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According to the article the program only ended in 2013? I was in high school before that date in the states and never heard anything about a fitness test

Thanks! Going down the rabbit hole now

Need graph source. Who had the thermometer in 12000 BC

Done. Zuckerberg is now starring as Joel in The Last of Us.

Love the writing in this article. Fuck Zuck.

This pause has already been lifted. Traumatizing fed workers for the sake of traumatizing them.

The rest of the quote in the article: When Inskeep pressed Buttigieg on whether he believes a parent who has complained about a trans athlete competing in girls’ school sports “has a case,” he agreed. “Sure,” he said. “And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians… in Washington, trying to use this as a political pawn.”

Not a great answer. I wonder how he would have answered if the question was rephrased from a trans kids point of view, i.e. if a trans kid was barred from playing high school sports and the parent complains, do they "have a case"?

Eroding demand = sick people dying without the medicine they need

I’m starting to understand why people starting burning down all the real estate in the book “Parable of the Sower. “

Shit article. Only source is: "The warning came from authorities in eastern Zhejiang province on WeChat over the weekend after a comedian referred to her allegedly abusive marriage in a performance that went viral on Chinese social media." There is no link to the primary source of any 'warning'

The sound is caused by ‘gradient coils’ that are being switched on and off at kHz frequency, which is in the audible range for humans. The sound is caused by those coils vibrating due to the interaction of the magnetic field with the electric current in the coils: they’re non magnetic but they still feel the ‘Lorentz force’. As far as calibration, there is a pre-scan step (which is one reason why MRIs can take awhile) used to optimize the RF settings to each patient. Patients come in many shapes and sizes so the settings have to be tuned to get a good image every time. I’m actually not sure of how often they need to be serviced, but it seems like the manufacturers are here checking on the machines pretty often!

I recently tried spreading the word to other MRI folks about the dangers of 'magnetic eyelashes', which i learned was a thing from my fiance. Kind of suprised we havent seen any incidents with those, thankfully.