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Comment Is this India? (Score 0) 87

This sounds an awful lot like something you'd find in India.

Side note, someone I used to work with mentioned she was retiring to Arizona. I told her, "Ahh. Hantavirus". She didn't know what that meant so I explained.

So not only can you die from an infection transmitted by fleas, you can die from the plague if you live in Arizona. Sounds like a great place.

Comment Re:Yay (Score 0) 117

That's the idea. Get this system fully optimized and serialized, we can develop all the farm land into thousands of cute little off-grid gated exurbs. Everything needed to protect ourselves from the hoi polloi when we outlaw their fossil fuel.

And increase the rate of heat being generated when we pave over all that land with blacktop.

Submission + - Trump's feud with Harvard endangers 50 years of women's health samples (cnn.com) 2

quonset writes: For fifty years, Harvard has been collecting medical information and samples from female nurses. The data have led to deeper insights and contributed a better understanding into human health. However, President Trump's feud with Harvard may see all the information and samples being discarded.

Study data gathered through the years from some 280,000 nurses in the United States has contributed enormously to improving how we live. The work has informed dietary recommendations, including national dietary guidelines; led to hormonal therapies for breast cancer prevention and treatment; and contributed to research about how nutrients, inflammatory markers and heavy metals influence disease development.

Funding for the Nurses’ Health Study and its companion study for men, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, had already been abruptly withdrawn in mid-May, said Harvard nutritionist Dr. Walter Willett, who has led the studies since 1980.

Willett and his team were left scrambling to find the funds needed to protect freezers stocked with stool, urine and DNA specimens gathered from thousand of nurses for nearly five decades. Just the liquid nitrogen needed to keep the specimens frozen costs thousands of dollars a month.

“Of course, we would all love to have an agreement that lets us get on with research, education, and working to improve the health and well-being of everyone.” said Willett, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who has published over 2,000 papers on nutrition.

“But this can’t happen if we turn over admissions, faculty hiring and curriculum to governmental control.”

Comment Re:Wouldn't this happen to a lot of old satellites (Score 4, Interesting) 29

My dad is ham radio operator. He's told me the story of AO-7 which launched in 1974 and lasted until 1981 despite having only a five year life span.

Twenty years later a ham says he's receiving a signal from this "dead" satellite. After confirmation it is the satellite, an investigation is launched to find out why it's alive. The best idea they came up with is the battery shorted out which means the circuit is always open. When the satellite's solar panels get sunlight it powers up and allows for operation. When it goes into darkness it shuts down until it's in sunlight again.

How probable is it for this to happen?

Further reading.

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