Can we just spike the world’s water supply with Prozac?
January 1, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Can we just spike the world’s water supply with Prozac?
Most of my discoveries are during a hot shower. 🤷♀️
December 28, 2023 at 5:12 PM
Most of my discoveries are during a hot shower. 🤷♀️
Wow! What a great teaching aid!
December 28, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Wow! What a great teaching aid!
The news section of the Journal is much more agnostic than the op-ed. It’s hilarious when they take apparently opposing positions!
December 25, 2023 at 6:11 AM
The news section of the Journal is much more agnostic than the op-ed. It’s hilarious when they take apparently opposing positions!
No one really knows.
December 25, 2023 at 5:52 AM
No one really knows.
“Single use”. Yikes.
December 11, 2023 at 7:21 AM
“Single use”. Yikes.
Thanks! So now that I’ve been here a month, how do I demote that post! 😆
December 10, 2023 at 6:33 AM
Thanks! So now that I’ve been here a month, how do I demote that post! 😆
I think Godzilla is supposed to be allegorical, anyway. More like a warning than existential. 😉
December 10, 2023 at 6:32 AM
I think Godzilla is supposed to be allegorical, anyway. More like a warning than existential. 😉
It’s just like the stupid superhero situation. You give all of these powers to a character, and then the film is completely uninteresting unless there is an equally powerful adversary. Meanwhile, the entire thing becomes increasingly unrelatable.
December 10, 2023 at 2:21 AM
It’s just like the stupid superhero situation. You give all of these powers to a character, and then the film is completely uninteresting unless there is an equally powerful adversary. Meanwhile, the entire thing becomes increasingly unrelatable.
Night flying is the best!
December 10, 2023 at 2:18 AM
Night flying is the best!
Had a few minutes on a 737 simulator years ago. Easy peasy. All airplanes fly the same - you just have to flare a little higher for the big ones. ;)
December 10, 2023 at 2:17 AM
Had a few minutes on a 737 simulator years ago. Easy peasy. All airplanes fly the same - you just have to flare a little higher for the big ones. ;)
Always room for improvement.
December 10, 2023 at 1:44 AM
Always room for improvement.
8/8. I hate to sound like an anti-government yahoo, but I’m really offended by the way resources get sucked away from work that is genuinely intended to make the world a better place because some bureaucrat needs a job.
(Thanks for putting up with the rant!)
(Thanks for putting up with the rant!)
December 9, 2023 at 7:02 AM
8/8. I hate to sound like an anti-government yahoo, but I’m really offended by the way resources get sucked away from work that is genuinely intended to make the world a better place because some bureaucrat needs a job.
(Thanks for putting up with the rant!)
(Thanks for putting up with the rant!)
7/x. They said no.
Did the agent become more dangerous since then? No. Did our understanding of the agent change? No. It simply became more dangerous because the government decided to make it that way to justify regulating it.
Did the agent become more dangerous since then? No. Did our understanding of the agent change? No. It simply became more dangerous because the government decided to make it that way to justify regulating it.
December 9, 2023 at 7:00 AM
7/x. They said no.
Did the agent become more dangerous since then? No. Did our understanding of the agent change? No. It simply became more dangerous because the government decided to make it that way to justify regulating it.
Did the agent become more dangerous since then? No. Did our understanding of the agent change? No. It simply became more dangerous because the government decided to make it that way to justify regulating it.
6/x. In other words, we are less safe.
As a post script: I did a little work (pre-select agent) with botulinum toxin. Just to be on the safe side, I checked in with Environmental Health and Safety to see if there were any special precautions suggested or required….
As a post script: I did a little work (pre-select agent) with botulinum toxin. Just to be on the safe side, I checked in with Environmental Health and Safety to see if there were any special precautions suggested or required….
December 9, 2023 at 6:57 AM
6/x. In other words, we are less safe.
As a post script: I did a little work (pre-select agent) with botulinum toxin. Just to be on the safe side, I checked in with Environmental Health and Safety to see if there were any special precautions suggested or required….
As a post script: I did a little work (pre-select agent) with botulinum toxin. Just to be on the safe side, I checked in with Environmental Health and Safety to see if there were any special precautions suggested or required….
5/x. The net effect of these rules was to cause many (in the hundreds) labs to dispose of their agents rather than comply with the new burdensome regulations. Undoubtedly this translated to the lose of invaluable strains, as well as labs which no longer work with them.
December 9, 2023 at 6:54 AM
5/x. The net effect of these rules was to cause many (in the hundreds) labs to dispose of their agents rather than comply with the new burdensome regulations. Undoubtedly this translated to the lose of invaluable strains, as well as labs which no longer work with them.
4/x. The real motivation behind these rules is to prevent the conversion of these agents into weapons. But making a biological weapon is not facile. It takes technical skill. So why wouldn’t such a person also have the skill to do a basic isolation?
December 9, 2023 at 6:52 AM
4/x. The real motivation behind these rules is to prevent the conversion of these agents into weapons. But making a biological weapon is not facile. It takes technical skill. So why wouldn’t such a person also have the skill to do a basic isolation?
3/x. Having said that, the regulations surrounding microorganisms including many or most select agents are completely absurd. Let’s just take, I don’t know, practically the worst one: C. botulinum. Why in the world would anyone care if that was released? It’s already in my back yard anyway!
December 9, 2023 at 6:45 AM
3/x. Having said that, the regulations surrounding microorganisms including many or most select agents are completely absurd. Let’s just take, I don’t know, practically the worst one: C. botulinum. Why in the world would anyone care if that was released? It’s already in my back yard anyway!