C. difficile resists hospital disinfectant, persists on hospital gowns, stainless steel
Surgical gowns and stainless steel remained contaminated with the pathogen Clostridium difficile even after being treated with the recommended disinfectant, according to new research.
@pasqui23 Wow! Don't take this article as science! It wouldn't stand up to peer review.
Greenland Was on Fire This Week Amid 'Unprecedented' Arctic Burn https://earther.gizmodo.com/greenland-was-on-fire-this-week-amid-unprecedented-arct-1836309604?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=earther_twitter&utm_campaign=sharebar via @EARTH3R #climatechange #climatecrisis
House Says Trump Can’t Go to War With Iran Unless Congress Approves
The vote was a remarkable display of unity for House Democrats on an issue that frequently sparks dissent within the caucus.
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Librem 5 Smartphone -- July Update.
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Billions of #air #pollution particles found in hearts of city dwellers | #Society | The Guardian
I think the blame lies in the wretched state of software measurement. Most developers couldn't empirically tell you that they're preferred way of doing software is better than anyone else's.
The emphasis on 3GL code has also driven analysis out and design into the background. TDD has taken the place of analysis in many instances, and it leaves little recourse to test assumptions of analysis.
Pondering Python and Java similarities this morning led me down the path of comparisons of Python, Java, Smalltalk, and REXX. The latter two I haven't looked at in a while, so it was a nice trip down memory lane.
Anyway, I'm left wondering, why Python?
Of course the explosion in 3GLs over the last 20 years shows how badly the software industry has been in decline. We should still be moving up the abstraction ladder instead of spreading out.
Why Did Millennials Turn Left?
“Millennial” was a marketing term before it was a category of political analysis, but after the global financial crisis in 2008 we heard the first whispers of Western youth rising up in decades. In 2011 Occupy Wall Street and the “movement of the squares” kicked off, inaugurating some real intergenerational conflict, even if we didn’t […]
Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group
Two months before her appointment as chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost posted in the“I’m 10-15” Facebook group.
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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google
Iran and Syria are the only countries in the region where Semptian would refuse to sell its surveillance tools, an employee said.
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One Weird Trick to Get People To Care About Climate Change
How to correctly engage empathy to provoke action on the greatest moral dilemma of our time.“It’s a Slap in the Face”: Liberal Organizers Are Not Happy with Pelosi Dissing AOC
On Wednesday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made headlines when she called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “outright disrespectful” for the criticism she’s lately flung at the New York congresswoman and her so-called “squad” of freshman lawmakers—Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). “The persistent” mud-slinging, Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with […]
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