Day 20,547

Gonk is back, after more tweaks and pencil effects. Shooting for a halfway point between the Kenner action figure and the movies, the smoothing filter saved my butt in a few ways.

I would love a helpful battery to follow me around and be a useful surface.

If one person with measles spends 15 minutes in a room with 100 unvaccinated people, 90 of them will get measles. Of those, 7 will get serious complications. That is how infectious it is. You are infectious before you become ill and 4 days before the rash comes.

Signs you are clairvoyant:

* You tend to use the phrase, “I see.”

DYK the Human Genome Project cost taxpayers about $3 billion over 13 years but is estimated to have generated an ROI of $1 trillion, impacting the fields of medicine, agriculture, energy, and the environment?

Science is not a cost; it’s an investment with countless returns.

Via Dr. Catharine Young