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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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • It's American.

  • 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.

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

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

    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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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