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I have a grinder with an acrylic hopper, and in dry weather the static was driving me nuts. I finally figured out that with a couple of slow breaths into the hopper, the static dissipated (thanks to condensation - you'll see fogging of the plastic.) Easy to pour out the grind, and - according...

The government that funds 1% of NPR? That government? Or is there another secret one that Q told you about?

My long-ago decision to never even open a Twatter account looks smarter by the day.

At this rate, he'll have $44 billion less in short order. He has yet to make a single smart decision about Twitter, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

I'm finding it hard to imagine a planet that can lose its water, while retaining enough hydrogen to make more. The difference in volatilities is enormous.

Just want to give props to Beth Mole, the author: this is an excellent article, well written, well organized, and scientifically literate. I love being able to read something like this without wincing or rolling my eyes. I hope Ars Technica knows what they've got with this writer.

In the "general medical and surgical population" the incidence of HIT is 0.2% - so multiply that by whatever percentage of the population will be in the hospital in the next few weeks, for non-Covid-19 reasons. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21640991/

The missing platelets are probably glommed together in the clots.

The problem with the "rubble ejection" explanation for the acceleration is that, while an ejection of mass toward the sun could give an instantaneous kick to the object in the opposite direction, this would not provide a constant acceleration. You'd need continual ejections, all in the right...

Yes, because we evolved in bars and nightclubs.

I take a multivitamin once a week. It's cheap way to avoid any potential vitamin deficiency. (Megadoses are hogwash - the body just eliminates them. You're spending your money to make expensive piss.)

Falcon Heavy isn't "scaling up" the engines, it's using more of the same size engines. Literally scaling up - building a bigger engine - does indeed introduce serious vibration problems, but that's precisely what Musk is avoiding with his designs. (Think of the Hellcat's honking big V-8...

"We have no backups. Because hard drives never fail." It's beyond insane - it's literally unbelievable. As in, don't believe it.

You've got to be kidding - subsidies for drillers and well owners are so lucrative that outside investors throw their money at the industry, just for the tax breaks. And the DOE is doing all of the coal industry's R&D, a subsidy worth billions. And yes, giving a free pass to pollute, while...

God put that thing in the amber 6,000 years ago, depleted in ¹⁴C, just to fool the scientists. At the same time he created light headed towards Earth, 6,000 light years away, carefully red-shifted, so it would *look like* it's from distant galaxies when it got here. (The entire universe is one...

Government decisions based on right-wing fantasy rather than on reality are not amusing - it cannot go on for long without causing some disaster or other. It's bad enough that the GOP will kill hundreds, if not thousands, with their health "care" plans, but the toll could rise horrifically if...

Not if the malware authors themselves put that "first directory" into Program Files (and hid it), as some other posters have suggested. It would be relatively easy to get that sort of thing past security software. They would have to be fairly certain that it will always be the first...

They don't exactly advertise these jobs. If you're a wunderkind in a graduate program somewhere, good enough to get noticed by certain of the faculty, you get a personal visit to discuss your career plans.