nuts.

I've studied both languages, but the other way around, and my Spanish vocabulary has certainly seeped into my spoken Italian, and the different orthography of specific sounds (qu/ch, etc.) sometimes trips me up when writing. Doesn't seem to affect my ability to read either, though.

There are thousands of microbreweries, yet unfortunately for the past decade and a half, most have been focusing on making one after another trash variation of IPA.

The variety and quality of American micro brews was better 20 years ago than it is now, and it was cheaper, too, since the price of hops hadn't been driven up in the arms race to make the most undrinkably bitter swill possible that so many micros are churning out.