Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

If an #ElectronMicroscopy engineer would like to join us at the #MRCLMB to implement this beam-shifting GridTape TEM approach, send me an email. We have two JEOL TEMs to tinker with.

#Portugal or the art of saying nothing
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/pais/2614092/marcelo-quer-pais-ao-servico-dos-jovens-e-jovens-ao-servico-do-pais

Cuando Maduro bloquea a X por 10 días, es comunismo. Cuando Israel restringe toda la información sobre la situación en Gaza: no es comunismo.

Extremely powerful that in the last medal ceremony of the Paris Olympics, Sifan Hassan, a Dutch athlete and refugee of Ethiopian origin who won the marathon, wore a hijab. France bans its own athletes from wearing a hijab at Olympic events.

'The degree of underfunding or overfunding is different for the groups of conditions, too. On average, female-dominant diseases that are underfunded are more severely so. For chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), for example, the ratio of burden to funding is 0.04. For HIV/AIDS, the ratio is 15.6.'

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01475-2/index.html

'In 1984, Dr. Warren and his collaborator, the gastroenterologist Barry Marshall, published a paper in the British medical journal The Lancet describing their finding that the spiral-shaped bacterium now commonly called H. pylori festered in the stomachs of patients with ulcers and gastritis. Dr. Warren had first noticed the bacterium on a gastric biopsy sample in 1979.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/health/j-robin-warren-dead.html

'Galen may himself be responsible for the later fame of this particular plague. He had every reason to exaggerate the sickness that helped to make his name and it wouldn’t be his only piece of showmanship. He began his career tending to the wounds of gladiators (excellent medical training in a society where human dissection was frowned on), spent most of it as official physician to the emperor, and courted notoriety with public vivisections. His voluminous writings make up an estimated 10 per cent of surviving literature in ancient Greek, much of it memoir, pop philosophy or self-help.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/josephine-quinn/age-of-hypochondriacs

Someone is vastly underestimating academics’ appetency to not pay for things.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/

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"The Finnish government is also considering expanding obligations to report undocumented people, while in Germany, social welfare offices have for two decades wrestled with reporting obligations."

“Adopt-a-vine” programs are very popular means of improving winery customer retention. For instance, this one in Reil/Mosel (Germany) asks €75 up front for 2 bottles of Riesling (free delivery), a slate with the sponsor’s name on the vine, and an adoption certificate (or €120 for 2 years). The aesthetics are debatable.