helmikuu 2024 – Sivu 3

2024-02-16 @ 17.10.36 ∈ Suomeksi

Kolmessa keksituotteessa metallihippuepäily

Takaisinveto koskee vain alla mainittuja tuote-eriä. Niitä on toimitettu myyntiin S-ryhmän myymälöihin 10.1.2024 tai myöhemmin.

2024-02-16 @ 17.00.15 ∈ In English

Flea toad may be world’s smallest vertebrate

Measurements of 46 specimens revealed the average male body length to be slightly over 7 millimeters […] The researchers noted that the smallest specimen they found was just 6.45 millimeters long, which they note is approximately 30% smaller than the previous smallest frog observed.

2024-02-15 @ 19.00.16 ∈ Suomeksi

Lukijan mielipide | Sosiaalietuuksien alikäyttö on suurempi ongelma kuin väärinkäyttö

Erilaisten selvitysten perusteella tiedetään, että Suomessa hakematta jää niin toimeentulotukea, asumistukea, sairauspäivärahoja kuin kansaneläkkeitä ja takuueläkkeitä. […] Jos vaikeassa elämäntilanteessa oleva ihminen ei hae etuuksia, hänen riskinsä syrjäytyä kasvaa.

2024-02-14 @ 17.00.34 ∈ In English

(From 2018)

DIY Ice Studs for Running Shoes

It’s a couple of years since I wrote this and as of December 2021 the shoes are still working well and I haven’t lost or had to replace any studs.

2024-02-12 @ 19.12.24 ∈ In English

New study on decomposing microbes could help transform forensic science

For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant implications for the future of forensic science, including the potential to provide crime scene investigators with a more precise way to determine a body’s time of death.

2024-02-12 @ 16.00.14 ∈ In English

(I don’t know if this proves what it’s set out to prove, but I just found the exercise of pondering my answers interesting.)

No Vehicles In The Park

This is a game about language and rules. It consists of 27 questions, but after the first seven, you can skip to the end.

2024-02-09 @ 17.24.23 ∈ In English

Getting vaccines in different arms improves effectiveness, study finds

Researchers have found that getting a vaccine booster shot in a different arm from the one you got the first in may improve the body’s immune response up to four-fold. While they exclusively studied responses to the COVID-19 vaccine, they suspect this effect may be seen with other multidose vaccines.

2024-02-08 @ 19.14.12 ∈ In English

People with depression have higher body temperature

[The research] does not definitively answer whether depression causes body temperature to rise or if the higher temperature is a contributing factor to depression.

2024-02-06 @ 11.20.00 ∈ Suomeksi

Heikki Hiilamon kolumni: Ryhdyin tutkijaksi, koska hävetti väittää työkseen, että rikkaiden suosiminen auttaa köyhiä

Keskelle talouspolitiikan keskustelua on ponnahtanut vanha tuttu ”vieteriukko”. Se väittää, että rikkaiden suosiminen on tieteellinen välttämättömyys ja hyödyttää köyhiä.

2024-02-05 @ 20.10.31 ∈ In English

Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever

[Tropical] bed bugs have turned up in the United States, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, France, Central Europe, Spain — “even in Russia, which would have once been unthinkable,” says [Chow-Yang] Lee, of the University of California, Riverside.