NASA uncovers 50 ‘areas of concern’ including leaks and cracks on the 25-year-old space station. //

Over the past two decades, the ISS has been a hub for groundbreaking scientific research. The microgravity environment has enabled significant advancements in studying diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, asthma, and heart disease. The unique conditions allow researchers to observe cellular and molecular changes impossible on Earth.

Without the interference of Earth’s gravity, Alzheimer’s researchers have studied protein clusters that can cause neurodegenerative diseases. Cancer researchers studied the growth of endothelial cells on the space station.

Endothelial cells help supply blood in the body, and tumors need that blood to form. Space station-grown cells grow better than those on Earth and can help test new cancer treatments.

Why do this in space? Studying cells, organoids, and protein clusters without the influence of gravity – or even the forces of container walls – can help researchers get a clearer understanding of their properties, behaviors, and responses to treatments.

Not only was Neely breathing when the police arrived, but they refused to give him mouth-to-mouth, instead sticking him with Narcan assuming a drug overdose was involved. //

bluestardad
3 hours ago
The whole trial should have never happened. Penny deserves a good citizen award and instead he’s the victim of a malicious prosecutor.

853 OKG bluestardad
an hour ago
I'm hoping Daniel Penny can turn around and sue Bragg and NYC for malicious prosecution. //

anon-bdx1
3 hours ago
Obviously this video was available to the prosecution and they proceeded anyway

But since when did Democrats become pro-war? Why would they defend someone like Liz Cheney, who ostensibly represented everything they claim to despise?

The answer is simple: They only pretend to be antiwar when it suits them. If they can score a few cheap political points against their most hated political opponent, they will welcome every single bloodthirsty warmonger with open arms. //

GreenLanternMD
2 hours ago
I remember reading that, after Clinton was elected following 12 years of Reagan and Bush, one leftist looked out on some troops and said, “Those are ours now,” and realizing that they really weren’t really antiwar at all. In the same sense, leftists hated the CIA and FBI until they were in charge.

The upshot is that leftists and neocons are authoritarians, more alike than different, consolidating behind Harris and (God forbid) Walz, while the free speech, antiwar, and now MAHA Democrats and MAGA Republicans and embracing a more skeptical paleolibertarian view of government. It’s a realignment that has needed to happen for a century.

Weminuche45
an hour ago
"Why Are Betting Odds So Telling?"

The odds are set with the intent of having an equal amount of money bet on both options. As money comes in, if more money in bets are placed on one side, the odds are adjusted to even it out. Why? Bec if even money is bet on both sides of all bets, the casino always wins, via the juice/fees. So the odds are set by what people are betting, not a prediction by the casino of what will happen.

People bet on things for all sorts of reasons, usually emotional reasons, and almost always lose money over the long term. Casinos operate pragmatically and flow with whatever the betters are betting and win over the long term regardless, without any need to make accurate predictions or know something other people don't.

It is an interesting datapoint though. We'll see... //

Lugger66 Robert A Hahn
2 hours ago edited
True but what I wanna know is why Trump is dropping like a rock in poly market. Literally at the pace it’s changing it’s gonna be inverted in 24 to 48 hours. //

Robert A Hahn Lugger66
5 minutes ago
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. . . . There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

-- Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi