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Just heard MAHA is going to do decades of longitudinal study in 100 days

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Just received word that ANSI has approved our "flicker" TM, (ANSI/IES TM-39-25), which addresses in delightful detail how flickering lights of all kinds affect people. Congrats to everyone involved with the IES Vision Science Committee.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I was thinking… if indirect costs had to be 15% we could just pay postdocs $250k and it might all work out.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Same concern as this post: PurpleAir (highly rated by AQMD) and IQAir are reporting 500% the AQI of the single reference sensor. This is the "reference" sensor used by everyone near the Palisades fire, and surely it should not be.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Great article on wildfire smoke, particulates, and VOCs, and how to deal with it: scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/susta...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re in an area affected by fires, turning up your car’s fan helps with air quality - cabin air filters are pretty decent.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Friend called me "we've been evacuated from the fires but can't see our security cameras" - tried @tailscale.com on a pi for the first time and they had a VPN in 20 minutes later. Thanks for the free version!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

What a platform algorithmically amplifies is much more important than (occasional) fact checking.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

There should be a privacy panel of regular people who can go deep on privacy-related defaults and explain it. If 90% of them vote yes, you can turn it on by default. e.g., this is pretty defensible IMO (but not obvious why at first glance): www.theverge.com/2024/12/29/2...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

First thought today: that someone would inspect my brain someday, and they would be surprised to find it has a lower-brain bootstrap sequence that can make espresso before the rest of it is awake.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The latest on Oura, Fitbit, Apple sleep stages vs PSG! ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Read our new preprint on photic sneezing.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks ago, nobody talked about their healthcare deductible or insurance denials. It’s becoming a public issue, not a private one.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

There’s astonishingly little information about medical costs and coverage online. I bet it’s a consequence of messaging that says “this is your most personal data” so people just don’t talk about it as much as they do with other major expenses.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking all E2EE is not a solution. It would be better to scan when you share and to do even more with AI. The method of scanning every file backed up to the cloud is no good, since the chance of false positives means you have to fully break end-to-end-encryption to resolve what's real vs. not.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Great review [two labs] on current knowledge about LCA (longitudinal chromatic aberration) - LCA for accommodation: if the retinal image has blue fringes where it's out of focus, you should focus closer - Does LCA it have a big role in myopia? Maybe! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

75+ Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

Reading this study by Danielle Wallace about daily light exposure - men see 50% more (!) bright light (time outdoors) than women. Most of the difference is due to workday (men in blue-collar trades), but some is due to free time. If it's only certain worker populations, may not be true for everyone.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

A trouble with pure chronological feed is the person you really like to hear from, but who posts 100 times in a row.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

LED Christmas lights have tons of flicker (half-rectified=off half the time). Looking for flicker-free Christmas lights on Google makes you think flicker doesn’t exist, or it is the special mode where the lights blink. You have to search “full rectified” or “DC” to find good ones now?

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

#1 dictionary search in Wyoming is "chronobiology"? 🤷 www.reddit.com/r/Infographi...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

This is the best social network ever

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Feeling lucky so many scientists are here, helps me avoid reactive news. As they say in finance, volatility is not return. And online, outrage is not progress.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

A graph about vaccines and basic hygiene ourworldindata.org/grapher/chil...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of amplified hypotheses-as-fact coming in from podcasts and now "MAHA". We need an online format where convergent lines of evidence can be compared with the belief that something should be true. Not a Cochrane review, more fun, interactive, and in 8th grade English.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

New administration wants to bring back incandescent lamps? Like many wellness ideas, the dose is way off. Q. Incandescents do have infrared (all the heat that they waste) but why doesn't it do magical wound healing and fix TBI? A. It's orders of magnitude too dim to trigger these mechanisms

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments