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Spell-checker is on the fritz...

Turns out there's no "k" in "gnaw".

Who gnew?

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Energy-saving tip number 3
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Fill containers with water and keep them inside the living space for thermal mass. This will dampen the temperature swings so your heating/cooling system will use less energy.

You can use water bottles or a plant aquarium... anything with water. You can even store it inside a buffet or dresser.

It's best to have it near the center of the living space away from exterior walls, but somewhere where it can absorb the heat of the day. The amount varies, but a good estimate is about 3-6 liters per square meter of living space.
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Should Putin be given an "off-ramp"?
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Energy saving tip number 9
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Slow down...

Drag increases as the square of speed increase, so when you drive faster, you use much more fuel than you may realize.

Driving slower can save up to 40% or more in fuel.

So...

Slow down and enjoy the scenery.
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Marathon Man (1976)

A marathon runner, Babe (Dustin Hoffman) becomes unwittingly involved with Nazi war criminals.

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Reseachers document the first deer-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus.

arstechnica.com/?p=1837439

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Energy-saving tip number 12...
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When you cover your windows at night to keep the heat in, use thick window coverings and place a mylar blanet over them on the side facing the room to reflect the heat back into the living space.

In the morning, don't uncover the windows until the space between the window and the covering is a higher temperature than your living space is.

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Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

More well-known as a comedy/fantasy, this one actually has a pretty cool scifi narrative.

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Congratulations to Ketanji Brown Jackson for being nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States.

But I'm a little perplexed as to why we're putting another Washington elite on the Court. She was literally born in Washington DC, she's on the board of Harvard, married to a Boston Brahmin and hand-picked by Justice Breyer. Right now there's only one justice on the Court who isn't from Harvard/Yale. God forbid we put someone on the Court who graduated from a state college and actually worked as a retail clerk rather than a SCOTUS clerk.

A populist, she's not.

Although she apparently adheres to the constitutional limits on executive powers, which is reassuring.

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Here's why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the US government was not prepared and didn't have enough N95 respirators in its Strategic National Stockpile for everyone in the country. They didn't even have enough for all of the healthcare workers.

NIOSH was commissioned to do a study of internationally sourced KN95 masks and others, so that healthcare workers would be able to assess the efficiency of masks they were getting from non-approved sources. It was a scaled-down version of the testing that the agency does for respirators seeking NIOSH approval, and was for emergency information only -- to be used until the supply of approved respirators was sufficient.

They found that the filtering efficiency for those KN95 masks ranged from about 30-99%, with one mask showing 0% filtration! They also found that 60% of the masks sourced internationally were counterfeit.

This is why it is so important to choose a NIOSH-approved N95 respirator (or N99, N100) from a reliable source. Otherwise you are putting yourself at risk.

NIOSH-approved N95 respirators are at least 95% efficient at removing very small particles and they NEVER have ear-loops; they always use straps that go all the way around the head.

cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirator

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Everyone knows the refrain for this cool song, but few know the rest of the song...

youtube.com/watch?v=Qkuu0Lwb5E

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The truth is...

ROC came in second in overall medals won at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

(source: olympics.com/beijing-2022/olym)

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Kuo Hsing-chun, she won the Gold Medal in weightlifting in 2021, as well as multiple world championships (photo credit 總統府, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

Sung Ching-yang, he won two Gold Medals in roller sports at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou (photo credit 阿文, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.)

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populist: n. - a believer in the rights, wisdom, and virtues of the people.
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The star-nosed mole has tenticles on the end of its nose with a nervous system that can feel something, decide if it's edible, and eat it in a little as 120ms.

youtube.com/watch?v=hT9bwMxH_W

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Ok, technically its a TV show, not a film, but wow...

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Retro SciFi Movie of the Month...

A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

Star Trek Episode 23, February 23, 1967

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I bathe at least once a month whether I need it or not.

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Bath in the park byJean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine

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The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 was a violation of the Budapest Memorandum, so that agreement was dissolved at that point and no longer in effect. This means that, from that point forward, any country could supply Ukraine with any weapon system whatsoever, up to and including nuclear weapons.

This also means that any country, at any point in time, can simply paint a Ukrainian flag on any of their weapon systems and transfer ownership to Ukraine, and as long as a Ukrainian citizen pushes the button, it's completely legit.

Western countries have already stated that they will support Ukraine with lethal weapons in their fight against Russia. These countries possess weapon systems that can easily penetrate Russian defenses.

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/339676

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Retro SciFi Movie of the Week...

A Trip to the Moon (1902)
by Georges Méliès

This is the first science fiction film ever made. Here's a link to a copy of the film in color, hand painted by colorists Élisabeth and Berthe Thuillier.

archive.org/details/silent-a-t

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