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Niles Donegan

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Microbiologist working on Cas12-mediated viral genome editing at the VA Medical Center in WRJ, Vermont. NH based. Views are my own. "Practice every day has made Pangur perfect in his trade; I get wisdom day and night, Turning darkness into light."

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I bet you’ll love it. Adam Savage did a really cool video with the set designer on his Tested YouTube channel about the interior of the Hail Mary ship. Definitely worth a watch, but only after the movie though.

12.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Loved it as well. Both made me proud to be a microbiologist. Only one glaring science lab blooper in the movie, where Grace spins a VERY unbalanced centrifuge. I’d say I still liked The Martian more as a movie.

12.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

George RR Martin spoiled the book with his back cover blurb!

12.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw it at a free screening at Dartmouth last Sunday (directors are alums) and it was fantastic. Full house (900 people plus folding chairs).

12.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Back when Wired and Mondo 2000 edgily competed for who had the most pictures of people with wires or tygon tubing taped to their heads.

11.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish Consumer Reports didn’t shut the Consumerist down. It was such a good site.

11.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No way. Awesome. Can’t wait to read this.

11.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr.’s FDA may take cues on stem cells from red-state laws, clinic doctors A soft FDA, state laws permitting non-FDA-approved biologics, and a country full of stem cell clinics could be a dangerous combination.

Wait, he’s not going to inject stem cells into his rotator cuff from one of the unregulated and noncompliant clinics his FDA has been advocating so hard to legitimize? Roll the dice on what expands in cell culture flask and inject it, you coward www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/r...

10.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rep Vose is lackwitted, reactionary, anti-science, Dunning-Kruger writer of garbage code, and his mother dresses him funny.

10.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Scouting has always been staffed with ex-military ready to comply. My firmer Engineer scoutmaster told me and the rest of his scouts he’d throw gas on us if he saw any of us protesting the first Gulf War.

28.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now do (Leon) Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth and (Howard) Lutnick Library at Haverford.

25.02.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have too many astronomical speeds and distances memorized from that song.

15.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThey say that money corrupts you, but I can’t really tell”

- Weird Al, β€œThis is the Life”

14.02.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unproven stem cell 'therapy' blinds three patients at Florida clinic After three patients were blinded following a treatment marketed as a stem cell clinical trial, Stanford ophthalmologist Jeffrey Goldberg calls for increased patient education and regulation.

This immediately jumps to mind from 2017 - med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

13.02.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

George Gallup wasn’t afraid to report low poll numbers. β€œOnly 31 percent say they approve of the way Mr. Nixon is handling his job as President, a drop of 9 points […] since his high point in January following the Vietnam peace settlement.” By George Gallup, The Boston Globe, August 15, 1973. A25.

11.02.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Catapults? Like the mass driver catapults in Robert Heinlein’s 1966 sci-fi novel β€œThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress”? The catapults the moon inhabitants use to throw rocks at Earth cities and gain independence? Musk has said he’s read that book.

11.02.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A humorous take on rebranding various aspects of the United States from Tom Weller's book "Cvltvre Made Stupid."

A humorous take on rebranding various aspects of the United States from Tom Weller's book "Cvltvre Made Stupid."

Good lord, that proposed branding. It made me think of Tom Weller's Cvltvre Made Stupid...

09.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
YouTube Music With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere els...

Olbermann’s 1/22/26 podcast gamed this idea out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KuZ...

05.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Haverford College Libraries

Maybe time for the trustees of Haverford College all read this and then stare at the words β€œLutnick Library” on one of their buildings. www.haverford.edu/libraries

31.01.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Haverford College Libraries

Maybe time for Haverford College to think about renaming Lutnick Library. www.haverford.edu/libraries

31.01.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trammell Crow Company TCC provides leading-edge development services to investors, owners and occupiers, with a wide variety of services and solutions for nearly every product type.

Trammell Crow owns the warehouse being sold to ICE in Merrimack, NH. Let them know there’s opposition to it. www.trammellcrow.com

31.01.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Warehouse Plans for Merrimack Confirmed The Merrimack warehouse property at the center of concern about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating in New Hampshire is on a list of properties the federal agency wants to acquire, according...

A 325,000 sq ft warehouse at 50 Robert Milligan Parkway in Merrimack NH as well. indepthnh.org/2026/01/30/i...

30.01.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Leon Black, former CEO of Apollo Wealth Management, signatory of Epstein’s 50th bday book, financial enabler of all this, also Dartmouth trustee.

18.01.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Ballad of the 20th Maine
Ballad of the 20th Maine YouTube video by The Ghost of Paul Revere - Topic

β€œStand fast, ye are the boys of Maine.” youtu.be/5PZvIAtneug?...

18.01.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s about to add a control group of terrorizing stoic yankee downeasters.

15.01.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œStand fast, ye are the boys of Maine.”

15.01.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What bucket of money are those grants coming out of, and how big is it? Is it A&S only or extending to all the College’s schools?

14.01.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really need a Waze navigation voice pack featuring these pronunciations.

14.01.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
TV Nation - The Falklands: $1,000,000 or Your Citizenship?
TV Nation - The Falklands: $1,000,000 or Your Citizenship? YouTube video by koalafrog

Back in the 80s, Argentina offered each citizen of the Falklands Islands $1,000,000 if they became a part of Argentina and renounced their British citizenship. Michael Moore did a TV Nation episode in 1994 checking in on that and even at that price, no one went for the offer.

youtu.be/_cifkVZvt_Q

12.01.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
TV Nation - The Falklands: $1,000,000 or Your Citizenship?
TV Nation - The Falklands: $1,000,000 or Your Citizenship? YouTube video by koalafrog

Argentina offered each citizen of the Falklands Islands $1,000,000 if they became a part of Argentina and renounced their British citizenship. Michael Moore did a TV Nation episode in 1994 checking in on that and even at that price, no one went for the offer.

youtu.be/_cifkVZvt_Q

09.01.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2