I thought I popped a pimple yesterday
Oct. 26th, 2021 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulybut now that I examine my face and the evidence I think I didn't, I just dreamed it.
Man, what a boring and pointless dream.
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Man, what a boring and pointless dream.
The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva
The Gravity-Defying Mail Jumpers of Lake Geneva
Viruses are both the villains and heroes of life as we know it
The unusual clock hands on a Third Avenue union sign
All sorts of creatures jettison parts of their own DNA, and scientists have no idea why.
People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong.
The Best Time For Rehabilitation After A Stroke Might Actually Be 2 To 3 Months Later
Scientists create a wooden knife that's three times sharper than steel
Harvesting ‘true cinnamon’: The story of the Ceylon spice
“And thus another Hollywood tradition was born: film choruses belting out perfectly nonsensical prose with utter conviction.”
How Gruesome Penny Dreadfuls Got Victorian Children Reading
Brain implant bypasses the eyes to help blind users "see" images (We're living in the future!)
$10K worth of LEGOs found in Seattle toy trafficking bust
The New Question Haunting Adoption
Corporate Transition
Three high school athletes died of sudden cardiac arrest. Their moms are fighting back.
Breathing enough to spread tuberculosis bacteria, research suggests
Remembering Zika: Parents offered their kids for studies, then say they were forgotten
As climate disasters increase, a last-gasp FEMA camp for wildfire survivors tests the government’s obligations to the displaced.
Home Was a Nightmare, Then Home Was Prison. Finally Home Is Now a Refuge.
The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them
A C.I.A. Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War
When a Witness Recants
How US Drone Policy Led to the Deaths of Seven Children
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Date: 2021-10-30 03:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-10-30 06:08 pm (UTC)People, not just animals, putting burned fingers in their mouths. I used to see chemistry lab manuals warn against it explicitly, on the assumption that everyone would do it generally but needed to resist the instinct in this context.
And spitting on a tissue or handkerchief for impromptu cleaning. It's been ages since I saw people clean anything but eyeglasses that way (and usually just their OWN glasses.) Not their kids' faces. Not a windshield or a computer screen. It had changed even before everyone wore masks, though I thought of it specifically last night when I was trying to clean graffiti off glass.