{"id":4703,"date":"2022-06-15T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2022-06-15T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T01:19:53","slug":"odd-lots-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I hurt my back and had to cancel a trip to Chicago to see family, and then to Chattanooga for Libertycon, which is the only con I go to anymore. Now, two weeks before my 70th birthday, I have to remind myself that, weight training or no weight training, lifting and carrying heavy things can be a hazard to your health.<\/li>\n<li>Health, yeah. New medical research from South Australia shows <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-06-vitamin-d-deficiency-linked-dementia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a causal relationship between low vitamin D levels and dementia<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.com\/nutrition\/vitamins-supplements\/vitamin-d-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitamin D has a number of benefits<\/a>, most of which have been known for years. Carol and I have an ace in the hole: We&#8217;re in Arizona, where cloudy days are rare, so we get a lot more sunlight than we used to. And we take a 5000 IU supplement every morning, mostly because we&#8217;re not kids anymore, and D synthesis declines with age, sunshine or no sunshine. Bottom line: Don&#8217;t be D-ficient.<\/li>\n<li>I dunno, but it sure looks like all the recent Corvettes we&#8217;ve seen here around town look like a car that some giant foot stepped on. Not to be outdone by Chevy, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2022\/06\/heres-the-hybrid-that-cadillac-hopes-will-win-the-24-hours-of-le-mans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cadillac is fielding the same profile<\/a>. We giggle every time they go by.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never heard of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TansuYegen\/status\/1535547066667126784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foot pool<\/a>&#8221; before, but it looks like a lot of fun. Most of the activity I see mentioned online are from the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Bet you never wanted to read the history of canned wine, eh? Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/vinepair.com\/articles\/history-canned-wine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here it is<\/a>. I clearly remember drinking a can of white zinfandel among friends circa 1971. Nothing about it seemed odd to me then, as I had yet to encounter conventional wine culture.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/is-ivermectin-a-cancer-solution_4463739.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New research<\/a> suggests that THE MOST HIDEOUSLY DANGEROUS DEADLY DRUG IN THE ENTIRE COSMOS DON&#8217;T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT has anticancer properties. More research is planned, if the poor researchers are ever allowed to lay hands on the stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Can we literally throw things into orbit? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/7851434705\/video-watch-a-camera-launched-by-spinlaunch-s-suborbital-accelerator-at-nearly-2-000-kph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A startup named SpinLaunch has built a small-scale proof-of-concept launching machine<\/a>, and has managed to throw a 9-foot payload up as high as 30,000 feet. Fuel, water, atmosphere, clothes? Though the article does not state an acceleration in g&#8217;s, it&#8217;s gotta be intense, and way beyond what living material can stand. But for provisioning space stations it could be just the thing. Good luck, guys.<\/li>\n<li>Wow. I didn&#8217;t know this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2015\/9\/17\/9345507\/space-taste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big dust clouds near the center of our galaxy taste like&#8230;raspberries.<\/a> Oh, and they smell like rum. Alas, it&#8217;s just the ethyl formate talking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unprecedented-remarkable-cancer-study-leaves-every-patient-cancer-free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new research paper<\/a> out of the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> has found that in a small trial of a new drug called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dostarlimab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dostarlimab<\/a>, with a cohort of 18 colorectal cancer patients, the remission rate was&#8230;100%. Dostalimab is a monoclonal antibody originally intended to treat endometrial cancer. Researchers think it may be a much more general cancer treatment, and new studies are planned.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-05-dogs-cats-toddler-crohn-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And here&#8217;s another<\/a>: A study conducted at the University of Toronto showed that toddlers who grew up with dogs (but not cats) appear to have some protection against Crohn&#8217;s Disease. The article doesn&#8217;t say that having a cat nullifies the protection, only that growing up with cats has no similar effects.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Assembly-Language-Step-Step-Third\/dp\/B01JPSF8WC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon must have thought I was Geoffrey Chaucer<\/a>. Or that the man was WAYYYYY ahead of his time. (Read the page closely.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hurt my back and had to cancel a trip to Chicago to see family, and then to Chattanooga for Libertycon, which is the only con I go to anymore. Now, two weeks before my 70th birthday, I have to remind myself that, weight training or no weight training, lifting and carrying heavy things can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[105,38,39,55,243,13],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-cars","tag-dogs","tag-health","tag-space","tag-vitamins","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}