is ricin a bioweapon? I know it's lousy from a mass destruction POW, but it's so neat!

On the other hand all those beta-amyloid trials also failed and failed, until they didn't. maybe somebody needs a better tau antibody (or combo)

Soooo, two questions - 1) why didn't he do it before? 2) is this related to those space lasers MTG talked about?

it may seem evident for a lot of us, but it's nice to have data: the rise of autism diagnosis is in a large part re-classification of diagnosis such as "mental retardation" "emotional disturbance" etc (for US).

it seems of course evident for a lot of us, but nice to have data supporting it - children were just re-classified from "mental retardation" “emotional disturbance” etc to autism, but there were no explosion of needs for special education for such children, as if there were indeed an epidemic

regarding autism rates - recent article by Dr Richard Grinker www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o... (and in more detail in podcast why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hayes.simplecast.com/episodes/how...) gave a fascinating fact - the enrollment for special education does not change much, just the labels:

it's all fun and games until he releases the Mom & Pop Oprichniks on you!

Mom and uncle discussing the party affiliation of my great grandmother. Me: wasn't she a bolshevik? Ma: what?? No, she was in SR! Uncle: no, she was a Maximalist! Ma: aren't those a part of SR party? Uncle: no! They were closer to the anarchists, like great grandpa!
(Revolution politics are fun)

Funny, in Russian "the roof is gone" is = "you lost your mind".

It's called a pot, where you can drown in

Poke a strongman, and it's just corruption all way down

Now the phrase "access journalism" just brings up images of Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr

Bluesky has the juice!

LLPS as a concept was always to fancy for me, my lay understanding (for myself), is that it just so tightly packed proteins that it's just hard to get anything else inside

Just these 3 numbers on the back!

Now I don't need to try to figure them out :)))).
In seriousness: Glad that there are all papers in these threads that give context to countearguments of LLPS as a physchem concept.

I like Tolstoy too, but my grammar is so so so bad

I'm ok with classical opera, but baroque opera and music is my absolute favorite

Here is Elene and Pratum Integra with some Vivaldi from last year. I hope they will upload something from the recent concert as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpaL...