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by pdm55 6y ago
Loved this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Al2UnrtEE Bohemian Rhapsody
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by pdm55 6y ago
Sometimes companies that sell proteins, enzymes, antibodies, etc. have good educational resources. I came across this company blog the other day: https://blog.cellsignal.com/ They also have diagrams of the internal structur
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by pdm55 6y ago
I also like https://www.intmath.com/ for its short, clear explanations of various mathematical topics.
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by pdm55 6y ago
In Australia, there are plans to manufacture batteries [1]. This is a collaboration with Cadenza, who promote their battery cells as being housed in ceramic insulation, preventing fires [2]. Here's hoping. [1] https://www.pv
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by pdm55 6y ago
I have recently retired, and whereas previously my "deep efforts" where devoted to scientific research, my present efforts are devoted to learning to play bridge at an advanced level. When I was working, I wrote a post for Quora a
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by pdm55 6y ago
From the Wikipedia article: " ... his significant first meeting with a group of Wathaurong women, [occurred] several months after his escape [in 1803]. Buckley had taken a spear used to mark a grave for use as a walking stick. The wome
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by pdm55 6y ago
All the talk in the comments about dissolved oxygen brings back a few memories of student lab work that went wrong. I was given a freeze-pump-thaw protocol to follow in order to remove oxygen from a copolymer solution. Basically we used liq
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by pdm55 6y ago
The first rule of money is, "Don't lose it". As to what to do with it? If interested in shares, a rule that I like is to invest in companies that make products that you like. Also, hopefully, you can make some assessment abou
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by pdm55 6y ago
WARNING WARNING WARNING FDA has issued a warning about hand sanitisers: The FDA’s ongoing testing has found methanol contamination in hand sanitizer products ... The FDA first warned about some of the methanol-containing hand sanitizers be
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by pdm55 6y ago
try https://theconversation.com/half-the-matter-in-the-universe-...
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These scientists must really have gotten some insights into the skin to be able to do what they did. They used a polyurethane scaffold for skin grafts. I cannot believe how fantastic the skin of the burns' victims now looks. Repaired w
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by pdm55 6y ago
"The same goes for deodorant. It is a must." I perspire, particularly under my arms. I have been using deodorant to mask the odour, or anti-perspirant to stop the sweating. I figured that, as it's the bacteria that live in ar
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by pdm55 6y ago
Is Warren upset that he went ouside his sweet spot when he bought major shares in American, Delta, Southwest and United airlines? His analysis showed that investing in airlines last century would have netted him precisely zero dollars. Howe
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by pdm55 6y ago
Agree. The key skillset I needed to learn was to get along with people. Being nerds, we think we are always right. Hello! The truth is that there is often no one true answer. Learn to bite one's tongue. Still hard for me to do - but I
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by pdm55 6y ago
Some advice from Gary Provost, author of "Make Every Word Count". “This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writ
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by pdm55 6y ago
The captain of Qantas Flight 32, Richard de Crespigny, credits his first flying instructor with schooling him in "not panicking when engines are lost and you have to glide your plane". He writes about it in his account of the expl
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by pdm55 6y ago
>>Had they not heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”? My favourite riposte to the latest directive from the Education Dept was by a fellow teacher who said he always knew when change was coming: it would happen just when
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Can you explain this SARS-CoV-2 paper in simple terms?(cell.com)
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by pdm55 6y ago
I send links to my brother &/or sister, if I think it will interest them. I often add a short summary. They often make some comment.
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by pdm55 7y ago
Thx. With my failing eyesight (macular degeneration), I'm always on the lookout for audio stories. I like BBC Comedy https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/comedy-sitcoms - something to cheer me up. And these
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by pdm55 7y ago
Science is accidental, boring, repetitive, focused, finicky, wasted, political, ... A beast not easily tamed. Think of Edison's 100 trials to develop the light bulb. I continually think of my own truncated scientific career. I couldn&
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by pdm55 7y ago
A group of men have to react instantly in order to survive. This is the point of your training. You learn to follow orders, instantly. There is no time to discuss the issue. It is a case of kill or be killed.
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by pdm55 7y ago
Australian news outlet uses a log plot. It certainly has a benefit, as you can clearly compare different countries. Is your growth rate more like Italy's, or more like Japan's? We, in Australia, certainly need to do better. https
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Encyclopedia Britannica article “Virus” (free)(britannica.com)
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COVID-19 diagnostic tests included on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) for legal supply in Australia https://www.tga.gov.au/covid-19-diagnostic-tests-included-ar... Advice re Legal supply of COVID-19 diag
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by pdm55 7y ago
Measures in Nanjing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM&feature=youtu.be Procedures at Zhejiang Hospital (zero fatalities) https://video-intl.alicdn.com/Handbook%20of%20COVID-19%20Pre...
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by pdm55 7y ago
Because you need to get the attention of (1) the man in the street, and (2) politicians. And if the politicians aren't taking notice, they will get a quick wake-up call from their electorate.
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Small Basic https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/ https://www.kidwaresoftware.com/computerscienceforkidssmallb... html + javascipt https://www.freecodecamp.org/ https:/&
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by pdm55 7y ago
Discussion re new simpler antibody test https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/new-blood-tests-anti...
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by pdm55 7y ago
Resources for shifting instruction online https://illustrativemathematics.blog/2020/03/14/links-to-res...

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