That’s what I was expecting, something along the lines of Carl Sagan enthusiastically talking about the marvels of the universe in a way that is contagious.

That may have contributed to my disappointment lol

Maybe he’s mellowed out, this was before podcasts were widespread. I definitely felt like I had been scammed for the ticket price of that event though 😅

Omg. I went to a Michio Kaku “lecture” like 15 years ago. Had no idea what he was about, it just seemed like an interesting way to spend an evening.

The entire hour and a half was painting his achievements like biggest thing since sliced bread, and trying to sell his books. I am still not even sure if he’s educated in his field or if he fell into it by speaking with a patronizing affect

Edit: to answer your question. I enjoyed Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds by Mohammed Noor

but I admit I haven’t read it since I began my Biology degree. I’ll have to read it again!

Ironic because quite a few of those that voted for this would be in nursing homes if they weren’t politicians

My grandparents had a cat named Pussy. My grandma was so upset when I told her what that was slang for

I can’t believe it’s not soup

He went from schilling for Musk’s company on the White House lawn, to threatening to kill Musk’s subsidies in about 3 months

Get out of my head!

For real though, that’s exactly my thought process

That’s actually a valid prefix issued for Florida in '81

Rheumatoid arthritis can cause toes to curl into claws. There’s another autoimmune disorder that does this too, but I can’t remember which. Lupus maybe? Which would be fitting by name alone

I honestly love the solitude that harsh winters bring. And all the heavy clothing I get to wear, the much longer nights, going through my stockpile of canned and preserved goods. There have been winters where I was snowed in for weeks, and they were glorious

It’s true, the brain and body need extra care to prevent depression during winter, but I’m much more depressed during the long, blistering hot summer months

Facebook is damn near a necessity in the area I live because no one wants to host their own websites. I’ve still not given in to making an account, but I’m starting to feel the struggle of not being able to contact small businesses.

So, I can imagine some of those users are multiples of the same person if they also have an account for their business

Glyphosate too. Increasingly linked to Parkinsons, cancer, and endocrine disorders among other things.

I don’t know if my brain is addled by the sheer amount of mudslinging he does, but I can’t think of another politician that has publicly had issues with more than one or two people.

Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, various governors, AOC, Pelosi, various mayors. I actually can’t even list all of the people Trump has had to “rescue America” from.

Well, his Wikipedia article is horrifying

He asserts that casual sex attracts subterranean spirits that make an impression on the inside of women’s vaginas and offers exercises to “clean out” said vaginas; he writes that children get cancer because they want it;

I hope her first husband kept their daughters away from him

This is why I set the bottle in the bathroom sink after having this thought. Its hard to ignore something so out of place and in the way

The flaws, discovered by German cybersecurity firm ERNW and first reported by Heise Online, affect dozens of headphone models from brands such as Sony, JBL, Bose, and Marshall, with no comprehensive firmware fixes available yet.

• Sony WH-1000XM4/5/6, WF-1000XM3/4/5, LinkBuds S, ULT Wear, CH-720N, C500, C510-GFP, XB910N
• Marshall ACTON III, MAJOR V, MINOR IV, MOTIF II, STANMORE III, WOBURN III
• JBL Live Buds 3, Endurance Race 2
• Jabra Elite 8 Active
• Bose QuietComfort Earbuds
• Beyerdynamic Amiron 300
• Jlab Epic Air Sport ANC
• Teufel Airy TWS 2
• MoerLabs EchoBeatz
• Xiaomi Redmi Buds 5 Pro
• earisMax Bluetooth Auracast Sender

ERNW emphasizes that this is only a partial list.

Source

When I was transitioning out of therapy, I used a peer support as a stepping stone to forging my own support network. The person who was assigned to me is studying to be a psychologist. He was well aware of my ADHD.

One day I was talking about how exhausting it can be to find a New Thing that becomes my existence until I squeeze out the dopamine I can get from it. This man goes “Wow, you really have an addictive personality.”

If current psychology students aren’t being taught how ADHD impacts the way people interact with the world, and they instead dismiss it as a personality trait with negative connotations, I don’t have much hope that people will stop discriminating either.

The worst part is, it’s widely known that the population he and I inhabit often develop addictions through self-medication or self-soothing. There’s so much more to addiction than what many people assume it is

I can pick out the “Fester”, who/what is the first part?

My squadron had a lot of immigrants in it for how small it was, and they were all better sailors than most. I’m glad that some immigrants had someone like you fighting for them, it’s not an easy path to take