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Dr. Bob

@ DrBob @lemmy.ca

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Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.

  • What is one thing you wish was on the Fediverse?

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  • Government. I don't understand how they are still using the hellsites and that social app.

  • xkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • You can add my post 😀.

    Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don't know.

    There are a number of articles that talk about the "awakening" aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what's up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.

  • xkcd: Groundhog Day Meaning

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  • You probably know this, but it's what remains of the Celtic festival of Imbolc. It's the first of the three spring festivals. Ostara you definitely know since it was coopted by the church along with the eggs and rabbit symbology.

  • France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

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  •  ¯(ツ)_/¯. I didn't say it was a good reason.

  • France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom

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  • It's American.

  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • There is a lot of incremental research that gets transformed into ZOMG YOU GUYS!!! by the research office. The journals are full of papers demonstrating a complete rescue of a disease model ( and I'm an author on some of them). What the papers are really demonstrating is the inadequacy of the animal model.

  • Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.

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  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • Dude it's worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So...jaded.

  • Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

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  • We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we'll save test tubes from cancer...again.

  • US warns they will send fighter jets into Canadian airspace if F-35 deal doesn’t go through | The Independent

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    1. Does Canada have the kind of military aerospace background to speedrun a program like that? Genuinely don't know.

    60 years ago we did. The Avro Arrow program was unexpectedly killed just as production was getting read to ramp up. Why? Who the fuck knows.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

  • in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention

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  • Confirmed. My wife does not consume my "cooking". She will let me grill though...sometimes.

  • TIL “sleet” does not have the same meaning in all English speaking countries

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  • We use the British meaning. Yanks went their own way on this one.

  • Im dating myself but on the show NYPD Blue they showed the top part of Dennis Franz ass. In hingsight seems kinda mild but what was the huge uproar about back then?

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  • We didn't see asses on TV. We still don't see them on broadcast. It's more common on cable.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • The cost to reach them to diagnose and replace outweighs the decreased maintenance. Digging is really expensive.

  • US | Luigi Mangione is due in court as judge weighs legality of police seizing his backpack

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  • Sure. But it was the other way. Searched his bag and then arrested him. And then broke the chain of custody during transport. They say they found a gun, and an hour later a cop shows up at the station with the murder weapon and says this is the one we found on him.

  • AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

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  • I cleared all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3. I expected...something...anything?

  • The rise of ID/face scanning to access bars & clubs

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  • It happened to me for the first time at Calgary Stampede this summer. I refused and was denied entry to a concert I'd already paid for.

  • Give 'em the ol' razzle-dazzle!

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  •  ¯(ツ)_/¯