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@premeemohamed.com bugge!

"The series still has a strong cult following in the United Kingdom today"

If ever a Wikipedia statement warranted a "citation needed" tag, it was this one.

The Glitterball - Wikipedia

I have forced my kids to watch this

I also tried to make them watch Glitterball but I could not find a copy
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I mean, roll this one and the one above it together and that's Stranger Things, basically.

Although I feel like Round The Twist deserves a mention here too

Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin - Wikipedia

_cough_
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Dr Leone Norwood Farrell, Biochemist & microbiologist Leone Norwood Farrell was a Canadian biochemist and microbiologist whose inventions enabled the large-scale production of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.

Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s.
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Food safety risk assessors: 👀

I did see somewhere doing Ramadan advent calendars, and thought that was a lovely idea!

Congratulations!

Oh also Alastair Reynolds - generally not a hard scifi author, but writes excellent short stories and some are hard scifi

Either "Cardiff Afterlife" or "Signal to Noise" particularly springs to mind (and ironically I think is a homage to Benford's Timescape?)

(I only read three of his though, so I don't know if it's a general thing)

Did you try any Gregory Benford? It's been quite a while since I read his stuff but I remember the "scientific realism" in Cosm extending pretty accurately (and sympathetically) to the shit a female black astrophysics professor would be experiencing in academia in the late 1990s, for example.

Seems odd to put the actual % using social media behind the link, given the take-home message

But also "83% of [MPs] cited social media as their primary source", combined with 77% for news media feels like some new definition of "primary source" that I wasn't expecting

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A very good pomeranian-yorkie-chihuahua enjoying a puppachino

He is a very good boy

A very good but perpetually anxious pomeranian-yorkie-chihuahua cross on a walk

We regularly dogsit a pom-yorkie-chihuahua cross who is adorable but _so_ anxious (we dogsit because he gets too anxious when left alone), but I think that's the other two breeds; the pomeranian just makes him very licky

A brown moth with darker gray wavy lines across the wings. The legs are very furry.

This year I’ve been photographing lots of moths. In Colombia, there are so many that my field guide has disclaimers about how incomplete it is. Anyway. I’m stating a thread to share moths for the rest of 2026. Here’s the first one. Enjoy! 🌱

I love tsetse biology so much!

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‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication European regulators greenlight new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of an ancient burden

European regulators have greenlit a new one-dose compound that could help African countries get rid of sleeping sickness. https://scim.ag/3MSxrG8

Sorry, pressed "send" too soon! The pieces do look fascinating but they're annoyingly light on detail.

Unique New Mexico Finds Find our entire collection of southwest art and sculptures. Video Translation: Hi, Jennifer here with City Farmhouse Antiques and I am here with the Find of the Week with an artist that is very well k...

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40.7, which is I suspect how the typo happened

Is there a reason some handles (like mine!) aren't there?

IMAV: International meeting on arboviruses and their vectors

Registration and abstract submission for the international Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors (a UK Microbiology Society event), Liverpool 1-2 September 2026, are now open!

Link:

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Honestly if they'd listened to that the whole thing would probably have been funded, I suspect - from what I remember it was pretty close

Goddamnit

Aaaaargh what the hell