Several of 3M’s most successful products contained man-made compounds called fluorochemicals. In a spray called Scotchgard, fluorochemicals protected leather and fabric from stains. In a coating known as Scotchban, they prevented food packaging from getting soggy. In a soapy foam used by firefighters, they helped extinguish...
This issue for the past 100 years has been that things are phrased incorrectly in science, when you’re attempting to disprove a null hypothesis of “this chemical does no harm”. If you can’t find evidence to support it, it must be true. The dogma needs to change to the reverse, assume every chemical causes harm unless proven otherwise.
What? You’ve never tanked wearing the armor equivalent of the Michelin Man suit?
It sucks for moving, but it’s excellent for small defense maps like high value target and eradicate missions. Unless you need to run from guys with chainsaw hands or bile titans, or hulks…
State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman...
Donald Trump’s former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it....
They basically handle counterfeit money cases, so people spending counterfeit money provided by this asshole would have been investigated by the secret service.
Having dropped New Vegas in the past due to lost interest, I decided to try this game out finally since a friend of mine was having a fallout 3 playthrough himself. It was it 8 bucks, so I figured why not. I have to say, I put way more hours into this game than both other Bethesda games I’ve played through (Skyrim and...
It revived the game for me. Changed settings so it would grow without my tedious input, so thankful for that. Show up to settlements over time to find evolving cities that are actually worth visiting and make the game feel alive, like you didn’t build every shack in the wasteland personally with the toaster you hauled from a national guard building.
Sure, we’ve sequenced the genome, but they’ve tried somatic cell nuclear transfer only to find out that the cell dies with the mammoth nucleus. Unless it was stored in cryogenic storage beneath lead shielding to protect from ionizing background radiation it’ll never work.
The only hope they have is cloning huge sections of the mammoth genome into the elephant genome, which is a project the size and scale of which will never be performed if we can’t even be fucked to properly care for their only surviving relative the elephants (or even care enough to do anything about global warming for that matter).
Ethical research guidelines bar any attempts to culture human embryos beyond 14 days of gestation, so as usual it’s clickbait and not something that will be explored anytime soon.
It’s so rare to actually see a new battery tech exit the lab and enter production. Always seems like there’s 10,000 new up and coming breakthroughs in battery technology, but none ever leave the workbench....
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary...
Skynet saw humanity as a threat to its existence, which was writing to generate an exciting story and blockbuster success. This timeline is different, imagine half of humanity helping Skynet.
I’m gonna say no if there are any other nearby enemies that have you attention. Had a squad of some 50s-80s last night and we got thoroughly fucked up on insane difficulty.
Problem was that we couldn’t see them until they were within striking range due to fighting the general stream of rabble, then they’d uncloak and almost instakill before getting a short distance away and reclaiming while wounded. We couldn’t follow the stream of them back to the nest either, so they basically preyed upon us until we stumbled upon and bombed the nest. Then we suffered from the ones already on the map since again, we could only see them when they were within a meter or two and they’d quickly kill us.
They are by far the most lethal addition, as you can detect and evade other giants long enough to kill them, but you can’t run or hide from these bastards. Certainly forced us to operate much closer to each other in future games.
I know that DNA encodes proteins. Truthfully, everything besides that (including ‘what are proteins’) mostly wooshes over my head, but that’s not relevant because whenever I search this question I never even find it addressed anywhere....
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
I think they’re looking for number of accidents/fatalities per 100k miles, or something similar to compare to human accidents/fatalities. That’s a better control to determine comparatively how it performs.
The long-awaited passing of the U.S. aid bill in the House of Representatives over the weekend was swiftly followed by a collective sigh of relief in Ukraine and among the country’s allies....
A Bradley IFV, under fire, evacuates the crew of another damaged Bradley near Ocheretino, Donetsk region. (streamable.com)
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/29a5311c-ba40-4ae6-a8e9-749b46759055.webp...
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)
Several of 3M’s most successful products contained man-made compounds called fluorochemicals. In a spray called Scotchgard, fluorochemicals protected leather and fabric from stains. In a coating known as Scotchban, they prevented food packaging from getting soggy. In a soapy foam used by firefighters, they helped extinguish...
Stop Arming Cartels Act makes it unlawful to make, sell, possess a rifle ‘capable of firing .50-caliber ammunition’ (www.wavy.com)
What is the use of heavy armor?
I normally use medium armor, and if I want to be extra fast I use light armor....
Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams ban (www.independent.co.uk)
State lawmakers ‘don’t see the mourning and the grieving that these moms’ experience after getting a heartbreaking diagnosis, Breanna Cecil tells Kelly Rissman...
Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested' (www.rawstory.com)
Donald Trump’s former White House aide is under fire after a video showed him claiming to distribute fake money to homeless people so that they will be arrested when they spend it....
9 years later, I finally played fallout 4
Having dropped New Vegas in the past due to lost interest, I decided to try this game out finally since a friend of mine was having a fallout 3 playthrough himself. It was it 8 bucks, so I figured why not. I have to say, I put way more hours into this game than both other Bethesda games I’ve played through (Skyrim and...
Xbox Exec Provides Reasoning Behind Bethesda Studio Closures (www.purexbox.com)
“I’m sharing changes we are making to our Bethesda teams”....
Researchers are making progress on producing cows from just stem cells, with no eggs or sperm involved. Some people are wondering if the same tech might one day work with humans. (www.technologyreview.com)
The James Webb Space Telescope Releases a Beautiful New Picture Of Uranus (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
NASA has released an amazing picture of Uranus that was taken by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
It’s so rare to actually see a new battery tech exit the lab and enter production. Always seems like there’s 10,000 new up and coming breakthroughs in battery technology, but none ever leave the workbench....
Teen pizza delivery driver shot at multiple times after parking in the wrong driveway (www.nbcnews.com)
Interview with the victim....
An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride (apnews.com)
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary...
Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months (www.newshub.co.nz)
01 May: Epic Fail: Russian Flank Attack on Vuhledar Crumbles! | War in Ukraine Explained (www.youtube.com)
They actually look pretty cool now IMO (sh.itjust.works)
Ukraine to protect future F-16 fleet by dispersing it in underground bunkers (euromaidanpress.com)
Ben Stiller on Zoolander 2's 'Blindsiding' Flop: 'Wow, I must have really f**ked this up' (www.ign.com)
How does DNA decide the shape of the body?
I know that DNA encodes proteins. Truthfully, everything besides that (including ‘what are proteins’) mostly wooshes over my head, but that’s not relevant because whenever I search this question I never even find it addressed anywhere....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
In total, NHTSA investigated 956 crashes, starting in January 2018 and extending all the way until August 2023. Of those crashes, some of which involved other vehicles striking the Tesla vehicle, 29 people died. There were also 211 crashes in which “the frontal plane of the Tesla struck a vehicle or obstacle in its path.”...
What Ukraine lost while waiting for the US aid bill to pass (kyivindependent.com)
The long-awaited passing of the U.S. aid bill in the House of Representatives over the weekend was swiftly followed by a collective sigh of relief in Ukraine and among the country’s allies....