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He looks more like he's thinking "Really? It got this far? Enough people thought this was a good idea that we're all here doing this photo shoot for the promotional image?"

(I think the only part that looks like he's on the verge of crying is the reflection of the studio lights in his eyes look like extra moisture.)

"Almost half a dozen times" seems like a weird way to say 5.

I'm afraid there's a typo in your title. It's "a two-hoo."

The article talks about "Ultraviolet (UV) light boxes, which emit only a narrow bandwidth of light that is not linked to skin cancer," so it's possible the UV treatment and the drugs can be combined.

According to Hui's attorney, she hoped to gain permanent resident status in the U.S. after paying "an American citizen $2,000 to enter into a sham marriage."

She needs to get a new attorney.

Appeasing authoritarians only delays the inevitable, if it even delays it at all. Trump wants direct control over the Fed to enrich himself. Killing useful groups over the culture war issues he uses as a (weak) cover for his actions doesn't solve this core problem.

Somewhere there's a quality control engineer with tritanopia who got assigned this job one day without warning and is desperately employing the "fake it until you make it" strategy.

Even more surprising: the droplets didn’t evaporate quickly, as thermodynamics would predict.

“According to the curvature and size of the droplets, they should have been evaporating,” says Patel. “But they were not; they remained stable for extended periods.”

With a material that could potentially defy the laws of physics on their hands, Lee and Patel sent their design off to a collaborator to see if their results were replicable.

I really don't like the repeated use of the phrase "defy the laws of physics." That's an extraordinary claim, and it needs extraordinary proof, and the researchers already propose a mechanism by which the droplets remained stable under existing physical laws, namely that they were getting replenished from the nanopores inside the material as fast as evaporation was pulling water out of the droplets.

I recognize the researchers themselves aren't using the phrase, it's the Penn press release organization trying to further drum up interest in the research. But it's a bad framing. You can make it sound interesting without resorting to clickbait techniques like "did our awesome engineers just break the laws of physics??" Hell, the research is interesting enough on its own; passive water collection from the air is revolutionary! No need for editorializing!

The use of "quantum leap" isn't about comparing the absolute size of the change to quantum phenomena. It's about the lack of a smooth transition. Quantum leaps in physics are instantaneous transitions between states with no intermediate. That's the idea with the colloquialism: a sudden shift from one state to another without a smooth transitional period.

France, for instance, has a national policy against the recognition of domestic minority languages like Basque, Breton and Corsican.

Trying to give France the benefit of the doubt, but this just sounds like oppression. Is there a good reason France doesn't recognize minority languages in its territory?

I am astonished they didn't spell it "rouge."

The criminal networks will just immediately switch to VPNs and using end-to-end encryption services hosted in another country. VPN technology for phones is already available and has been for a while. On day one this legislation will be useless for its primary (purported) purpose. No exceptions or winner-choosing necessary.

Then they'll go after VPNs with the argument of criminals using the technology to skirt law enforcement backdoor requirements in end-to-end encryption.