TechnologyConnections yt channel. I see his video on dishwashers mentioned a lot.
I'll always remember chatting with a guy at the airport who asked what I was in grad school for. Unexpectedly, he was thrilled to talk about neuroscience, and asked what I thought of a recent study. Some researchers had put dogs in fMRI to "prove" that dogs can feel love.
Szechuan peppercorns. They do not contain capsaicin, but produce a vanilloid drug that opens potassium leak channels in your mouth, preferentially in the fine touch afferents. When you eat szechuan spice these neurons misfire and tell your brain that you are sensing a rapid, fluttery (50Hz) vibration.
Also called Chinese prickly ash, these trees are not related to chili peppers or black pepper, but are instead very small citrus fruit. Fears over them introducing citrus blight led to a ban on imports to the US that was only overturned in 2005. Since then, people like me have been discovering how good they are in pasta sauce.
There is good reason to limit off-target drug delivery, to minimize side effects in tissues that don't need exposure to the drug.
tl;dr Pottery kiln is 100y older, reshapes understanding of Bedfordshire's historic pottery industry
RFK Jr would like to remove scientific scrutiny from the drug approval process, which is the agenda of pharma companies. He's already been successful with this in the med device space using the same argument.
On a plane, the head mount goes backwards on the head of the passenger seated in front of you. Great for relieving wrist strain
Unfortunately I didn't take any closeups. After some searching I think this was probably xanthoria. It was dry, flakey, and had those fairy cup fruiting bodies. Not so obvious in any of my pics.
Here is the other I took.
Here it is on a tree. It consistently grew on this species but not others.
Australian psychedelic bands are awesome. See also: ORB, Beans, Pyschedelic Porn Crumpets, Jagwar Ma
Two photon microscopy doesn't even think about them at all.