Some links

[conuly]

Beef Fudge,1967 – A Vintage Recipe Test

Soviet anti-alcohol posters

N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows (And presumably other viruses and microorganisms)

Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial

New interdisciplinary review was published on current Long COVID science, with a roadmap for science and policy!

ProPublica, Project 2025, and Trump administration officials

Inmates battle heat, mold and mice inside Mississippi's largest prison

Seventy Miles in Hell

Comments

[mindstalk]

Note that that particular study of N95 and other masks was about source control (protecting others from you), not personal protection. Also that it looked at very few actual types of masks: a Vflex N95, some stiff KN95, a couple others. So conclusions like "cloth protects others better than KN95s" would be too strong. Safe is "wearing a duckbill is a good idea".

[foms]

There is a recipe for beef fudge in the New York Times Heritage Cook Book. I have made it. It was not bad. I have never made any recipe from that book that didn't turn out well.

I note that I have not made the Dymples Cake recipe from there. It calls for regular cake ingredients and then sausage meat and jujubes/gum drops (but not the black ones [their words][because _that_ would be weird -- my words]).

[med_cat]

Interesting links, thanks.

The beef fudge was unexpected.

And the Soviet alcohol posters...alas, they didn't work...