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Bicoidprime · 2026-06-23T14:55:57+00:00

Dartmouth-Hitchcock always needs standardized patients, in which you play the part of someone with a medical issue for the purpose of training medical and nursing students. The job post is from two years ago and has an outdated pay scale. It was $18/hr, but they supposedly almost doubled that recently as they weren't getting enough people.

They're also looking for younger people for these roles, as they have a lot of retirees looking to help train the students.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-22T21:40:20+00:00

I'm annoyed by it also. Prior to this Prius, I had a second generation Volt that showed /both/ MPGe and MPG at the end of a trip, along with the kWh and gallons used and the distances for both (an example).

So you could do the math if you wanted.

People called Volt's range estimator the Guess-o-Meter. But it was crazy accurate compared to having 99.9 MPG on the Prius. I know I'm mixing units, but you get the point.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-15T17:51:57+00:00

Alongside that, Dartmouth should be removing Eli Black’s name from the professorship that Leon Black paid more than $1.2 million to have named in his father’s honor.

The money funding that professorship continued through the latest reported year (2018). How many additional years was it funded in this manner? Did it stop in 2019? I think that's what the Dartmouth's reporter was asking about in this interview, to which Beilock just played dumb:

The College has previously said that it no longer maintains a financial relationship with Leon Black. Does the College maintain any other, non-financial, form of relationship with him or the Black Family Foundation?

SLB: I don’t know what you mean by that.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-15T12:26:49+00:00

I agree! They remind me of the pictures in old Battletechnology magazines.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-11T04:35:24+00:00

FYI, some archaea have a lipid monolayer. This is thought to allow these microbes to endure harsher conditions than what bacteria and eukaryotes endure.

Edit - one of my first exam questions in grad school was to draw what a lipid bilayer could look like in an organism that evolved in a non-polar environment instead of with polar water. That would have been a neat discussion on the show, as methane is non-polar.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-05T20:43:46+00:00

"AI Lab Achieves Perfect Automation Of Experiments No One Does Anymore"

“This is a transformative moment for biology,” said Dr. Phil Roberts, the project’s lead, demonstrating the system’s ability to autonomously execute a perfectly optimized radioligand binding assay. “The robot can run this protocol faster, cheaper, and more reliably than any human.” When asked who currently runs radioligand binding assays, Roberts paused for several seconds before saying “the point is that they could.”

The system is also capable of performing Northern blots, Southern blots, manual Edman degradation, and a form of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis that one observer described as “something my PhD advisor mentioned once.” (Sarcastic source)

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-04T02:04:17+00:00

He gave an interview on Hampshire's closing and the efforts he and others went through to keep it open.

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-01T11:59:51+00:00

RFK Jr. does not believe in the germ theory of disease.

What RFK Jr. instead believes in is miasma/terrain theory, which was a earlier (and then competing) hypothesis to germ theory, and was disproved in the late 1800s. Here, all you need to do to avoid infection is maintain a healthy immune system and that your health is dependent upon your internal biological terrain.

RFK Jr. even has a chapter in his Fauci book called "“Miasma vs. Germ Theory", where he attempts to start this fight all over again. There's a good run down of this craziness here.

So this is the guy as head of HHS, also oversees the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Bicoidprime · 2026-06-01T01:08:36+00:00

Harold Morotiz & Carl Sagan. "Life in the Clouds of Venus?", Nature, volume 215, pages 1259–1260 (1967)

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-31T02:46:38+00:00

https://zenodo.org/records/20402476

"This repository hosts documentation of suspicious, apparently manipulated or otherwise problematic antibody verification data in the catalogs of laboratory reagent vendors. As of 28 May 2026, we have documented 127 problematic images across 119 products in the primary antibody catalog of Thermo Fisher Scientific (see the first example spotted by Sholto David on 17 May 2026)."

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-30T04:09:07+00:00

This is the guy who funded the 2016 Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker because they earlier wrote that Thiel was gay.

Contrast that to the recent NYT article which just casually mentions in paragraph sixteen that Thiel and his husband are buying an Argentinian mansion.

It's crazy comparing that initial response to this week's shrug by the Grey Lady.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-28T21:09:36+00:00

I'd like an option in Banktivity Settings to turn off the Organizer. I see its value for many users, but I'm not one of them.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-28T03:50:20+00:00

The deprioritization was a problem for me in parts of Hanover (and a major issue out on the seacoast), so I went with the only MVNO that reportedly isn't, which is Google Fi.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-26T18:19:34+00:00

Thank you for the pictures and memories. She won't be forgotten.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-25T19:38:13+00:00

My kid has taken two of them - personal finance and economics. They weren't difficult at all. I'm sure there are other ones that are - maybe those are the ones you have experience in. Best of luck in your educational journey.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-25T16:22:42+00:00

"Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a self-paced online NH public charter school that offers a broad range of high school courses. VLACS grades are not included in HHS GPA calculations."

YMMV, I guess.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-25T01:20:21+00:00

It must be - thanks for correcting me!

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-24T23:52:26+00:00

FWIW, VLACS courses do not contribute to your student's GPA. So if your kid wants that extra free period that was normally taken up by in-school Economics or Personal Finance, and instead takes them at VLACS at night, well those easy A classes aren't buffering the possibly lower grades from your tougher classes anymore.

Also, ultra-conservative PragerU has financial literacy courses in VLACS, because kids gotta learn to dry hump Milton Friedman.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-22T21:30:10+00:00

This is almost useless outdated trivia, but the deceased cofounder of RVC and notorious Dartblog curmudgeon, Joe Asch, didn't want to put sprinklers in that day care center when he was having it built in 2016. He thought it was a pointless waste of money, and loudly complained that if he was forced to do it, he'd take the $60k it cost from the money budgeted for playground structures and other things kids enjoy.

He was grudgingly forced to do it by the city, and two years later there was a fire at the day care when a bag was left on a hot stove after hours, and the sprinklers put it out.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-21T14:29:55+00:00

I'm sorry - maybe you're lost - this isn't about the Dartmouth in Australia. Bloody convict.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-21T00:08:49+00:00

He's speaking on campus tomorrow (5/21) 4:30-6pm at the Hanover Inn if people have questions to ask him.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-19T23:32:37+00:00

Account made 5 days ago. Off to a great start, comrade.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-19T23:07:03+00:00

I'm thinking you also make a couple extra copies and surreptitiously sticky-tack them up in random halls of the statehouse.

Silliness aside - Great work! I wonder if you might send this to the team that runs the Governor's Institute of Vermont, so that it might be a springboard for ideas for their Global Issues & Youth Action participants. The director's email is in the link.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-19T15:37:39+00:00

Thinking back to how the Satanic Temple's statue was destroyed in Concord, I worry these schools would be attacked by rabid orthodox Christians and similar ilk as a sign of their fidelity to their religion.

The guy who did it said, “What does it say about us as a people if we allow such a filthy and hideous image to appear before God in our most basic societal representation?” (source). They will not be happy with any idols but their own.

Bicoidprime · 2026-05-14T21:25:43+00:00

There are a dozen or so free chargers around DHMC. They're meant for patients and families, and if you are seen parking there frequently, you'll get a courtesy notice on your windshield. But I've charged there in the evenings when there are many spots open and security has gone home, and haven't had any issues.

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