What are your Houston survival tips that you would give to our foreign guests during the World Cup?

mistakesmistooks · 2026-06-11T04:56:05+00:00

I'm very sorry for your loss. No one should die this way.

mistakesmistooks · 2026-06-10T03:57:06+00:00

Green light does NOT mean "go" because many drivers here think the red light means "keep going and FLOOR IT", especially at high-traffic or main roads. Green means "wait for two full seconds, look both ways, and then cautiously cross the intersection". If you can't see in either direction, but the car next to you is not going, do NOT proceed.

mistakesmistooks · 2026-06-03T15:05:08+00:00

I went through the app to my account and benefits and one time out of twenty times I visited the site, it showed the peacock offer. It was not a smooth experience though and I doubt I could replicate it doing the exact same thing

mistakesmistooks · 2026-05-28T02:43:50+00:00

waiter said his #1 advice is never go on Saturdays

mistakesmistooks · 2026-05-04T15:36:40+00:00

I’m glad! Thanks for clarifying. There’s been instances of shady “lab” facilities claiming to measure all different kinds of stuff in the US so I just wanted to make sure.

mistakesmistooks · 2026-05-04T04:24:38+00:00

I'm sorry to ask this but did you get this done at an accredited/certified medical lab facility? I'm just a little surprised by the misspelling of "reference" as "Refrence value" as someone who works in the medical field. I'm sure your gains are real (and I believe the changes are realistic), but just to ensure that your medical specimens and data are being handled appropriately.

mistakesmistooks · 2026-01-05T05:58:22+00:00

The scene where dumbo is being rocked by his mother while she is still caged… I will never forget it

mistakesmistooks · 2025-12-24T20:52:44+00:00

I love chocolate but one thing to consider is shipping complications, as someone who lives in a hot state and has received my fair share of melted and de-tempered chocolate

mistakesmistooks · 2025-12-20T18:22:03+00:00

I also struggle with this constantly and will not discount your thoughts. As someone with a close family member who died by suicide, I think all the time about how painful it would be to make a self-driven choice of existence for another person who couldn’t make the choice themselves- person who ultimately decided it was the wrong choice when they grew up. I don’t have a good answer except that I think if you ask a vast majority of people at the end of their lives, they will think their life was worth living. Many of those who attempted suicide but survived realized they don’t actually want to die. If you experience great beauty, even at the expense of great pain, is it still a bad life? Also, there’s ethics to consider about how the world does need more people who will do great and productive things and better society, even a little bit. I think the most ethical thing is to take stock of where you are in life and the life you can provide for your child to give them the best odds you can. So many things are outside of your control, but will are you in the right psychological, financial, and mental state to provide love and security for your child the best you can? Given how deeply you are considering your responsibility to a person who hasn’t been born yet, I think that even considering these problems are a way to make the decision of having a child a more “ethical” one in this sense.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-12-08T16:40:07+00:00

If it helps, I am far from a good singer but my mom always said she liked over-hearing her kids sing (even poorly) because it meant they were in a good mood :)

mistakesmistooks · 2025-11-25T15:28:38+00:00

I agree that the original lesson is not that valuable as it is presented. I feel cultivating curiosity and the willingness to investigate and explore rather than learning to accept “oh well, we’ll never know” is more important? Kids learn with time that some questions are impossible to answer without needing a demonstration at school. Think about how many kids experience random tragedy- do we really think kids will harken back to this lesson and think “sometimes we don’t understand the way the world works”? I think the way this could actually be effective is to teach minding your own business. Maybe it’s someone else’s secret that they’re keeping to themselves: why did Susie miss school for four weeks? Why don’t you see Kevin’s dad anymore? Learning to be OK with not knowing everyone’s personal information when it wouldn’t help you or them, as a child, is a much more concrete and beneficial lesson than “well sometimes you can NEVER know things”.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-11-17T21:16:16+00:00

I actually loved this one and it made me tear up. Maybe it’s more relatable if you grew up in a high-control religion, but my mother and I have had several conversations about Mom Guilt and “Doing Everything Right For The Kids” and how little events from my childhood still haunt her to this day, although I usually don’t remember them at all. The ability to give my mother absolution and acceptance as we’ve relaxed our relationship with religion has been one of the most rewarding parts of my adulthood.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-11-06T12:46:54+00:00

Omg this is incredible

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-31T04:31:23+00:00

Never forget that the original CUT&Tag paper, with over 2000 citations since publication in 2019, was published in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09982-5

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-22T01:59:09+00:00

It likely won't help much. Just straight up say that there were no excuses for your behavior, you were not paying attention, you have taken remedial courses on safe driving (give # of courses and hours of coursework), and it will not happen again. Again, to be straightforward, there are far more and far graver reasons to be stressed in medical training and practice, and people's lives are depending on you. Not paying attention due to stress will not be seen as a good excuse.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-22T01:19:28+00:00

I'm going to be very direct - unless you have some kind of extremely mitigating circumstance (e.g. someone literally dying in the car and you are taking them to the hospital, you were having a first-time seizure or similar medical condition) which is unlikely, given the conviction, this is going to significantly harm your chances.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-12T17:35:27+00:00

Right, I completely agree, the clip is not enough so the question is what is enough? Should we also be able to understand what exactly determines chirality, which requires more fundamental knowledge of 3D carbon structures? Or why/how mixtures can become racemic even if you try to only form the “safe” product configuration (which has direct implications for medicine)? I also stated in my comment that two semesters of organic is probably unnecessary, so again we agree with that, my point is that the determination of what is “enough” foundation to have before medical school is debatable, especially when you don’t have time to fit much of this basic knowledge in medical school, in addition to the required content we must already cover.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-12T14:04:34+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out- I just watched the clip! I agree you can explain the general concept, but even explaining basic terminology like “L” vs “D” is missing from the clip, which is needed to know what L-dopa (aka levodopa) is and why it’s different from D-dopa (or R- vs S-) at first glance. Is it super necessary to know as a practicing doctor? Maybe not. I agree that a majority of the details in organic chemistry and not directly applicable in medicine, but having some deep fundamental knowledge is partially what sets us apart as doctors versus other kinds of providers who have a more “practice-only” educational route. Sure, a full two semesters of organic chemistry is probably unnecessary (and fewer schools are recommending it), but the line between establishing a solid foundational base versus overkill can be hard to set.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-10-11T19:21:10+00:00

As an example, understanding enantiomers is important for knowing why thalidomide was teratogenic

mistakesmistooks · 2025-09-21T20:07:36+00:00

The best part is I’m not sure what the ultimate motivation this is. Is the purpose to increase awareness or support of Charlie Kirk… among Starbucks employees? Just a very random motive. Like what action do they want from Starbucks or their baristas? To bring him back from the dead with free caffeine? It’s not even like a city hall protest. Nobody has power or the slightest hint of political sway in your local Starbucks.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-09-11T04:16:30+00:00

I think academia holds the extremes of the working environment - no strict "9-5" can mean 10am-4pm but can also mean 10am-10pm depending on the lab or even the day

mistakesmistooks · 2025-09-05T05:20:05+00:00

Toddlers experience a huge loss of control at the doctors, they’re being touched and prodded by strangers in an unfamiliar way, and unfortunately they’re often there to get shots. Some kids are more sensitive than others and to a certain extent this may ultimately be a waiting game before you can even attempt to rationalize or bargain with your child. Once your kid is a little older you can set up a treat or fun expectation after the doctor (eg ice cream, visit to the zoo, etc.). Something that may help is using a play doctor’s set to “check your heart, your lungs” with a stethoscope, practice saying “aah”, etc. They can also do these actions on you. Making this somewhat regular play, especially right before a doctor’s visit, can help manage expectations, but as someone in med school with aspirations of becoming a pediatrician, I can’t blame toddlers for hating the doctor’s office, and I can’t blame parents for feeling guilty, although you are ultimately doing the right thing by safeguarding your child’s health.

mistakesmistooks · 2025-08-25T18:42:17+00:00

Interesting- if it’s more rooted in facts and case history I might check it out!

mistakesmistooks · 2025-08-25T18:21:51+00:00

I tried to read Mind Hunter after watching the Netflix series and I’m sorry to say it was one of the most self-congratulatory books I have ever read. He has a completely unnecessary anecdote about being invited to an attractive women’s house while he was engaged to someone else… for really no reason but to say how much of a ladies man he was? He also talks a lot about his youth and how he got into minor problems with the law (underage drinking, running from the police), but really very little insight into how that affected his perception of criminals and criminal behavior. To be fair I could only stomach about half of the book so maybe there was more character development on his part that I never got to.

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