Wednesday, February 26
A Chemo Tip
I have been taking chemo treatments monthly (sometimes twice monthly) for 16 years; Jan 2025 started my 17th year.
One might say I have some experience.
Some of my treatment involved me taking what I call, WICKED CHEMO, and caused me to become very sick... so much so that my wife had to take me to the ER to get me to quit vomiting.
The trick that I learned was this:
Ask for two different nausea meds. My two are ZOFRAN and COMPOZINE. As soon as your chemo treatments are over and not more than four hours afterwards (the sooner the better) take a nausea pill.
The package will say for you to take the pills every four hours...
HOWEVER...
and this is the trick...
You can take them every two hours IF YOU ALTERNATE between the two pills.
Once I started taking nausea pills every two hours after the WICKED CHEMO, I never got sick (Vomiting) again and no more trips to the ER.
At A Glance
Shark-shy fish image wins Nature InFocus top photo award.
A deep dive into next week's famed Iditarod dog sled race.
Demystifying the left-right brain axis myth. (via YouTube)
Charting global fertility rates, which have declined by half since 1965.
The difference between $50 jeans and $500 jeans.
Explaining the proliferation of travel-moons, from babymoons to memoons.
The most iconic love triangles in (movie) history.
Clickbait: Why you're hot until you're not.
Grace Cossington Smith - Artist
Grace Cossington Smith AO OBE (20 April 1892 – 20 December 1984) was an Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. Examples of her work are held by every major gallery in Australia.
he was born Grace Smith, in Neutral Bay, Sydney, second of five children of London-born solicitor Ernest Smith and his wife Grace, née Fisher, who was the daughter of the rector of Cossington in Leicestershire.
The family moved to Thornleigh, New South Wales around 1890. Grace attended Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga 1905–09 where Albert Collins and Alfred Coffey took art classes. From 1910 to 1911 she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo Rubbo.
From 1912 to 1914 she and her sister lived in England, staying with an aunt at Winchester where she attended drawing classes as well as classes at Stettin in Germany, and was exposed to paintings by Watteau in Berlin.
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In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Wu-Tang Clan announce "The Final Chamber" tour, their final concert tour as a group, which will hit 27 cities across North America (More)
> Lester Holt stepping down as anchor of "NBC Nightly News" after a decade, will move to full-time role as anchor for NBC's "Dateline" (More)
> University of Texas tops women's college basketball AP poll for first time in 21 years (More) | ... and Auburn leads men's poll for sixth straight week (More) | Denver Broncos linebackers coach Michael Wilhoite arrested for felony assault over allegedly punching a police officer (More)
Science & Technology
> AI startup Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the field's first hybrid reasoning model; platform lets users get real-time answers or request longer, more thought out responses (More) | Everything you need to know about generative AI (1440 Topics)
> Breast cancer analysis estimates 1 in 20 women will be diagnosed with the disease during their lifetime, with 1.1 million breast cancer-related deaths per year worldwide by 2050 (More)
> Archaeologists discover fossilized footprints and tracks suggesting the oldest known use of a handcart; discovery sheds light on life at the end of the last ice age, roughly 23,000 years ago (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq -1.2%) as President Donald Trump's latest trade comments continue to weigh on investor sentiment and tech stocks fall on Microsoft cutting data center spending (More)
> DoorDash to pay New York delivery drivers nearly $17M for claims it used their tips to cover wages (More) | Energy Transfer—oil company behind Dakota Access Pipeline—begins $300M trial against Greenpeace, accusing the advocacy group of defamation and disruptions during 2016 and 2017 protests (More)
> Starbucks to lay off 1,100 corporate workers globally this week, will eliminate several hundred unfilled positions; comes after same-store sales declined for four consecutive quarters (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal judge temporarily bars Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data from the Education Department and Office of Personnel Management related to plaintiffs who sued DOGE (More) | Federal employees sue Elon Musk for demanding to justify their jobs or risk getting fired (More) | Vivek Ramaswamy (R) launches bid for Ohio governor (More)
> UN passes nonbinding resolution urging Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine; 93 countries vote in favor, 65 abstain, and 18 vote against, including the US (More) | President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron hold joint press conference, share diverging views on Ukraine (More)
> Clint Hill, former Secret Service agent known for leaping onto President John F. Kennedy's car after the president was shot in 1963, dies at 93 (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that enables computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI uses math, logic, and large amounts of data to learn and improve its performance over time.
The above definition was generated by (AI) Artificial Intelligence...
AI can help with:
- medical research
- any kind of research
- weather forecasting
- analyzing investment data
- business strategies
- military strategic outcomes
What I used it for is to edit my writing and I can also come up with a novel title and ask AI to develop some plots for me. With those suggestions, I can use the plots or use those suggestions to create others.
AI can process data faster than humans can process data, especially large volumes of data.
AI will eventually be used in humanoid robots that will begin to take our jobs. Early reports suggest this will happen as early as 2030 on a large scale, however, it is already being implemented right now on a small scale.
We need to embrace AI or stand aside as it rolls over us...
A ring in space-time
A century after the theory of general relativity was promulgated, Albert Einstein is much more present than ever. A space telescope, called Euclid, belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured an image that has left the scientific community speechless: the Einstein ring phenomenon, thus fulfilling all the predictions of the famous scientist.
If you haven’t understood what it is, don’t worry, we’ll explain it to you again: it is a phenomenon that occurs when the light of a galaxy that is very far away is bent by the gravity of another galaxy closer, so that astronomers can observe galactic objects that would be hidden to the naked eye.
It is a perfect case of gravitational lensing and generates an almost perfect ring of light, demonstrating how gravity can bend space-time!
What is an Einstein ring?
When we think of gravity, we usually imagine how it keeps planets in orbit or keeps us on the ground. But Einstein discovered that gravity can also affect light. If a massive galaxy is between us and another galaxy much further away, its gravity can bend the light from the background galaxy, forming a circle of light around the nearby galaxy. This is what is known as an Einstein Ring. READ MORE...
When we think of gravity, we usually imagine how it keeps planets in orbit or keeps us on the ground. But Einstein discovered that gravity can also affect light. If a massive galaxy is between us and another galaxy much further away, its gravity can bend the light from the background galaxy, forming a circle of light around the nearby galaxy. This is what is known as an Einstein Ring. READ MORE...
Tuesday, February 25
At A Glance
Where college-educated Americans are moving.
Meteorologist explains "feels like" temperature.
The world's 50 most beautiful cinemas.
... and the 25 bags and shoes that transformed fashion.
Eight masterpieces with hidden ghostly portraits.
How senior living communities are courting Gen X.
A visual deep dive into the history of color theory.
Why do cats have "toe beans"?
Clickbait: When your last name is Null, nothing works.
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