I love gray skies and rain. And sitting quietly in the company of books and cats.
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Something to remind us …
My breathing is easier and softer just looking at this.
Hello, Mt Baker, and thank you for being you.
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Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.
Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
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Covid constitutes the largest mass disabling event in the United States since the Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990.
Now, the Trump administration’s anti-worker and anti-disability turn has created a climate of fear and difficulty around Long Covid accommodations. motherjones.com/politics/202…
Good news! Good news!
May others follow in their footsteps.
- PRESS RELEASE -
Upper Air UV Pilot Project
in Canadian Hospitals
“Allowing 10% of our patients to get infected is unsustainable,” said Hunt. “The cost is simply too high. Billions of dollars are spent on treatment, and many billions more are lost to the inefficiency of blocked beds.”
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So many subtle elements at play here. A photo-poem!
My faves:
Welcome to: Twelve Months At Penn Cove
Northern Whidbey's Quiet Haven
Photos: fineartamerica.com/profiles/…
Books: blurb.com/b/2480908-twelve-m…
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🚨 This could be the end of Type 2 diabetes.
Researchers at ETH Zurich led by Martin Fussenegger built a small wireless implant that uses electricity to break down extra sugar in the blood.
It switches off when levels are normal — and means people won’t need diabetes drugs anymore.
Inside is a catalyst made of graphite felt coated with tiny gold and platinum particles, with no living cells or drugs. A glucose sensor worn on the arm watches sugar levels. When they climb after a meal, it signals a phone or smartwatch, which switches on the implant.
The catalyst then turns glucose into gluconate, a harmless compound the body flushes out in urine, and the system shuts off once sugar is back on target.
In diabetic mice, the device kept blood sugar under tight control for six weeks, the animals lost weight, and it caused no sign of tissue damage.
Because less sugar ends up stored as fat, the team sees it as a possible tool for both type 2 diabetes and obesity, without daily pills or injections. So far it has only been tested in mice, and human trials are still ahead.
source: Maity, D., et al. (2026). Wireless electrocatalytic closed-loop system for drug-free management of diabesity. Science.
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Teapot, 1924 by Marianne Brandt, designer and artist who became head of the Bauhaus metal workshop #WomensArt #TeapotWeek 🫖
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In the shelter of the Hundred Acre Wood they stood up straight again, to listen, a little nervously, to the roaring of the gale among the tree-tops.
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”
“Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought. ~A.A.Milne
Late October sunlight through magenta leaves looked like stained glass a few days ago. I tried to capture the quality of the light & color in a photo, but it wasn’t possible. At first I was disappointed, but later realized maybe that’s a good thing.Noticing is part of the beauty.
I know I am breathing in.
I know I am breathing out.
I created this photo using recent research so it relaxes your brain when you pause to look at the details. I'd so love to hear which is your favourite item in this collection (mine are the striped curlew feathers).
As I'm sometimes too unwell to post here & the algorithm punishes creators who don't post every day, it would help so much if you could maybe RT my photo. Many thanks 🌿
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
