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cultureicon t1_j6obdaf wrote
Reply to comment by franhawthorne in The letters of T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale that were kept sealed from 1956 to 2020 have been released for free online by RunDNA
I happened upon a letter telling her it's up to her what to do with them, but they should probably be withheld a good number of years because they discuss other living people.
Letter from 6 July 1932. Couldn't copy and paste on mobile.
cultureicon t1_iy8bmgz wrote
Reply to comment by klosnj11 in Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds by mossadnik
I was wondering about the human mass thing- it looks like humans are a fraction of the mass of all other animals.
cultureicon t1_ita81l1 wrote
Reply to comment by davidmartin1357 in Using a gel-like, radioactive implant, engineers have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models, the new treatment completely eliminated tumors in 80 percent of mice across several model types, including those considered the most difficult to treat by giuliomagnifico
Looks like they can inject them with a number of chemicals, or use genetic engineering:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6995380/
Rat: Wistar and Lewis rats are injected intraperitoneally with azaserine to induce acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas, with liver, lung and lymph node metastasis 6, 7. However, the lesions in this model lack a typical duct-like structure and of ten occur alongside tumors of other organs (mammary, liver, kidney). The chemicals 4-hydroxyaminoquinoline-1-oxide 8, nafenopin 9, clofibrate 10, N -(N-methyl-N-nitrosamide)-L-ornithine 11 and different N-nitro compounds 7 can induce acinar cell lesions without a duct-like structure. Vesselinovitch et al. found that topical benzopyrene can induce adenocarcinoma in rats. They implanted dimethylbenzanthracene crystal powder into the pancreas of Sprague-Dawley rats, and approximately 80% of them developed spindle cell sarcoma and poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Other researchers using this method have found ductal cell proliferation, tubular adenocarcinoma, acinic cell carcinoma, fibrosarcoma, and invasive ductal adenocarcinoma.
cultureicon t1_ircs1ew wrote
Reply to comment by ReignDelay in Widely used sewer pipe repair technology creates and emits nanoplastics into the air by ajwhelton
I'll admit I didn't read the study because its paywalled and the preview gives absolutely zero useful information.
If the goal is to reduce microplastics in the environment all of these researchers should immediately pivot to researching alternatives to plastic tires, and find a way to convince the world to move away from synthetic fibers.
In other words if they managed to stop this sewer practice they would reduce microplastics by .001% (or whatever the study claims it is)
cultureicon t1_ircmro3 wrote
Reply to Widely used sewer pipe repair technology creates and emits nanoplastics into the air by ajwhelton
This also happens billions of times a day when we run a load of laundry with our plastic clothes. I mean we're literally wearing and breathing in microplastics from our clothes, what difference does sewer pipe repair make?
cultureicon t1_j9p42bl wrote
Reply to TikTok, Zoom Apps Coming to 2024 Mercedes-Benz E-Class' Massive Superscreen by SaintBiggusDickus
What a breakthrough, tablet technology available 13 years ago.