Finally Some Science and It's a Number of Reports on a Roll

Some are losing their patience with everyone being treated like a terrorist criminal on the Internet and tracked for every move we make.  (Science Daily:  Just give me some privacy)

There's substantial analysis within the article and no need to repeat that here when they give such excellent summaries.

Here's a sample:

The study's central finding is that perceived threats from other individuals, groups of people and governments are substantial enough to force users below the radar in order to protect their reputation, themselves, and their families.

- Science Daily

My writing on the Internet isn't hugely intimidated when I have almost nothing to lose and jail would be a promotion from poverty but the surveillance definitely suppresses some of my thoughts.

Any thinking dinosaurs could sing is, alas, buried since they didn't evolve voice boxes as with birds until much later.  (Science Daily: Oldest known squawk box suggests dinosaurs likely did not sing)

I was kind of hoping they could sing as then we could have a duet with Bieber and a dinosaur when he gets fat and goes to Las Vegas.

Here we have a major since there's significant progress toward being able to repair spinal cord damage by regenerating the nerves.  (Science Daily:  Regeneration of spinal nerve cells boosted)

There's no way to even imagine the monster coolness of it if they can really pull it off.  How many kids ended up paralyzed for life just from a bad dive into a swimming pool.  Maybe there's a chance they will be able to fix that.

Here's another big one but it may not be good news for everyone since it looks like calcium supplements are bad news.  (Science Daily:  Calcium supplements may damage the heart)

Ithaka does NOT practice medicine or give advice on it.  Talk to your doctor about this before changing anything whatsoever.

A discovery related to reducing friction without additives to oil is about medium cool since it doesn't eliminate oil use but rather makes it more effective.  (Science Daily:  Achieving ultra-low friction without oil additives)

Here at the Rockhouse, we believe piston engines are about as obsolete as eight-track tapes or boy bands.  Finding a way to make pistons work without oil or a synthetic would be Nobel Prize material but not today.

Note:  bag the eight-tracks as you're not old unless you know how S&H green stamps were used.

This one is insanely creepy since it involves black widow venom in a virus.  (Science Daily:  Virus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin discovered)

Oh joy, a virus with a bite like a black widow.  All we need is a mosquito to carry it and we've got the most twisted horror movie you ever saw.  I'm not going to write it since you can likely visualize it easily yourself.

Note:  if anyone calls this 'Zika on steroids,' our guns will load themselves immediately.  Zika is a virus.  It doesn't take steroids and neither does much of anything else for which the term is often used.