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Lung cancer pill. Reduces risks when taken after surgery.
#scitisfaction
www.theguardian.com/science/2…
After five years, 88% of patients who took the daily pill after the removal of their tumour were still alive, compared with 78% of patients treated with a placebo.
from HN:
This is a drug that targets lung cancer (~12% of cancers) and only one type of lung cancer (non-small cell lung cancer, ~80% of cases). It targets a particular mutated gene that occurs in about 30% of that subtype. And then, about 50% of those patients respond.
Now I know who was behind all the best quests of my childhood!!
#artinstinctive
Ron Gilbert programmed Freddy Fish and Putt-Putt, worked at Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts).
I missed the Monkey Island series, incl. the Mokey Island 2 in which Ron participated as a director, designer and a writer.
System76 firmware managed to disable Intel ME
#itnuts HN
history behind Intel ME from Google engineers: www.zdnet.com/article/m…
Electric brain stimulation effects for productivity
Tetris with sand blocks
Seeking an alternative to likes and shares as a metric for social good
#itnuts HN
https://deliberati.io/what-deserves-our-attention/
They [ranking rules] should direct our attention towards constructive, civilized public discourse and a collective, cooperative pursuit of truth.
(2017) People underestimate how happy others in their country are
Vitamin D new role discovered
#scitisfaction
Stimulates dopamine neuron growth. Deficiency has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders like schizofrenia.
cozy web
#itnuts
Communities, closed enough to not be indexed by bots and search engines. Live in slack, discord, what’s app groups and telegram streams.
The illustration in the post is wonderful!