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I've come to have a partial understanding of the Trumpian platform: 1. Attack everything using extreme hyperbole 2. Be the craziest dog on the street 3. Ignore the science 4. Send more money to the wealthy 5. Blame China Not sure where they are going with this.

Researchers make hardened wooden knives that slice through steak Impressive. Also a little concerning for airport security, I'd imagine.

Q-Anon in a nutshell.

I suspect that the primary benefit of gifted programs is to avoid boredom by the students because they don't have to wait on slow kids. If a teacher spends 80% of their time instructing 20% of the kids, that's not an optimal classroom.

Liquid Gallium Shown to Break Down Carbon Dioxide Intriguing. I'm curious to know how well this could work in a manned spacecraft. Maybe it needs a method for separating out the solid carbon in the absence of gravity?

Why does this sound like a Taliban advert? Yeah, if you keep the women locked away at home and don't report domestic violence, I'll bet your stats look pretty good.

Unfortunately, politics will always be stupid. It's the nature of the beast. Things were no better 20 years ago.

The bitter cold is mainly east of the Cascade mountains. To the west in the maritime zone we get a ton of cloudy weather, but that helps moderate the temperature. There is a coastal retirement community in WA called Sequim that lives in the rain shadow of the Olympics. They only get 15 inches of rain annually and have their own native cacti. (Compare to the Hoh Rain Forest which gets over 200 inches per year.)

They increase their ratings by focusing on issues that generate a strong emotional response. *gasp* I'm talking about the evening news, of course.

I have some hidden hearing loss myself. The worst though is speaking to some guy who is wearing a mask and doesn't enunciate well. It basically comes out as, "Blah-blah blah blabab and blah bah-lah. Okay?"

I wonder if they ever trolled him with Yakety Sax?

Some people get tetrachromacy, which gives them greater color sense. I wonder how long it would take your brain to adapt to the enhanced vision? Reminds me of At First Sight.

A Gene-Editing Experiment Let These Patients With Vision Loss See Color Again