as I’m not a fan of such tactics. And yes… I know – it’s an accepted trope within science fiction, particularly once we’re in space or in the thickets of an alternative society. But even as I was wading through allll the explanation about the Pandominion as...
Which is cool and all, but NOT what my project is doing. YAY! So that was a huge sigh of relief. I still have to contact the author though, and introduce myself, and explain what it is I'm working on.I've also gotten a bunch of SF magazines (I had an orgy of spending on ...
As a child, while all alone, pretend that you are not who you think you are, but that you have suddenly woken up in this human body, and your memories of your whole entire life have just been placed in your head. Your real memories of your "real" life are gone. Your mom and dad...
Susannah is your typical New York working millennial, healthy and happy, until one day she’s no longer healthy. There’s been a long, well-tread critical motif that looks at inanimate objects or concepts in films and television as characters. Before it was thoroughly meme-ified the notion ...
A few weeks later, those drains weren’t working. So they pulled the end of his duodenum to the skin’s surface in an ostomy (which means a hole in your body that accesses an organ) and placed a feeding tube in his belly. (That tube is still there, used for meds, not food.) Af...
In the early convalescent phase (<6 weeks post-infection), GFAP, NfL, and tTau were elevated in participants recovering from COVID-19, with no differences between those who had or had not sustained a neurological complication of disease. However, at late timepoints (>6 weeks) elevations of...
8. Recent studies have shown the acute and long-term effects of METH on cognitive functions such as attention, working memory, and learning, and METH overdose is often fatal9,10,11,12,13,14. Meanwhile, the high relapse frequency of METH misuse is a crucial challenge for treating METH use...
If it’s not a number, what is it? Demystifying NaN for the working programmer. (lucidchart.com) On Tolkien and Orwell Both men developed a love of nature. Request Coalescing in Async Rust with HN discussion. Oct 2022 Not Even Forgotten: The Higgs Boson and the End of Everything ...
A bacterium (I’ve always wanted to say a bacterium) of the largest known bacteria is nearly an inch long. Whatever the bacteriological word for gnarly is, this is that. Not only can you see them with the naked eye, but you can see them with the naked eye in the naked everything, ...
Although scientists have been working lately to develop gaze-independent P300 spellers, most of these systems require visual attention or even gaze shifting. The gaze shift dependency might not be applicable for patients with severe paralysis. It is worth noting that the modifications developed and ...