Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector
Mary Feeney
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🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
recently in a long immigration line to Berlin when my fellow traveler, from the UK, notes this is not an example of "german efficiency". Oh my brother in self-destructive nationalism, it is not the fault of the Germans that you are no longer in the fast EU lane, but here in the US/China/UK line
It’s just wild that being a woman is the worst insult Stephen Miller can come up with.
Gas in central DC - where one does not need a car - is cheaper than in Phoenix.
It feels inhumane that you can’t opt out of commercials for addictive products. People should be able to one-click their way out of ever seeing ads for stuff like alcohol, drugs, and sports betting on apps and streaming services. This shouldn’t be controversial at all and should be very easy to do.
