Comedian Ken Jeong, MD no longer practices medicine, but he maintains his medical license. This seems like a good idea in the fickle world of entertainment.
In this Wired video, Dr. Jeong explains why the knee reflex test is so important. — Read the rest
TIL: Actor and comedian Ken Jeong is also a licensed physician. He put his career in medicine on hold to become an actor. Mind you, this isn't new news, I just hadn't gotten the memo until today.
In 2017 a video he made with Wired went viral with over 24M views. — Read the rest
Journalist Sarah Jeong (previously) was just appointed to the New York Times's editorial board, prompting garbage people to dig through her twitter for old posts that could be made to seem offensive out of context in the hopes of getting her fired.
Lawyer and journalist Sarah Jeong is one of the net's best writers, and her new ebook, The Internet Of Garbage, grapples with misogynist harassment and threats online.
November in Seattle means grayer skies, shorter days, and Short Run Comix Festival, the gathering of indie comics and illustrators now in it's 20th year. I enjoyed seeing the work of the featured local and regional creators–and many are women. — Read the rest
If you're in the mood to step into a giant grasshopper shaped train car and sip on some coffee, you may consider visiting the Grasshopper's Dream Cafe.
This beautifully designed cafe is built from two train cars that look like mating grasshoppers. — Read the rest
Earlier this month, a 29-year-old graduate from Rutgers University–New Brunswick posed as a 15-year-old teenager and enrolled at New Brunswick High School in New Jersey. Hyejeong Shin even got away with going to class for four days, duping all of her teachers, guidance counselors, and office staff before school officials finally caught on. — Read the rest
Migrants flown by Ron DeSantis from Texas to Martha's Vinyard in a spectacular if hardly successful political stunt are suing him, reports NBC News, claiming they were tricked into the scheme and defrauded by it. The lawsuit follows a Texas Sheriff's own investigation of the flights, which he suggests amounted to "luring" refugees "under false pretenses." — Read the rest
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have repurposed a Microneedle drug manufacturing and delivery method to painlessly apply tattoo inks in pixel perfect arrays. Song Li, Youngeun Kim, Jeong Woo Lee, and Mark R. Prausnitz recently published their paper "Microneedle patch tattoos" in the journal iScience. — Read the rest
Elon Musk, self-confessed troll and edgelord, has struck a deal to buy Twitter for about $45bn. To quote the New York Times reporter who earlier broke the news that a deal was close: "this week is gonna suck."
— Read the rest"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," said Mr.
A recent study published in the scientific journal Joule, titled "Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment," proposes a massive predicament in renewable power: it's too cheap. — Read the rest
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) says it's come up with a way to detect prostate cancer with a high degree of accuracy through a urine test. The most common method in use today requires a blood draw to look at a cancer factor called PSA, the results of which are not nearly as reliable. — Read the rest
South Korean football club apologizes for filling stands with 'sex dolls.' By Jack Guy and me. #SouthKorea @cnnsport https://t.co/XMkLrxJZut
— Sophie Jeong (@sophieyjeong) May 18, 2020
In South Korea, the soccer team FC Seoul filled out its empty arena with sex dolls posed as fans. — Read the rest
Former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden says U.S. Section 230 should be immediately revoked for Facebook and other social media platforms, and that Mark Zuckerberg should be submitted to civil liability.
Approximately 14 percent of the world's population suffer from dry eye disease (DED) but treatments are limited because it's difficult to model the complex human eye for drug development. Now though, University of Pennsylvania bioengineers developed an "eye-on-a-chip" complete with a motorized blinking eyelid. — Read the rest
Thangrycat is a newly disclosed vulnerability in Cisco routers that allows attackers to subvert the router's trusted computing module, which allows malicious software to run undetectably and makes it virtually impossible to eliminate malware once it has been installed.
Some 1,600 people were secretly livestreamed while staying in South Korean motel rooms where cameras had been hidden by criminals who operated a 4,000-user service for voyeurs, where a $45/month upcharge bought subscribers the right to access replays and other extra services.
A Washington Post reporter said Thursday night that an investigator working for Jeff Bezos believes 'a government agency' accessed the Amazon CEO's texts and intimate photos.
We are watching Facebook unravel in real time. I hope.
Sarah Jeong's book The Internet of Garbage was first published in 2015. Then a timely primer about online harassment, the structure of the internet, and why corporate policies can't and won't deal with it, things have since changed: everything is now worse. — Read the rest
