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Now why does that sound very familiar...

So an undefined gender name is more hireable than a male name? Interesting.

What makes it advantageous?

I dunno, i've been hearing about that for a couple of decades now, and loudly for the last decade. The thing is still there.

Back in USSR it wasn't that uncommon to have weird names like Vilen (Vladimir ILich LENin), and similar pronounceable mixtures of abbreviated phrases. But at least most of them sounded kind of like a foreign name or something, not like a random mix of sounds made by someone who smoked too much...

Last time i heard, it would take a better part of a decade for them to fully waddle through the bureaucracy, so country in the EU it is for now.

Hm, about as far as they went in one of Stanislaw Lem stories. Slower than light, with return facilitated by time-travel via the black hole.

Well, if he had a heart surgery it's not too odd to take a better part of a month to recover. Same for COVID-19, actually.

From what i've heard "homeschooling" and "unschooling" is all the rage in USA right now. So i guess kids should be fine somehow.

Hm, they might be on to something. Here is an article from 2014 on heliox use in respiratory care: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093964/ "Lower density of heliox compared with the air or oxygen regardless of the concentration of helium in the mixture; improves air flow through...

Meanwhile my brother's wife had been in the hospital with COVID since last Friday. Spent the weekend in the ICU, but has been getting better since then. Said she feel like a lab cat, with all the various treatment options being tested on her. Apparently the newest experimental treatment being...

Here it was taught early in school - positional and non-positional number system. Funny thing is i didn't get it at first that arabic numerals are the positional ones and roman are not, since naively it looks the other way around.

Don't forget "might cause something like AIDS" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0424-9

I wonder if it really does, or if the testing just does not scale fast enough to catch up with the virus.

TL;DR: "The reason for the discrepancy is not yet clear, and until further experiments are complete, these data do not necessarily indicate that clinical estimates are incorrect." So let's not fall into the hands of a much more lethal disease called optimism.

You see, 5G signal is the right frequency to create potential across individual human cells, and this triggers a process called electrophoresis, which opens up their membranes and allow them to suck in random plasmids floating around. The cell's protein making machinery would then execute these...

I'm a bit surprised such a thing as "kids watching TV" is still a thing.

Apparently the masks can be cleaned by heating at 70 ℃ for 30 minutes. https://utrf.tennessee.edu/information-faqs-performance-protection-sterilization-of-face-mask-materials/

Sigh. The spidery one is a bacteriophage. They are good guys.

Nice, so you're one of today's lucky 10000. :)