So Many Tuesdays. So Little Trash
I don’t make anything anymore, except maybe trouble.
I used to build things and make things and cobble things together. This had a tendency to produce leftovers. Trash. While I used to squeeze every bit of use out of everything, and burn whatever was left over from the leftovers for heat, it was inevitable that we produced some trash.
Living in an apartment doesn’t generate trash like that. Of course we’re different from our neighbors. They seem to get everything delivered to them in a cardboard box, including food, and food for their dogs. We’ve never had an Amazon lifestyle, and we’re not going to start now.
I once had over 1,000 square feet of floor space dedicated to table saws and wood racks and lathes and sanders and chop saws and shapers and mortising machines and who knows how many hand tools. There was another 600 feet square of random storage underneath it. I bet I owned 160 different bevel squares, bought one after another after a weekly hour-long session of where is the bevel square. I now have a tool set that fits in a cardboard shoebox on the shelf in the closet.
I’m an environmentalist’s dream. I waste nothing, because I make nothing.
So now I’m reduced to taking out a bag of pixels from my browser bookmarks to the WordPress landfill every week. It’s ain’t much, and I’m not sure I’d call it honest work. But it sure is something.
The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia
Two new large-scale investigations, one led by the University of Rome Tor Vergata in collaboration with 42 institutions and another led by the University of Exeter with contributors from 37 institutions, reveal a more complex history than previously imagined. Both point to Tunisia as the likely origin of the domestic cat.
Sippican’s research shows that cats are like strippers. They’ll display their belly to you, but I wouldn’t rub it if I were you.
Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training
While athletes endanger their careers and well-being in attempts to gain small benefits with illicit or inconvenient practices, a legal, nonprescription alternative has been largely ignored by athletes, coaches and exercise physiologists alike. Cigarette smoking has been shown to increase serum hemoglobin and hematocrit levels, increase lung volume and stimulate weight loss — characteristics all known to enhance performance in endurance sports.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please — Twain
Half of Teens Now Say Social Media Hurts Their Generation
Social media connects teens but may break their spirit. A new Pew Research survey reveals 48% of U.S. teens believe social media harms their generation – a sharp rise from 32% in 2022
Half says it hurts, the other half refused to look up from their phones to answer the question.
Car found parked in hangar of sunken WWII ship, baffling historians.
The baffling discovery was made Saturday, April 19, when NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the massive wreck, about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu. Yorktown was an 809-foot-long aircraft carrier, known to host about 2,200 personnel, 90 aircraft … and apparently, one car.
Unusual things in the hold are only baffling if you never watched Kelly’s Heroes.
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
“These little animals, which had appeared to be completely dried and lifeless, were restored to motion upon the addition of water, as if they had never suffered any harm,” van Leeuwenhoek wrote. Microbiologists would later find that some species of rotifers are able to reanimate after up to nine years of desiccation.
When I first read the headline, I thought they might be referring to married men.
Simultaneous alcohol, cannabis use may fuel more drinking
A recent study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine found that people may perceive fewer negative effects of alcohol if they are also using cannabis at the same time, potentially leading to alcohol use disorder, alcohol-related harms and drunk driving.
I’ll consider this study as incomplete until they add the simultaneous use of alcohol, cannabis, and Cool Ranch Doritos to their data.
Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’
The startup was born after Lee posted in a viral X thread that he was suspended by Columbia University after he and his co-founder developed a tool to cheat on job interviews for software engineers. That tool, originally called Interview Coder, is now part of their San Francisco-based startup Cluely. It offers its users the chance to “cheat” on things like exams, sales calls, and job interviews thanks to a hidden in-browser window that can’t be viewed by the interviewer or test giver.
If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying — Eddie Guerrero
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have identified a simple, noninvasive method for assessing blood glucose regulation—an essential factor in diabetes risk. Their approach, based on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data, could improve early detection and risk assessment for diabetes without relying on blood samples and expensive or complex procedures.
Once again, I’ll wait until they integrate the simultaneous use of alcohol, cannabis, and Cool Ranch Doritos to their data
The Rise of Scotland Yard in Victorian England
As Scotland Yard became a larger, organized force, they made consistent innovations in the work of policing. Scientific and forensic attempts made elsewhere were taken, used, and refined. The study of ballistics, of using blood hounds to track and identify evidence (and criminals!), blood spatter and blood stain analysis, as well as toxicology. The modern Victorian home was a quagmire of poison waiting for its next victim, from the arsenic used in fashionable wallpaper and clothing to the white lead powder contained in cosmetics, and police had to discern accidental poisoning from intentional poisoning. This led to advances in understanding poisons and toxins.
I’m not sure if Scotland Yard adumbrated, or simply perfected the cry, “Stop! Or I shall yell Stop! again!”
In 1960, Dr. Maxwell Maltz published his bestseller book “Psycho-Cybernetics” in which he defines happiness as a habit and claims that “it usually requires a minimum of about 21 days” to form a new habit.
Once again, I’ll have to wait until the author integrates the simultaneous use of alcohol, cannabis, and Cool Ranch Doritos to their data
Well, that’s it for this week’s cleanup. Feel free to try the simultaneous use of alcohol, cannabis, Cool Ranch Doritos, and the commenting box down below.
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