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Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.

Feels like this needs someone to look at this from an industrial design lens.

People who come to gas stations to fuel up their cars behave very differently from people who come to a place to charge, no?

Thanks. I should have checked more closely, didn't anticipate this was already here. Entirely my bad.

Great news. Finding stuff that doesn't fit into the current model and we need smart people to get to work understanding may be the surest sign that the JWST is invaluable.

Interesting, but I'd need far more medical knowledge than I have to put this into context. Does this mean people with existing heart conditions should avoid these vaccinations? Does it mean those at otherwise very low risk for severe COVID-19 shouldn't bother? I sure dunno.

Granny Smith, Red Delicious are both, rightly, trashed. Good.

And China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg

As are 30% of all squirrels.

Note, regardless of the validity of this study I am confident that the vast majority (all) rocket scientists and neurosurgeons are smarter than *I* am. ;-)

Yeah, I bought a house not far from a Costco. I don't hit the food court every day, but I pretty much only buy Costco gas.

Let know one say electrical engineers are not good at optimizing.

I almost wonder if the schlep through the parking lot, into the amusement park and to the food stand, and back to the car every day offsets the bad diet. And if not, how many steps would do the trick?

A millennia from now, I think people may well be kind of shocked to learn that we got to the moon in 1969 if a collapse, global recession or some other calamity derails the latest efforts to get back there within the next few years.

Strange to think this discovery was made at the apex of the Byzantime Empire under Basil II. The Roman Empire was still somewhat of a thing.

Whoa

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/08/18/geforce-now-open-a-...

I'm chiefly impressed that someone's just saying "hey, there's no more mystery people, they settled with the local tribes, okay? so let's cut out the woo" in a headline.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gtc/keynote/?nvid=nv-int-bnr-63...

And those authorities often worked as scientists funded by and regulators captured by their respective industries, no?

Important point.

Upvoting chiefly because I want to see what the HN community says about this one...

So it begins.

And now I'm thinking enhancing the intelligence of wolves, already smart, would be exactly what we don't need.

Yodon has submitted that link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19635814

I've gone ahead and upvoted it.

Good point

If this is suicide, San Francisco's been killing itself since at least 1849.

So this is like the first chapter in a great mystery story... where can one find chapter 2?

You're right, we've updated the post to reflect this.

Yes, it is real time. Original post will be updated to include that information.