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Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Listening to Tom Petty now as I mentioned I'd have to do- 'Echo' from 1999. And man, is this one still buried in there, I know like, every lyric still. Right before it, I did 7Seconds' one from 1999, 'Good to Go'. Must be a 1999 kind of day. What a year for music.
#90s #90sMusic

Way back in the late 1980's my cat once brought one of these to our front door. (We live in Santa Cruz county along an ever-running creek - rather the natural habitat for garter snakes.)
(Our office was located next to a site that had hundreds if not thousands of common garter snakes - enough that a state herpetologist lept back upon encountering a mass-of-snakes scene right out of an Indiana Jones movie.)

Stunning California snake endangered since the 1960s prepares to make a comeback
Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz County.

RE: https://sciences.social/@conradhackett/115958821243723405
More people asserting the obvious (often necessary!): opt-in panel web surveys are increasingly popular (cheap, easy, profitable) but provide poor information about the world.
Let&#…

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000 (Reed Abelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.3zk5.sSOngyzrtNA3&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p22#a260226p22

Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/blindness-may-no-longer-be-inevitable-this-discovery-changes-the-game_25773/ 
Restoration…

Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science - Futura-Sciences
More than 300 million people worldwide live with retinal diseases that medicine cannot yet reverse. Conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration destroy the photoreceptor cells that make sight possible, and once those cells die, they don’t come back, at least not in mammals. The reason puzzled researchers for decades,...

25c per shot.
Could laser weapons actually be on the verge of reality? Crazy.
https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/this-laser-cannon-shoots-down-drones-at-400-mph-a-game-changer-for-european-defense_22374/

St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health --
but not too many toastings
lest you lose yourself and then
forget the good St. Patrick
and see all those snakes again.

In December, the authors of #watchtower decided to archive their own project.
There are a few forks out there - unfortunately I know nothing about them so can't really vouch for their legitimity. If you want to continue using Watchtower, please assess them yourself wit…

Gisteren vierden we kerst bij schoonmama, schoonzus was er niet want ze had te veel last van haar rug om 2*2,5 uur in de auto te zitten. Dat blijkt een goede keuze geweest want vandaag is ze via de huisartsenpost Weert en de Spoedpost Helmond naar neurochirurgie in Tilburg gebracht 2*auto, 1 ambulance, waar ze waarschijnlijk asap geopereerd wordt aan hernia en ruggemergkanaalvernauwing. Haar been kan ze niet aansturen. Tilburg is daarvoor the place tot be in NL.
We zijn hier enigszins g…