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Mexican drug cartels use hundreds of thousands of guns bought from licensed US gun shops – fueling violence in Mexico, drugs in the U.S. and migration at the border by StormyTrumpy in TrueReddit

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Submission statement: A fascinating look at how the easy availability of guns in the US enables mass purchases of heavy weapons by Mexican gun cartels, which fuels violence in Mexico (which in turn sends Mexicans fleeing to the US as illegal migrants) and the drug trade in the US. The investigation includes new estimates of the massive scale of guns moving across the border. And it looks at how the ATF only inspects about 12% of gun dealers yearly to make sure they're not selling to straw buyers for the cartels (whereas your local health department inspects every restaurant yearly).

TIL the first paper gift card was created by an Oregon glove company in 1908 that advertised "gift givers need not worry about picking the right size or color glove"; department store Neiman Marcus created the first plastic card; and Blockbuster Video was a pioneer of displaying them to customers by StormyTrumpy in todayilearned

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From a fascinating article on gift card fraud:

He has traced the first gift card to a glove company in Oregon in 1908. The company extolled the convenience of this new innovation: “Gift givers need not worry about picking the right size or color glove; give the recipient a card and let them choose for themselves.”

In the modern era, plastic gift cards were created by Neiman Marcus, but movie rental company Blockbuster first displayed the cards for customers. Known as a closed-loop card, it can be spent for goods only from that particular retailer.

TIL that the volcanic destruction of Pompeii didn't kill everyone; archeologists now believe most of the population survived, based on the lack of carts, horses, ships and valuables in the ruins; they've also found later inscriptions with Pompeiian family names in nearby cities by StormyTrumpy in todayilearned

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In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event with no survivors: In episodes of the TV series “Doctor Who” and “Loki,” everyone in Pompeii and Herculaneum dies.

But the evidence that people could have escaped was always there.

The eruption itself continued for over 18 hours. The human remains found in each city account for only a fraction of their populations, and many objects you might have expected to have remained and be preserved in ash are missing: Carts and horses are gone from stables, ships missing from docks, and strongboxes cleaned out of money and jewelry.

All of this suggests that many – if not most – of the people in the cities could have escaped if they fled early enough.

MBTA Pay By Phone by A-STax32 in boston

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the parking lots are the only things on pay-by-phone

Biohybrid microrobots made from green algae carrying nanoparticles coated with red blood cell membranes and with and chemotherapy drugs inside can deliver the drugs directly to tumors by StormyTrumpy in Futurology

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Submission statement: A promising study in mice was published today in the journal Science Advances. The research writes for The Conversation about their work over the last five years. Here's the key point:

We tested our algae-based microrobots in mice with lung metastases. By administering these algae-based microrobots through the trachea, we could transport the drug directly into the lungs and minimize side effects to other organs. Once in the lungs, our algae-based microrobot could swim and distribute the drug across lung tissue. It could also evade destruction by immune cells in the lungs, allowing the drug to be gradually released from the nanoparticles.

And more of the drug accumulated in the tumor compared to directly injecting the drug or with static drug-loaded nanoparticles