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Air Canada CRJ collides with fire fighting truck on landing in New York

flightradar24.com
7 points·by mcbain·4 mesi fa·1 comments

Molecule in Python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs

theguardian.com
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mcbain
·4 mesi fa·discuss
You might enjoy the matrix of regional sizes and names on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Beer_glasses

No, us locals don't know them all either!
mcbain
·4 mesi fa·discuss
https://www.avherald.com/h?article=536bb98e

> Captain and first officer are reported to have died in the accident, two fire fighters on board of the truck received serious injuries, 13 passengers received injuries.
mcbain
·5 mesi fa·discuss
The former. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but with my (Australian) accent the difference is minor.
mcbain
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Yes, with MRI brain too. I was on 4/year, but that number is reducing as time goes on without recurrence.
mcbain
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I have multiple scans a year. "Scanxiety" is real.
mcbain
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Spot on. And dealing with false positives sucks.

One caveat is that regular PET isn't so good in the brain - there is so much metabolic activity that everything glows. So I get an MRI Brain to go with my regular full body PET/CT (cancer 5 years ago with recurrence 18 months later, currently NED).
mcbain
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514378
mcbain
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Linde was definitely around as a distinct brand in Australia before they bought BOC in 2006, but since then as you said, they now just trade as BOC.
mcbain
·9 mesi fa·discuss
When have they ever claimed that?
mcbain
·10 mesi fa·discuss
As others pointed out, these are stage I trials and these are patients that have had other treatments already. In particular the melanoma patients had already had other immunotherapy - which is known to work for 50+% of cases - so this could help plugging the gap for the rest.
mcbain
·10 mesi fa·discuss
The testing here is not just that it is safe on skin, but the SPF test itself is done by slathering it on humans and exposing them to light to determine a rating.