White Nights
‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’ Goldman Sachs analysts attempted to address a touchy subject for biotech companies, especially those involved in the pioneering “gene therapy” treatment: cures could be bad for business in the long run.
Doctors remove live cockroach from the intestine of man complaining of abdominal issues
Models who look like Jesus are in high demand in Utah. […] growing number of people in the state […] are hiring Jesus look-alikes for family portraits and wedding announcements. […] Finding a model can be difficult. Areas of Utah with high concentrations of Mormons—who also call themselves Latter-day Saints or LDS—tend to lack potential Jesus doppelgängers. Some men who work or volunteer for the church, one of the state’s largest employers, are required to shave every day and keep their hair short. [WSJ]
California squirrels are now apparently hunting and eating other rodents
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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
In 2024, the Penguin Classics little black book edition of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was the fourth most sold work of literature in translation in the UK. […] Since about December of last year, White Nights has been all over BookTok and its Instagram parallel, Bookstagram. Searching for the 1848 tale on these platforms will result in page after page of reviews, quotes, and moody shots of the book next to cups of coffee. There are White Nights Spotify playlists full of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. Social media users from all over the world have rhapsodised about the beautiful love story it tells, and bewailed getting their hearts smashed into pieces by it.
you have been gifted 100 expensive wine bottles by 100 different people. … you discover that one of the bottles has been poisoned, and you have no idea which one. you have a test that can detect poison very accurately … you have only 7 of these tests available. What should you do?
