5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
"And we have a successful landing of the Ariane 6 core stage on the drone ship!" by toast in c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 days ago

It's just a baby!

1-2 alcoholic drinks a day may shorten life by 2 months: Research by toast in c/health@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah, not that bad really. I would guess from the headline here that you'd only knock off a year having 6 - 12 drinks a day. That's not that bad either. Taking off any more than 5 years seems like it would be problematic, though, as upwards of 60 drinks a day can start to get expensive.

The battle over J&J’s bankruptcy plan to end talc lawsuits by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it's just like when you kill someone in an automobile accident. So long as you sell the car involved, you can pass the liability to the buyer

Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 days ago

True, true. Funny how it's so much cheaper to own an elected official than it is to be one

Thanks to a $1 billion gift, most Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer pay tuition by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 26 points 5 days ago

With a billion dollars, I'd just buy enough congressman to make university free for everyone. They're not even that expensive

A Molecular Reason Why Exercise Fights Senescence by toast in c/longevity@mander.xyz
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 3 points 6 days ago

The researchers then bypassed exercise entirely, injecting recombinant PEDF into mice for 4 weeks. While the effects were not as profound as in the 8-week exercise experiment, PEDF was found to decrease some senescence markers in lung tissues.

It isn't clear to me in which way the PEDF is working here, as the article points to many of the benefits of exercise in general: reduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), inflammation reduction, and reduction of senescence-related factors. Still, seems to be doing something.

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A Molecular Reason Why Exercise Fights Senescence (www.lifespan.io)
submitted 6 days ago by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/longevity@mander.xyz
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Researchers publishing in Aging have found a molecule linking exercise to the inhibition of cellular senescence, one of the hallmarks of aging.

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Encouraging Mitochondrial Maintenance to Fight Senescence (www.lifespan.io)
submitted 2 weeks ago by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/longevity@mander.xyz
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The researchers investigated whether NAD precusors, including nicotinamide and NR, along with the well-known compound rapamycin could rescue mitophagy, and they found positive results for all of these compounds.

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TERT activation targets DNA methylation and multiple aging hallmarks (www.sciencedirect.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/longevity@mander.xyz
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TAC promoted tissue rejuvenation, including new neuron formation, and alleviated multiple aging hallmarks in aged mice, revealing the regenerative potential of adult tissues through physiological TERT activation.

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Stoke Space test-fires new booster engine (spacenews.com)
submitted 1 month ago by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works
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The engine uses a design called full-flow staged combustion, where both the engine’s fuel and oxidizer — liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen, respectively — go through separate preburners before going into the main combustion chamber.

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Oral Microbiome Associated with Cognitive Performance (www.lifespan.io)
submitted 1 month ago by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/longevity@mander.xyz
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The authors elaborate on the potential mechanisms underlying the connection between oral microbial dysbiosis and cognitive function impairment.

Biden should have pardoned Trump on federal charges, Mitt Romney says by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 230 points 1 month ago

And, frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.

Yes, we do. We really, really do.

Unpowered cargo gliders on tow ropes promise 65% cheaper air freight by toast in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 83 points 3 months ago

Don't worry. The good folks at Boeing have assured us that it is all perfectly safe.

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Turn off community name scrolling? (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by toast@retrolemmy.com to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I use Jerboa in list view, which gives me a nice, compact presentation of a number of posts on my phone screen. This is great, except now the list is full of left-right scrolling text whenever a community name is too long to display in the allotted space. This is very distracting, and I would love to turn off this scrolling

I looked through the settings, but I don't see a way to turn this off, or a way to simply not display the community name at all (not my preference, but I'd take it over the scrolling)

Can anyone help? My post listings look like they are on a web page from 1998

Edit: Now I see that the scrolling is also applied to long user names as well, and is used in areas other than post listings. This seems to have just started with the latest release. I really hope this can be turned off in settings. It feels like geo-cities in here

An airline passenger could face a $120,000 bill after fighter jets were scrambled when he joked about blowing up the plane by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 185 points 5 months ago

So, wait a minute. This kid makes a private joke among friends, and his message is intercepted by security services and obviously taken out of context (in that they failed to realize he was privately joking among friends).

Seems to me that the security forces should eat the cost of this. This is the price you pay for spying on everyone and overreacting.

The kid didn't say this publicly

Random 17 November 2013 by toast in c/cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 45 points 6 months ago

Not a humorous situation

It's not just you: Christmas lights look different now, and can give you headaches — NPR by toast in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 46 points 6 months ago

You can too often see the same thing in LED car headlights and tail lights. The most obnoxious of these flicker noticeably all the time. Not much better are the ones that seem to be on continuously when viewed in the center of your vision, but flicker in your peripheral vision. The later I find really distracting

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