August 20th, 2023:
- It looks like we’re closing in on deciphering the Linear A script, which was the written form of the Minoan language, spoken between ~2000 BC and 1450 BC. We don’t know much about the Minoans, who were mostly displaced or absorbed by the Mycenaeans, mostly because we can’t read what survives of their writing.
- I’ve been using Windows since before there was Windows, and I never heard of this until last week: You can pause updates in Task Manager by pressing and holding the Ctrl key. It’s that simple: Just the Ctrl key. This is useful if your tracking memory or CPU usage of processes, because the display updates once per second and processes jump around as their resource usage changes. This applies to Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10—and possibly more, but those were the versions I had on hand.
- Now that they’re ducking and dodging lawsuits from doctors, the FDA finally admits that MDs may prescribe Ivermectin, whether on-label or off-label. Now it’s time to purge the FDA of those who tried to ruin the careers of MDs for legally prescribing Ivermectin.
- Dropping salt to lower blood pressure may not work without a balance between sodium and potassium. My godmother was healthy but had some hypertension. She stopped using salt cold-turkey. A year later she was dead.
- Researchers at City of Hope have discovered an anti-cancer chemo compound that targets solid tumors and only solid tumors. Oh, and not just tumors in one organ or location, but all of them. This could be a game changer if it can be tested and checked for side effects.
- What isn’t a game-changer is LK-99, the supposed room-temperature superconductor that’s gotten a lot of ink (pixels?) in the last couple of months. This doesn’t mean we should stop looking.
- Invisible supernovas that were once invisible stars made of invisible matter are called bosenovas. If you know your ‘60s pop music, the jokes write themselves.
- Here’s my own weird theory: Dark matter and boson stars are invisible because they are in fact 4-dimensional matter bending our 3-dimensional space without actually existing within our 3-dimensional space. My proof is this: Ya got any better ideas?
- Here’s what I consider the strangest list of books ever: The 20 Best-Selling Assembly Books of All Time. My own assembly book is #2. SolidWorks gets several places in the stack-rank. But #1, egad: It’s a popular fantasy novel about werewolves. Hey, with the title Assembly, how could it not be there?
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