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Goggles

I'm quite good at mornings.

I seem to survive them. My track record is solid.

Of course, all it takes to ruin a streak of surviving is one instance of not surviving. There was that one morning 13 years ago, a close call, as they say. I haven't driven a car since then, even though the insurance company gave me a new one.

Back to my point: I am quite good at mornings.

#GloriaGaynor #IWillSurvive

#drive#driving#car
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Faulkner

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist
Interview (1956, Spring), by Jean Stein, “The Art of Fiction,” Paris Review, No. 12

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/faulkner-william/623…

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N-gated Hacker News

Ah, because who *hasn't* wanted to #CSI their #living #room with air DNA? 🕵️‍♂️🔬 Clearly, the biggest threat to indoor privacy isn't hackers, but dust bunnies holding your genetic secrets. 😂
nature.com/articles/s41598-023 #AirDNA #DustBunnies #IndoorPrivacy #GenomicSecrets #HackerNews #ngated

NatureThe invisible witness: air and dust as DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises - Scientific ReportsHumans constantly shed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) into the surrounding environment. This DNA may either remain suspended in the air or it settles onto surfaces as indoor dust. In this study, we explored the potential use of human DNA recovered from air and dust to investigate crimes where there are no visible traces available—for example, from a recently vacated drugs factory where multiple workers had been present. Samples were collected from three indoor locations (offices, meeting rooms and laboratories) characterized by different occupancy types and cleaning regimes. The resultant DNA profiles were compared with the reference profiles of 55 occupants of the premises. Our findings showed that indoor dust samples are rich sources of DNA and provide an historical record of occupants within the specific locality of collection. Detectable levels of DNA were also observed in air and dust samples from ultra-clean forensic laboratories which can potentially contaminate casework samples. We provide a Bayesian statistical model to estimate the minimum number of dust samples needed to detect all inhabitants of a location. The results of this study suggest that air and dust could become novel sources of DNA evidence to identify current and past occupants of a crime scene.
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