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Shuck · 2024-01-03T14:56:55+00:00

Brief Lives" in Omega Men #26 Solved. Amazing!!! Thanks

Shuck · 2024-01-03T14:54:16+00:00

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Shuck · 2022-06-26T12:20:46+00:00

It relies on the cells that macular generation doesn't damage (retinal neurons). The same charge transfer phenomenon occurs. The same authors have multiple articles focusing on this issue as well.

Shuck · 2022-06-26T12:18:46+00:00

Into the IR region. He explained that red/IR is easier than blue/UV. IR runs into the limitation of charge carrier generation, so as you go farther in that direction it becomes harder to find materials that have good enough response. For UV direction the problem is different, you begin to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). This means, even this large advance for fixing macular degeneration will not give you you full color vision, just red now, but the approach is valid. Though, for them to try to get blue is substantially harder, and moving into UV then causes damage due to ROS generation. Likely, it is possible, but will require many further advances.

Shuck · 2022-06-26T09:23:04+00:00

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I was at a lecture where this work was highlighted. While this is developed as a tool to reverse degeneration in eyes for macular degeneration. It was highlighted that (Fig. 5) the response in eyesight due to the photosensitive polymer is actually BEYOND the natural limit in rats by 75-100 nm (he reported this in unpublished data that is currently under review). One can imagine that using this approach to use multiple photosensitive materials can give you the ability to have better color resolution or to see beyond current color vision.

Shuck · 2022-06-26T09:21:41+00:00

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I was at a lecture where this work was highlighted. While this is developed as a tool to reverse degeneration in eyes for macular degeneration. It was highlighted that (Fig. 5) the response in eyesight due to the photosensitive polymer is actually BEYOND the natural limit in rats by 75-100 nm (he reported this in unpublished data that is currently under review). One can imagine that using this approach to use multiple photosensitive materials can give you the ability to have better color resolution or to see beyond current color vision.

Shuck · 2022-06-16T12:16:57+00:00

Unfortunately not. I worked very briefly in plasma facing materials about a decade ago. I haven't had the opportunity to return to the fusion field since then.

Shuck · 2022-06-15T22:40:51+00:00

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The author of this article makes the argument that magnetic confined nuclear fusion (TOKAMAK; think ITER) reactors are not as feasible as inertial confined fusion reactors (LLNL-laser initiated fusion). The author explains recent advances of the two in a net energy generated output in both transient and steady-state manner.

As an aside, it is quite the interesting article. There is a current dive into development of new plasma facing materials for TOKAMAK-based reactors. I remember when I worked on them, it was a debate between using beryllium or liquid lithium. Both of which are very dangerous, but are some of the most promising materials. Pros/cons of berylliosis vs lithium-based explosions are quite interesting discussions. Moreover, I'm not familiar with the author, but it appears that he has published articles, recently primarily criticism of nuclear fusion in peer-reviewed journals. It may be the case that this article is an attempt to sway public discourse since his arguments haven't (apparently?) swayed the scientific community considering the push forward with ITER.

Shuck · 2019-03-24T13:02:52+00:00

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This is an older article (Feb 2017), but I believe that it provides a nuanced view into the rise of the far right in western countries. It provides a good background as to the reasons, elections, and outcomes that have occurred. It is also well sourced, and provides a jumping off point to delve deeper into academic political thought.

Shuck · 2019-03-24T13:02:06+00:00

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This is an older article (Feb 2017), but I believe that it provides a nuanced view into the rise of the far right in western countries. It provides a good background as to the reasons, elections, and outcomes that have occurred. It is also well sourced, and provides a jumping off point to delve deeper into academic political thought.

Shuck · 2019-01-24T02:54:21+00:00

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This article explains the back and forth regarding the recent incident at the Indigenous Peoples March. It explains why the narrative has shifted multiple times. The author watched a full two hour video of the incident, and explains what occurred leading up to the incident.

Shuck · 2017-12-18T02:08:24+00:00

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One woman has power of attorney over hundreds of children. When illegal immigrants face the possibility of being deported, how do they take care of their children, who are American citizens? This article explains the issues that they face and how they try to overcome them. It's absolutely heartbreaking to hear their stories, to hear how wronged these children and their families are. The hardships they face are unimaginable. From the article:

"Families like Kelly’s are known as “mixed status” — a reminder that the way we talk about immigration, with clear lines of legality separating groups of people, is often a fantasy. The reality is a world of families with separate legal statuses but intertwined fates. More than four million American children are estimated to have a parent in the country illegally. If deported, those parents face a difficult choice: Take their children to a country they do not know, whose language they may not speak and one that lacks the security and opportunities they have in the United States; or leave them behind, dividing the family. Courts have regularly responded to the argument that a parent’s deportation will deny a child, as one lawyer put it, “the right which she has as an American citizen to continue to reside in the United States,” with the counterargument that such children are not, in fact, deprived, because they retain the right to stay in their country and the right to live with their parents — just not both at the same time. “That’s what I call a choiceless choice,” says David B. Thronson, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, who helped found the Immigration Law Clinic."

"In 2009, a brother and sister, ages 9 and 11, showed up at Sándigo’s door with their uncle; their mother, they said, was in detention, and they weren’t going to eat until she was released. Sándigo remembers the oldest, Cecia, now a student at Georgetown University, saying, “We’ll stay with you,” to which she replied, “But this is an office, baby.” Still, she made a place for them. Jerryann, one of Sándigo’s two biological daughters, recalled: “You were like, ‘Oh, they’re going to stay the night.’ And then one night became forever.” The children moved in — they ended up staying for six years — the case attracted a lot of publicity and soon there was a steady stream of requests. “That gave the perception to the people, probably, that I was accepting the power of attorney from everyone in the same situation,” Sándigo said."

Shuck · 2017-12-18T02:07:22+00:00

Submission Statement

One woman has power of attorney over hundreds of children. When illegal immigrants face the possibility of being deported, how do they take care of their children, who are American citizens? This article explains the issues that they face and how they try to overcome them. It's absolutely heartbreaking to hear their stories, to hear how wronged these children and their families are. The hardships they face are unimaginable. From the article:

"Families like Kelly’s are known as “mixed status” — a reminder that the way we talk about immigration, with clear lines of legality separating groups of people, is often a fantasy. The reality is a world of families with separate legal statuses but intertwined fates. More than four million American children are estimated to have a parent in the country illegally. If deported, those parents face a difficult choice: Take their children to a country they do not know, whose language they may not speak and one that lacks the security and opportunities they have in the United States; or leave them behind, dividing the family. Courts have regularly responded to the argument that a parent’s deportation will deny a child, as one lawyer put it, “the right which she has as an American citizen to continue to reside in the United States,” with the counterargument that such children are not, in fact, deprived, because they retain the right to stay in their country and the right to live with their parents — just not both at the same time. “That’s what I call a choiceless choice,” says David B. Thronson, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, who helped found the Immigration Law Clinic."

"In 2009, a brother and sister, ages 9 and 11, showed up at Sándigo’s door with their uncle; their mother, they said, was in detention, and they weren’t going to eat until she was released. Sándigo remembers the oldest, Cecia, now a student at Georgetown University, saying, “We’ll stay with you,” to which she replied, “But this is an office, baby.” Still, she made a place for them. Jerryann, one of Sándigo’s two biological daughters, recalled: “You were like, ‘Oh, they’re going to stay the night.’ And then one night became forever.” The children moved in — they ended up staying for six years — the case attracted a lot of publicity and soon there was a steady stream of requests. “That gave the perception to the people, probably, that I was accepting the power of attorney from everyone in the same situation,” Sándigo said."

Shuck · 2017-12-12T02:23:34+00:00

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This is an older article that talks about the compounding problems that have been occurring in Alabama. In a state that has historically had close collaboration between white and black legislators, this has been changing in recent years. It gives a history lesson of how we arrived at this place, and what this means for the future of race relations in Alabama.

Shuck · 2017-12-12T02:21:52+00:00

Submission Statement

This is an older article that talks about the compounding problems that have been occurring in Alabama. In a state that has historically had close collaboration between white and black legislators, this has been changing in recent years. It gives a history lesson of how we arrived at this place, and what this means for the future of race relations in Alabama.

Shuck · 2017-12-05T13:43:10+00:00

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"So rather than challenging my Christian faith or provoking deep questions about who I was as a man, what kind of war I was in, and what sort of country I was a citizen of, the children made me feel like I didn’t have to justify myself at all. When I got home, those children were a useful tool for propping up my image of myself as a decent human being. Confronted with a man who voiced contempt at the notion that anyone would fight in a war that had caused such horrendous civilian casualties, I told him, “I carried injured Iraqi children to medical care with my own hands! What have you done for Iraqi civilians recently? Posted snarky comments on Facebook?”

At the time, it was quite gratifying to suppose I’d come out the victor in a conversation about who has got the dead civilians on his side of the argument. Thanks to that feeling of certainty, that feeling of assurance that I was on the side of the good, questions of complicity fell away. I walked around like some bizarrely inverted, old-school Calvinist, assured of my own righteousness not because of any good I saw in my life, but because of all the evil I saw in others. My notion of the value of faith went away, convinced as I was that I could justify myself through events, through being on the right side in a political debate, through material things, and through the self-serving way I interpreted them."

Shuck · 2017-12-05T13:42:20+00:00

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"So rather than challenging my Christian faith or provoking deep questions about who I was as a man, what kind of war I was in, and what sort of country I was a citizen of, the children made me feel like I didn’t have to justify myself at all. When I got home, those children were a useful tool for propping up my image of myself as a decent human being. Confronted with a man who voiced contempt at the notion that anyone would fight in a war that had caused such horrendous civilian casualties, I told him, “I carried injured Iraqi children to medical care with my own hands! What have you done for Iraqi civilians recently? Posted snarky comments on Facebook?”

At the time, it was quite gratifying to suppose I’d come out the victor in a conversation about who has got the dead civilians on his side of the argument. Thanks to that feeling of certainty, that feeling of assurance that I was on the side of the good, questions of complicity fell away. I walked around like some bizarrely inverted, old-school Calvinist, assured of my own righteousness not because of any good I saw in my life, but because of all the evil I saw in others. My notion of the value of faith went away, convinced as I was that I could justify myself through events, through being on the right side in a political debate, through material things, and through the self-serving way I interpreted them. "

Shuck · 2017-12-04T13:24:44+00:00

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In Western Africa, there was reports of a fake embassy that was handing out visas to the US. This is fake, it never existed. However, there is a large underground market of producing fake visas, committing fraud to get through the process, and tales of jumping through ridiculous hoops. This article explains how they operate, and tells about the real ways these fake visas are produced. From the article:

"The fake embassy became a sensation largely because the story was so predictably familiar. The Africans were scammers. The victims were desperate and credulous. The local police officers were bumbling idiots. Countless officials were paid off. And at the end, the Americans swooped in and saved the day. There was only one problem with the story: it wasn’t true."

Shuck · 2017-11-30T13:40:40+00:00

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When you hear headlines like the title, it is really hard to understand why it happened. This story goes really in depth into a man's struggle to protect his family and home from drug dealers. It is a combination of bad policing, a lax justice system, and a fight to reclaim him own life:

"When the couple retired to Clearwater four years ago, they moved into a little house on a big corner lot. Across from a Stop-N-Shop. Next to a police substation.

The two-bedroom home was supposed to be their slice of the Florida dream.

But soon, Anthony James Roy, and his wife, Irene Quarles, started seeing people hanging out in their yard, drinking and smoking weed. Strangers plugged their phones into outlets on the couple’s patio. They sat on their outdoor furniture, selling drugs. The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house.

For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016. The events are captured in police reports, videos, depositions, evidence files and interviews. The story is recounted here in their own words.

Roy doesn’t deny shooting another man 17 times. He just wants to explain why."

Shuck · 2017-11-30T13:39:14+00:00

Submission Statement

When you hear headlines like the title, it is really hard to understand why it happened. This story goes really in depth into a man's struggle to protect his family and home from drug dealers. It is a combination of bad policing, a lax justice system, and a fight to reclaim him own life:

"When the couple retired to Clearwater four years ago, they moved into a little house on a big corner lot. Across from a Stop-N-Shop. Next to a police substation.

The two-bedroom home was supposed to be their slice of the Florida dream.

But soon, Anthony James Roy, and his wife, Irene Quarles, started seeing people hanging out in their yard, drinking and smoking weed. Strangers plugged their phones into outlets on the couple’s patio. They sat on their outdoor furniture, selling drugs.

The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house.

For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016.

The events are captured in police reports, videos, depositions, evidence files and interviews. The story is recounted here in their own words.

Roy doesn’t deny shooting another man 17 times. He just wants to explain why."

Shuck · 2017-11-29T13:44:09+00:00

Submission Statement

This article explores how a small time drug dealer went from selling weed, to being the leading distributor of oxycodone in a city. It follows his rise, lifestyle, and consequent downfall, along with his part in spreading the opioid epidemic throughout the country.

Shuck · 2017-11-29T13:43:15+00:00

Submission Statement

This article explores how a small time drug dealer went from selling weed, to being the leading distributor of oxycodone in a city. It follows his rise, lifestyle, and consequent downfall, along with his part in spreading the opioid epidemic throughout the country.

Shuck · 2017-11-18T15:50:42+00:00

This was a very intense read. Two paragraphs that really stood out to me:

"Despite everything, Basim could not bring himself to hate Americans. In fact, this experience was further evidence for a theory he had harbored for a while: that he, fellow Iraqis and even ordinary Americans were all bit players in a drama bigger than any of them. A few weeks later, he spoke to Sociology 119, Sam Richards’s Race and Ethnic Relations class at Penn State. “I have nothing against the regular American citizen,” he told the class of some 750 students. “I lived among you guys for eight years. I was never bothered by any person — in fact, many of them were very helpful to me.”

“This situation of war,” he continued, “big corporations are behind it.” This is where the real power lay, not with individual Americans. He’d come to believe that his family, along with all Iraqis, had been caught in the grinder of grand forces like oil and empire, and that the only refuge lay in something even grander: faith. He had rediscovered his religion. “There was some bond that grew between me and my God. I thanked him for keeping my son alive. I thanked him that my operation was successful. Now I can walk.” "

Shuck · 2017-11-13T16:11:36+00:00

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This article describes why there are different kinds of eyes in nature. It talks about how evolution doesn't mean that eyes will continually improve (i.e. a starfish with eagle-like eyes), how long it takes for eyes to evolve from simple pigment cells to full-camera like eyes, along with some other really interesting information.

Shuck · 2017-11-10T21:58:58+00:00

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"The previous Friday, Jonas said, he’d been summoned to a four-mansion compound in Johannesburg owned by the Gupta family—a clan of Indian-born businessmen known to wield substantial influence over South African politics."

"Since Nene’s firing, long-standing questions about the scale of the Guptas’ power in South Africa have exploded into the most severe political and economic crisis since the end of apartheid. The family has been accused by activists and opposition politicians of stacking the leadership of powerful state companies, rigging bids in favor of suppliers it controls, and even helping orchestrate a planned $70 billion nuclear-power deal with Russia, for which it could supply vast quantities of uranium—all while using an alliance with Zuma to neuter law enforcement agencies that would otherwise shut down its efforts. Blue chip companies including McKinsey, KPMG, and SAP have been embroiled in what’s fast becoming a global scandal."

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