Quote: “The map above shows what the moon might look like if the “seas” were filled with water and became actual seas. In terms of determining the seas levels, “it’s not done by altitude, but it’s more to do with relative brightness or darkess. I’ve just increased the contrast to make it more obvious how the seas are said to connect.” Dana sez, Neato. (h/t Brilliant Maps)
Quote: “Prof Julia Simner, of the University of Sussex, who was the science lead for the team, tested CrossSense with 23 pairs of people living with dementia and their carers. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, revealed that without the smart glasses, participants with dementia could name only 46% of household items correctly. With the glasses, the figure was 82%.”
Dana sez, Wow. (h/t Fix the News)
Dana sez, Aw. (h/t The Kid Should See This)
Quote: “The average filer spends 13 hours on their 1040—a time tax that many of our wealthy peer countries have reduced to a couple of minutes, if that. Prepopulated documents and return-free systems are common everywhere but here. Sweden lets residents file by text. Canada prefills paperwork. Japan sends households a document summarizing their tax contributions. If everything looks copacetic, many workers get to do a blissful nothing. Denmark, Estonia, Spain, and Norway have similarly simple processes.” (The Atlantic gift link)
Dana sez, We are so behind in so many things. (h/t The Best of Journalism)
NYT gift link. Also on Sloan Kettering website. Ben Sasse.
Dana sez, And yet we also live in a miraculous time.
Quote for the day
22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who is charged with shooting Charlie Kirk; 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was “neutralized” after grazing Trump’s ear with a bullet from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania; and Cole Allen, the 31-year-old radicalized engineering teacher, who sparked havoc at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, are all smart, thwarted knockoff Luigis wanting to avenge their sense of irrelevance. —Tina Brown
Dana sez, A better description of these yahoos I never read.
Outro…
Chatter Lagniappe Sunday baby snow leopards Brilliant Maps CrossSense glasses Fummy on Reddit mrna vaccine for pancreatic cancer oceans on the moon our insane and idiotic tax system Tina Brown