They missed that thing on Matabele ants treating wounds on each other with antibiotics. The ants have done this for so long that they've evolved goo pockets to hold their ant-ibiotics https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/

The failure was in supplying nitrogen to an array of 16 freezers. Unless samples were split and stored in different arrays without the same coolant source, they'd still have lost everything.

It would be easy enough to create multiple sample sets to be stored that way, but it'd add an extra variable researchers would need to account and test for in their work as well as reducing sample capacity by at least half. A place as mighty and prestigious as the Karolinska Institute probably has a ton of graduate researchers, too, and everybody knows those people just graduate and leave all their shit behind without clearing out old samples.

The whole thing is heartbreaking.

Whenever I see a toddler with a cold or the flu, I feel extra bad for them. They're all congested, sneezing, coughing, possibly pinwheeling in the bathroom... a lot of them have never felt worse than that, and it's like, "I'm so sorry. You've got decades more of this to look forward to, little friend"

Oh, geez. I grew up in the US of the '80s and '90s and was talking to a friend about all the abortion clinic bombings we had back then--like not just murdering doctors (although that did happen), bombings--and how, thinking back on it, that was a super fucked up normal to grow up with.

As the Beastie Boys so famously put it:

"Ooh, GODDAMN!"

Homie-in-law is gender neutral

There was a whole ass Satanic Panic during the '80s and '90s in which parents were afraid of their kids playing Dungeons & Dragons, listening to Judas Priest records, and participating in human sacrifices. A lot of sociopathic behavior (like the "human sacrifices" that were garden-variety murders and animal torture) was blamed on it. Like, this nonsense was written about in newspapers without journalists saying, "But before we start looking at ritual human/animal sacrifice, we should probably look at who hated the dead person/look for patterns of animal torture first"

It was a really weird time to be a rational kid.

Libraries are entirely about the free sharing of information, and supporting everybody's ability to access it. 👍🏼👍🏼

Pretty sure Gary Larson is the only person who gets a bunch of Gary Larson panels. The rest of us are just happy to be along for the ride. 😆

Bringing me back to 1996 😆

Keep plants at home. Some of them are really good at keeping your air clean, and having green, living things around helps support mental health which is one of the most punk things a person can do right now, heh.

Here's a list of plants that are especially good air scrubbers with info like toxicity to people and pets and how often to water them: https://www.healthline.com/health/air-purifying-plants

Yeah, this is an abuser's rationale: "I'm only doing what I have to to maintain my comfort. You're the ones making me do ugly things like forcibly remove mods, steal their work, and commandeer the content made by other unpaid contributors. I wouldn't do this if you didn't force my hand. But you have, so here we are."

Compare this to, "Why do you make me so mad? You know how I get when I'm mad, I wouldn't hurt you if you knew when to stop."