Note to self: buy toilet paper

Does anyone know that a storm flooded parts of Miami yesterday? Should have been in the news, but it had no name. Locals are calling it the “no name spinner”

Movie idea

Here’s a link to an SA article about all of it…

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-mrna-pioneer-discusses-how-her-work-led-to-the-covid-vaccines/

BtW, Spare a thought for Penn’s PR team today trying to work out what to say about the Medicine Nobel Prize going to one of their professors and another professor they kicked out for “not doing faculty-level research.”

Glad to see Katalin Kariko won. A lot of people told her she couldn’t do her experiments and she just kept at it. Ten years ago she was kicked out, fired for keeping at it

Then China should get the really accurate weather predictions

Wish I could get bluesharp on Mastodon 9r Bluesky. Wouldn’t touch Zuck with a 10 foot pole…

The molten-liquid #battery by @Ambri_Inc could go for 20 years while retaining 95 percent of its capacity, according to its inventor, MIT’s Donald Sadoway.