Yup. The scale and scope of the damage would hopefully have been less, but it strikes me as an incredibly apt analogy.

Just to clarify why the anti-vax idiot was for this trial, it was going to withhold the known effective and safe vaccine from the control group for six weeks to see what happens, without even checking if any mothers tested positive prenatally. Due to limited resources, Guinea-Bissau has been slow to enforce their new guidance to align with other countries and administer the vaccine to all newborns.

It was basically leveraging the fact that the test subjects lived in a poor country to do something they’d never be allowed to do in a richer country, even MAHA’s America.

It certainly seems promising, and I am like a moth to a flame with anything involving recovering lost texts, but I feel like we’ve done some interesting reporting on the horse before checking to see if the cart has anything in it. :-)

No need to shit on dreams, yet, though. I really do hope this leads to a breakthrough, because I believe the previous scanning methods relied on actual physical differences (e.g. tiny stylus scratches) rather than the ink. This could be a huge shortcut.

Sounds promising, but it didn’t seem clear from the article whether there is any particular reason to expect to find much lead or another metal in the Vesuvius scrolls’ ink. I guess somebody found one fragment that had some, which is not nothing, but fingers crossed that it was common.

Dallas, I’ve never had an issue. Houston, I got all kinds of zits and pilling and was thinking about getting or making a filament dryer before we moved. Both can be pretty humid, but the difference between 60% and 90% is significant.

While I don’t want to presume that science that feels intuitive is bad science, I’m not entirely sure how newsworthy it is to talk about how getting used to heat helps one deal with heat. People did live in hot places before AC.

It starts to feel like instructions and socialization rather than simple science journalism…