3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

If you live in Slough
Or some other borough
By a lough,
You may discover that it's tough
To find a rhyme that works the way it looks, although
You experience many a cough
Or hiccough

Four of these superretractors are anesthesiologists. #AnSky needs to lead the way out of this mess.

Suburban expansion costs increase to $465 per person per year in Ottawa | CBC News Infill development is known to be much cheaper for cities than adding new subdivisions, and City of Ottawa staff have shared estimates for how much the municipality saves — and spends — depending on w...

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees.

On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year.

Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

What impact will this project have on water and lands across the "boundary" in Canada?

This new study brought to you by Brandolini’s bullshit asymmetry.

April 12, 1980. "Today is the day it all begins".
46 years ago today at 2:30 pm in St. John's NL, Terry Fox started to run across the country.
"I touched the ocean before I left, up this old dirt road that was impossible to run on."
via @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

Paris-Roubaix Femmes photofinish

And another underdog sprints to the finish at Paris-Roubaix.
Chapeau, Franziska Koch.
She will undoubtedly frame this shot of her beating both Marianne Vos and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot -- both of them Olympic and World champions.

Damn, that's cold.

Jaysus, that's rapid.

It doesn't get any better than a sprint against the world champion, in the velodrome, to take your first Paris-Roubaix.

Wout van Aert (Visma-LAB) wins Paris-Roubaix

The Hidden Cost of Comfort We Padded the World And Nobody Can Feel Anything Anymore

We've created a number of environments designed to minimize discomfort. There are consequences to reducing a growth stimulus. open.substack.com/pub/stevemag...

The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation - PubMed Since chronic restriction of sleep to 6 h or less per night produced cognitive performance deficits equivalent to up to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation, it appears that even relatively moderate sleep restriction can seriously impair waking neurobehavioral functions in healthy adults. Sleepiness …

From a post on the other place.
"...chronic restriction of sleep to 6 h or less per night produced cognitive performance deficits equivalent to up to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation...subjects were largely unaware of these increasing cognitive deficits"
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12683469/

Do patients post-operatively recall pain from #propofol injection? After non-cardiac surgery, female sex was associated with pain recall but catheter characteristics, lidocaine use and observed nociceptive reactions were not #OpenAccess www.bjaopen.org/article/S2772-6096(26)00...

This. Is. Awesome.

Efficacy and safety of different vasopressor infusions on feto-maternal outcomes in normotensive patients undergoing caesarean delivery: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

#AnSky #ObsAnSky #ObsSky

doi.org/10.1111/anae...

Aaron Palermo (@musicavisia) on Threads Visualizing James Jamerson’s legendary bassline on “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” 📽️Vulfpeck

Your feel good data viz for today.
www.threads.com/@musicavisia...

Spring Flight
Benjamin Chee Chee
1975

#SaveUSFS

Depluralize a movie

Dial M for Crow

My critical care mantra was "Keep 'em alive until 0805."
I later learned this ...
quoteinvestigator.com/2023/10/18/d...

Cycling Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Study of Half a Million Finds Getting from A to B on a bicycle more often could reduce risk of dementia, possibly by protecting a part of the brain tied to memory functions, new research finds.

Riding bikes is good for your brain - on top of all the other things that bikes make better. www.sciencealert.com/cycling-link...

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers.

Leukemia is probably the most striking example.

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it.

Now, most children in rich countries survive.
ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

Yesterday wind produced 59.0% of British electricity followed by nuclear 16.7%, gas 11.0%, imports 5.6%, biomass 4.0%, solar 3.6%.

*Exclusive of non-renewable distributed generation

via @neso-energy.bsky.social

Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain Blocking neutrophil-based inflammatory processes during acute pain increases risk of chronic pain development.

Context.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Makes one think about anesthesia’s enthusiasm for blunting inflammation following surgery.

The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by 99% since 1991 Representative estimate of the price of battery cells for lithium-ion batteries, across all major cell chemistries. Prices are in US dollars per kilowatt-hour, adjusted for inflation.

At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes
ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...

a man with a beard and glasses is saying i 'm in my prime ALT: a man with a beard and glasses is saying i 'm in my prime

You got this.